Beauty chat - freebies/gifts with purchase/offers THREAD NINETEEN

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New thread. Welcome oldies and newbies.

I'm expecting this thread to be busy as we head towards both advents and autumn releases.

There's a dedicated advent thread for advent calendars here to keep up to date with reveals, waitlists etc.
www.mumsnet.com/talk/style_and_beauty/5549187-beauty-fragrance-advent-calendars-infochat-2026-spoilers?page=32&reply=153745800

@TreesinthePark I felt like we were part of some naughtiness when we were buying the gwps before 🤣 especially the ones with the medik8 in 🤭

I'm hoping it's on Monday too. I have Monday off so I plan to just continuously refresh Harrods 🙈 I'm really hoping I don't waste my day off (if it doesn't go on sale and I end up missing out on it when it does, I'll be gutted).

@JoRaRaRa The same thing happened to me approx 18m ago, an Elemis face cream I’d sold for £28. I didn’t get my money, I was absolutely fuming. I came off Vinted for a while after that, but of course had to give in because I had too much in my stash 😅

You have all just reminded me that fairy sent me a message today, but I was in the middle of something and forgot to go back to it…I’ll have to see if they still have one (despite me telling myself I won’t buy anything else now with the advents coming out!)

Thanks @user593 for the link- it has worked

Why didn't you get your money? That's not good. I asked the buyer for the tracking details but she wouldn't give me them, luckily I never delete anything and I was able to find the details in my emails. The parcel looks completely different on evri's tracking photo then she's posted. She's sent a photo with brown tape covering part of the label, I never put brown tape over any part of the label, so I thought it looked dodgy. I wonder if it's the same person. Hopefully they'll sort it and then I'll block her.

I'm currently selling a fair bit on Vinted (AC fund here too!). Would you mind DMing the user name so I can look out for her @JoRaRaRa ?
I hate it when people behave badly.

Just to add the culprit for me on vinted is often Evri - I’ve been on buyer and seller side. Smashed, opened and missing parcels. Confusing and often different processes followed

I’m actually appalled at how low some people will stoop. From the fact they have used a different package to the one delivered, this is criminal. Stealing.
I really hope Vinted do something about it. I photograph every package before sending so I have the details if needed.

Yes, will do

For anything over £20, I get my husband to video me wrapping it up in the passenger seat of the car and then posting it at the locker, all in one video. I might need to start photographing the parcel. I know some people send me a photo of the parcel before sending and I don't mind doing that, so I might start doing it.

That’s awful, JoRaRaRa. 😮 I always worry about things like this happening when I sell on Vinted

I had a bizarre incident with Evri where I posted a cosmetic item and the buyer received a pair of shoes. I don’t believe the buyer could have created the situation even if she’d wanted to because I checked the photo Evri provided and it wasn’t the box I sent, and she took a photo of the label which had the right tracking number but was a different shape to the ones my post office prints. I still have no idea how Evri managed it, but eBay paid us both.

I have a label machine so I put my own labels on as I'm worried about this happening 🤣

@pinkchampagne1 I've sold 145 things in less then a year (only signed up after people on here kept mentioning vinted and today is my M netter 1 yr anni), and this is the 2nd time I've had an issue. The 1st issue was when evri lost a Westman Atelier highlighter but they refunded the buyer and I got the money too. I've sold another 5 items today so it's not completely put me off 🤣

I put the label on myself at the post office, that’s the really strange thing! I have no idea how Evri managed it. It still haunts me and it happened months ago 😅 The buyer was really understanding though.

Oh that's strange, I thought it only happened when people let them do it 😳

Hi, could you send me details on how to contact mholt for a GWP please?

@wohmum I’ve sent you a DM with a link.

Some people are just so awful , I’m on a fb group (idiots of Vinted) and some of stories about scamming buyers and sellers are just shocking! If I’d seen those first I’d never have started selling on there . So far I’ve had no issues but I’m waiting for it. I don’t know if there’s anything we can really do to avoid the scammers though

Evri are ridiculous. Recently one of their drivers has been dumping piles of parcels in alleyways in our local town. The other day they dumped all the parcels for our village in someone’s driveway, so that person took them to the village shop so everyone could go and collect them.

@JoRaRaRa It was really annoying that I didn’t get the money for the face cream, I ended up out of pocket as it was one I bought outright, not part of a set where I’d gotten other items to make up the value.
I hope they have improved their processes since and you get your money.
To be fair (touch wood), I’ve had no such issues since.

Can you please let me know the buyers name as well so I can keep my eyes peeled?

Can you also give me some info on the label machine 😁

This is terrible, how are they getting away with just dumping them?!

That’s so nice of the person who had them dumped in their garden to take them to the shop, not many people would do that

I feel like we need a shared “name and shame” blacklist that we can all refer to, with so many of us selling occasional bits on Vinted and eBay 🤣 @JoRaRaRa please could you share details with me too!?

Do you think MN would even allow a thread that tracked these things? If it’s just usernames….? Hmmm.

@JoRaRaRa I’d be wary about sending a photo to the buyer in case they replicate your packaging as part of the scam. Your strength in the current case is that the package you sent isn’t the one the buyer is complaining about- and you have proof she received your package, my photos are for me to prove, if I need to, from my end.

A random question if I may. What would you all recommend in terms of cleansers?

I'm fine with a face wash in the shower (ExfoliKate for preference, but lots of Youth to the People at the moment thanks to various GWPs) but in the evening I tend to go old skool and do milk cleanser (Caudalie) and toner (whatever from stash) with cotton wool pads. Basically what I grew up with, just more expensive.

But I've noticed it's increasingly difficult to buy milk cleansers - did the world move on without me noticing? Is it face wash twice a day instead? And if so, do I still use the toner afterwards or can I save a step (but end up with a ever increasing stash!).

Milk cleansers are still a thing- but I’d say the current vogue is for balm cleansers. They’re not new, but they do seem to have taken over the milk market. Then I met you, Elemis, Perricone MD wild source- they’re everywhere (and pretty good too).

Lumene has this milk that becomes an oil - I think emulsions are popular now - balms but also things like this.

Love a balm!

uk.lumene.com/products/81993