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post #61 of 131
8/28/08 at 6:49pm

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Has anyone depotted thier e/s from Costco?

Considering fac Mac e/s have the indented circle.
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post #62 of 131
8/29/08 at 12:34am

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wow i go to the ssf costco too! but i havent been there in a while. I MUST CHECK!!!!!
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post #63 of 131
8/29/08 at 2:42am

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well when I went to my costco they had deep truth and I had brought a box with me. the box looked pretty good, it was the same print and all that same double front and repackaged by costco .. I'm going to call them up in a little while and see if they know higher up why they are starting to carry them .. or how even.
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post #64 of 131
8/29/08 at 5:38pm

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Awww! I checked 2 Seattle-area Costcos and neither had anything. Lucky!!

JF
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post #65 of 131
10/12/08 at 8:13pm

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Sooooo today I went to Costco in Mountain View (Nor-Cal)...HAD EYESHADOWS!!!

Colors I saw: Swish, Mulch, Nehru, Knight Divine, Orb, Sable

Stoked!
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post #66 of 131
10/19/08 at 2:10am

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This is what the Costco in SJ on Senter Rd had today:

Nehru, Knight Divine, Bamboo, Moonflower, Orb and no CCB's
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post #67 of 131
10/19/08 at 5:33am

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ohhh no all the costcos keep getting the e/s i want! (orb, sable, swiss chocolate, nehru, bamboo) D: i bet UK costcos won't get it. we don't get bumble and bumble, smashbox, stila or anything else here either in our costcos.
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post #68 of 131
10/19/08 at 8:26pm

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Is it just me, or does it seem like only Northen California Costco's have MAC. Has anyone seen it elsewhere? I will check a few locations in the East Bay like Danville & Concord and report back!
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post #69 of 131
10/20/08 at 12:22am

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aww man i wish Canada would have em!
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post #70 of 131
10/20/08 at 12:23am

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It sure seems like only California gets MAC at Costco. I have never seen it at any Costco in Washington and Oregon.
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post #71 of 131
10/22/08 at 8:31pm

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Yeah, I checked the Puyallup Costco and I didn't see anything. Heck, there was very little makeup at all apart from over priced non-brand items.
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post #72 of 131
10/22/08 at 8:49pm

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one word ,lucky
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post #73 of 131
10/22/08 at 8:57pm

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Originally Posted by hhunt2 View Post
I went to the Sunnyvale, Ca location today and they had nothing. I only found Stila & Smashbox stuff.

Then I went to the one on Coleman (San Jose, Ca)... they had MAC stuff!
They only had 2 eye shadows (in Deep Truth & Beauty Marked).

There was a price sign for Cream Color Base but there was no cream color base (which I was kinda pissed about). So I walked towards the Smashbox stuff and, surprisingly, found 1 cream color base in Pearl hiding! YAY! I took it and ran to the registers. lol
ooo yay for you! lol
can u tell us how much you paid? was it significantly cheaper?
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post #74 of 131
10/22/08 at 8:58pm

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Originally Posted by n_c View Post
This is what the Costco in SJ on Senter Rd had today:

Nehru, Knight Divine, Bamboo, Moonflower, Orb and no CCB's
how much were they?
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post #75 of 131
10/23/08 at 12:12am

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I'm thinking that even if it is MAC directly moving product through Costco, they aren't going to admit. It would take away from the air of exclusivity. So I take their above response, like the products at Costco, with a grain of salt.
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post #76 of 131
10/24/08 at 7:13pm

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ooo yay for you! lol
can u tell us how much you paid? was it significantly cheaper?
I forget the price. It was about the same price as the CCO's (e/s $10-11, cream color base- maybe about $13). It's about 20% less than retail price.

I went to the San Jose location (on Coleman) today.... they had Moonflower & Deep Truth only.
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post #77 of 131
10/24/08 at 7:40pm
i hope my costco gets mac
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post #78 of 131
11/1/08 at 11:46pm

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I just went to Costco in Sunnyvale, Ca. They had a few e/s...
I bought 2 e/s and guess what!!!...

THEY ARE FAKE !

I depotted one and it has the indented circle in the center of the metal pan. Also, it was super hard to get the pan out of the plastic (as if it was "welded" together).
I'll go to Costco tomorrow and talk to a manager about it. I hope that they will refund me for the 2 e/s and remove all the conterfit Mac out of all Costcos. B/c of this, I don't trust Costco.
Who knows... maybe there more expensive beauty products are fake too. Or even the perfumes like Vera Wang Princess, Usher or Diesel could be fakes too.

Oh yeah, the prices of the e/s are way more than CCO prices. $11.49 per e/s
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post #79 of 131
11/2/08 at 12:00am

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Originally Posted by hhunt2 View Post
I just went to Costco in Sunnyvale, Ca. They had a few e/s...
I bought 2 e/s and guess what!!!...

THEY ARE FAKE !

