Official Sales Alert thread - sales, coupon and discount codes

[dryl1]

Hi, is the bluebee sale instore too?

 

[robin]

Another sales notice from Blackbird:

Blackbird SHOE SALE - 25% off all Acne, Spring Court,
Surface to Air Paris, and YMC shoes. It's time for Spring
cleaning, and we'll bet you need to freshen up your shoe
collection, so from April 25 - May 5 we'll give you 25% off our
entire collection of these lines. Come by the store or call us
before sizes run out.
(no free shipping; may not be combined with other offers)

 

[ok1234]

hey does anyone know the code for the bluebee 20 off sale?

i called today and they wouldnt tell me haha
the code was e-mailed to previous customers

 

[denimaddict]

post it up, people.

 

[drizzt3117]

the email didn't mention a code.

 

[chronoaug]

Originally Posted by robin

Another sales notice from Blackbird:

I kinda like the purple leather ymc zip sneakers. I really don't need them but pretty cool. I wish there were more shoes i liked included in that sale.

 

[constant struggle]

blackbird's sufu discount is going down to 10% from 20%

 

[chronoaug]

And soon enough 0% since they're phasing it out slowly

 

[LA Guy]

Originally Posted by chronoaug

And soon enough 0% since they're phasing it out slowly

That's unfortunate, especially given that Seattle markups are some of the highest in the States. LA, SF, and NYC tend to be lower, and Chicago is perhaps, as a whole, lowest of all. Not to mention that this will make their prices non-competetive with online retailers which carry similar stock. I like Blackbird, but excepting several brands like APC, Bless, and Skull, their stock is not exclusive enough for them to be the "goto" store, without their discount.

 

[chronoaug]

Yea, i'm dissapointed too. Especially since they're pretty stingy with free shipping. I guess i can understand as they're starting to try and move to slightly higher end with all the geller, dbss, ervell, bless and others while phasing out the cheap-mid range stuff like bson, ymc, corpus, etc... Seems like i'm only gonna pick stuff up around sale time from them, but then again, they ususally don't have much left.

 

[robin]

I don't think the owners of other local stores will mind - I've heard many complaints where people try to get lower prices out of them just because Blackbird gives them an x% discount.

 

[LA Guy]

Originally Posted by robin

I don't think the owners of other local stores will mind - I've heard many complaints where people try to get lower prices out of them just because Blackbird gives them an x% discount.

Sure, but they are the competition. Of course the competition is not going to mind. I like Seattle stores. In general, the sales staff are friendly and unpretentious. However, the majority of the boutiques really cannot compete in terms of internet sales, even if they wanted to. The markups are simply too high to get that market.

 

[constant struggle]

I've made the majority of my recent purchases from blackbird, soley due to the discount beating the price everywhere else...

I have a hard time buying anything without some sort of discount

 

[robin]

Unfortunately they're not as competitive with each other as much as I'd like. Many of the downtown stores have either dropped lines or canceled orders just because of Blackbird's buys of the same stuff.

 

[jet]

Originally Posted by LA Guy

That's unfortunate, especially given that Seattle markups are some of the highest in the States. LA, SF, and NYC tend to be lower, and Chicago is perhaps, as a whole, lowest of all. Not to mention that this will make their prices non-competetive with online retailers which carry similar stock. I like Blackbird, but excepting several brands like APC, Bless, and Skull, their stock is not exclusive enough for them to be the "goto" store, without their discount.

Exactly.