MAC FAQ: Annual Price Increases

xxManBeaterxx

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How much do brushes go up anually? It seems like brushes go up a dollar, because 2 years ago when i bought a 129 it was like 32 dollars now its 34.

Hmm mac is still cheaper than a lot of brands but more expensive than drugstores so i guess its a happy medium.. I dont know 5 years from now i better be getting a 10 dollar raise or something lol.
 

wifey806

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I wonder if the price increase correlates to the amount of returns. Just think about all the product they yield only for it to be returned and THROWN IN THE TRASH.
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ug! so sad! Trading is much less wasteful (at least in theory)
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Winnie

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Yup it's all to do with inflation and with any business you have to change the prices accordingly which means other make up brands have to do the same. As a company, profit is no.1 and they have to raise the prices to compete with other cosmetic brands. No, it's not great that we have to pay these higher prices but I don't think they would raise them to silly extremes. Well, I hope not anyway!!
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SkylarV217

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The prices are hard enough to handle right now. It seems to me that they would make much more if they lowered their prices a little because then they would be more affordable and more people would buy, and already loyal customers would purchase much much more.
 

purrtykitty

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Truthfully, I don't find MAC's prices (or price increases) to be nearly as high as the drugstore brands. So many of the drugstore brands are charging upwards of $10 for mascara and lipsticks. I figure for a few extra bucks I get a product that I can test out first and I know the quality is consistent.
 

VeXedPiNk

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^^I completely agree!

Before I'd ever tried MAC, I used to think the prices were kind of expensive. Until I went in and made my first purchase... and have been hooked ever since!!

The quality and lasting ability I get from MAC products, in addition to the ability of being able to go into a MAC store and play around or get advice, is a huge reason I love it so much. There is lots of good drug store makeup out there, but I don't mind dishing out a few extra bucks for my MAC.

However price increases are certainly a bummer
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Nessy

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This is just mainly inflation, you normaly get a pay rise every year so you are mainly just paying the same price for the same products. If MAC eyeshadow does go up to £25 each you will be getting paid enough to counteract that amount of money. Also everything else will be going up at the same time its not just MAC stuff staples like bread and milk prices are going up to. I myself would still pay what they ask (generally depending on the price and inflation) because it is a well brought together brand, and everything i have brought is well worth the money i have paid for it. Just my 2 pennies worth

Nessy xx
 

KellyBean

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Originally Posted by purrtykitty
Truthfully, I don't find MAC's prices (or price increases) to be nearly as high as the drugstore brands. So many of the drugstore brands are charging upwards of $10 for mascara and lipsticks. I figure for a few extra bucks I get a product that I can test out first and I know the quality is consistent.

Yeah! Even Lashblast is $9! Covergirl used to be one of the cheaper ones.
 

angi

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Will UK prices go up too?

UK prices will go up eventually, but since I started buying MAC (in about 03/04) the prices have pretty much stayed the same.

E/S are still £10, and pigments are still £15, which is exactly what they were when I first started collecting. Yeah, I know, theoretically we are paying the equivalent of US $20 for an eyeshadow, and $30 for a pigment, but I'm not sure how relative that is when you take the average uk/ us wages into account.

It's left us with what I find to be the rather strange situation that a brand like Urban Decay, whose eyeshadows were the same price as MAC when I started buying, but have gone through the price rises, are actually now more expensive (£12 an eyeshadow!). It just makes me buy more MAC
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Face2Mac

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Originally Posted by VeXedPiNk
^^I completely agree!

Before I'd ever tried MAC, I used to think the prices were kind of expensive. Until I went in and made my first purchase... and have been hooked ever since!!

The quality and lasting ability I get from MAC products, in addition to the ability of being able to go into a MAC store and play around or get advice, is a huge reason I love it so much. There is lots of good drug store makeup out there, but I don't mind dishing out a few extra bucks for my MAC.

However price increases are certainly a bummer
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But realistically, if you troll the sales papers you can get BOGO (buy one, get one free) at the drugstores. So you get two lipsticks or two eyeshadows for $10. Yeah, and it doesn't make sense to raise prices on us when we are already struggling, what it takes more to make the chemicals, yeah, I don't believe that.

Bummer, indeed.
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Angelcorrine

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Originally Posted by KellyBean
Yeah! Even Lashblast is $9! Covergirl used to be one of the cheaper ones.

I bought Lashblast over the weekend for $6.something at Target. I think Walmart is cheaper, but I try to avoid them.
 

static_universe

Active member
I don't know if it's all Macy's MAC counters, but the MA at mine said that prices won't increase until the 7th. She said Macy's only marks things up on Mondays. So everyone go out this weekend and stock up!
 

wintersday

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Originally Posted by static_universe
I don't know if it's all Macy's MAC counters, but the MA at mine said that prices won't increase until the 7th. She said Macy's only marks things up on Mondays. So everyone go out this weekend and stock up!


did she say what products would be going up and how much?????
 

erine1881

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Originally Posted by static_universe
I don't know if it's all Macy's MAC counters, but the MA at mine said that prices won't increase until the 7th. She said Macy's only marks things up on Mondays. So everyone go out this weekend and stock up!

my macy's is the same. i saw the note that said they'll go up on monday.

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Originally Posted by wintersday
did she say what products would be going up and how much?????

they are listed in the price increase thread.
 

Ruby Lou

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A few observations.

Did anyone even know about MAC before EL established a controlling interest in it in 1994? Not really. Unless you were already in the industry big time I don't see how anyone would really remember the old formulations. The trade off for the buy-out is obviously the globalization of MAC and the reason all of us even know about it in the first place. If MAC were still a small company ran on its own out of an apartment then none of us would even be here, really. Think about it.

Also, as far as buy-outs go, MAC did a fantastic job of negotiating a contract that would leave the company to its original standards. MAC still doesn't advertise, they spend hardly nothing on their packaging, and still they are recognized as a cosmetic giant in the industry. That kind of reputation speaks for itself. Plus, go into a partnered location and see how the MA's look in comparison to the girls at other counters. MAC never stopped celebrating diversity and individuality. That usually dies in buy-outs. With MAC it hasn't.

Now. Price increases. Do they suck? Sure. However, all over the world we have cost of living increases. It's reflected in your raises at work and prices go up everywhere, not just at MAC. When you're as obsessed with MAC as we all are, OF COURSE you notice it. What you don't notice is that it happens everywhere else. You're just not as obsessed with the other things that increase as well.

Basically, if price increases didn't exist, companies like MAC wouldn't. You can't expect for a company whose manufacturing prices and supply prices go up to keep their prices the same forever. That doesn't make sense. Eventually the cost of producing the products would be over their actual selling price.

And one last thing. Go into any Belk, Macy's, Dillard's, or any other partnered location and I challenge you to find another cosmetics line that is AS GOOD or BETTER than MAC with the same prices. Even with the price increase, I know at my Macy's it's the least expensive brand in the entire store, by far.

With a world slowly being dominated by Capitalism, I applaud MAC for staying as true to its roots as it has and still maintaining a spirit of diversity. It's rare these days.
 
i'm lost there, could you tell me the price of an eyeshadow refill please ?

i'm quite interesseted because i have a friend that come in US for holiday, and maybe she can buy me some stuff !
thanks a lot
 
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