Reply from Lip MonthlyDec 7, 2018
Hi Nicole,
Just like your post on Instagram, this one is misleading as well, therefore we're responding to this being misleading as well, just as we did about your post on Instagram.
As we mentioned before, we should totally be held accountable for our mistakes. We made the mistake of accidentally including two of the same products in your bag and forgetting to send you a replacement as we said we would. I'm not sure why not replacement was sent, even though it was on the list of things to do. We're sorry for that.
As for charging your credit card again without permission; we're a subscription based service, very much like Netflix; except instead of receiving movies every month, you receive physical lip products. In order to provide uninterrupted service to our subscribers, we rebill you every month (or 3, 6 or 12, depending on your subscription plan with us). Throughout the checkout process on our website it says that plans auto renew. This is also stated on order confirmation emails and our FAQ. There should be no surprise about getting automatically billed again when you join a subscription, like us, Netflix or a competitor of ours, Ipsy.
When we saw your post on Instagram, we reached out right away to solve the issue. We sent you a replacement product (along with a few more products as a sorry for making a mistake) and refunded you for the renewal charge. At no point did we say that we would this only if you removed your post. After we addressed the situation we asked if you could remove or write the post as it was very misleading with what you said (just as this post is). You told us no; that's fine. We decided to defend ourselves to the people that were only hearing one side of the story. You deleted our comments and blocked us. We reached out to those people asking if they'd like a free bag from us so we could show them that we're an honest company with nothing to hide.
As I first mentioned, we should be held accountable for our mistakes and solve them. But we should also clear things up when misleading and false information is said, as we have with responding here.
Team LM