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Post by missbellejane on Oct 10, 2024 22:50:31 GMT
This just feels insulting now. Let's systematically strip away the entire foundation of a brand, and convince our loyal customers to continue buying whatever we decide they should want anyway.
Anyone else feel like the sprinkling of uber positive comments on the IG post have been elicited / paid for? 🤮
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Post by dawnnikol on Oct 10, 2024 23:25:32 GMT
Anyone else feel like the sprinkling of uber positive comments on the IG post have been elicited / paid for? 🤮 When they seem to only be made by other "industry" or ex-industry people, yep. |
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Post by jediannie on Oct 10, 2024 23:30:50 GMT
This just feels insulting now. Let's systematically strip away the entire foundation of a brand, and convince our loyal customers to continue buying whatever we decide they should want anyway. Anyone else feel like the sprinkling of uber positive comments on the IG post have been elicited / paid for? 🤮 It's very Becky Higgins of them to strip away the foundation and try and convince their customers to buy their garbage (wrapping paper anyone?). I saw former design team members saying how excited they were and I was like, excited for what?  |
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Post by dawnnikol on Oct 10, 2024 23:35:42 GMT
It's very Becky Higgins of them to strip away the foundation and try and convince their customers to buy their garbage (wrapping paper anyone?). HAHAHAHAHAHA /cue the video I saw former design team members saying how excited they were and I was like, excited for what? I wonder if this now means people who designed for SC for SB stuff will stop having their designs used over and over after being paid only XXX... |
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Post by honeypea on Oct 10, 2024 23:40:03 GMT
Anyone else feel like the sprinkling of uber positive comments on the IG post have been elicited / paid for? 🤮 When they seem to only be made by other "industry" or ex-industry people, yep. The loyal SC shoppers are not excited about this new direction. The few nonsense supporters there are people who haven’t been buying from SC anyway, so they have nothing to lose with this office supply announcement. The people April has been responding to are either supportive people (people who weren’t buying scrappy stuff anyway), or sad scrappers who say something about it’s sad this is a business decision they are forced into (ie scrapbook supplies are not profitable ). And if that is really the case, THAT is what April should say. Not her BS spin like she’s doing us a favor with the “beautiful, functional, inspired” crap. |
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Post by sleepingbooty on Oct 10, 2024 23:41:14 GMT
Anyone else feel like the sprinkling of uber positive comments on the IG post have been elicited / paid for? 🤮 I saw former design team members saying how excited they were and I was like, excited for what? What do you mean? Don't you just love an umpteenth shitty paper quality notebook? |
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Post by infochick on Oct 10, 2024 23:45:17 GMT
Heartened to see some straight talk comments on their instagram announcement. I added my own. I was saving reading the comments for after work, but it looks like they’re all gone  |
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Post by missbellejane on Oct 11, 2024 0:33:07 GMT
I saw former design team members saying how excited they were and I was like, excited for what? What do you mean? Don't you just love an umpteenth shitty paper quality notebook? But this one is archival quality, so you're "allowed" to use them in your scrapbooking 🙄 I just watched her IG stories and all I heard was "I", "me", "my"... Me me me 🤮 Also - I don't for a second believe that all of the DT members are happy with or supportive of the change, despite what they might be posting publicly. |
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Post by honeypea on Oct 11, 2024 0:52:34 GMT
Heartened to see some straight talk comments on their instagram announcement. I added my own. I was saving reading the comments for after work, but it looks like they’re all gone I still see them! There are 9 new posts, 8 with just grid and 1 with some text. All comments are on the text one (say hello to the new Studio Calico) |
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Post by SnoopyFan on Oct 11, 2024 1:22:52 GMT
Why in the world would you pay $12 for a 6x8 pad of lined paper when you can probably buy a 6-pack of them from Amazon for half the price?
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Post by miss2peas on Oct 11, 2024 2:03:17 GMT
Dumb questions but what does the g/w on the packages stand for?
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Post by missbellejane on Oct 11, 2024 2:09:33 GMT
Dumb questions but what does the g/w on the packages stand for? Goldenwood. One of their designers. |
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Post by miss2peas on Oct 11, 2024 2:17:01 GMT
Dumb questions but what does the g/w on the packages stand for? Goldenwood. One of their designers. Thank you. |
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Post by kiera on Oct 11, 2024 4:03:35 GMT
How long before April starts dancing with gift wrap and talking about leading with intention?
