Cosmetics Company Store question

Found my daughter's discontinued hg foundation: Clinique City Stick at the
Cosmetics Co. Store at an outlet mall. (It was discontinued sometime in the
past year.)

I was told I could buy only 3 of them. (Of course, we worked around it, so
I bought 4.) I am really perplexed by the supposed policy. The product has

girlyfied...

It's to stop people from using CCO to acquire stock for their Ebay
businesses. There are some people who have been banned from CCO stores
because they shopped too frequently and often purchased the maximum.
Managers assumed they were resellers. They track purchases there for
that very reason. They frown upon reselling at CCO.

Until a few years ago, there were no limits, but too many people sold
items they bought there on Ebay. A few years ago, they began imposing
limits.

It's an annoying policy when you find an item you love and want to
stock up.

been discontinued by Clinique and they have not replaced it with a
comparable item. They are selling old stock at these outlets and,
presumably, they *want* to sell all of it. Even if I wanted to buy 100 of
them and sell them on ebay, it's not competing with Clinique.

If Clinique thinks there is such a huge, competitive market for the product,
WHY DID THEY DISCONTINUE IT? And if the outlet store is in the business of
selling products, WHY DO THEY WANT TO LIMIT SALES?

Jean...

the CCO near me has ALWAYS been very strict in their selling
policies...in fact, you can't spend more than $300 at a time. I haven't
been in one lately, but I've heard over at MUA that they are now
limiting your purchased to 3 of ANY KIND of the same category....ie, 3
blushes could be one MAC one Bobbi Brown one Clinique, etc. And asking
for ID TOO! It seems a little farfetched to me, but I haven't checked
it out personally.

It's ridiculous.....they are making THEIR money, so why should it bother
them where it ends up? grrr....

cofarb...

It really does seem silly, especially since a person has to shlepp to remote
territory to get to these outlet malls. (And any good afer knows that a
person could easily be buying more than 3 shadows or 3 blushes or... at a
time--just for personal use!) I often carry lists with me so I can get
various sought-after products for friends who live elsewhere. (And lord
knows I've had afers glom multiples of my beloved, dear departed Pulp
Fiction blush at CCO in the past.)

I could sort of understand the rationale when the product is not a
discontinued one, but once they decide not to make something anymore, it
makes no sense to limit sales. That's what they're in business for!

BTW, what do you think is the necessary time lapse between "one time"s? Can
you go in once in the morning and again in the afternoon? Twenty-four
hours? Thirty days? Sheesh!

Charlie Perrin...

Too many members of the founding family in the upper management of the
company pretty much guarantees the company only does good enough to
support the family's chosen lifestyle... for various reasons.

As I say about my favorite department store in the mall closest to
home: "DIllard's only needs to make enough money to keep the Dillard
family happy. And it doesn't take too much money to be happy in
Arkansas."

At least if you're in the Dillard family, you don't have people
getting question-mark looks about Cousin Edsel. (A name used more than
once in the automotive Ford family.... as opposed to the glass Ford
family.)