That's it for April and May on the online shopping front. It started out innocently enough. I was only helping out a friend who was searching for the Mulberry Daria hobo in bright pink she had spotted whilst browsing a few days back. She said she saw it was selling for about USD750 which was a rather good price from the full retail she would have had to pay in stores. We looked for the bag in question on our own and together as we GMaile-ed our way through multiple sites. Until finally, she found it again, on her own, the price was reduced to $690.++ but she was too late. Only the orange hue was to be had.
Crushed, she went looking for alternatives elsewhere. I, on the other hand, got entangled on Bloomingdales.com. I really was there just to view the Mulberry bag in question and stayed to do a lil bit of window shopping but then, as I browsed, this banner caught my eye.
The shopaholic part of me (which probably equals a large part of my genetic makeup) sensed a small shopping opportunity. I thought it wasn't going to degenerate into a shopping excursion since I wasn't on full-on shopaholic mode as I lazily searched the site for items I had coveted but were not totally serious on buying. Considering I was aware I was maxxed out for April and all that.
But my searching produced unexpected results. Results that left me hyperventilating. Whenever I'm on a US-based department store site, I love to do handbag searches on Foley+Corinna and Rebecca Minkoff. I always do these random searches because I am a huge fan of the many variations of the City tote and Morning-After bag produced by each of these US grown designers. I've had multiple opportunities in the past to get my hands on a piece of either but held back for various reasons. The foremost reason back then was due to the fact I had never spent more than USD200 on a handbag before and thought spending $400 to $500 dollars was erring on the side of crazy. Well, I've gotten over that hang-up for sure.
So, back to the Bloomies sale, I decided to type in Foley+Corinna in the search box as I am slightly more in love with the City tote then the Minkoff's MAB. And could not believe my eyes when I saw the results! Mid City totes going for $395?!?!?! The usual retail price is $444! I started salivating, I did not even bother doing searches for anything else. I went through the many options, Mid City in glazed leather, Mid City in metallic leather, Disco City totes and the like before finally settling on the basic black Mid City in glazed leather. At $395, I knew I could get 20% off on that alone but I wanted more, I wanted the 30%. So the search continued.
I thought getting a matching Disco City tote would be overkill and I wasn't even gonna bother searching for an MAB because there wasn't gonna be one that would be 105 dollars to make it to the 500 bucks minimum limit I needed. Therefore, I switched to womens' apparel. I decided to see if Bloomies had another item I've been lusting over which is the DKNY Cozy. It's basically a cardigan that you can style 12 different ways. I have a thing for products that can multi-task (hence the F+C City tote love since there are two ways of carrying it). I found it. I did not like the $195 price tag though. But with 30% off, well it'll still be over a hundred bucks. Nonetheless, although still iffy, I clicked the M/L Cozy into my cart.
And then I stewed. I hmmmm-ed and I hawwed and I twisted and I turned and I decided to leave them there. I could not do it. I was maxxed, I realized that.
This was on the 20th, the day the promo began 2 days ago. I thought about it all day yesterday and went to the site again. Went through the same routine, picked out a different colour of the tote, different style, dropped it in the cart and the same thing occurred. I could not make myself go the final stretch. In the end, I always made the rational choice to forego it. I thought I could get them another time. When I was more financially able to accommodate them. So, yet again, I left the site with my integrity intact.
However, with me, when left to think about shopping decisions for a period of time, I always manage to find some way for desire to win over rationale. Talking to my sister about billing cycles, she made me realize that if I were to charge these purchases, they would only be due at the end of May. End of May.....THAT'S PERFECT! I'm not maxxed out end of May! And that is how I came to own.....
Ok, there was a bit of a switcharoo with the Cozy and the Juicy pants. I'm still at that stage where I can't justify to myself spending over 100 bucks on a piece of clothing, so I spent hours, and I really do mean HOURS, combing through Bloomingdales.com trying to find the perfect item to complement my F+C Mid City Tote. And oh, yea, I changed the black for a camel (I always loved the camel shade first and foremost but missed seeing it the first time round). Long story short, pants under 100 bucks ($64.09 to be exact) is great but what enthralls me the most is the price of my F+C Mid City tote in Camel that I got for the whoppingly low price of, drumroll please Rob Bourdon, USD229.31!
Yes, yup, yeah! After all discounts applied, including an additional 10% for being a Bloomie newbie and a coupon code for an additional USD25 off of the total, I simply paid $311.40. I want to weep when I think about how cheaply I got the things. I LOVE YOU, BLOOMINGDALES.COM!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so pumped :D
UPDATE (28/04/2010):
I'm tracking my Bloomies package via the UPS site and my last refresh had me laughing. This is what I saw:
Although in Oregon already, my poor F+C Mid City and Juicy Destination cargos are stranded on a train car somewhere in and around the Portland area. Poor babies, mommy hopes you get home ok!
