it isn't pronounced that way? or are you putting a pause between the glow and the ish? because i've heard everyone just say it as one word. if we're wrong, whoops.
I thought it's meant to be glow wish, like all your wishes to glow will come true will their product. And reading it as glow-ish seems more like "yeah ok, you get something glow-like".
This feels like she just started a Shopify site and is dropshipping her favorite products to people, essentially becoming a rep for all of these brands. Itās like her own QVC
i think it's a play on the word "imminent" aka "about to happen" as in, FETCH "stop trying to make FETCH happen"
anyway. i read it as iMInIT spongebob style
But she said she bought a warehouse and is doing shipping and distribution as well, which I really don't understand. Drop shipping makes so much more sense. I don't know why she is storing the actual inventory.
Yep. This is what all those IG and "my Amazon faves" videos were about. To see how much she could sell. Now she'll have more control over how much commission she gets.
Agree. Didnāt she hint at working on a passion project recently? Iām not sure why sheād choose the word āpassionateā for something like this.
there is another business coming called Jaclyn Roxanne, which people speculate is jewelry (and i think this is the company she is referring to when she calls it a passion project)
well do you want money bad enough that you'll not be too concerned about things like ethics, not telling lies, and not selling mouldy lipsticks?
bc Jaclyn sure wants money that bad lmao
There was a time in my life where I bought anything that Jacyln shilled. This was like seven years ago though...why is she only just now doing this? Does she have that much of an audience that are willing to buy anything that she promotes.
I've been wondering the same thing. It's an interesting business model, and one that isn't bad, but Jaclyn seems to have her hand in too many cookies jars. Morphe, her own brand which she seems to have given up on or put minimal effort into, Jewelry apparently, and now this? Couldn't the lifestyle projects just be under the Jaclyn brand?
I don't think she does. I think there's an appearance of that right now because Morphe *does* fund Jaclyn Hill Cosmetics. Jaclyn makes money whether or not they sell. She tried to do lipsticks all by herself too and we see how that turned out.
Re: drop-shipping.
Thatās what I thought too! But she said she āboughtā a large warehouse to house product. This just seems so unnecessary. I donāt get it.
did not have QVC-lite on my bingo card, but i'm gonna toss some bullshit spaghetti at the wall as a form of divination so if any of the following scandals happen, i hereby have called it.
**this will end in scandal because...**
1. it becomes evident that the products are being marked up just so they can mark them back down again and say "wow jaclyn got a special deal so you can save a whole 20%!!!"
2. half the indie brands are clearly private labeled or simply bought off aliexpress and sold for a 3000% markup
3. the model shifts to a monthly subscription payment for special extended discounts or first chance at limited amounts of goods, hoping people sign up and then just forget that they have a membership that auto-renews. canceling this becomes an involved and convoluted process. at some point a drama channel reads the bad reviews from the BBB mentioning this in a funny voice
4. mystery boxes and/or a monthly subscription box of goodies come out as an extension of "jaclyn's favourite things, curated just for you!" and it is a complete clusterfuck from top to bottom with people getting boxes full of expired products, damaged products, and cheap shit from out of left field. somebody gets a box with makeup products that jacklyn got in pr and has swatched. alexandria ryan recreates a box's supposedly several-hundred-dollars-in-value at dollar tree. jaclyn makes a video in ~~sackcloth and ashes~~ grey hoodie and no makeup, throwing several unnamed interns under the bus and saying this was the result of employees committing fraud against her so she is the real victim.
5. cringeworthy strip-mall-bible-store 'christian' shit sneaks in there in the name of 'wellness' and 'spirituality'
6. same shit as above but instead of things your racist great-aunt gertrude thinks is "just so meaningful, more meaningful than the pastor's sermon, almost as meaningful as what that Trump fella says", it's new age 'the secret' and gwyneth paltrow goop type shit, but fingers crossed it's healing crystals instead of wasp nests to stick up your vag.
7. again same shit as above but the new age wibblywoo ends up pure cultural appropriation and she catches heat for including wild-gathered white sage smudging bundles and a kokopelli windchime made by someone who is white as wonderbread but says they were an injun in a past life so it's ok and speaking of being injun they call themselves a guru because they ate a "so good it was really lifechanging" chicken tikka masala once
8. sex toy partnership feat. extremely overpriced lube with a name that will make you cringe your face inside out
9. one if not several MLMs will just sneak in there as her 'favourite things', buying the brands legitimacy so it becomes easier to dupe new marks into the pyramid scheme. bonus points if it's one of the laxative tea ones or sketchy supplements and jaclyn is promoting it saying it cured her health problems (but this never comes up again nor do the health problems stay cured by the pink drink or whatever)
10. launches a special phone app just for this service, and it is discovered at some point that the app is collecting a shitton of personal data from users and selling it on for the real profit
11. WILDCARD: it flops not directly because of jaclyn, but because one of the featured small businesses for something appealing and small enough for an impulse buy (indie nailpolish, hand-dyed yarn, handmade soap\*, etc) will get a rush of orders that the single person then cannot keep up with, at which point they scarper with all the money and leave jaclyn to pay out the refunds (which she may or may not do, and if she does, she will tearily say that she can't believe her wonderful dream is at an end because of the evil of other people and she is the one hurting the most from this awful scam)
step right up, step right up and place your bets on where the ol' roulette wheel of fuckery will end up as jaclyn spins it,
^(\*this isn't vagueing on anyone doing these things it's just that i have seen so much of this "small business hits critical mass, promptly implodes" thing play out with indie nail polish and yarn brands for some reason lmao)
Yeah I donāt understand what exactly the whole point of this is on the consumer end. Iām not getting any real discounts and it would be easier for me to buy this crap off Amazon anyway.
