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This thread will be for Ulta GWPs only. Share ulta promos here.
Please do NOT post requests for the spreadsheet in this thread. Please post requests for the Ulta GWP google spread sheet in this thread: http://community.sephora.com/t5/Off-Topic/Ulta-GWP-Google-Spreadsheet-Request-Thread/m-p/2753063#M11...
A list of in store coupons is here: https://community.sephora.com/t5/Savvy-Shoppers/Ulta-GWP-Coupons-no-chatter/td-p/3866521
Let's keep this thread on topic!
Ulta points refresher (because yes, it is that complicated):
Item #1 - $53.50
Item #3 - $108.50 (and is eligible for a certain item/brand 5x multiplier)
* There is also a 5x all purchase multiplier and you are platinum so you get 1.25x
Total Spent - $162
Base Points Earned - 162
Platinum .25x Earned - 41 (162 * .25 = 40.5, and rounding up)
5x All Purchases Earned - 648 (it ends up being 4x because you don't count the base points)
5x Item/Brand Earned - 434
Total Points Earned - 1285
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Please add product id numbers and sku numbers so people can find items on ulta.
Just to clarify, there is an item number that Ulta lists on the website, right under the picture of the item.
The product id is the number given to the item in the URL. So Ulta's site follows this formula of having the url and then the very last part of the url is "productId=xlsImpprod" followed by an 8 digit number. If you use that "productId" number you can get to the page of any item on ulta.
It's not a search, but the direct url to the page.
Click on any product, and then view the url in the address bar. It will look like this: ulta's website (not using the actual domain because BT admins don't like that) /prep-prime-fix?productId=xlsImpprod15921204 Replace the 8 digit product id of the item you want to see with the id of the product you're looking for.
My very unofficial Ulta point multiplier to approximate percent discount chart:
(This is a number where I use the multiplier to divide by 2000 to see how many dollars I would have to spend in order to redeem a $125 reward. E.g. 2000 points divided by 1 point multiplier means I have to spend $2000 to get the $125 reward. Adding how much I had to spend ($2000) + the reward ($125), and then using the reward ($125) to divide the total purchase ($2125), I get a discount of approximately 6% based on the total purchase. Note: the total purchase is based on the concept that you are spending just enough to reach the next $125 reward and combines the reward value with how much money you had to spend to get that reward.
Multiplier | 1 | 1.25 | 1.5 | 2 | 2.25 | 2.5 | 3 | 3.25 | 3.5 | 4 | 4.25 | 4.5 | 5 | 7.25 | 7.5 | 8 | 8.25 | 8.5 | 9 | 9.25 | 9.5 | 10 | 10.25 | 10.5 |
Spend | 2000 | 1600 | 1333 | 1000 | 889 | 800 | 667 | 615 | 571 | 500 | 471 | 444 | 400 | 276 | 267 | 250 | 242 | 235 | 222 | 216 | 211 | 200 | 195 | 190 |
Points | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 | 2000 |
Redeem | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 | 125 |
Total Purchase | 2125 | 1725 | 1458 | 1125 | 1014 | 925 | 792 | 740 | 696 | 625 | 596 | 569 | 525 | 401 | 392 | 375 | 367 | 360 | 347 | 341 | 336 | 325 | 320 | 315 |
Discount | 6% | 7% | 9% | 11% | 12% | 14% | 16% | 17% | 18% | 20% | 21% | 22% | 24% | 31% | 32% | 33% | 34% | 35% | 36% | 37% | 37% | 38% | 39% | 40% |
@WinglessOne I'd like a Red Card and Ulta card because of the points but my husband is CPA and has discouraged me!
@greeneyedgirl107 @Loretta55 Heh, it’s probably good to have a financial expert stop you from opening various cards. 🙂 Cash/rewards-back cards are very tempting but can end up not being worth having—for reasons even beyond the interest rates. I use my RedCard enough at and outside of Target (it’s a Mastercard) to make it worth keeping.
But I refuse to open an Ulta card mostly because I don’t trust Ulta’s ability to keep the card-to-account experience glitch-free, considering how buggy Ulta’s systems seem to be. Plus, it’s a Comenity Bank card; I am not a fan of that bank.
@WinglessOne all good points!
The answer I got when I broached the subject was, "well, you're asking for a line of credit..."
New gwp, item 2616000
I can't sign in to check multipliers, but they're pretty rare on a Wednesday. Hopefully they'll get the site and app fixed soon 🙄
New Dash To Beauty, Ulta dot com/flex
Does anybody have experience with the Benefit brow bar and specifically their lamination services? I’ve never had it done before and was thinking of trying it.
I'm really curious about this too. It would be nice to not have to worry about whether my brows are doing something crazy.
