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Let me reintroduce, the VS Social Thread!

Since the Social Threads seem to have been done away with, this is the new home of the VS Social Thread. We talk about everything from VS to Beauty to Coupons to Hot Deals...and of course, our personal lives.


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GoHeels
06-21-2012 at 09:45 AM.
06-21-2012 at 09:45 AM.
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This is totally OT, but just wondering if any of you girls have seenthis story [huffingtonpost.com] on the news. Sadly, this town is very near where I live....It started out local, but is becoming a national story. It really makes me wonder what it going through the minds of these little brats. The silver lining is that people have rallied to raise over 60,000 so this lady can retire!
That poor woman. Kids just don't have the respect for adults that we had. I blame the schools for a lot of it. They no longer demand respect. As a matter of fact, they almost teach the opposite.

Quote from azn1x6flame :
I came to report that the SHIP25 that alvs found is still working! :whee : Thanks again hun! : blowkiss:



That's so sad! I didn't watch the video because I know I can't bare to see it, but seriously, no offense to you parents out there, I'm sure you're great, but some parents need to step up on their parenting.

My dad works with this one kid and his mother told my dad that her kid fought her. FOUGHT with fists because of some disagreement. It's so sad because I've seen this kid grow up and he had so much potential but to turn out like an entitled pre-teen?? :r olleyes: And the dad does nothing but drink in his basement. It's so sad because the kid is super smart, but he's just going down this black hole because both parents can't present a united front. It's too bad, the mother is trying all she can, but kids these days are too ballsy. I always tell myself that if/when I become a parent, I will sure put my kids in their place. :mad :
Thanks for the VS update.

That woman is a victim of her DH & the school systems. They constantly tell kids they're equal to adults & adults can't discipline them. Adults should encourage them in everything they do. I suppose they're trying to encourage self-esteem. What they're doing is producing kids that are totally out of control. I saw a show recently where CEOs were saying they didn't want to hire kids right out of college now. They said they had always been told how great they are in school & they expected to be rewarded, if they did even the smallest task. They said it was rare to find someone right out of college these day who could accept constructive criticism.

Sorry ladies for getting on my soapbox. We dealt with that with our DS. His friend's parents went through it too. It took us a while to convince our DS that he could ignore that little piece of advice from school. We were his parents & he would respect us & respect his elders. The teachers & school officials need to stop being their friends & start being their teachers. The kids are taught they have all the control, & are capable of making their own decisions. Anyone who tries to discipline them is evil & needs to be reported. Okay, I'll get down now. Embarrassment

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the new sephora code for mystery gift stacks! also, i found out there are a few more that stack as well. total of 5 that i found. i don't need anything so i'm not going to order.

stacking codes: BEAUTEE, YOURGIFT, 3FORDAD, FAUXGLOW, NAIL4U i tried a bunch of others but these are the only ones that worked for me.
Thanks. I didn't realize I needed anything, but I just decided I probably do. Big Grin

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VS charged me for multiple labels too :mad :.
Oh no! Annoyed How do you know you were charged? Was the charged deducted from each invoice total, or was it a separate charge? It doesn't appear I was charged for my return last week, but I have added it up to see if it was deducted from the invoice totals.

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I know - it's just that I have a ton of returns and the ease of sending them in is worth paying. I'll just pre-pay for the return myself I guess. Grr.
Do you think that will work? You may pay for return shipping, plus be charged the processing fees.

Like I said a few days ago, I was afraid they would eventually do something to reduce returns. I decided not to return & rebuy for this reason. I have another big order to return, plus a couple things in DH's name. These are all things that didn't fit. If they're going to charge per invoice, I'll stop buying anything that I'm not sure will fit. That basically means I'll order bras & panties & nothing else. They would have missed out on $1000+ that I ordered & kept over the past few months, if they were charging per invoice. I will definitely do a lot less shopping there, if this is the new policy. I don't want to deal with in store returns.
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azn1x6flame
06-21-2012 at 09:51 AM.
06-21-2012 at 09:51 AM.
Quote from CrazyCatJade :
UGh! If that is their new policy - they need to send out an announcement or something! Otherwise my store is going to HATE me. I will return every.single.item in store. UGH! Wonder if I should email customer service before I send in my return to get a reply in writing as to the policy? Let us know what happens please Frown Mad

On another note - my offtopic rant for the day...when people write, or even worse - SPEAK the shorthand "totes" instead of totally and "adorbs" instead of adorable...it makes me see red. Literally I think it is the dumbest and most irritating thing EVER.

