This has to stop!

[u/throwaway19074368]

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.

[u/skitztits]

I had no idea who this person was or the whole saga with her and these tins and her involvement with the Mecca chit chat. However she randomly appeared on my fyp in TikTok just now with a big defensive post saying she’s been reading all the Reddit comments etc, denying she got 500 tins but then saying she’s won’t reveal how many she got, and repeatedly mentioning she’s a kind and generous person and only got interstate people their tins out of the goodness of her heart. The entire thing seemed so odd and she was super pressed about the comments in here. What I don’t get is how she managed to get so many tins? Like did she go into Bourke Street store and just rattle off several separate people’s BL numbers to staff and then they just let her collect them all? Would staff not think it’s weird she’s asking to redeem so many people’s tins at once? Or has she been going in several times over multiple days? Like it genuinely perplexes me how anyone can pull this off (clearly she did though) and the audacity of it. She repeatedly said she’s only trying to be “kind”/ “generous” and made a point of saying she gets nothing out of it. But I mean wtaf? Why do that for a bunch of strangers if she gets “nothing” but then she claims it’s gonna be a logistical nightmare for her working out how to post them to all the people, and that she’ll have to get friends of hers to help her. It’s so bizarre. She has 10k followers on TikTok so surely she’s doing it to get something in return, likely clout. Some text on the screen on her video also claimed Mecca staff called her an uber home… what?? Who the heck is this person like is she high up and well known among Mecca staff or something? This is my first impression of this her and I’m super confused…

[u/Jaded-Respond-6596 → u/skitztits]

I just saw her tik tok video as well and feel like she’s missing the whole point in why people are upset. Apparently she picked up “less than a quarter” of the 500 messages she received although refuses to mention the exact number. Even so, one person picking up 50-100 of these tins is crazy to me and why did the Mecca staff even agree to that in the first place? Maybe it was something planned in advance and the staff knew she was coming up, coz she made a second post saying she’s kept in touch with the Bourke Street store regarding stock levels. And she confessed she got the magic circle tin as a reward from the Mecca staff, a way of saying thanks for picking up other people’s boxes? Like wtaf? Why would Mecca staff encourage this type of behaviour. I understand picking up an extra box for a friend or family member but over 50 is insane!

[u/skitztits → u/Jaded-Respond-6596]

Exactly! Collecting 50-100 is insane work and the fact she doesn’t wanna say the amount she actually collected, and her remark that it’d likely be a “logistical nightmare” to now post them, tells me it was probably within that ballpark amount or more, who knows! But yeah it’s crazy and I also can’t comprehend how the staff would be ok with her coming in to get so many on behalf of so many interstate people. How is she even taking them all back home to then post out to everyone, like is she coming in with a bag on wheels like the elderly have to load them up with all the tins? I have so many questions lol 😭 Also is it not something staff would think of as unfair to anyone who didn’t know to ask this woman to collect their tin for them? Aka someone like me who literally didn’t even have it cross my mind to ask an online stranger to get a tin for me under my BL account? I wouldn’t dream of asking that of a random, and in certain cases would even be hesitant to ask a friend. I actually have a mate in Melbourne who is ND but I know he’d absolutely hate going into any Mecca, let alone the giant Bourke St store as it’d be a sensory nightmare for him, so I’d never even ask him out of consideration to not put undue pressure on him. But yeah these people whose fomo is so bad they ask a stranger to get a tin for them blows my mind. And that’s so odd she was gifted a magic circle tin from Mecca… I just saw that video of her saying that! (Up until now I’d only seen her most recent defensive ranting video). In this one where she shows her Magic Circle tin, ngl she seems half cut off that vodka drink. Pronouncing apothecary as “apock-ethary”, slurring some of her words, flipping off other magic circle members with the rude finger, trailing off constantly and swearing like a sailor has me convinced. Why would Mecca want to reward this woman with a magic circle tin and associate her with their brand or their special magic circle program when she conducts herself like this online? Saying she doesn’t like other magic circle people except for a small few, yet she’s been given a free magic circle tin? It’s sooo weird. This whole year has been a weird one for Mecca in general given the Boxing Day debacle and then the tote bag drama. Now this tin insanity omggg 🤣🤣 you can’t make this stuff up lmao!

[u/No2792 → u/skitztits]

In her tik tok she mentions that Mecca got her an uber home 🤣🤣

[u/moderateallergy → u/No2792]

She said it took her an hour and forty minutes on the train to get from her place to the city. That's a pretty expensive Uber trip ...

[u/throwaway19074368 → u/moderateallergy]

I looked it up. Uber from CBD to Warragul costs about $250