FYI – Ricky’s NYC Cult Crushes Beauty Box Price Increase on 6/1

When will there be spoilers & when do they normally ship out?

Any may spoilers?!?! Seems like May is a bad month for some of my box spoilers..lol. this one and macy, and tribe

I signed up last week as a new subscriber and on the account it’s still processing. Which is fine since it’s not May yet but now I’m wondering if I should keep / or cancel the subscription. I don’t know what’s inside May’s box and I placed the order with the price tag of $11. I did the payment by Paypal and I’m wondering if I will be charged the $11 or will they try to charge me the new price. I have to check Paypal I’m not sure if they charged me yet.

I just hope with price increase they are able to fill all their orders and not have a repeat of April where they played eeeney meeny miny mo with the Pinky Rose palette!! If I am paying more I expect to get same products as everyone else or at least announce variation on your social media pages like Boxy did with colourpop palettes.
I am going to see what products come with the change but I probably won’t stay subscribed long.

I personally thought this box was a steal at $11, still a steal with the $3 increase. The value of what they send is absolutely worth it to me.
Then again, I like trying out new things and receiving the occasional nipple cover haha.

If you don’t find yourself liking anything that comes in the box, maybe this subscription isn’t for you. No box is one-size fits all per se.

I sell or swap the products I don’t want and I usually end up with over the value of the entire box in one item.

The market is flooded with competition and increasing numbers of people are using subscription services, especially beauty boxes.

They are a business and they need to make a profit. I’m going to guess that, with the increased demand, in order to keep customers happy and their shipments going out on time, they have to increase staff and material costs etc. I don’t find it unfair to see a slight price increase, considering the overall value.

So I just subscribed and I’m a little disappointed in the price increase and the nonchalant attitude about increases in value. I hope they do increase the product value somewhat. Even if they already provide a great value, unless your purpose is to try new products only, it comes down to a value ratio given how many boxes are in the market. How much value do I get per $ of my subscription price. Ipsy and Sephora are around $3.50 to $5.00 per $1 of subscription price so around $35-$50 if you consider deluxe samples to be 1/3 in size or full sized drug store products. When you increase the total box price, you expect an increase in value ratio. This is especially true when you consider lots of costs are fixed within a certain volume level per unit like shipping per box. They should have more to spend on products. Boxycharm is around $5-7 per $1 of subscription price. Being in the middle of that price range, you would expect them to end up being $4.50-$6.00 per $1. At the low end (no change in value per $) I would expect the box value to be $49-$55 with a price increase. They are actually already hitting that with an average value of $56!!! An appropriate increase in value, in my opinion, should make the box worth $63-$84. They are not currently hitting this number and won’t without a change like more full sized or premium products. I am just going to have to stick it out for a couple of months to decide. No use abandoning ship without even trying it. On a side note, I hope they don’t pull an “April” on the new subscribers like me!

It’s only $3 , breath

This company just seems to be scammy to me. People who got the pinky rose probably don’t have a problem with the increase and think Cult Crushes is so great its only $3 increase value is there yada yada, I joined in Feb loved my March box for most part. Then April came around and on the very day my box was due I get email that I am not getting Pinky Rose I am getting Chi Chi. Which would have been fine because That palette in that very color was why I joined in first place but I signed up for Feb too late, But on all their social media pages they posted multiple posts on how Pinky Rose is the April palette no mention of Chi Chi at all so people signing up think everyone got that palette -scam. Not to mention everyone talks about how great it is rubbing salt into my wounds. Then they sent those of us who got Chi Chi a rude email saying we were lucky to get anything they also said they don’t have plans to send another palette any time soon. So I don’t trust them. How do I know that they are not going to pull this again?
I know some people don’t have luck with Ipsy but my profile gets me 2-3 full size every month. Cult Crushes said they are still only planning on sending 2-3 full size why would I pay extra? I probably will stay through June just to see what a $14 Cult Crushes box looks like but if value is not there or worse I don’t get what everyone else gets I will quit.

Feeling like they are not valuing their long time customers, most companies grandfather the price. Guess it is time to cancel if they can’t value me I will not give them my money.