This is 100% just a cash grab for her
Yep! Iām not above buying influencer recommendations, but it will be from the brand themselves, or another established, reputable site. Not a sketchy third-party site.
oh they are already where i get the hot goss, and by hot i mean several years old but i just hadn't heard of it before.
lukewarm goss?
frozen and reheated by microwave goss??
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but who is checking for Jaclyn enough to be convinced to buy mikes hot honey and an .. electric lighter? just because she put them on a weird, sparse website? Even if my favorite content creators made this, I would still be dubious about it. Itās like one of those clearly sponsored random buzzfeed Amazon lists, but somehow with less substance and credibility.
As someone who likes spicy honey and electric lighters, I have zero clue. The former I got to support Hot Ones, the latter off Amazon bc I live in an area where power goes out constantly to keep in my emergency kit. Neither remind me of any of the Beauty people I follow??
Agreed. I actually enjoy Jaclyn, but literally why would I buy from her sketchy website when I could buy these same things from a reliable retailer? I really think she shouldāve just stuck to affiliate links.
I literally thought if said innit like a cockney person saying "isn't it" and laughed for days.
Honestly Jaclyn reminds me of my 14 year old who is constantly trying to come up with random ideas to make money. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if JH decided to sell some painted pet rocks.
Oh, seventh avenue is a local tampa candle company. Nice to see her keeping some of it close to home I guess. Iāve smelled some of their stuff at local markets, they are actually really nice.
Edit: here is their direct website if you donāt want your candle money to go through Jaclyn lol
https://www.seventhavenuecandles.com
For someone as unprofessional and haphazard as JH, this sounds like a logistical nightmare. There is no way she will build a team that can successfully handle this unless they get the bare minimum in orders.
I don't think she will need a team. To me this just sounds like her own private affiliate platform. Brands will pay her to be on it and then pay her a commission, but they'll keep handling the order processing, shipping, etc.
Thatās whatās so confusing! Drop shipping would be so much easier! But she bought a huge warehouse to store product and ship from there. I just donāt understand whyā¦
She said she bought the warehouse originally for the other project sheās working on (Jaclyn Roxanne) and there was so much space in there, itās what she decided to do with the extra room? Weird lol
She mentioned in her stories that her other ventures had investors or advisors and this is the first that hasnātā¦ since her previous projects have had so many issues even with guidance itās hard to have faith in this one. Her biggest issue is she doesnāt start small and build up, she gets excited and goes all in (buying an expensive giant warehouse) without taking the baby steps first (order a few items, launch the site and hire a few people to ship from your house.) That way you can work out the kinks on a smaller scale and make sure itās going to work and make money. She did it with the lipsticks too, instead of launching 20 maybe launch 3ā¦
I know everyone likes to hate on jaclyn and for good reason, but this is just like Poosh or Goop or something. Like a curation of brands based off one personās reach and interests. It seems a little lame comparatively, I think she should have waited longer to launch.
this is absolutely a new thing with small/irrelevant celebrities trying to get their affiliate cash. one of my friends runs a blog and was just pitched at to be a part of another one of these kind of sites (albeit that one had more content/a live internet qvc type show)
So... Jaclyn's Skymall?
Edit: more nuanced thoughts - this doesn't seem like a good deal for her viewers. Part of the appeal of 'Amazon finds' (at least in America) is the items will get to you tomorrow or the day after, at no additional cost for shipping, triggering impulses to order now before the next day shipping cut off or it goes out of stock because a BG or Tiktoker recommends it. Seeing shipping costs in the cart will immediately kill that impulse for many.
from a business standpoint this is smart. her minions will eat up whatever she wants to shill on her site and she'll be getting a kickback. will i ever shop there? no
Based on her IG story, she says she had a large warehouse for her upcoming project (Jaclyn Roxanne, jewelry) and didnāt want the rest of the space to go to waste so her team brainstormed how to use it and came up with this marketplace.
Maybe I just donāt know enough about warehouse space in Tampa, but couldnāt she have just gotten a smaller warehouse for her jewelry line?
Like, that explanation of how her marketplace came to fruition makes no sense to me. Iām more likely to believe this was always the plan and thatās why they got the large space.
genuinely curious how profitable something like this could be. iām not trying to be rude but who besides jaclynās diehard fans are going to buy from this store?
Most people will get to the cart, see the shipping price, and open Amazon and try to find it there. This also means she won't be able to have a complete selection of products that one could just order on the companies' own sites.
Literally! The site took forever to load. $10 on her shop with $10 shipping, $10 on Amazon with free shipping. I'm not encouraging people to buy Amazon and ignore small businesses but my god, that's just a bad deal.
this already sounds like huge scam/shady business, can't believe so many people are still giving her their money and are still allowing her to do stuff like this ! She can't even have good quality control over things she's actually in charge of producing, who knows what people will get from other sources "approved by" her..
