GQ Best Stuff Box Reviews

The GQ Best Stuff Box is a quarterly men’s subscription from GQ magazine that’s $50 a box with free shipping. The box features $200 worth of products the editors have curated after testing and finding them to be the best in their class. Although this subscription is geared towards men, women love it for themselves […]

I’m going to say this was my least favorite GQ Best Stuff Box of the eight installments I’ve reviewed. It wasn’t terrible by any means, but there was nothing special in it for me. The glasses were obviously a make or break item and this time it was a break. Maybe if they had chosen a simple color, it would worked better for me. Maybe I’m way off base and a lot of people will like them. The cards and clay mask were my favorite things. They will both get used a lot. The moisturizer, toner, and deodorant were OK. The eye cream is lost on me. And the guest pass to the workout app, while a good idea, will likely go unused. I actually don’t like when subscriptions include trials to other subscriptions in the value of their box. If it’s included as an advertisement – fine – but don’t act like we’re being given special access. Overall, an underwhelming effort from GQ Best Stuff Box, which is something I don’t say often. There is still a lot of value (see below) and your opinion on the glasses may make the box of you. Comment on this post what you thought of the sunglasses: the look, the price, the doing it two years in a row. Thanks for reading.

Despite a couple of OK items, I really enjoyed this quarter’s GQ Best Stuff Box. Subscribers will appreciate the full-sized items. It feels like we’re getting a product rather than paying for samples. I also like getting everything at once. It makes sense that GQ often sends vouchers for their main items so you can choose your size or color, but this is the second quarter in a row we’ve received everything on our doorstep at one time and I like it. I immediately liked the canvas backpack. It’s mature, useful, and I just can’t tell you how much I love nice, un-branded stuff. I was really impressed with the mega-mushroom treatment, pomade, and the face wash. The shampoo was nice and will get used, but was pretty ordinary. The pimple patches and anti-aging serum are great and useful, but for someone else. And the journal fell flat for me, because it didn’t. Overall, I really liked this box. However, I did find some of the pricing in the booklet to be a little off. In my simple searching I noticed several of the items could be found cheaper elsewhere. In the case of the backpack it was on sale for nearly half off. The mighty patches seemed strangely priced, since you could get more than twice the amount for less money on the official site. And the notebook’s price seemed just plain made up, since it cost less to have one made yourself. GQ isn’t to blame for another site’s sale, discontinued item, or whatnot, but it’s always a little bit of a bummer to find something you bought for cheaper somewhere else. Despite some misgivings, this is actually one of my favorite efforts from GQ Best Stuff Box. I think it’s the full-size products and the fact that I’m a sucker for bags, brand-less items, and things that smell good.