So price raised does that means better products will be in box???

I have been subscribed since December & I have been overall happy with the boxes. Didn’t need eye lashes 2 months in a row & the nails will go to waste since I don’t wear them.

The palettes have been more than making up for a crappy foil packet. I love the Pinky Rose palette more than the Chi Chi palette & certainly didn’t need 2 very similar colorful palettes in a row.

I’m going to give them through July (2 months of price increase) before I decide whether to cancel or not. An almost 30% price increase seems excessive to me if they aren’t going to up the number of full size items. I think current subscribers should be locked in to $11 for this year at least.

I finally gave in and subscribed…..even though I didn’t really like the contents of the last box. But I figured for $11.00 I could try it for a few months and see what all the excitement was about. Well, it’s been a few weeks and no box nor any shipping info. And now the price is higher. I really cannot see myself keeping this box. At least when it was $11.00 I could justify some bad items, now they better WOW me. Not that $14.00 is extremely expensive, but I do get Boxy and ipsy also. THIS will go before either of those. 🙁

I have been following this sub due to the price, but have never been tempted. Lots of off brands and what looks like clearance items to me. Just my humble opinion. Now with the increase I’m not even curious anymore.

I knew this was going to happen! I will definitely be canceling in June. With tax i already pay $12 so I would be paying $15. I only subbed because it was under $15. They definitely should be grandfathering all long standing customers. I think this will be a bad move in the long run!

I am a current subscriber and have been for almost a year now. Opening up a waitlist for those waiting patiently to finally get and now raising the box price an additional $3.00 per month? I know all about business plans and even in my line of work you always want to keep your loyal customers who made the company what it is today….booming. As most of us have told others to join and theyve told thier friends and family to join, I’m sorry loyalty has to be there with Ricky’s too. I dont want to CXL but I will just to prove a point …this is not how you treat your current customers that made you who you are. There are many subscription boxes around the $13- $15 mark with high end “known” products. So in my opinion bad business move to upset the current loyal customers.

I’m all right with it (I’m NOT all right with the recent shower of fake eyelashes and nails). The value is there, I like that they’re “edgy” and introduce me to brands I’ve never heard of, and they are transparent – they communicated this clearly, and gave people a month plus to make their decisions on whether to stay or go. I’m staying for now. Yes, if the variations start, then I’ll reconsider.

Me too. I cancelled Lip Monthly a couple of months ago because after 18 months with them, I only kept about half a dozen lip products in colors I liked. Everything else sucked. It was $12.95, I kept seeing a the great Products I know I’d love in Ricky’s. But NO, damn waiting list. FINALLY, it opened up & I signed up. And they billed me right away too.
I’m hoping by increasing their pricing that they’ll be able to fulfill a of their supply and demand for their boxes thus not having box variations. I’ll give them a few months. If it become more miss than hit, maybe I’ll pull the plug. But I’ll have to give it an honest chance.

Ugh, just signed up and then they increase the price.

So I hear, our business is doing so well that we have to raise our prices… LOL

How do you cancel this? Looking at reduction subs, not necessarily due to price.

I just hope they don’t start variations. If that happens, I’m cancelling. I use to love Allure until variations. Now Boxycharm has variations and now yes, oh yas. I don’t care for variations because I get so disappointed if I was hoping for one thing and got another. Let’s hope to no variations. 👌🏼

Most of their products arent cruelty free, vegan nor organic anyway. I’ll stick with So Susan.

Wow, real smart of them.. get all these new subscribers and then increase the price lol at the end of the day it’s a business…but it would be nice if they would lock the price in for the people that have been subscribed for a long time. Either way I won’t cancel…yet lol

I’m actually glad about the increase. I’ve been tempted and shouldn’t, so now I’m not tempted. No self control, but I do have a budget. Sorry for the rest of you though.

I got a shipping notice from them on April 11, and it never moved. I emailed them twice in the past week to their CS and an aaller@rickysnyc they listed in an instagram post and nothing… I commented on an instagram post that I emailed them as well. No response. With a service like this, it seems that they have zero staff set up to handle it. Weird.