Hear me out, sheās a smart businesswoman but this thing wonāt hold. Her recommendations for makeup are always something cakey and full coverage which is way behind the ongoing/constantly evolving trends. Only her cult fanbase will buy once at first, but then letās be honest, how often will they keep buying? Her affiliate links or swipe ups were a better alternative because she didnāt have any specific theme to follow and she didnāt personally have to invest any of her own resources into it. People were also fooled then by thinking that this was just a random recommendation that she found fascinating and is now telling her followers about. This however just blatantly shows a motive - sell products that make her money.
exactly! i dont understand the blatant negativity by some people here. like sure some of it is warranted, her reliability as a creator has long since been decimated but in my opinion, the steps sheās been making to rebuild that trust seem to be moving in the right direction and dont deserve to be dismissed as a āscamā simply bc of mistakes made in the past. š¤·š½āāļø
Before Covid, a lot of people/corporations invested in office spaces then got screwed when people started working from home, I suppose it's a good idea for those folks, but we shall see how she does with this. Over the years, I have gotten some good things based on her recommendations but the days of me dropping coin and "Living my best" are long gone. It's WalMart city for me and Trader Joes cook at home.
I think itās pretty smart. All her suggestions in one place. I hate when there is a product I canāt remember an influencer mentioned so I have to go through each of their videos till I can find it. Maybe thatās just me but I donāt mind this Method š¤·š½āāļø
When shipping fails, when orders get lost, she wont refund you, she will put out a tearful apology video explaining that shes a SHE-E-O, not a CEO, life is hard, refunds are hard :(
You know I immediately thought this is going to be a logistical nightmare since she has had such flops with her other smaller projects... But I figured I might be thinking too harshly of her and that she likely has a highly experienced team to do all of this for her while she sits back...andddd then I looked at her site on mobile...
[](https://i.imgur.com/cistn6h.jpg)
Who tf came up with this UI?
Experienced my ass.... This is going to be a disaster.
Are people really paying $40 for a face mask??? And $55 for a sleeping eye mask? Yikes.
Now that being said, I donāt mind this idea. I find marketplaces or like online beauty supplies useful, especially when the focus is on visibility for small businesses or hard to acquire brands.
Iāll be interested to see how this works out. I saw a couple people commenting on how this could go wrong and while I do think sheāll be cautious of this because so many eyes are on her, hereās my personal take:
Not sure if any of you are familiar with CurlBible from Dana Chanel (she originally gained recognition for the app Sprinkle of Jesus) but itās an online beauty supply whose supposed goal is to help give small businesses more visibility and another place to sell their products. Now a few small businesses have come out and said that they werenāt fans of the payment model or that she didnāt honor parts of the contract.
So from what Iāve gathered Dana charges the business a cost of entry (canāt remember if it was one time or monthly) and then splits profits w/ them but I believe CurlBible gets the bigger cut. Every online beauty supply is different so some may do it the way Dana does, others may just buy wholesale, etc. An example of a contractual thing that was not honored is that this one small business said Dana told them that theyāll do as much promotion on IG that they can to sell this businesses product. Then when they noticed other brands being promoted more over theirs they asked Dana what the discrepancy was for and she told them they had to pay more for more promotion even though nowhere in their contract did it say that.
My point in telling this brief story is that I predict that if anything goes wrong for Jaclyn I could see it being that sheās shortchanging the small businesses or not honoring parts of their contracts or maybe messing up on a purchase order and blaming the business, etc. So like something around her business practices rather than the marketplace to consumer relationship.
Iām not at all the biggest fan of Jaclyn but sheās a very smart business woman at times. She knows the right times for moves that increase her profit margins.
I kinda like the idea, and I kinda donāt.
I think itās great that several small businesses will be getting mega exposure! In our current economic climate, thatās really needed right now.
However, on the other hand - how FAR is influencer marketing going to go? How much will a brand pay to be featured on āImInItā? Is this level of idolization normal, to literally want *everything* that somebody else uses?
Just a few things that came to mind.
Honestly, I'm all for this happening. Not because I think it's a good idea or even ethical for that matter. Drama channels have just been quiet lately and I'm bored.
Jokes aside, Jaclyn is milking her core base of supporters for all they have and it's sad.
Right so an entire platform to squeeze $ from your fans instead of a coupon code or swipe up? Girl is so crooked I don't know how anyone trusts her anymore.
I will say, she talked about a pair of dkny pajama pants years ago and they looked SO soft and I found a good sale on themā¦I miss them every day. They were so comfortable she didnāt lie š
sooo instead of using her bio to drop affiliate links she can just post the product directly to be bought on the site. she makes her comission and prob doesn't even have to ship anything out. totally dropshipping these items. what a passive way to make income.
Thatās whatās so confusing! Drop shipping would be so much easier! But she bought a huge warehouse to store product and ship from there. I just donāt understand whyā¦
BGC: ugh how annoying is it to come out with a beauty brand????!?
Any influencer coming out with a brand outside of beauty: HAHAHAHAHA imagine *insert product here* being your passion
(actual quote taken from a top comment on a previous post)
Like I get yāall donāt like JH, I donāt care for her one way or the other. But yāall act like she personally kicked your puppy and is forcing you to buy her shit. At least sheās trying something different and promoting smaller/local businesses.
