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Ipsy Glam Bag Plus – MSA Early Waitlist Access UPDATE
FYI - I reached out to Ipsy to get more info about the Glam Bag Plus waitlist for MSA readers. If you signed up for the waitlist we offered before 9/7, and you are eligible (meaning you are a current subscriber) Ipsy customer care will be reaching out to you within the next two weeks about Ipsy Glam Bag Plus.
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Just got an email from Ipsy. I’m off the waitlist! Woohoo!!! 🙂 Will be billed for the new bag Oct. 1st. It also says if spots become available it will bill sooner.
Thanks, Liz for keeping us up to date one this!
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Nika
Has anyone actually recieved one? Waitlisted, email stated I’d get one in February..still on the waitlist.
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LT
Me too!!
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Jenn
I got the same email today!!
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Jodi
Here’s what the email said:
You’re Off The Waitlist
You’re getting a Glam Bag soon*
WHAT’S NEXT?
Billing
We’ll bill you $25* for your Monthly plan on October 1st, but if there are spots open, e’ll bill you sooner.
Assembly and Shipping
Once you’ve been successfully billed, we’ll prep your Glam Bag and email you a tracking code when it ships.
Delivery
Receive your Glam Bag.
Future Glam Bag payments will be taken on 1st of every month.
ORDER INFORMATION
Membership Details
Blah, blah, blah, personal stuff.
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Anne
I got it too! Yay!
Jess
me too!
Liz Cadman
Wooo!! Glad to hear it! 🙂
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.
what does this mean???
You’ll Be Upgraded Soon!
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Emily
I haven’t heard anything from ipsy since the 14th. Did you get another email?
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Lauren
Well, yesterday was the 19th. Has anyone been moved off the waitlist yet? I haven’t.
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Jessica
Not yet, i received the email saying at the end of the month, but still waiting.
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Amber Nicole
I missed this, by chance will there be a way to get on the waitlist for current subscribers that missed out before the 9/7 deadline?
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SunnyT
You can go into the Ipsy app or sign into your account.
1. Go into your account
2. Hit general
3. Tap onto your name (edit account settings).
4. Tap membership and scroll down. You might have the option to get on the waitlist.
Hope this helps you! Good luck!
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Emily
For me there was a waitlist option on my Ipsy homepage, when I logged in on a desktop, and in my account settings on the phone.
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SunnyT
I received this email today from Ipsy care.
Great news! You’re now on the Glam Bag Plus waitlist, and we’ll move you to an active membership later this month.
You’ll be all set for Glam Bag Plus, and we’ll send you a confirmation email once you’re off the waitlist and billed.
We’re so excited for you to try Glam Bag Plus.
xoxo,
ipsyCare
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Retpunzel
I got the same email this morning 👍
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momo
RE: “Great news! You’re now on the Glam Bag Plus waitlist, and we’ll move you to an active membership later this month.
-You’ll be all set for Glam Bag Plus, and we’ll send you a confirmation email once you’re off the waitlist and billed.
-We’re so excited for you to try Glam Bag Plus.”
Says “once youre off the waitlist”, this email is not guaranteeing anyone Plus bags. I think the wording is just different but same msg as “Congratulations youre on the Plus waitlist, we’ll email you as soon as Plus is available”.
Since everyones bag will be different, Im more curious to see the variants now. Not everyone is getting the showcased bag, whats the retail value of the Plus bag with variant items/products… might be a doozy here…
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Svetlana7e
I got e-mail that I am off the wait list and will be getting Ipsy Plus. So excited.
Now I have to think hard, which box I should sacrifice and cancel in order not to get buried in all these products.
Liz, thank you so much for working with Ipsy and giving us this opportunity to be prioritized in wait list. You are amazing!!!
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Jess
I just got the same email from ipsy
Great news! You’re now on the Glam Bag Plus waitlist, and we’ll move you to an active membership later this month.
Yay MSA for hooking us up!!
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LT
Has anyone reached out the ipsy to see whether the bag we receive in October will be the one that Liz reviewed? 🤞
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Marie
It won’t be the same. They answered this on an Instastory.
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Beccah
Just got an email that I am off the waitlist and will become an active glam bag plus member later this month! Yay!!
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Redhed36
I received this email this morning;
“Great news! You’re now on the Glam Bag Plus waitlist, and we’ll move you to an active membership later this month.
You’ll be all set for Glam Bag Plus, and we’ll send you a confirmation email once you’re off the waitlist and billed.
We’re so excited for you to try Glam Bag Plus.
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Anna C
I got the exact email this morning as well. I signed up through the MSA waitlist too. I can’t wait and I’m really hoping this means we will get it!
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lmhilly
I got this email today “Great news! You’re now on the Glam Bag Plus waitlist, and we’ll move you to an active membership later this month.
