Birchbox Select Beta Box Review + Coupon – April 2017

Does anyone know if you get better items with the pick one option vs the let us surprise you option with Birchbox?

I feel like this is what we should be getting from the regular $10 box 🤔

Does anyone knows if my review points will be gone if I unsubscribe from monthly box?

I’d rather get full size products from glossybox for less money. No thanks. Also, I think ipsy or even play are better than birchbox after testing them all out. I had play the longest so far. But right now I’m just with ipsy, glossybox, beautyfix and love goodly. I’m liking them, but on overload with products. I do swap so that helps. I’ll eventually probably just keep beautyfix.

I jumped at the chance to change to a beta box, but I’m not at all impressed with what I’m seeing so far. I think I’ll change back to the standard box tonight because this is clearly not worth it to spend the extra 5 bucks and still get 5 small samples. It’s not different enough to spend the extra money.

I am also a Beta member. My pick was for oily skin. I was super surprised at how mini — tiny– my samples were. I was extremely disappointed to say the least. This months choices are for hair, and I will not be getting any of those. I have 4 more days to figure out what my choice will be, and I must tell you I am not excited at all. Grrrr, and BB is my fav box. My ideas are changing!

I’m currently a beta member but am not sure how much longer I want to continue. I used the pick one skip one option for April. I ended up with a pretty good box that was worth around $40. That’s great for spending $15, but I wonder how often the value will be that good.

I noticed that with the pick one skip one option for April, the only option under makeup was lipcolor/lip liner. I received a lip liner and I think everyone received either the same lip liner or one of two lip colors. If someone selected that as their pick one option it was a waste because I think everyone was going to get a lip product anyway.

None of the spotlight boxes interested me in April, but I do like a couple of the spotlight boxes for May. I might select one of those, but is it really worth $15? I agree with Liz that including a full size item in the spotlight boxes would be a good idea. It would definitely increase the value and make them more enticing.

I have been a subscriber for years with the regular subscription boxes and have received multiples of these items in my regular boxes. I am happy with my boxes. I can only think of 2 that were duds. I am not sure where the value is for an extra $5.00.

Which option did you pick, Liz? Thanks

After a year and a half, I just canceled my subscription. My first month as a beta tester I did the pick one, skip one. I chose to pick a deodorant hoping to get to try their Arrow line, got a full size Schmidt’s. A brand I have tried and do not care for but that is on me. I chose to skip hair treatments and got a…a hair serum. I consider this a treatment and I have a drawer full of these types of things I do not and cannot use.

I suggested rather than their current beta test, the work on the algorithm used to chose products from subscribers profile and to update the profile questions allowing the subscriber to better personalize their answers. An example I gave was allowing the susciibet to opt completely out of certain things based on preference – under hair care if the only thing chosen as a used product was shampoo, then shampoo would be the only sample in hair care sent vs conditioners, masks, styling products etc. Under make up, if mascara, lip balm, eye shadow were the only items checked as used, then they don’t sent blush, bb cream, brow products. If someone didn’t want perfume samples, they could completely opt out vs only being able to choose no more than 6 per year. I loved learning about new products, but usually out of every box, I could only use 2-3 products regardless of whether it was the curated box or the special box and usually got both so I could piece together the samples I did want so ended up giving a lot of things away. I don’t know if I will resubscribe again or not, for now I will stick with Play! By Sephora as the 10:00 fee adds to my insider points and so far, I am 4 for 5 products with their boxes and their perfume samples are much better.