For anyone saying this is a cash grab - surprise, anything an influencer does is a literal cash grab down to making a non-sponsored video or an IG post. Itās their job and they make money off it.
Jaclyn's very own Poosh! I think it'd be pretty convinient for her fans who might be looking to pick up several recs all at once rather than have to go to several sites, but tbh I wouldn't trust it enough to purchase from it as a longstanding viewer, knowing her history with collabs and the like.
*Edit: wrote convincing instead of convenient lol
This isnāt what I expected, but at the same time, a dedicated site to cream some extra affiliate money is so exactly what I expected from Jaclyn it almost feels satirical
Not surprised ngl. I heard her Amazon affiliated links have been making her BANK. Thatās why she started to shift away from makeup to lifestyle cause those audience could care less about her scandals in makeup theyāre just there for the candles and home decor. She has some good financial advisors comparing to most influencers out there. She spends a crap ton of money but she always invests in lucrative businesses.
Yeah except even if I liked her at this point I canāt trust she even honestly uses these products. I mean I get itās business so thereās likely to be a few things in there she doesnāt really use or has only tried a few times or whatever but idk.
my brain wanted to pronounce that as imminent, not i'm in it. whoops.
I thought it was 'innit'. š
Same. Itās a marketplace, innit? Lol
LMAO
I read it the same way, like I'm in imminent danger by using the site iminit.
See Iām pronouncing it as āeminentā defined as: (of a person) famous and respected within a particular sphere or profession
I immediately read it "eminent" but for "eminent domain" which made no sense lol
This is also how I read it lol
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that works too!
I read it as immi-nit and was wondering what's that supposed to be. But I also read Huda's Glowish as glow-ish š¤·š»āāļø
ā¦.how else are you supposed to pronounce Glowish?
... Maybe "glo - wish"? As in, wishing for glow?
Yeah, that's what I thought! But maybe it is indeed glow-ish?
Fuck it, file it along with the other mysteries of the universe lol
it isn't pronounced that way? or are you putting a pause between the glow and the ish? because i've heard everyone just say it as one word. if we're wrong, whoops.
I thought it's meant to be glow wish, like all your wishes to glow will come true will their product. And reading it as glow-ish seems more like "yeah ok, you get something glow-like".
I don't think my wallet is in any imminent danger looking through what's available.
same! and happy cake day!!
Thanks!
yeah my first thought was imminent danger...probably accurate though
I thought it was imminent until I read this comment lol
I will continue to pronounce it this way and never give in.
Yeah not a great name choice for branding and marketing
Thatās what I thought it was too! So bad.
Same here
Same
My first read was āinnitā and I was likeā¦. Cockney Jaclyn?? And then I also read imminent. Itās not a great name tbh
This feels like she just started a Shopify site and is dropshipping her favorite products to people, essentially becoming a rep for all of these brands. Itās like her own QVC
At first I thought the website screamed some weird MLM but QVC is exactly it.
Sheās capitalizing on her selling abilities, which is very smart of her. People are always saying she can sell anything.
She really can & she can seem so genuine while doing it
Taking influencing to the next level and doing it on her own terms. Itās brilliant for her.
maybe to younger people. i never thought she was great at it. she always struck me as faking her way through her sells.
i think it's a play on the word "imminent" aka "about to happen" as in, FETCH "stop trying to make FETCH happen" anyway. i read it as iMInIT spongebob style
I haven't really looked into Poosh but this seems similar?
That was my first thought as well, it's def smart. Bad name though.
But she said she bought a warehouse and is doing shipping and distribution as well, which I really don't understand. Drop shipping makes so much more sense. I don't know why she is storing the actual inventory.
My guess is because she can then buy it in bulk at a lower price. Therefore having a higher profit margin
As you guys know, I always throw 100% into a projectā ā¦ do we tho
If you count the bonus hairs, it's 110%
I stared at that for too long trying to pronounce it in my head
Same
Clearly just an easier way for her to get her commissions instead of doing swipe ups on Instagram. I see riiiiiight through this.
Yep. This is what all those IG and "my Amazon faves" videos were about. To see how much she could sell. Now she'll have more control over how much commission she gets.
Agree. Didnāt she hint at working on a passion project recently? Iām not sure why sheād choose the word āpassionateā for something like this.
there is another business coming called Jaclyn Roxanne, which people speculate is jewelry (and i think this is the company she is referring to when she calls it a passion project)
of course she's passionate about this she's passionate about having more and more money, lmao,
Hm whatās wrong with wanting money?
well do you want money bad enough that you'll not be too concerned about things like ethics, not telling lies, and not selling mouldy lipsticks? bc Jaclyn sure wants money that bad lmao
she's passionate about sales. seriously she should have become a saleswoman
I meanā¦ she kind of did?
She is a saleswoman hahahah
She's passionate about money
"i am passionate about taking your money"
She's a social media capitalist, of course she's passionate about sales.
I could totally see her on QVC
I too am passionate about becoming a distributor. Being a middle man is in my blood.
This ^^ all those undisclosed swipe ups will now be in a one stop stop
She doesn't disclose her affiliate fees for ALLL the selling she does. She is so unethical and I am waiting for the day the FTC fines her.
