Originally Posted by peridotcricket /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Quote: Originally Posted by Kyuu /img/forum/go_quote.gif
Quote: Originally Posted by katie danielle /img/forum/go_quote.gif
I don't think people always get welcome boxes as their first box. Mine was back in June and I got a regular box.
You get a welcome box if you get a gift sub. Otherwise, you get a normal box My first box was April, the eco-box or whatever with the lime green paper, only when I opened it the paper was pink and all the samples were ones I had seen in videos from the 3 or 4 months before. I did not have a gift sub. I was on the waitlist for 6 weeks. I e-mailed Birchbox and they said, oh, you got a welcome box. I was pissed, especially after I saw a YouTube video where another girl got the regular April theme box and she was going on and on about how it was her first Birchbox, but there was nothing I could do about it. Since then, it seems like mostly gift sub people get welcome boxes, but I've sern where regular subscribers sometimes get them, too. And there was a post I think in the December thread, maybe this thread, where somebody said they e-mailed Bb because they couldn't review the items in their welcome box, and Bb customer service said there's no reviewing welcome boxes, but they will be able to review the ones after it. So watch out. I love Birchbox, but they can be sketchy.
Yeah, I got a welcome box on my non-gift subscription AND I was able to review it. That's definitely sketchy.