You’ll be all set for Glam Bag Plus, and we’ll send you a confirmation email once you’re off the waitlist and billed.”
I have not done any referrals, I did send them an email over that misleading email putting us on a waitlist……so I don’t know what’s going on or if this is for real or what this means. It’s just their wording making me think I might get this bag in Oct.
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Anya
Liz, could you please let us know whether signing up via the MSA waitlist before the deadline of the 7th does indeed guarantee we’ll recieve the plus bag in October, or whether that was an interest list only? Also, whether if additionally signing up via the email invite from Ipsy and/or directly on the Ipsy website will impact our position on the waitlist if we had initially signed up on MSA? Thank you
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Marie
If you want to get Ipsy Plus you have to hit the upgrade button.
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Liz Cadman
From Ipsy:
“We are prioritizing members who signed up through your link on our waitlist. Though we can’t guarantee an October box to anyone, we’ll try to include as many of your community members in the October shipment as possible.”
I followed up with them about your specific questions, and I’ll let you know when I hear back. Sorry that I don’t have 100% visibility into this!
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Emily
So I just realized something…
If everyone who got confirmed on the waitlist will be getting billed for the plus October 1st (ie we’re all getting at the same time)
Is it safe the say the ‘get it sooner by inviting friends’ thing is a giant scam?
I mean everyone on the waitlist is getting October’s box according to Ipsy. And it’s not like they’re gonna start sending anyone boxes sooner than that. So how does inviting friends do anything for your waitlist status?
I swear they love their pretend waitlist.
They do the same thing every time you try and sign up for a regular bag.
‘You’re on the waitlist but share Ipsy on Facebook to be taken off’
That’s not how waitlist have worked on any other subscription bag (a legitimate waitlist anyway) if they have already sold their full ordered inventory and have to make a waitlist because they can’t send what they done have, then how does sharing Ipsy with friends somehow make them have enough product for you to sign up?
Their marketing team is clearly trying milk the ‘limited availability’ appeal here.
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Anne
I signed up for for the waitlist as soon as it was posted a week or so ago on MSA. I emailed Ipsy yesterday about it and they said today that they didn’t have my email on the list. Really sad I did what I was supposed to and somehow my email wasn’t on there.
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Anne
Just an update: It took a few emails back and forth, but I got added to the waitlist Sunday and the email today that I am getting October. Thanks Ipsy for fixing it for me!
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Emily
Ah, ignore the second comment, the first one didn’t appear so I made another, oops.
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Emily
I’m pretty sure (after your comment like 99% sure)
The MSA ‘waitlist’ wasn’t an actual waitlist.
The system they were using couldn’t detect whether the email added to the MSA list was an ipsy member or not, so instead of immediately adding the email to the waitlist, they went through the emails provided, and if that email had an account, they sent the ‘actual’ waitlist link (which many people found on their own the day before on the Ipsy site).
So if you only signed up via the MSA waitlist, you were not actually on a waitlist, but sorta a ‘waitlist screening’ list. Make sense?
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Anne Cummins
That makes sense. I’m just kind of upset that I signed up and even got the screen saying I did, if I tried to revisit the link it said “ thanks you already signed up” on the MSA link for the waitlist a few weeks ago. I don’t know why my email didn’t show up on the MSA list, I am literally the one who posted the link on Reddit and Facebook to direct people to MSA to sign up.
Emily
More validation to my suspicions! I don’t believe the MSA ‘waitlist’ was an actual waitlist at all, I believe the people who signed up for that list were supposed to be contacted to THEN join the waitlist. Many people were complaining (myself included) that they received an email to ‘upgrade now’ when it was really just a link to the official waitlist (which most of us had already found in our settings or on the ipsy honescreen.) So people who only signed up via MSA and not the email they sent, or the Ipsy site, were not actually on the list. Dunno how Ipsy or MSA hasn’t explained that one yet…
If you were actually put on the waitlist, you would have received an email confirming this, which no one received after the MSA ‘waitlist’, suprise suprise.
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Danielle
I’m confused as well, but I will share my experience that seems to give some validation to the MSA advantage way.
I have 2 accounts, one I use on the app and another I manage on a browser. I only want one upgraded account, but just in case there was some technical snaffu with the MSA signup (with my email or whatever, not blaming MSA), I contacted Ipsy Care about signing up for the waitlist for my other account (not mentioning anything about my account I used for the MSA list.). They sent me some canned response and did not in any way offer to put me on a waitlist or let me know when/if that option would be offered. Additionally, I have yet to find any link or info on the second account mentioning Ipsy Plus. Maybe there’s just a problem with my account or as it is pretty new, they’re just not advertising to me. My point is, I do believe the MSA waitlist did give us some level of advantage. Yes it was basically a waitlist for another waitlist but those of us that got the email invite and clicked to upgrade are at least somewhat more likely to get the Plus bag sooner than others.
