Thursday, July 19, 2012

NOT SO FAB

Gentle Readers . . . and Maxwell,

Have you seen advertisements for JustFab? Take a look at http://www.justfab.com/index.cfm?action=home.boutique#tab_shoe.

You also might want to take a look at http://www.scambook.com/company/view/146/JustFab.com.

JustFab is kind of a Book of the Month Club for shoes, except most of the shoes aren't worth buying. Join JustFab and they'll charge you 39.95 on the sixth of each month. If you don't buy a pair of shoes with your so-called credit, you get charged anyway.

JustFab also has handbags and jewelry.

I needed some new shoes and decided to try JustFab, not really knowing what I was getting myself into. Besides, I could earn frequent flyer miles by ordering from them.

The shoes are cute and JustFab has not scammed me out of any money -- yet -- because I've picked out a pair of shoes to purchase with my credit. ("Credit" is such a misnomer; it's your money that charged to your credit card.)

My problem? Most of the shoes don't fit well, and they're cheaply made.

Here's Agnes:
Isn't she a cute gold flat? Yup! But I bet she won't last more than a few months, and I'm gentle on my shoes. The shoes seem to me to be made of plastic materials stuck together with something that doesn't even hold as well as crazy glue.

Furthermore, most of the JustFab shoes have those ridiculously high heels that cause models to fall on the catwalk. Who can actually walk in a five-inch heel?

Not me.

So I'm canceling JustFab, and I warn you against joining.

On the plus side, the company includes shipping in the 39.95 price, and returns/exchanges are simple. You don't even have to pay shipping when you send the shoes back, and I think you'll return the shoes.


Trust me: JustFab isn't worth the money, and I can just picture them scamming people who forget to order a pair of shoes and the company receives the 39.95 without sending out a pair of shoes.


So long, JustFab. You do not have the Janie Junebug Seal of Approval. 


You get the Seal of Disapproval.


Infinities of love,


Janie Junebug  

19 comments:

  1. That's a seriously weird site! I love shoes so pity anyone out there who is taken in by this site.

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    1. Then you pity me, darling. I was sucked in, but I know how to get spit back out.

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  2. Hi Janie,

    Good to know! Lucky for me, I cannot buy shoes online because I have to always try them on first because they never fit. Wait, did I just say I was lucky because my shoes never fit?

    Never mind. You know what I mean. :)

    best,
    MOV

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    1. Of course I know what you mean. We're very understanding here.

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  3. This club would never work for me. A new pair of shoes every month??? Not my speed. I rarely buy shoes, and when I do, it's only because the store's practically giving them away, and once I have them, I wear 'em 'til they fall apart. Heck, I still have several pairs of six-inch stilettos in my closet. I doubt if I'll ever wear them again, but I wave at them occasionally when I walk by.

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    1. How sweet of you to greet those lonely old stilettos. Oh, dear. I think I fall into the category of a six-inch stiletto -- lonely and old.

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  4. I’ve never heard of this. Unlike the vast majority of women, I’m not into shoes. Yes, I know, it’s shocking. It’s mostly because I don’t have cute dainty feet like my cartoon self. LOL Mine are big, wide and flat. Needless to say, the selection of shoes I can wear that fit the adorability quotient are miniscule.

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    1. Darling, I'm so sorry. I have such gorgeous feet. Too bad my face isn't as pretty as my feet.

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  5. That really sounds like a scam. DO all the shoes cost $39.95?. They're probably made in China like everything else nowadays. When I need shoes I shop at 6pm.com or famous footwear, you don't have to pay anything up front and they have a good selection. :)

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    1. Some of the shoes are cheaper; i.e., they have a sale on now -- two pairs for 39.95, but of course the sale shoes are the ones nobody wants.

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  6. Well, usually where I live, we tend to live in boots, but I secretly have a shoe fetish...five pairs that I've not even worn yet, and a pair of really expensive Nike trainers, which I had totally forgotten about until I read this {Thank you!} now I'm going to have to blow the dust off them. I love them though.
    I wouldn't buy cheap shoes because I reckon you get what you pay for, plus the fact that I can't stand the thought of little kids making them for pennies.

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    1. I didn't even think about poor little children in India or China making cheap shoes. Now I really dislike JustFab.

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  7. Links for handbags and shoes? For real? How about some links to blowup dolls, adult electronic toys or porn movies? Oh, never mind. I have the links already.

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  8. That's expensive for such a poorly made pair of shoes! I won't be buying anything from them!

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    1. That's why I write reviews. Fridays are usually movie reviews and book reviews pop up as I finish reading the books.

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  9. I have never heard of this before. I used to be a shoe-aholic with over 50 pairs of heels, but then I moved to places with cobblestones! That and not having a car means that walking over a mile to any place eliminates my heel fetish. I wear through thick soled walking shoes in a matter of months so those cheap flats might last a trip to the market!

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  10. the best way to buy shoes is always to get to the shop and look for the best fit and shape methinks :)

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    1. Methinks thou doth know of what thou speaketh.

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