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HSN changes

homedecorator — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 11:40:20 GMT

HSN used to have the best clearance sales with lots of free shipping. I noticed that is no longer true. I wonder if these disappointing changes have to do with them combining with QVC?

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bonnielu — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 11:53:44 GMT

I hang out on Zulily, also associated with QVC. They have a shopping cart approach...buy one item and the rest are free shipping for that day...But on the weekend you get Friday - Sunday... same shipping charge. The prices and products are wonderful. I don't do QVC as much anymore.

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Shogirl — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:53:41 GMT

I recently watched some sale and clearance shows on HSN and thought they had just as great prices as they normally do. I did not notice the shipping costs, however.

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2blonde — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:57:45 GMT

@bonnielu @homedecorator @Shogirl I'm confident the lack of free shipping does correlate with QVC's parent company purchasing HSN. I am still getting the 20% off coupons from HSN, though (max. savings of $25, and only goo for 1 or 2 days).

I also am a big fan of Zulily, but don't order from them if you're in a hurry.......they charge your CC immediately, and the item doesn't arrive for about 3 weeks.

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millieshops — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 13:40:01 GMT

I flipped into HSN's clearance twice and felt pretty much the same way I did when I drove to my local Lord and Taylor which had about 1000 items on deep sale and maybe another 1000 about 30% off - "yep, those things need to be on sale. No one should have paid what they called the original price!"

Even at the sales prices retailers are offering, I'm having a hard time finding what I think I'll wear very often. At L&T, I bought only a dress from Miss Elaine on the lingerie rack - 30% off and since I did nothing else on that trip, we can add something for the cost of the trip and call it shipping I suppose.

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Lipstickdiva — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 14:55:30 GMT

HSN always had shopping carts on their clearance days where once you spent X amount of dollars (usually $99.00), you paid one s/h charge. They haven't done that this clearance go around.

They also used to offer half off the s/h charge on subsequent purchases from the same category. For instance if you bought 2 clothing items, one was ful price s/h and the second was half off. They no longer do this with clothing. It's full s/h for every item.

This clothing clearance event was a complete bust for me. I went through every item on clearance and there wasn't a thing I wanted.

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jackthebear — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 14:30:34 GMT

@2blonde wrote:
@bonnielu @homedecorator @Shogirl I'm confident the lack of free shipping does correlate with QVC's parent company purchasing HSN. I am still getting the 20% off coupons from HSN, though (max. savings of $25, and only goo for 1 or 2 days).

I also am a big fan of Zulily, but don't order from them if you're in a hurry.......they charge your CC immediately, and the item doesn't arrive for about 3 weeks.

no go for me, I am not waiting 3 weeks for anything these days, and most of it is final sale, at least it was the last time I looked

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mollymaggie — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 18:37:45 GMT

I love house items so Ive watched alot today They arent even sales Most of the items are what they normslly charge Who are they fooling ? The funniest one was a set of Joys towels They came up with this price of over 280 dollars marked down to 49 Her towels are thin and cheap and normally sell for maybe 59 at the most

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Shelbelle — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 21:06:11 GMT

HSN is not offering free shipping as much as before. Lancome always had free shipping on HSN, but recently I saw items that had shipping fee.

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Diva on The Q — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 21:46:50 GMT

@Shelbelle wrote:
HSN is not offering free shipping as much as before. Lancome always had free shipping on HSN, but recently I saw items that had shipping fee.

@I discovered the change today when I was going to purchase two sets of sheets @ $24.99 each which is a great deal! But shipping is a total of $15.00!!! In the past (always with clearance items) shipping was reduced when purchasing two or more items.

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homedecorator — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 02:26:58 GMT

@Diva on The Q wrote:

@Shelbelle wrote:
HSN is not offering free shipping as much as before. Lancome always had free shipping on HSN, but recently I saw items that had shipping fee.

@I discovered the change today when I was going to purchase two sets of sheets @ $24.99 each which is a great deal! But shipping is a total of $15.00!!! In the past (always with clearance items) shipping was reduced when purchasing two or more items.