/soapbox.
Yes, "totes" annoys me SOOO much! I think it's because Katy Perry started it or something
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I think there has to be some sort of legality to prevent them from charging you to return an item. We'll see. Frown
Just letting you know that I did a return via store yesterday and I didn't get a Processing fee tacked on.

Just waiting for the credit to go back to my card, but I didn't see an Processing fee.
I also had a return 1 or 2 weeks ago and no Processing fee.

About the legality of Processing fees, I think it's actually completely legal, but it could depend on where the business operates. I know at my old job, they charged a 10% processing/restocking fee for returns.

So it could just be a one-off or something, hopefully.
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GoHeels
06-21-2012 at 09:52 AM.
06-21-2012 at 09:52 AM.
Quote from red333 :
Woo hoo! I finally called about my express points not being added, and I'm A-List. Nerd, I haven't had my last 3 orders add. I had two in store purchases, where my Next number is at the bottom, and it STILL didn't add my points. How ridiculous. I have to monitor that very closely.

I'm so tempted to get a credit card...

Also, this cocoon sweater [express.com] is finally on sale. I have a couple coupons left and can't wait to go into express to finally get it!
You made A-List w/o the CC or did I misunderstand your post? I just got the CC to become A-List & get FS. What am I missing? Doh

Express needs a sale on the full price stuff. I want to place an order, while I can get double points with the lip gloss.
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red333
06-21-2012 at 09:55 AM.
06-21-2012 at 09:55 AM.
Quote from GoHeels :
You made A-List w/o the CC or did I misunderstand your post? I just got the CC to become A-List & get FS. What am I missing? Doh

Express needs a sale on the full price stuff. I want to place an order, while I can get double points with the lip gloss.
I can be A-list without the CC, but I will never get free shipping without the CC.

This chart [express.com]pretty much breaks it down.
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nerdicus
06-21-2012 at 09:56 AM.
06-21-2012 at 09:56 AM.
Quote from CrazyCatJade :
I think there has to be some sort of legality to prevent them from charging you to return an item. We'll see. Frown



I agree with you. If they start charging a processing fee to return an item, I will no longer shop there.
don't worry. i'm 99.9% positive the csr was just making stuff up to justify the charge. he also mentioned that it's free to return in store.

like i said earlier, it shows up as a return label charge on my return confirmation.
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GoHeels
06-21-2012 at 09:58 AM.
06-21-2012 at 09:58 AM.
Quote from red333 :
I can be A-list without the CC, but I will never get free shipping without the CC.

This chart [express.com]pretty much breaks it down.
Got it. I didn't realize there were 2 forms of A-list. I'm glad to see I needed the card to get FS. It would be my luck to have gotten it for nothing. laugh out loud
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azn1x6flame
06-21-2012 at 09:58 AM.
06-21-2012 at 09:58 AM.
Quote from nerdgirl :
the new sephora code for mystery gift stacks! also, i found out there are a few more that stack as well. total of 5 that i found. i don't need anything so i'm not going to order.
Did you get a Sephora VIB email yet? I don't know why I'm so anxious, I guess it's like nearing the end of the month, but I have nothing I want to buy anyway. I guess just that whole debacle last month about VIB shake head

Quote from GoHeels :
That poor woman. Kids just don't have the respect for adults that we had. I blame the schools for a lot of it. They no longer demand respect. As a matter of fact, they almost teach the opposite.

That woman is a victim of her DH & the school systems. They constantly tell kids they're equal to adults & adults can't discipline them. Adults should encourage them in everything they do. I suppose they're trying to encourage self-esteem. What they're doing is producing kids that are totally out of control. I saw a show recently where CEOs were saying they didn't want to hire kids right out of college now. They said they had always been told how great they are in school & they expected to be rewarded, if they did even the smallest task. They said it was rare to find someone right out of college these day who could accept constructive criticism.