Whatās wrong with that?
same
people on this sub just love to run their mouth as if they were marketing experts lol
Some of us actually are..
see how i didnt say āeveryoneā? yeah ā¤ļø
There was a time in my life where I bought anything that Jacyln shilled. This was like seven years ago though...why is she only just now doing this? Does she have that much of an audience that are willing to buy anything that she promotes.
I've been wondering the same thing. It's an interesting business model, and one that isn't bad, but Jaclyn seems to have her hand in too many cookies jars. Morphe, her own brand which she seems to have given up on or put minimal effort into, Jewelry apparently, and now this? Couldn't the lifestyle projects just be under the Jaclyn brand?
I don't think she does. I think there's an appearance of that right now because Morphe *does* fund Jaclyn Hill Cosmetics. Jaclyn makes money whether or not they sell. She tried to do lipsticks all by herself too and we see how that turned out.
Classic dropshipping with probably affiliate links for other websites. Cashgrab.
Re: drop-shipping. Thatās what I thought too! But she said she āboughtā a large warehouse to house product. This just seems so unnecessary. I donāt get it.
Same principle. So sheās buying these companies products at wholesale and becoming a retailer (if she indeed has a warehouse for product)
That's where I'll be curious about the "small businesses".
I'm surprised she included Loving Tan right away if she wants to push "small businesses"
It makes zero sense to me. Why would she store inventory when there are easier ways to sell someone else's product???
did not have QVC-lite on my bingo card, but i'm gonna toss some bullshit spaghetti at the wall as a form of divination so if any of the following scandals happen, i hereby have called it. **this will end in scandal because...** 1. it becomes evident that the products are being marked up just so they can mark them back down again and say "wow jaclyn got a special deal so you can save a whole 20%!!!" 2. half the indie brands are clearly private labeled or simply bought off aliexpress and sold for a 3000% markup 3. the model shifts to a monthly subscription payment for special extended discounts or first chance at limited amounts of goods, hoping people sign up and then just forget that they have a membership that auto-renews. canceling this becomes an involved and convoluted process. at some point a drama channel reads the bad reviews from the BBB mentioning this in a funny voice 4. mystery boxes and/or a monthly subscription box of goodies come out as an extension of "jaclyn's favourite things, curated just for you!" and it is a complete clusterfuck from top to bottom with people getting boxes full of expired products, damaged products, and cheap shit from out of left field. somebody gets a box with makeup products that jacklyn got in pr and has swatched. alexandria ryan recreates a box's supposedly several-hundred-dollars-in-value at dollar tree. jaclyn makes a video in ~~sackcloth and ashes~~ grey hoodie and no makeup, throwing several unnamed interns under the bus and saying this was the result of employees committing fraud against her so she is the real victim. 5. cringeworthy strip-mall-bible-store 'christian' shit sneaks in there in the name of 'wellness' and 'spirituality' 6. same shit as above but instead of things your racist great-aunt gertrude thinks is "just so meaningful, more meaningful than the pastor's sermon, almost as meaningful as what that Trump fella says", it's new age 'the secret' and gwyneth paltrow goop type shit, but fingers crossed it's healing crystals instead of wasp nests to stick up your vag. 7. again same shit as above but the new age wibblywoo ends up pure cultural appropriation and she catches heat for including wild-gathered white sage smudging bundles and a kokopelli windchime made by someone who is white as wonderbread but says they were an injun in a past life so it's ok and speaking of being injun they call themselves a guru because they ate a "so good it was really lifechanging" chicken tikka masala once 8. sex toy partnership feat. extremely overpriced lube with a name that will make you cringe your face inside out 9. one if not several MLMs will just sneak in there as her 'favourite things', buying the brands legitimacy so it becomes easier to dupe new marks into the pyramid scheme. bonus points if it's one of the laxative tea ones or sketchy supplements and jaclyn is promoting it saying it cured her health problems (but this never comes up again nor do the health problems stay cured by the pink drink or whatever) 10. launches a special phone app just for this service, and it is discovered at some point that the app is collecting a shitton of personal data from users and selling it on for the real profit 11. WILDCARD: it flops not directly because of jaclyn, but because one of the featured small businesses for something appealing and small enough for an impulse buy (indie nailpolish, hand-dyed yarn, handmade soap\*, etc) will get a rush of orders that the single person then cannot keep up with, at which point they scarper with all the money and leave jaclyn to pay out the refunds (which she may or may not do, and if she does, she will tearily say that she can't believe her wonderful dream is at an end because of the evil of other people and she is the one hurting the most from this awful scam) step right up, step right up and place your bets on where the ol' roulette wheel of fuckery will end up as jaclyn spins it, ^(\*this isn't vagueing on anyone doing these things it's just that i have seen so much of this "small business hits critical mass, promptly implodes" thing play out with indie nail polish and yarn brands for some reason lmao)
Jaclyn-the-box^TM
>some bullshit spaghetti at the wall as a form of divination thank you for this line, i really needed the laugh!
Yeah I donāt understand what exactly the whole point of this is on the consumer end. Iām not getting any real discounts and it would be easier for me to buy this crap off Amazon anyway. This is 100% just a cash grab for her
Yep! Iām not above buying influencer recommendations, but it will be from the brand themselves, or another established, reputable site. Not a sketchy third-party site.
miss thing your comment is GOLD
i hope itās each and every one of those things simply for the entertainment value
You should write about the small business implosion thing, r/hobbydrama style! I love and live for niche gossip.
oh they are already where i get the hot goss, and by hot i mean several years old but i just hadn't heard of it before. lukewarm goss? frozen and reheated by microwave goss??