I miss those shipping deals. They also used to offer free shipping on clearance days if your total was $75 or greater....no more!

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homedecorator — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 02:28:54 GMT

@Shelbelle wrote:
HSN is not offering free shipping as much as before. Lancome always had free shipping on HSN, but recently I saw items that had shipping fee.

@Shelbelle I noticed that too. I used to buy the Lancôme concealer when it was offered with free shipping.

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homedecor1 — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 02:34:48 GMT

I noticed the s/h fees are higher....gone are the good ole' days of free shipping I'm sure!

I noticed on a clearance sheet set it was $7.50 to ship. What was more disappointing to me was my fav brand, Curtis Stone the prices were good but the s/h added up!

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homedecorator — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 02:42:37 GMT

@homedecor1 wrote:
I noticed the s/h fees are higher....gone are the good ole' days of free shipping I'm sure!

I noticed on a clearance sheet set it was $7.50 to ship. What was more disappointing to me was my fav brand, Curtis Stone the prices were good but the s/h added up!

I know the shipping fees eliminate the good deals!

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bonnielu — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 03:04:10 GMT

@2blonde How do you get the coupons. Is it the charge card? which I don't have.

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bonnielu — Fri, 03 Aug 2018 03:06:17 GMT

I have no problem waiting for Zulily to ship the packages from MARS (LOL). Customer service is excellent. The two times I had an issue with the product they took the return, no shipping fee back to them and to be nice they gave me a store credit... extra. I guess they appreciate my orders which are numerous.

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jackthebear — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 11:56:52 GMT

@bonnielu wrote:
@2blonde How do you get the coupons. Is it the charge card? which I don't have.

i get cards in the mail

kind of old school, right

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Mominohio — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 12:54:26 GMT

I pretty much don't shop HSN or Evine. I've made maybe one purchase from each of them in my lifetime. I simply don't find the selection or the quality or the style of things I do here at Q. I will say I don't buy fashion or anything related from any channel, though.

Those other two networks have never been able to hold a candle to QVC in sales volume, and I don't see where adding higher/more shipping is going to do them any favors.

All the shopping channels are up against the wall, with so many online retailers having at least free shipping with a $99 order, and others with flat rate shipping for orders (many of the candle companies charge a flat rage regardless of how many candles you order).

I honestly don't see how long they can keep up this high shipping. It would seem they'd be much further ahead to build half or three quarters of the current shipping price into the cost of the item, then list it as free shipping. I mean, we all know shipping is never really 'free' it is built into the cost somewhere, but people are turning away from ordering multiples of things here all the time, when they look at what the shipping adds up to, to buy three or four or five things in one order.

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SUHsE — Sat, 04 Aug 2018 19:45:24 GMT

@mollymaggie wrote:
I love house items so Ive watched alot today They arent even sales Most of the items are what they normslly charge Who are they fooling ? The funniest one was a set of Joys towels They came up with this price of over 280 dollars marked down to 49 Her towels are thin and cheap and normally sell for maybe 59 at the most

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I hate it when retailers inflate the original price, of an item, and then put it on “sale”!

I don’t know if it’s still true, but, Macy’s used to be notorious, for this, with their fine jewelry.

I’d rather a retailer just price the item fairly, and not have the sales.

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brendyFinn — Sun, 05 Aug 2018 04:19:04 GMT

@jackthebear wrote:
@2blonde wrote:
@bonnielu @homedecorator @Shogirl I'm confident the lack of free shipping does correlate with QVC's parent company purchasing HSN. I am still getting the 20% off coupons from HSN, though (max. savings of $25, and only goo for 1 or 2 days).

I also am a big fan of Zulily, but don't order from them if you're in a hurry.......they charge your CC immediately, and the item doesn't arrive for about 3 weeks.
no go for me, I am not waiting 3 weeks for anything these days, and most of it is final sale, at least it was the last time I looked

Zulily is VERY slow but has good prices.