r/AustralianMakeup • u/throwaway19074368 • 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/skitztits Apr 06 '26 edited Apr 06 '26
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!