Crushed, she went looking for alternatives elsewhere. I, on the other hand, got entangled on Bloomingdales.com. I really was there just to view the Mulberry bag in question and stayed to do a lil bit of window shopping but then, as I browsed, this banner caught my eye.
The shopaholic part of me (which probably equals a large part of my genetic makeup) sensed a small shopping opportunity. I thought it wasn't going to degenerate into a shopping excursion since I wasn't on full-on shopaholic mode as I lazily searched the site for items I had coveted but were not totally serious on buying. Considering I was aware I was maxxed out for April and all that.
But my searching produced unexpected results. Results that left me hyperventilating. Whenever I'm on a US-based department store site, I love to do handbag searches on Foley+Corinna and Rebecca Minkoff. I always do these random searches because I am a huge fan of the many variations of the City tote and Morning-After bag produced by each of these US grown designers. I've had multiple opportunities in the past to get my hands on a piece of either but held back for various reasons. The foremost reason back then was due to the fact I had never spent more than USD200 on a handbag before and thought spending $400 to $500 dollars was erring on the side of crazy. Well, I've gotten over that hang-up for sure.
So, back to the Bloomies sale, I decided to type in Foley+Corinna in the search box as I am slightly more in love with the City tote then the Minkoff's MAB. And could not believe my eyes when I saw the results! Mid City totes going for $395?!?!?! The usual retail price is $444! I started salivating, I did not even bother doing searches for anything else. I went through the many options, Mid City in glazed leather, Mid City in metallic leather, Disco City totes and the like before finally settling on the basic black Mid City in glazed leather. At $395, I knew I could get 20% off on that alone but I wanted more, I wanted the 30%. So the search continued.
I thought getting a matching Disco City tote would be overkill and I wasn't even gonna bother searching for an MAB because there wasn't gonna be one that would be 105 dollars to make it to the 500 bucks minimum limit I needed. Therefore, I switched to womens' apparel. I decided to see if Bloomies had another item I've been lusting over which is the DKNY Cozy. It's basically a cardigan that you can style 12 different ways. I have a thing for products that can multi-task (hence the F+C City tote love since there are two ways of carrying it). I found it. I did not like the $195 price tag though. But with 30% off, well it'll still be over a hundred bucks. Nonetheless, although still iffy, I clicked the M/L Cozy into my cart.
And then I stewed. I hmmmm-ed and I hawwed and I twisted and I turned and I decided to leave them there. I could not do it. I was maxxed, I realized that.
This was on the 20th, the day the promo began 2 days ago. I thought about it all day yesterday and went to the site again. Went through the same routine, picked out a different colour of the tote, different style, dropped it in the cart and the same thing occurred. I could not make myself go the final stretch. In the end, I always made the rational choice to forego it. I thought I could get them another time. When I was more financially able to accommodate them. So, yet again, I left the site with my integrity intact.
However, with me, when left to think about shopping decisions for a period of time, I always manage to find some way for desire to win over rationale. Talking to my sister about billing cycles, she made me realize that if I were to charge these purchases, they would only be due at the end of May. End of May.....THAT'S PERFECT! I'm not maxxed out end of May! And that is how I came to own.....
Ok, there was a bit of a switcharoo with the Cozy and the Juicy pants. I'm still at that stage where I can't justify to myself spending over 100 bucks on a piece of clothing, so I spent hours, and I really do mean HOURS, combing through Bloomingdales.com trying to find the perfect item to complement my F+C Mid City Tote. And oh, yea, I changed the black for a camel (I always loved the camel shade first and foremost but missed seeing it the first time round). Long story short, pants under 100 bucks ($64.09 to be exact) is great but what enthralls me the most is the price of my F+C Mid City tote in Camel that I got for the whoppingly low price of, drumroll please Rob Bourdon, USD229.31!
Yes, yup, yeah! After all discounts applied, including an additional 10% for being a Bloomie newbie and a coupon code for an additional USD25 off of the total, I simply paid $311.40. I want to weep when I think about how cheaply I got the things. I LOVE YOU, BLOOMINGDALES.COM!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so pumped :D
UPDATE (28/04/2010):
I'm tracking my Bloomies package via the UPS site and my last refresh had me laughing. This is what I saw:
Although in Oregon already, my poor F+C Mid City and Juicy Destination cargos are stranded on a train car somewhere in and around the Portland area. Poor babies, mommy hopes you get home ok!