I depotted one and it has the indented circle in the center of the metal pan. Also, it was super hard to get the pan out of the plastic (as if it "welded" together).
I'll go to Costco tomorrow and talk to a manager about it. I hope that they will refund me for the 2 e/s and remove all the conterfit Mac out of all Costcos. B/c of this, I don't trust Costco. Who knows... maybe there more expensive beauty products are fake too.
Oh wow that's just crazy!! Let us know how the talk with the manager goes. I can't believe Costco is selling fakes...
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post #80 of 131
11/3/08 at 1:54am

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I went to Costco earlier today to complain and get my money back but the gal didn't care about what I had to say.

She didn't say a thing to me... All she did was take both items and gave me my cash.

Maybe Costco's cooperate offices would be the people who I need to complain too. Costco is so damn corrupt now, just like the damn world.
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post #81 of 131
11/3/08 at 1:56am

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Originally Posted by hhunt2 View Post
I just went to Costco in Sunnyvale, Ca. They had a few e/s...
I bought 2 e/s and guess what!!!...

THEY ARE FAKE !

I depotted one and it has the indented circle in the center of the metal pan. Also, it was super hard to get the pan out of the plastic (as if it was "welded" together).
I'll go to Costco tomorrow and talk to a manager about it. I hope that they will refund me for the 2 e/s and remove all the conterfit Mac out of all Costcos. B/c of this, I don't trust Costco.
Who knows... maybe there more expensive beauty products are fake too. Or even the perfumes like Vera Wang Princess, Usher or Diesel could be fakes too.

Oh yeah, the prices of the e/s are way more than CCO prices. $11.49 per e/s

OMG!!! They must shop off Ebay!! That is crazy!!
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post #82 of 131
11/11/08 at 9:33pm

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Ack I'm so glad I read this b/c I was just about to have my sister grab me a blush today at the Fairfax VA costco!! She said they had Peachykeen and a couple other blushes. Can't they get in big trouble with the law, like Sam's? OMG this is a total lawsuit waiting to happen. I can't believe they'd mess with that after Sam's did with the fake bags.
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post #83 of 131
11/11/08 at 10:24pm

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How exactly did you know it was fake though? Because it was hard to remove?

And if it is real MAC, like someone said, it can be like that chair story. And I know Target got sued, or was getting sued, by Bare Minerals because they weren't authorized to sell their products. They got it from a third party.

I work at a CCO, and my manager said Estee Lauder likes to pretend that CCO's don't exist, which would explain why in the e-mail, they don't mention CCO's. Because if "everyone" knew about CCO's, no one would buy the stuff at MAC.
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post #84 of 131
11/11/08 at 11:42pm

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^^^MAC pans dont have the dents in the pan,they are supposed to be smooth.
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post #85 of 131
11/12/08 at 12:09am

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I think it unusual for Costco to risk their reputation by selling fake goods, which is why this all makes no sense to me. I know indented pans are a tell tale sign, but...it's just weird. And why hasn't MAC done something about it?
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post #86 of 131
11/12/08 at 12:12am

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This is CRAZEEEEE
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post #87 of 131
11/12/08 at 4:44am

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I emailed Mac a few weeks ago regarding my Costco purchase. This is what they had to say...

Thank you for taking the time to contact us and for your interest in M.A.C.

M.A.C products are distributed for sale only at our authorized retail store accounts, or at our free-standing stores. Purchases at one of these authorized accounts are genuine M.A.C merchandise of recent production. In addition, consumers can feel confident when they are serviced by one of our trained representatives, who are familiar with our product line. Costco is not one of our accounts and we therefore have no control over the merchandise that they sell.

We trust the above addresses your concern. We hope that we have the opportunity to serve you in the near future.
Again, thank you for taking the time to contact M.A.C.


Sincerely,
Fanta Kamara
Response Representative
Global Consumer Communications

I have seen a letter from Mac (posted on Specktra) regarding the indented pans. Basically it said... "Mac e/s pans are produced with a smooth underside."

Even the older Mac e/s's dont have indents. So either way, Costco isnt allowed to resell. On Yelp.com, a gal had mentioned that Costco was falsely reselling a paticular brand of ladders that was only sold thru a paticular company (they had gotten the ladders from a 3rd party). This had happened many years ago.

Personally... it's a lesson learned!
I will ONLY purchase Mac from CCO's or Mac counters/stores. I'm not willing to risk putting unknown chemicals on my eyelids/face.
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post #88 of 131
11/12/08 at 4:27pm

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^^ Yea I agree, there's no way of knowing what they've put in these products! I will only be purchasing from the counter and from CCO from now on too! It just surprises me that MAC wouldn't be alarmed that potentially dangerous/crappy products are being sold under their name...
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post #89 of 131
11/12/08 at 4:55pm

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WOW. I wonder how the ladies that actually purchased these shadows feel about this? that sucks.
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post #90 of 131
11/12/08 at 5:13pm

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Good thing my local Costco didn't have any when I looked!
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