Thursday, January 5, 2012

Lush Boxing Day Haul pt2


Here’s my second Lush haul which is actually from Lush UK, I ended up placing an order there first since there sale went live a day earlier and I wasn’t sure when the US Lush site’s sale would go live and since I had to work early that morning I wasn’t sure if I would be able to get on in time to grab anything and from what I had heard this year Lush’s Christmas stock was lower than usual in comparison to the past years which proved to be true as later that night I believe nearly everything had already sold out. I definitely preferred the theme and sale from the UK site more since everything was simply marked 50% off which made shopping easier especially since when Lush does the Buy 1 get 1 free using the drop down boxes to pick items can be more time consuming and easy to make mistakes.
Plus it’s cheaper to order from the Lush UK website than it is to order from the US website due to the exchange rates and going prices so just for fun I’ll include price comparisons for my order below in case any of you guys are curious about the exchange rate and how it ends up being cheaper.
I did have a ton of problems like everyone else trying to even get on the site to order but eventually I got everything added to my cart and was able to check out and pretty much got everything I was hoping for. The shipping was decent and got here pretty fast and everything was packaged well so nothing ended broken or exploded which is always good.

What I got:
Christmas Eve Bubble Bar x3
(£1.23 unit price) (£ 3.69 total) comes to $5.76 whereas for x3 US $6.95 price would have been $20.85
Candy Mountain Bubble Bar x2
(£0.98 unit price) (£ 1.96 total) comes to $3.06 whereas for x2 US $6.95 price would have been $13.90
Three Gold Rings Bubble Bar x3
(£1.56 unit price) (£4.69 total) comes to $7.32 whereas for x3 US $6.95 price would have been $20.85
Golden Wonder Bath Bomb x1
(£1.35 unit price) (£1.35 total) comes to $2.10 whereas for x1 US $6.95 would have been $6.95
Abombinaball Bath Bomb x5
(£1.23 unit price) (£6.15 total) comes to $9.60 whereas for x5 US $6.95 would have been $34.75
Jilted Elf Shower Jelly x1
(£3.31 unit price) (£3.31 total) comes to $5.16 whereas for x1 US $10.95 would have been $10.95

Grand Total: £50.14 comes to $78.19

Which when calculating just what the US price total would have been for each item it comes to $108.25 not including shipping which lets say the $8 option for air shipping since its faster than $6 for standard making the total shipped $116.25 versus the UK grand total of $78.19 for a savings of $38.06. 

2 comments:

  1. you're very lucky to have gotten onto the lush website. i tried for days and i live in the uk! no joy!!!Enjoy your goodies :)

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  2. I actually ended up staying up all night just to place an order, haha since in previous years when I've set my alarm to wake up early enough to get on by that time there's always too much traffic and all the goodies are all just about gone. I heard a lot of people on Facebook saying the same thing that for days they couldn't even get on the UK site, so I always anticipate the worst the day of these sales just because they're always the same year after year, lol.

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