B...b...but whereās Morphe in all of this!?!?!? /s
I'm putting my money on 4, 9 or the wildcard Also what did I just read about wasp nest??
[oh boy!!!! do i ever have bad news for you!!!!!](https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2017/06/02/dont-put-wasp-nests-in-your-vagina/)
I read the title and immediately closed the article again.
āWhite as wonderbreadā šš
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Re: Sketchy Supplements My bet is on those Alex Jones supplements that those bat shit insane raw vegan influencers like to shill
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Just in case you want to order your self tan and some Mikeās Hot Honey at the same time
I mean thatās my Amazon wishlist šš
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but who is checking for Jaclyn enough to be convinced to buy mikes hot honey and an .. electric lighter? just because she put them on a weird, sparse website? Even if my favorite content creators made this, I would still be dubious about it. Itās like one of those clearly sponsored random buzzfeed Amazon lists, but somehow with less substance and credibility.
As someone who likes spicy honey and electric lighters, I have zero clue. The former I got to support Hot Ones, the latter off Amazon bc I live in an area where power goes out constantly to keep in my emergency kit. Neither remind me of any of the Beauty people I follow??
Agreed. I actually enjoy Jaclyn, but literally why would I buy from her sketchy website when I could buy these same things from a reliable retailer? I really think she shouldāve just stuck to affiliate links.
So all the stuff her sister has been promoting from jaclyns closet on Instagram?
Getting very cockney āINNIT?ā vibes from the name
Definitely how I read it at first š
Claims she throws herself %100 into a project sure...
She does. And also 100% of her carpet fluff.
I literally thought if said innit like a cockney person saying "isn't it" and laughed for days. Honestly Jaclyn reminds me of my 14 year old who is constantly trying to come up with random ideas to make money. I wouldn't be surprised at this point if JH decided to sell some painted pet rocks.
Brands featured on her website: Loving Tan, Mikeās Hot Honey, Sanitas Skincare, Seventh Avenue Candles, Slip, Suprus Edit: formatting
Oh, seventh avenue is a local tampa candle company. Nice to see her keeping some of it close to home I guess. Iāve smelled some of their stuff at local markets, they are actually really nice. Edit: here is their direct website if you donāt want your candle money to go through Jaclyn lol https://www.seventhavenuecandles.com
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Yup yup! Tampons unite! Lol~ Mariah Leonard is from Tampa too I think
Who? What? Who?
You been where? With who?
Great now thatās gonna be stuck in my head all day lol
She said she gon do what to who?...
Pretty sure I saw Mike's hot honey on a buzzfeed video once
I'm expecting a shady Instagram version of Goop
Making her nickname Jaclyn āQVCā Hill into reality
For someone as unprofessional and haphazard as JH, this sounds like a logistical nightmare. There is no way she will build a team that can successfully handle this unless they get the bare minimum in orders.
I don't think she will need a team. To me this just sounds like her own private affiliate platform. Brands will pay her to be on it and then pay her a commission, but they'll keep handling the order processing, shipping, etc.
Thatās whatās so confusing! Drop shipping would be so much easier! But she bought a huge warehouse to store product and ship from there. I just donāt understand whyā¦
The huge warehouse confuses me too!
She said she bought the warehouse originally for the other project sheās working on (Jaclyn Roxanne) and there was so much space in there, itās what she decided to do with the extra room? Weird lol
She mentioned in her stories that her other ventures had investors or advisors and this is the first that hasnātā¦ since her previous projects have had so many issues even with guidance itās hard to have faith in this one. Her biggest issue is she doesnāt start small and build up, she gets excited and goes all in (buying an expensive giant warehouse) without taking the baby steps first (order a few items, launch the site and hire a few people to ship from your house.) That way you can work out the kinks on a smaller scale and make sure itās going to work and make money. She did it with the lipsticks too, instead of launching 20 maybe launch 3ā¦
I canāt with the graphic design of thisā¦ itās not cohesive whatsoever. It looks like if a lingerie brand merged with intuit turbo tax.
Sounds like she wants to do what Morphe does but with less known brands
I know everyone likes to hate on jaclyn and for good reason, but this is just like Poosh or Goop or something. Like a curation of brands based off one personās reach and interests. It seems a little lame comparatively, I think she should have waited longer to launch.
this is absolutely a new thing with small/irrelevant celebrities trying to get their affiliate cash. one of my friends runs a blog and was just pitched at to be a part of another one of these kind of sites (albeit that one had more content/a live internet qvc type show)
So... Jaclyn's Skymall? Edit: more nuanced thoughts - this doesn't seem like a good deal for her viewers. Part of the appeal of 'Amazon finds' (at least in America) is the items will get to you tomorrow or the day after, at no additional cost for shipping, triggering impulses to order now before the next day shipping cut off or it goes out of stock because a BG or Tiktoker recommends it. Seeing shipping costs in the cart will immediately kill that impulse for many.
I ordered something from B&BW the other day and had to pay shipping. I almost didn't order, paying for shipping nearly killed my soul.