Sorry ladies for getting on my soapbox. We dealt with that with our DS. His friend's parents went through it too. It took us a while to convince our DS that he could ignore that little piece of advice from school. We were his parents & he would respect us & respect his elders. The teachers & school officials need to stop being their friends & start being their teachers. The kids are taught they have all the control, & are capable of making their own decisions. Anyone who tries to discipline them is evil & needs to be reported. Okay, I'll get down now. Embarrassment
I agree! Kids these days think they have all the power, but what happens when mommy and daddy stop paying for their living, electricity, car, phone, credit cards, food, etc...?

That's one interesting tidbit about CEOs...could depend on what industry. I was reading in Forbes about working at investment banks from a college grad's perspective and they said that they didn't know anything about the money market themselves and they were being paid top dollar to advise top companies about how to spend their money when they didn't know what they were doing Facepalm I guess it just depends on the industry, but that's quite interesting!
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nerdicus
06-21-2012 at 10:10 AM.
06-21-2012 at 10:10 AM.
Quote from azn1x6flame :
Did you get a Sephora VIB email yet? I don't know why I'm so anxious, I guess it's like nearing the end of the month, but I have nothing I want to buy anyway. I guess just that whole debacle last month about VIB shake head
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nada. i'm beginning to think they downgraded me to BI status. Coverlaugh it's fine bc i don't need anything.
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ALVSGIRLY
06-21-2012 at 10:12 AM.
06-21-2012 at 10:12 AM.
Quote from CrazyCatJade :
I probably will pay for my own return just because it is one or two items from 7 orders. I have one order of 6 items from one order I will use their label for.

I haven't been really impressed with VS lately. I'm not receiving my SLR's in the mail when I redeem for them, the sizing issues on the bras I ordered are UNREAL and the CS seems worse than it was before. Maybe I just need to quit shopping for awhile laugh out loud
Crap I have several tb bags.
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ALVSGIRLY
06-21-2012 at 10:16 AM.
06-21-2012 at 10:16 AM.
Gh- you see the label on the order status account page.

It says return label fee or something like that.
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kurips
06-21-2012 at 10:19 AM.
06-21-2012 at 10:19 AM.
Students think they deserve to pass a course just for showing up Mad
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ayoungpretender
06-21-2012 at 10:23 AM.
06-21-2012 at 10:23 AM.
I'm sorry to hear people are having trouble with returns with multiple orders. I can imagine how frustrating it is to get things sorted out. I have a huge box of returns to go back too, so I'm getting kind of nervous. Has anyone had this problem and were not able to resolve it?

Also, I have a free return label, but it's over 90 days old and an order where I received the wrong item. Which label do you think I'm most likely to not incur a charge without having to call, assuming everything else processes normally? I'm also fine with paying the $5.99, so long as I only have to pay it once.
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red333
06-21-2012 at 10:24 AM.
06-21-2012 at 10:24 AM.
Quote from kurips :
Students think they deserve to pass a course just for showing up Mad

...or not showing up but because they "need to."
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ALVSGIRLY
06-21-2012 at 10:27 AM.
06-21-2012 at 10:27 AM.
Fail the little punks krusty!
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azn1x6flame
06-21-2012 at 10:34 AM.
06-21-2012 at 10:34 AM.
Quote from nerdgirl :
nada. i'm beginning to think they downgraded me to BI status. Coverlaugh it's fine bc i don't need anything.
You just requalified! Bonk

But I know what you mean, I kind feel the same way...I don't shop like I used to at ANY store...but...I want to keep my status to not miss out on any goodies.
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I'm sorry to hear people are having trouble with returns with multiple orders. I can imagine how frustrating it is to get things sorted out. I have a huge box of returns to go back too, so I'm getting kind of nervous. Has anyone had this problem and were not able to resolve it?

Also, I have a free return label, but it's over 90 days old and an order where I received the wrong item. Which label do you think I'm most likely to not incur a charge without having to call, assuming everything else processes normally? I'm also fine with paying the $5.99, so long as I only have to pay it once.
I think that in your situation, it might be best to just use the regular label and pay $5.99. I think it saves a lot more hassle than having the label over 90 days old, might have to go through what nerdicus and alvs did. It's such a pain, but that's my guess.
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