I'll warn you ahead of time, this may be long, but it all plays into my curiosity - are we being taken advantage of during Nordstroms Anniversary Sale?
We all know by now that there are certain things that are produced specifically for this sale, but this year more than ever, quality issues came up far more than what's normal for Nordstroms.
I purchased a Michael Kors leather jacket on the first day of the sale. It was love at first site. Once I got home & was going through my purchases, trying things on, I noticed that one of the epaulettes didn't lay quite right. When I took the jacket off & looked closely, I noticed that all of the stitching was pulled out and the epaulette was literally hanging on by a thread. I called my SA and she tried to locate another. I asked her to ask the SAs at other stores to look the jacket over & make sure they don't have the same issue. She called me back about an hour later & said that we'd have to order one from the online inventory because even though she located a few jackets, she wasn't satisfied with their condition. This got me wondering whether or not all of these jackets were poorly made (I did receive one from the website & it does appear to be without issue)
I also purchased two Free People sweaters. Once again when I got home, I noticed the stitching along the seam of one of them was poorly stitched. It almost looked like it had torn and was resewn because there was white thread visible, but I couldn't find white thread anywhere else on the sweater. None of stores near by had this sweater, so I was going to order it online & return the one I bought, only it sold out (online) before I had the chance. I went into the store and was just going to exchange for the next size, when I was told that they no longer had those sweaters because they had sent them back at the request of the vendor. When I asked why, the SA said she didn't know. She said usually they wait until the sale is over to make this request. The same thing happened with a Press cardigan I wanted - I bought one last weekend, and they had it in two other colors in the store that weren't offered online. I loved the sweater so much, I went back for another color, but they sent them back. This got me thinking - how much of the anniversary sale merchandise will actually be available once the sale ends? They say in their ads, "prices go back up 8/5" but if they're sending merchandise back to the vendors, the prices aren't actually going back up (I also asked about a pair of boots, whether or not they would get more in after the sale ends to sell at full price, and she said, "No, those were purchased for the Anniversary Sale, they're not part of the regular collection")
I considered buying a Halogen cardigan, but I looked at two of them & they both had snags and one had a hole. Decided to pass on that. In fact several items that I looked at during the sale appeared to be poorly made.
I read several reviews for things online where customers said that they already owned something offered during the Anniversary Sale (i.e., FitFlop Sandals) and that they believed the quality (of the ones offered during the sale) wasn't the same and they weren't as nice. Someone else pointed out that the Rag & Bone Harrow boots were missing one of the leather straps. Sure enough, i looked a pair offered at full price and they had a slightly different design. Similar comments were made about the Burberry trench coats.
So I gotta wonder - are we REALLY getting a good deal during Anniversary Sale? Or do we see the words "Sale" and " Prices go back up" and "Double Points" and do we react exactly how the company wants us to act? If these items were sold at these prices normally, would we be interested in buying it? Sure, there were some deals to be had - it's not often you find Chloe Paddington boots below retail price (although, I've never really looked at a pair of older ones, and wonder if the quality of the ones sold during the sale were as nice as they typically are), but for the most part, I wasn't too impressed with this years sale. I really noticed a difference in both the brands offered and the quality of those that were. It definitely seemed a step down from sales of seasons past. And it really aggregated me that things were removed from the sale and sent back before the sale ended!
What do you think? How do you feel about this years sale?
We all know by now that there are certain things that are produced specifically for this sale, but this year more than ever, quality issues came up far more than what's normal for Nordstroms.
I purchased a Michael Kors leather jacket on the first day of the sale. It was love at first site. Once I got home & was going through my purchases, trying things on, I noticed that one of the epaulettes didn't lay quite right. When I took the jacket off & looked closely, I noticed that all of the stitching was pulled out and the epaulette was literally hanging on by a thread. I called my SA and she tried to locate another. I asked her to ask the SAs at other stores to look the jacket over & make sure they don't have the same issue. She called me back about an hour later & said that we'd have to order one from the online inventory because even though she located a few jackets, she wasn't satisfied with their condition. This got me wondering whether or not all of these jackets were poorly made (I did receive one from the website & it does appear to be without issue)
I also purchased two Free People sweaters. Once again when I got home, I noticed the stitching along the seam of one of them was poorly stitched. It almost looked like it had torn and was resewn because there was white thread visible, but I couldn't find white thread anywhere else on the sweater. None of stores near by had this sweater, so I was going to order it online & return the one I bought, only it sold out (online) before I had the chance. I went into the store and was just going to exchange for the next size, when I was told that they no longer had those sweaters because they had sent them back at the request of the vendor. When I asked why, the SA said she didn't know. She said usually they wait until the sale is over to make this request. The same thing happened with a Press cardigan I wanted - I bought one last weekend, and they had it in two other colors in the store that weren't offered online. I loved the sweater so much, I went back for another color, but they sent them back. This got me thinking - how much of the anniversary sale merchandise will actually be available once the sale ends? They say in their ads, "prices go back up 8/5" but if they're sending merchandise back to the vendors, the prices aren't actually going back up (I also asked about a pair of boots, whether or not they would get more in after the sale ends to sell at full price, and she said, "No, those were purchased for the Anniversary Sale, they're not part of the regular collection")
I considered buying a Halogen cardigan, but I looked at two of them & they both had snags and one had a hole. Decided to pass on that. In fact several items that I looked at during the sale appeared to be poorly made.
I read several reviews for things online where customers said that they already owned something offered during the Anniversary Sale (i.e., FitFlop Sandals) and that they believed the quality (of the ones offered during the sale) wasn't the same and they weren't as nice. Someone else pointed out that the Rag & Bone Harrow boots were missing one of the leather straps. Sure enough, i looked a pair offered at full price and they had a slightly different design. Similar comments were made about the Burberry trench coats.
So I gotta wonder - are we REALLY getting a good deal during Anniversary Sale? Or do we see the words "Sale" and " Prices go back up" and "Double Points" and do we react exactly how the company wants us to act? If these items were sold at these prices normally, would we be interested in buying it? Sure, there were some deals to be had - it's not often you find Chloe Paddington boots below retail price (although, I've never really looked at a pair of older ones, and wonder if the quality of the ones sold during the sale were as nice as they typically are), but for the most part, I wasn't too impressed with this years sale. I really noticed a difference in both the brands offered and the quality of those that were. It definitely seemed a step down from sales of seasons past. And it really aggregated me that things were removed from the sale and sent back before the sale ended!
What do you think? How do you feel about this years sale?
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Um, yea -- returns were processed on a Sunday night so the inventory was replenished for Monday morning! Puh-leez!! 