Maybe I am being overly optimistic or naive, but I definitely do feel like Ipsy is not being nearly as shady or misleading as Boxycharm was (and still is with their mixed message emails.)
Marie
Exactly. Well said.
Faith
I got the upgrade email that came with an upgrade now button that sent me to the waitlist. So I emailed them to clarify and this is what they said-
“If you clicked “Upgrade Now”, it will put you on the Waitlist, but don’t worry! We’ll move you to an active membership later this month.
You’ll also get a confirmation email when you’re off the Waitlist, and we’ll bill you on the 1st of the following month.”
It sounds like anyone who got the email and clicked the upgrade button should be getting the upgraded box next month!
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Christine G
Rene replied:
My response regarding the upgrade email yesterday, verbatim:
Hi Christine,
Thanks for reaching out!
You should be getting an email from us about this soon, but just to let you know, as long as you join our Glam Bag Plus waitlist, we’ll move you to an active membership later this month.
You’ll also get a confirmation email once you’re off the waitlist and billed.
Please let me know if I can help with anything else, and thanks for your patience!
Warmly,
Rene
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ANA ROXANA WAKEFIELD
WILL I STILL HAVE TO SET UP A SEPARATE IPSY ACCOUNT TO GET THE GLAM PLUS? SOME PEOPLE ARE SAYING YES AND NO. IM HOPING THEY WILL JUST ADJUST IT TO MY CURRENT ACCOUNT. ANY HELP IS APPRECIATED, THANK YOU
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Juliee
If you want both the $10 bag and the Plus bag, you’ll have to have separate accounts for each. If you just want the upgrade, they will upgrade your current account. Their system is not equipped to offer two bags under one account.
Julie
As an annual subscriber I told ipsy to convert me to monthly in order to get the Plus bag, and they did that today, refunding what’s left on the annual. The funny thing is, as soon as they did that, I now have the “improve Glam Bag” membership option, which I never got before. I suppose that survey doesn’t even matter anymore, now with the Ipsy plus.
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Reese
I emailed and they said I will be taken off the waitlist later this month and billed on the first. Confusing to get an email saying to upgrade only to be linked to a page saying i’m waitlisted when I already knew that, but whatever!
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Emily
Soo… what I took from this was that the MSA waitlist wasn’t actually a waitlist (which is why no one got email confirmation.)
It was a list for them to send an email when the actual waitlist was live on Ipsy’s site. So if you had already signed up on the site, (I did and I know a lot of people already did.) today’s link did absolutely nothing. But if you had only signed up on the MSA list and not on the waitlist on their site, now you’re on the actual list.
(Just my thoughts. I was hoping today’s was just an incorrect link, but I think it was just the actual waitlist that a lot of us already found.)
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Maria
I would like to see spoilers for the box variatons before I subscribe
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Alyssa
I didn’t get a email and I did sign up for the MSA waitlist. I looked in my account options and found the option to upgrade. I also looked in my second account which I did not sign up for the waitlist with and did not find the option to upgrade
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Emily
My membership settings only told me that I was on the waitlist and had a ‘get it sooner’ button where it took me to the page to invite friends. You must have gotten lucky!
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Alyssa
Emily, I never recieved the email so I had to go into the settings to get on the waitlist, hope that makes more sense 🙂
Jill M
Hi Liz,
Do you think it is possible for you to reach out to Ipsy Customer Service or marketing for us again to find out if we will be removed from the waitlist after the deadline they gave us to upgrade? I really think that is what is going to happen, but I can’t seem to get in touch with anyone from Ipsy! I have sent numerous emails to them over the past few days about various things regarding my account (not just about Glam bag plus) and I can’t seem to get a response from them, and it would be nice to know something or anything. The email did say that we would be removed from the waitlist if we clicked the link to upgrade. Well, we got put on the waitlist instead lol…Thank you for anything that you can do Liz!
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Marie
So I just got an email from Ipsy saying that if I hit the upgrade button before 9/19 I will be taken off the waitlist,
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lmhilly
Everyone hit the upgrade link in the email only to be put on the waitlist anyways
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Barbara
Thank you for info!😊😊
I tried to get hold Ipsy CS but haven’t heard back fro them yet.
I bet they received enormous contact from ppl.
It was so confusing about this upgrade process😒
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Jessica
Ok I’m just gonna suck it up and sign up for a second account…I really don’t want to, but i am starting to think that i don’t want to lose all the work i put into my profile and i would rather upgrade with a new account…So can any of you ladies tell me if i can have 2 accounts with the same mailing address and just a separate name email?
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V
Yes, I did that with my daughter and I.
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Christine G
Yes you can
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Shawn
I received the “Your Glam Bag Plus Access” email. Telling me to “reactivate” my subscription before Friday 9/14 to secure my spot. I’m confused my subscription is active. I received my glam bag Monday.
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