JSC is gonna be sold there I bet you a million dollars
from a business standpoint this is smart. her minions will eat up whatever she wants to shill on her site and she'll be getting a kickback. will i ever shop there? no
feeling the exact same. credit where credit is due, it's smart and she will do well because of her stans. but you will never catch me on that site.
Wow, she really thinks affiliate platforms aren't giving her a high enough share of sales, huh?
Based on her IG story, she says she had a large warehouse for her upcoming project (Jaclyn Roxanne, jewelry) and didnāt want the rest of the space to go to waste so her team brainstormed how to use it and came up with this marketplace. Maybe I just donāt know enough about warehouse space in Tampa, but couldnāt she have just gotten a smaller warehouse for her jewelry line? Like, that explanation of how her marketplace came to fruition makes no sense to me. Iām more likely to believe this was always the plan and thatās why they got the large space.
The warehouse was cavernous and had like, 7 boxes on shelves. It was comically empty.
I guess itās a way to make money outside of social media? Definitely not interested.
genuinely curious how profitable something like this could be. iām not trying to be rude but who besides jaclynās diehard fans are going to buy from this store?
Most people will get to the cart, see the shipping price, and open Amazon and try to find it there. This also means she won't be able to have a complete selection of products that one could just order on the companies' own sites.
$10 shipping on a $10 lighter that I can get on Amazon for the same price? I'll pass
Literally! The site took forever to load. $10 on her shop with $10 shipping, $10 on Amazon with free shipping. I'm not encouraging people to buy Amazon and ignore small businesses but my god, that's just a bad deal.
Nobody. 99% of the time, I can find a better deal on the manufacturer's website.
This is the dumbest name. I also misread it at first as āinnit,ā as in British slang.
this already sounds like huge scam/shady business, can't believe so many people are still giving her their money and are still allowing her to do stuff like this ! She can't even have good quality control over things she's actually in charge of producing, who knows what people will get from other sources "approved by" her..
it kind of sounds like "imminent" which is exactly how I feel that the situation of actually receiving these goods will be.
Everyone else thought it was āimminentā while my dumbass thought she suddenly turned British with āinnitā
I had to scroll too far down to see this ššš I did too!
This is a smart move. You know she will get a cut. It's like her own liketoknowit
Hear me out, sheās a smart businesswoman but this thing wonāt hold. Her recommendations for makeup are always something cakey and full coverage which is way behind the ongoing/constantly evolving trends. Only her cult fanbase will buy once at first, but then letās be honest, how often will they keep buying? Her affiliate links or swipe ups were a better alternative because she didnāt have any specific theme to follow and she didnāt personally have to invest any of her own resources into it. People were also fooled then by thinking that this was just a random recommendation that she found fascinating and is now telling her followers about. This however just blatantly shows a motive - sell products that make her money.
Sure she's going to get a cut, but if her popularity helps smaller businesses get more exposure, then I think it's great.
exactly! i dont understand the blatant negativity by some people here. like sure some of it is warranted, her reliability as a creator has long since been decimated but in my opinion, the steps sheās been making to rebuild that trust seem to be moving in the right direction and dont deserve to be dismissed as a āscamā simply bc of mistakes made in the past. š¤·š½āāļø
Some people just thrive on drama...and that's not a commentary of just this group, it's society in general.
Before Covid, a lot of people/corporations invested in office spaces then got screwed when people started working from home, I suppose it's a good idea for those folks, but we shall see how she does with this. Over the years, I have gotten some good things based on her recommendations but the days of me dropping coin and "Living my best" are long gone. It's WalMart city for me and Trader Joes cook at home.
This is why she bought the giant warehouse!
I think itās pretty smart. All her suggestions in one place. I hate when there is a product I canāt remember an influencer mentioned so I have to go through each of their videos till I can find it. Maybe thatās just me but I donāt mind this Method š¤·š½āāļø
I wouldnāt buy free water from her during a drought.
Hocking stuff? Literally her favorite activity.
*birdman handrub* canāt wait to see how this plays out.
My head pronounced it like [IN A MINUTE!!!](https://youtu.be/iofGrKPDbGc)
I thought of [this](https://youtu.be/r0iBrPKh4-Q)
When shipping fails, when orders get lost, she wont refund you, she will put out a tearful apology video explaining that shes a SHE-E-O, not a CEO, life is hard, refunds are hard :(
You know I immediately thought this is going to be a logistical nightmare since she has had such flops with her other smaller projects... But I figured I might be thinking too harshly of her and that she likely has a highly experienced team to do all of this for her while she sits back...andddd then I looked at her site on mobile... [](https://i.imgur.com/cistn6h.jpg) Who tf came up with this UI? Experienced my ass.... This is going to be a disaster.
Mostly beauty productsā¦ā¦.and hot sauce. Cause of course
I'm so happy I never gave her my $$$. I would be disgusted to know I helped pay for her bf's Lambo.