I'm mildly terrified of what changes are in store, considering how much I dislike the recent spate of "upgrades" and have little faith that this will be any better...in any case, I've been checking for nearly 45 minutes now to see if there's anything new to report tonight, but no dice tonight
@RGbrown Looks like they’ve updated My Account to match the rest of the site redesign. As I expect from an Ulta site design launch, things are randomly misaligned and “gotta clean that up” goofy here and there.
Purchase history’s still being transferred. They might wanna make that alert a bit more noticeable—put it in red font or something—because I totally missed it when I first started ranting about only having a month of order history available.
But I see they’ve made the Favorites list sortable, and removing items from it is a much more pleasant experience (though with an added confirmation step). Thank flippin’ goodness because the old Favorites list made my inner UX designer rage each time I dealt with it. This is a huge improvement.
And now that I’ve used the rest of the site for however many months, the sliding menus don’t bother me at all. Eh, I know to expect them now, and they don’t decrease usability for me. I’m still super happy with the new Shop filters, since they consistently function better in each browser I’ve tried than the old site design’s obnoxious box-scroll filters. There are a couple design-related things that still kinda annoy me, but they’re not dealbreakers. Certainly not enough to make me start shopping via app instead of website. When it comes to browsing and shopping, I’ll always prefer a web experience over an app experience. For me, retailer apps are useful for finding and activating promos/deals/coupons, managing credit cards, using a digital wallet in-store, and showing a bar code for BOPIS orders. I still don’t like to shop via Ulta’s app. I realize I’m in the minority there, though.
thank god for them finally updating that favorites list! that was much needed!
@WinglessOne they made the Favorites list better?! Just when I finally took the time to update mine with all the hassle!
@greeneyedgirl107 I feel you: I was maybe halfway done cleaning up my favorites list when Ulta launched their update. Cannot adequately express in words how frustrated I got every time I removed items from the old list, which caused the page to reload without keeping my place on the list—so I had to scroll all the way down to where I’d left off. Every. Single. Time. That’s the main reason my favorites list was so dang long: removing items was too big a hassle. The new list doesn’t do that, at least not to me via desktop view + Chrome.
@WinglessOne Uck I hated that. Glad to hear it's been changed! I need to go look at it.
The app signs me in, but only kinda sorta...the main page still says "sign in" and doesn't display my points or my offers, but the cart shows my saved for later stuff and I can see my faves. I can't add anything to my cart though, it never shows up.
I managed to get signed in on desktop last night and play with the new loves list, and ehhhhhhh, I hate the "load more" aspect. I'm glad it's got a count at the top again (384 items!), but loading 10-15 at a time means I'm not interested in loading the whole thing to clean it up lol. And, while the counter might jump from "displaying 72" to "displaying 86", most of the time I could only see 5-6 new items, so something is still off. I'm guessing it's due to stuff that's no longer carried (my list is rife with old items), but uh, maybe don't count them if you're not gonna display them, eh?
Trying to add new stuff to my loves list via desktop last night didn't work, nothing happened when I clicked the heart. It seemed like I could delete some items I didn't want anymore, but looking at it via app just now, stuff I deleted last night is still on it, so there's a disconnect somewhere. Although...the items I did delete, I clicked through to the product page and deleted the heart there (trying to see which shade I had hearted for items with multiple colors; it would be nice if that were displayed on the faves list)...if I can't currently add a heart from the product page, maybe I can't take one away that way either, even though the heart went blank and it looked like it worked. I deleted one item directly from the faves list and got that confirmation popup...wish I could remember what it was to see if it's actually gone. Will have to play again later.
Part of my app issues may be a me problem...I have an older version of the app and tend not to upgrade until I absolutely have to, and this may be a sign that they've stopped updating my version...will give it a day or two and see if any missing functionality comes back or not. I do 90% of my browsing via the app because the mobile site is slower than molasses on my phone and I can't be bothered to sit down at my desk unless I absolutely have to, though I do make all of my purchases via desktop once I'm ready to order.
@RGbrown I wish there was a better system for managing different shades of a product at Ulta and Sephora, too!
@RGbrown You have 384 items in your Loves. 😳 I guess that’s how one makes it to Diamond midyear. 😁👍🏻
Nah, I've been building this monstrosity for 6-7 years now. I add stuff, then forget all about it, and my list is so long that I rarely look at it anymore lol. Though every now and again I like to scroll through and see how cheap some things got after they were discontinued...would have loved to stumble on these bags for $3-4 each if they were still hanging around a dusty store shelf somewhere!
@RGbrown I also don’t like that you have to tap on a fave item to see if it’s in stock? As much as I love to hate on Sephora for OOS sale section, they do have a better OOS functionality in faves. If something has been discontinued, it just stops showing up. And if it does show up again, ADD IT TO CART NOW! 😊