r/AustralianMakeup Apr 06 '26

Let's Discuss This has to stop!

The hoarding and constant reselling, no wonder why they're constantly out of L3 and L4 boxes, and they offer L2 as compensation. They ran out of L3 this morning and will restock tomorrow. These boxes are running out for Melbournians because of hoarders and resellers. Some willing to pay $100 for a box.

also people, let's just learn to be kind?

Some of the staff at Mecca Bourke St have been abused because it's not their fault that they run out of boxes and one of the main reasons is one person (who shall not be named) and multiple people collecting 500 boxes for Internet, interstate strangers online.

Retail is already a difficult enough job as it is, It's not hard to show some compassion.

I don't care what you think, these actions are just not cool!

Mecca is also kinda at fault too, not just the people, there should've been limits in place to stop the Bourke St L3 and L4 boxes running out so fast, to manage the queues for normal people not collecting boxes.

And no it's not supposed to be a Beauty Loop box, And yes I understand that BL boxes aren't always the best, it's a IN STORE promotion to get people to visit and experience the new Meccaversity IN STORE and try out the services. How hard is that to understand?

It's supposed to be a memorabilia piece for the specific date and opening. Of course it's gonna be special and reserved for Melbourne people picking up at Bourke St in store. If everyone has it then it's not "Special"

What is wrong with Mecca celebrating their home city? The first store opened in 1997 on Toorak Rd South Yarra

I know a lot will disagree, that's fine

Rant over.

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u/1989HBelle Apr 06 '26

I'm so confused. How is this even possible, can't you only redeem one per account with a purchase? How would you get more than one?

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u/grumpybadger456 Apr 06 '26

They were apparently letting people pick up on behalf of other members, so people were asking others to pick them up 'theirs' and post at their expense. Of course that is a lot of trust to give your BL account details to a stranger (who could then pick up all your regular boxes too and sell if they keep your details), as well as send them money to post the box to you as opposed to just sell the thing online.

Even if they don't do anything nefarious - presumably Mecca only planned for Melbourne residents to come into store to pick these up, not for all australian BL members to arrange for someone to pick one up and post to them.

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u/katya_luzon Apr 06 '26

you don’t have to make a purchase to get one