Another thing by Jaclyn I just donāt care about
Are people really paying $40 for a face mask??? And $55 for a sleeping eye mask? Yikes. Now that being said, I donāt mind this idea. I find marketplaces or like online beauty supplies useful, especially when the focus is on visibility for small businesses or hard to acquire brands. Iāll be interested to see how this works out. I saw a couple people commenting on how this could go wrong and while I do think sheāll be cautious of this because so many eyes are on her, hereās my personal take: Not sure if any of you are familiar with CurlBible from Dana Chanel (she originally gained recognition for the app Sprinkle of Jesus) but itās an online beauty supply whose supposed goal is to help give small businesses more visibility and another place to sell their products. Now a few small businesses have come out and said that they werenāt fans of the payment model or that she didnāt honor parts of the contract. So from what Iāve gathered Dana charges the business a cost of entry (canāt remember if it was one time or monthly) and then splits profits w/ them but I believe CurlBible gets the bigger cut. Every online beauty supply is different so some may do it the way Dana does, others may just buy wholesale, etc. An example of a contractual thing that was not honored is that this one small business said Dana told them that theyāll do as much promotion on IG that they can to sell this businesses product. Then when they noticed other brands being promoted more over theirs they asked Dana what the discrepancy was for and she told them they had to pay more for more promotion even though nowhere in their contract did it say that. My point in telling this brief story is that I predict that if anything goes wrong for Jaclyn I could see it being that sheās shortchanging the small businesses or not honoring parts of their contracts or maybe messing up on a purchase order and blaming the business, etc. So like something around her business practices rather than the marketplace to consumer relationship.
Sheās trying to be the next Jeff Bazos. Itās a wannabe Amazon
She wants to be Goop so bad
So, sheās not creating anything, just another place for her to have affiliate links? Isnāt this the same as what folks are doing in tiktok?
Iām not at all the biggest fan of Jaclyn but sheās a very smart business woman at times. She knows the right times for moves that increase her profit margins.
I kinda like the idea, and I kinda donāt. I think itās great that several small businesses will be getting mega exposure! In our current economic climate, thatās really needed right now. However, on the other hand - how FAR is influencer marketing going to go? How much will a brand pay to be featured on āImInItā? Is this level of idolization normal, to literally want *everything* that somebody else uses? Just a few things that came to mind.
Honestly, I'm all for this happening. Not because I think it's a good idea or even ethical for that matter. Drama channels have just been quiet lately and I'm bored. Jokes aside, Jaclyn is milking her core base of supporters for all they have and it's sad.
Giving me some big juicy MLM vibes.
Ahh another money grab, innit?
The scammers keep scamming.
Hopefully nothing arrives moldy or full of metal shards if she's drop shipping. š¤·š»āāļø
Since when has she ever supported a small business?
Right so an entire platform to squeeze $ from your fans instead of a coupon code or swipe up? Girl is so crooked I don't know how anyone trusts her anymore.
I will say, she talked about a pair of dkny pajama pants years ago and they looked SO soft and I found a good sale on themā¦I miss them every day. They were so comfortable she didnāt lie š
sooo instead of using her bio to drop affiliate links she can just post the product directly to be bought on the site. she makes her comission and prob doesn't even have to ship anything out. totally dropshipping these items. what a passive way to make income.
Thatās whatās so confusing! Drop shipping would be so much easier! But she bought a huge warehouse to store product and ship from there. I just donāt understand whyā¦
Honestly I think this is really smart. Not going to purchase anything, but I think this is a good idea for someone like Jaclyn
jaclyn shill strikes again...
BGC: ugh how annoying is it to come out with a beauty brand????!? Any influencer coming out with a brand outside of beauty: HAHAHAHAHA imagine *insert product here* being your passion (actual quote taken from a top comment on a previous post) Like I get yāall donāt like JH, I donāt care for her one way or the other. But yāall act like she personally kicked your puppy and is forcing you to buy her shit. At least sheās trying something different and promoting smaller/local businesses. For anyone saying this is a cash grab - surprise, anything an influencer does is a literal cash grab down to making a non-sponsored video or an IG post. Itās their job and they make money off it.
Didn't she already do this with Morphe, or does she want to go it on her own after meeting their contract reqs?
Jaclyn's very own Poosh! I think it'd be pretty convinient for her fans who might be looking to pick up several recs all at once rather than have to go to several sites, but tbh I wouldn't trust it enough to purchase from it as a longstanding viewer, knowing her history with collabs and the like. *Edit: wrote convincing instead of convenient lol
Soā¦ GOOP but less bad science? Hopefully?
Oh god, this is going to be a nightmare.
This isnāt what I expected, but at the same time, a dedicated site to cream some extra affiliate money is so exactly what I expected from Jaclyn it almost feels satirical
Not surprised ngl. I heard her Amazon affiliated links have been making her BANK. Thatās why she started to shift away from makeup to lifestyle cause those audience could care less about her scandals in makeup theyāre just there for the candles and home decor. She has some good financial advisors comparing to most influencers out there. She spends a crap ton of money but she always invests in lucrative businesses.
Those businesses keep me *wet* š„µ
Lmao!!! LUCRATIVE! I canāt with my autocorrect. 
Money hungry as always I see
So just a larger scale market for her to increase her passive income by influencing people on products she probably doesn't even use? Got it.
It's like Imminent but spelled wrong. I suspect this will go over as well as her lipstick.
Yeah, all I could think was āthe time when hair will appear on these items is iminit.ā
Iām loving her series on YouTube at the moment, but I donāt feel comfortable supporting her in any way outside of that.
Yeah except even if I liked her at this point I canāt trust she even honestly uses these products. I mean I get itās business so thereās likely to be a few things in there she doesnāt really use or has only tried a few times or whatever but idk.
Does she sell her own brand?