Wantable Accessories Subscription Box Review – September 2014

I just got my first Wantable boxes and also had a frustratingly negative experience. The September makeup box had a damaged blush item (what a crazy, bright, powdery mess!) and an item I had on my dislike list. The September accessories box was AWFUL: all four items looked very cheap, and were unseasonal, uninspired, and ugly. It had two small, totally unimpressive pairs of silver earrings (yes, my preferred metal tone), a scarf that has a lot of white in it (SO spring or summer, but definitely not winter), and a necklace that is literally the ugliest one I have ever seen (it looked like a very bad, blue, large macaroni necklace made by a demonic child). Anyhow, I called customer service and am getting replacement makeup items, a bit of store credit, and I will return the accessories. So I feel…better, but still disappointed. For $40 a month (or slightly less with a discount), these boxes should be a lot better. Glossybox is half the price and twice the quality– non-customized, for sure, but that feature doesn’t seem to be working for Wantable now. My dilemma: try again for accessories? Or give in to my suspicion that it’s a racket to offload cheap, Chinese-made junk for crazy high prices?

I love that watch! What brand is it? I would love to find it to purchase it. Thanks!

This is why I cancelled accessories. As much as I love my intimates sub, the accessories has always been an epic fail. I disliked necklaces and got 3 that month. I disliked watches and sunglasses and got 2 of each. And I didn’t like a single thing they sent, and I’m super easy to please and rather adventurous. For some reason they just can’t seem to get this sub right for a lot of us. It feels like an entirely different company handling it. But it’s better than Cate & Chloe. I bought my Mom and 3 month sub as a gift, that ended in August. She got a box this month and I got hit with another charge for $108! It did not auto renew and I definitely didn’t buy another or otherwise consent to the charge. It’s so irritating when companies make “mistakes” like that since it will take up to a week to get credited back for something I didn’t order in the first place. I had to ask for my credit card info to be completely deleted (they have an option for it under account settings but oddly, my card isn’t saved there….) At least with Wantable it’s easy to cancel and resub as you wish. I’ve never been charged without making it happen myself.

Bonny,

May I suggest returning the box? It will credit back to your credit card. It’s hassle free and I’ve done it before. They will email you a label which you can tape on the box with clear tape and drop off into a package chute at the post office. I’ve done this twice with the Wantable Intimates box and had no problems.

Based on Liz’s box and the comments and I’m glad I decided to skip this month. Maybe they’ll have summer out of their system by Oct. I live in a hot climate, so I used accessories and color palette to make the summer-to-fall transition since it’s still too warm for sweaters and such.

My biggest problem with Wantable accessories is that I always like everyone else’s boxes more than mine! I’ve tried tweaking my likes and dislikes so many times and even made them exactly like a friend’s who always gets the neatest things but still didn’t get anything I really liked. This month was a complete disaster. I got 2 pairs of the cheapest tackiest earrings I’ve ever seen, a watch by the same brand you got that is damaged (a scratch on the side), and a scarf (even though I have scarves in my dislike category). Sadly, I like the scarf more than anything in the box so I kind of want to keep it. The other pieces are so awful that I don’t think anyone on the trade site will even want them so I’m not sure what I’m going to do! 🙁

I received my first box yesterday. 2 summer/ spring like colored bracelets, a dainty long thin necklace and a tiny ring ( toe ring?). I was a little disappointed. I was hoping for fall like items. MAYBE THEY ARE TRYING TO GET RID OF THEIR EXCESS SUMMER ITEMS. I was hoping for a scarf or watch, but I’m kinda glad that I didnt get that scarf that Liz posted. My first box was a sad box. I will have to wait a year before wearing 3 out of 4 items. Not sure if I will stick with this sub. And…the jewelry felt cheap..in my opinion. I’m sad because I had read so many good reviews. I have 23 sub boxes and I think I had higher expectations for this box due to the price.