Beauty Advent Calendars Thread 12 - reeling in the aftermath of SFAC, we soldier on... 💄💋

[LightandBreezy]

Welcome to the 12th thread, we still have 50 days till the daily unboxing officially starts, although I very much doubt any of our calendars will remain untouched until then 😂
Still time for lots more friendly chat, tips and discount codes - to cut down on links as a poster requested, here's link to some very comprehensive run-downs of the calendars https://beauty-detective.com/category/beauty-advent-calendars/
When enjoying those breakdowns please remember that some are OOS already - Harrod's Fragrance, Harrod's Beauty and Selfridges Beauty to name a few.

I might wait till after Christmas and see what the prices are like on ebay. I've got other things I need to spend my money on before then and the whole debacle has totally taken any excitement out of it anyway. I'm just glad I was able to pick up the main scents I want to try through someone on here.

Or maybe they knew all along. Scalpers and bots might have been using the same wishlist trick to skip the queue, so maybe there was no secret link after all. Otherwise, I can't believe Selfridges would actually bother disabling the wishlist trick.

I can see the wishlist but it's bringing me to the queue

Wishlist button “add to bag” is back! But it takes you to the queue so they’ve definitely “fixed” it

I've just had a Selfridges notification to tell me it's in stock. Thanks for that Selfridges 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️

Wishlist live and working!!!!

I feel really annoyed with Selfridges - it’s just a waste of time.

Same for me it doesn’t say sold out. But as I’m 73000 in the queue I guess I’ve no chance

But the HN FAC contents are rubbish by comparison (to me, anyway. )

did anybody actually managed to get one in todays scramble

I had one more attempt at loading my wishlist and it allowed me to add to bag and then check out. Although that took 3 attempts and my heart was in my mouth. Definitely worth a try.

Edited to add: I’ve not received a confirmation email yet so it may not have worked.

When are you going to Harrods @JoRaRaRa ? Im going with my dd weekend of 24th October and and hoping the H&B is still in store then. Would be a nice treat for her to pick one up while we were there.

Did you manage to get one @HolidayHattie? Or did the pps extra one get cancelled?

Has anyone had any problems with the delivery of the look fantastic box.
i ordered two, one on the 13th September and one on the 16th, the order for the 16th arrived a week later but I’m still waiting for the earlier one!
I have been in contact through their live chat but got nowhere, I’ve tried googling for an actual phone number to speak to someone but I can’t find anything, it’s so bloody frustrating.

There’s no way of knowing if real customers or scalpers used the hack.

There’s only so much any store can do to prevent scalpers. Judging by posts on here, they already only allow one per checkout (as in they cancelled one for the PP who originally bought two).

well done @Fillybuster …i kept doing that but it now says out of stock

Nope, nothing working for me and I never heard back from @traybro. Have had app on phone, 2 browsers on laptop, DH's ipad and phone all trying and nada.

Wishlist is up!

same

Congratulations @Fillybuster 🎉🎉🎉 I'm glad you managed to get one but what an absolute nightmare for everyone else.

Ok got it in the basket, all the way to checkout and now they cant take payments. There is a Barvlays error message something went wrong. You cannot fill in billing address.

Was looking if I could help someone on the forum getting one but it went tits up. Going out for Coffee now

Payment isn't working...

i got through the wishlist, have added to cart but cannot pay...nothing works...has anyone managed to pay

Might be out of stock?