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Post by dawnnikol on Oct 11, 2024 9:56:03 GMT
Why in the world would you pay $12 for a 6x8 pad of lined paper when you can probably buy a 6-pack of them from Amazon for half the price? Dude, didn't you hear? SC's are "beautiful. functional. inspired." |
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Post by lg on Oct 11, 2024 12:19:44 GMT
Okay, I have a conspiracy theory (not trying to get the thread to 1,000 pages at all đź¤), you gotta hear me out peas…. April and Becky are the SAME PERSON. Becky’s company and Project life had already died from weird products, not sticking to what sells, and trying to sell something your core market didn’t want so Becky flipped to sc under the name “april” and facilitated the slow decline of sc kits and products so she could eventually try to turn another company into a place to flog notebooks and wrapping paper as a project life 2.0…. Becky… is that you?!  !? |
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Post by peacentral on Oct 11, 2024 14:39:11 GMT
I just saw about this on instagram. I don't understand why they would lose the documenting kit but add the same kind of things that they sell from their inked partners www.inkedbrands.com/portfolio. Isn't there enough notebooks and trinkets already? |
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Post by mom on Oct 11, 2024 14:48:08 GMT
Okay, I have a conspiracy theory (not trying to get the thread to 1,000 pages at all đź¤), you gotta hear me out peas…. April and Becky are the SAME PERSON. Becky’s company and Project life had already died from weird products, not sticking to what sells, and trying to sell something your core market didn’t want so Becky flipped to sc under the name “april” and facilitated the slow decline of sc kits and products so she could eventually try to turn another company into a place to flog notebooks and wrapping paper as a project life 2.0…. Becky… is that you?! !? April is the Baptist Becky. |
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Post by blemon on Oct 11, 2024 14:53:45 GMT
Now we know why the website was so slow during the sale a couple of weeks ago. They were doing something on the back end to get this ready.
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Post by quinmm14 on Oct 11, 2024 15:33:28 GMT
I think I've said before that nothing April does could surprise me, and I'm only surprised now that it's taken her this long to shit tank her company.
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Post by pocketaddict on Oct 11, 2024 16:21:47 GMT
How long before April starts dancing with gift wrap and talking about leading with intention? and excitedly offering her "mentoring" services as "your memorykeeping guru" while pretending that there is no elephant in the room? that everyone wants new kits, not new notebook covers? is this the path of all ex-scrapbooking company CEOs?? which reminds me, how long til they take the past kit digitals off the store? hmmmm... |
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Post by jediannie on Oct 11, 2024 16:42:15 GMT
April is the Baptist Becky.  |
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Post by hutchfan on Oct 11, 2024 16:45:44 GMT
I am not surprised by this decision.
I am wondering if this decision will eventually spell the end of Ali and Heidi.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Oct 11, 2024 19:11:42 GMT
I am not surprised by this decision. I am wondering if this decision will eventually spell the end of Ali and Heidi. I don't think so. It's more likely that they are happy to sacrifice SC because of the continued success of AE and HS. The amount of subs currently happening at AE more than makes up for losing the few SC ones left. They stopped caring about SC years ago. |
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Post by scrappydo on Oct 11, 2024 20:17:09 GMT
I am not surprised by this decision. I am wondering if this decision will eventually spell the end of Ali and Heidi. Ali addressed this in her IG stories yesterday. She's hanging around. Haven't checked out Heidi for a while but I get the impression she's doing well |
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Post by peamused on Oct 12, 2024 14:03:29 GMT
I am not surprised by this decision. I am wondering if this decision will eventually spell the end of Ali and Heidi. Ali addressed this in her IG stories yesterday. She's hanging around. Haven't checked out Heidi for a while but I get the impression she's doing well Heidi is doing fantastic with her brand. She's a creative machine. I'm betting AF is riding her coat tail$. |
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Post by caspad on Oct 12, 2024 19:37:03 GMT
How many lifestyle/office supply/generic decor type brands have opened and closed under the Inked umbrella over the years?
Why do I need the Studio Calico curated crap when I can buy it in the Dollar Spot at Target and not pay shipping?
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Post by missbellejane on Oct 14, 2024 5:39:34 GMT
I'm trying to decide if my moral objections to this decision and the way things have been handled is strong enough to compel me to cancel my stamp subscription. For the most part, I really do like their stamps. Or rather, the designers they currently have onboard for them. I will happily give Geralyn Sy all of my money for all of the things that she makes and, to my knowledge, SC is the only one she is currently designing physical products for.
I know that if I cancel the sub I can still purchase the stamps on a standalone basis when I want to. But the savings are pretty significant being on a subcriptions for us internationals.
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Post by Chinagirl828 on Oct 14, 2024 7:32:17 GMT
This is disappointing news. I know their kits were hit and miss, but I often pick them up when they're on sale for $10 and think they're decent value at that price. I will miss the pocket cards which I use often in my albums.
I cannot imagine office supplies etc is going to go well for them. Aside from everyone in the US having multiple (cheaper) sources for stationary, internationals would be out of their minds to pay the shipping costs on top of the cost for their overpriced subpar notebooks.
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Post by dawnnikol on Oct 14, 2024 11:09:53 GMT
But the savings are pretty significant being on a subcriptions for us internationals. No judgment: international shipping for SB supplies has been a shit show for years. |
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