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My name is Chelsea Hoffman and I was a subscriber to Ipsy for a few months and a heavy participant on their Facebook page. I frequently wrote positive reviews about them and referred numerous people to their service. However, on 8/18/2013 when I offered to give away some new urban decay lipsticks to others on the community, Ipsy deleted my subscription from their service altogether without any warning.
I must point out that Ipsy encourages their subscribers to "trade" cosmetics, and they never delete the posts of people advertising "giveaways" on their blogs. So I do not understand why they singled me out in particular. But when I emailed their "Ipsy Care" I never received a response -- even though it was within seconds of this happening. When I went to their Facebook to post about it, my account had been banned from their page. I had to make a new account to ask them why they did this.
Ipsy refused to answer me and then blocked the new account, avoiding even explaining why they would manually cancel a paying member's subscription without reason.
I reached out to the owner of this company -- Michelle Phan who just launched the makeup label "EM" -- and she also deleted my post and refused to answer me. As the owner/founder of Ipsy, I figured she would extend a little more professionalism than her employees, but I was wrong.
I am now left here feeling completely abused and mistreated by Ipsy after I've done nothing but chearleaded for them on my blog and treated all of them with respect. I wonder what would happen if other subscription services like Netflix chose to treat their customers in the way that Ipsy has decided to treat me. Should businesses like this really manually cancel paying members' subscriptions based on Facebook activity?
When you add this issue to the constant problems they have with shipping (oh those bags are always lost in the mail) and the broken and sometimes missing items every month, how long will it take for this business to just go belly-up? I do not recommend this company to anybody. If they can treat me like this, that means they'll treat any of their subscribers like this. I didn't even do anything negative or what I thought was "wrong, " and I was targeted by this utter lack of professionalism. Who will be next?
Sincerely,
Chelsea Hoffman
Criminal profiler an author
I meant to put 8/15/2013 -- the 18 is a typoe, obviously.
Mkstitch -- Ipsy doesn't make or own any products. They give samples that existing cosmetics companies are already giving out. People use their trading community to trade cosmetics all the time and yes even give them away (a lady gave me a few things through there instead of trading because she didn't want anything in her bag) I was doing nothing more than offering a few items of the same thing they were giving out -- but to disappointed members -- because I was trying to do a good thing and make some people happy.
My point is that Ipsy could have handled this with far more professionalism than they used. They could have pointed out to me that they did not want me to do that (I would have apologized immediately!) But instead they acted atrociously and didn't even give me an explanation. It was very unprofessional.
I've already filed the complaint with the Better Business Bureau as of this evening.
Urban Decay doesn't compete with Ipsy. Mkstitch, you clearly do not know what Ipsy is... sorry.
The complaint has been investigated and resolved to the customer’s satisfaction.
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