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Post by lasteve1 on Jul 10, 2020 17:39:29 GMT
I made a dumb joke, no one else participated in it and no one else made fun of anyone (including me) for being at the dollar tree. I didn't take your joke as a jab at people who shop at Dollar Tree, but a comment on the fact that her products are marked way way down to be eligible for dollar tree prices... I thought it was funny and not at all offensive. @amayalylac not sure how you took that as offensive, but if anything offensive was said it was the fact that you read that comment to imply something was trashy about dollar tree and then your description of people who would shop somewhere trashy are "black, Hispanic or low income." Not sure why those races are grouped in with low income?? I'm not black or hispanic but if I was I would be super offended by your statement... it seems to imply that poor people of all races, plus all hispanics and black people are trashy... I'm sure that wasn't your intent? And maybe I'm the only one that read it that way because no one else has really commented? But regardless... I'm not trying to start something but when I read that comment my jaw about dropped so I just wanted to jump in and say something... ETA: Also as someone who was formerly extremely low income, I take offense to the implication that low income people are trashy. But that was less offensive than the racial stereotyping...
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Post by julie5 on Jul 10, 2020 18:46:15 GMT
On the subject of Dollar Tree having PL cards. You all know that Heidi, Lizzy's and Amy's items are there to? I don't think that shows how far anybody has fallen. I think that shows Dollar Tree bought AC's overstock. I hope some of you realize that all sorts of incomes and races shop at Dollar Tree. Not just black, Hispanic or low income. I bought some cards and they are so cute. I just adore them. I don't know who designed that line for Becky but it's so cute and she did such an amazing job. I am so angry at AC right now but I will say they do have some cute InHouse designers. sleepingbooty you don't have to install her app to look at the logo. I just looked at it on my computer browser. I don't think she is cheap. I think she is business broke. She reminds me of this girl I knew that got a lot of money from a botched surgery. Instead of investing or saving the money she opened up a comic book store and the store went belly up a couple of years later. Now, she has a huge collection of comic books that she can't resell because they are not the valuable editions. Becky is this girl- excess merchandise, no liquid assets and no revenue. Plus, Becky has always been a little bit behind on trends. A few of us use to make comments about that when she was trying to promote something. It wasn't even critical. It was more like "I did that in 2005 and I am not interested in 2008" kind of thing. I know you are about the trends and marketing, I remember that is part of your job. I think that was you. Becky is about what she likes and what makes her feel in her safe zone. The big problem with Becky always being in her safe zone she thinks she is a trend setter now, lol. I thought the old app logo was cute and I thought it fit Becky's brand. The new one is non-descript. I am not trashing it but I would honestly never notice it if I was looking for that type of app. I just looked at her new logo for her website and it looks like squished breasts. @zingermack- Legitimate question isn't it cheaper to release apps on Android than iPad? I read that one time. I don't understand why she can't release an Android app. Yes, ten years ago releasing Android apps was more difficult because of the infrastructure on all the different models that were running Android but it's now a lot more coherent. I do freelance for cybersecurity. Ten years ago I could pull out my hair trying to find security risks in a Samsung vs Google phone. It was so much work. Now it seems so seamless. Maybe, that's experience level and it is still difficult, lol. It does seem more coherent and seamless now. @julie5 really the Mormon's are just running around without masks like it's a badge of honor? I will not go down that rabbit hole and read the Mormon reddit. I am already in a bad mood about self-centered people. Seriously, I don't understand this. I was telling my DH the other day that Christian's are taught to value life. These are the same Christian's who will attack a woman for getting an abortion because she was raped but Christian's can't even go out the door wearing a mask. How effed up is that? I love Mormon Mafia. I am stealing that. Becky is using the word mission? NO! NO! NO! NO! When a Mormon starts saying mission that is a red flag warning to stay away from whatever they are shilling. Becky reminds me of that crazy lady in FarCry 5 who is always trying to brainwash you. I don’t think anyone was implying that only poor people or people of color shop there. You’re the one who made that jump. all that was said was that her stuff is at The cheapest store in America. How that translated to “not just low income poc shop there”... Color me confused.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 10, 2020 18:51:55 GMT
I don't think I grasp what the Dollar Tree drama is *really* about. It's a store that sells a mix of cheap non-brand items and brand overstock that is marked down heavily, right? I stupidly/ignorantly assumed that Mrs Mighty had fallen because AC is left with so many Project Life leftovers that they're selling them off to the point where Dollar Tree can still make a profit from selling the kits/value kits at $1. Weren't there full-sized PL kits for $1 at some other American discounter like TM as well recently?
Considering the initial price was $30 in the US and close to $40 for internationals (yes, I paid just shy of $40 for those core kits!), $1 is definitely evidence that the PL brand is shot. We've all witnessed how Becky's incomprehensibly dumb decisions have led to this. I didn't think there was any kind of implication about race, income or whatever. To me, it looked like a simple conclusion about the fall of PL and BH in the scrap industry. AC are desperate enough to regain their warehouse space to the point of selling the overstock for peanuts. That seemed to be the point that was being made but I may have misinterpreted it.
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Post by julie5 on Jul 10, 2020 19:48:50 GMT
I don't think I grasp what the Dollar Tree drama is *really* about. It's a store that sells a mix of cheap non-brand items and brand overstock that is marked down heavily, right? I stupidly/ignorantly assumed that Mrs Mighty had fallen because AC is left with so many Project Life leftovers that they're selling them off to the point where Dollar Tree can still make a profit from selling the kits/value kits at $1. Weren't there full-sized PL kits for $1 at some other American discounter like TM as well recently? Considering the initial price was $30 in the US and close to $40 for internationals (yes, I paid just shy of $40 for those core kits!), $1 is definitely evidence that the PL brand is shot. We've all witnessed how Becky's incomprehensibly dumb decisions have led to this. I didn't think there was any kind of implication about race, income or whatever. To me, it looked like a simple conclusion about the fall of PL and BH in the scrap industry. AC are desperate enough to regain their warehouse space to the point of selling the overstock for peanuts. That seemed to be the point that was being made but I may have misinterpreted it. Here in the us the Dollar TREE is an everything is a dollar store. And it’s generally cheap quality or smaller packages. So you could get a tube of Colgate toothpaste just like at target or Walmart, but it’s in a much smaller tube. I think people often assume only poor people shop in them or view them as trashy but there’s a lot of people who shop there. I got my wedding table ware there-$1 paper plates napkins and cutlery? Yes please!!! Laundry soap? No, I’m going to buy the ginormous container at Walmart for $10. So it’s not really a tj maxx or Tuesday morning. So the fact that project life made it there means AC is dumping old product even cheaper than they did for Tuesday morning and tj maxx. Then the commenter said dear lizzy and Heidi are there too so it can’t a falling from grace. But I think it is. American crafts has the money to crank out large quantities of product, make their margins pretty quickly, then dump it for next to nothing. That cycle will kill scrapbooking eventually.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 10, 2020 20:00:34 GMT
Here in the us the Dollar TREE is an everything is a dollar store. And it’s generally cheap quality or smaller packages. So the fact that project life made it there means AC is dumping old product even cheaper than they did for Tuesday morning and tj maxx. Then the commenter said dear lizzy and Heidi are there too so it can’t a falling from grace. But I think it is. American crafts has the money to crank out large quantities of product, make their margins pretty quickly, then dump it for next to nothing. That cycle will kill scrapbooking eventually. Not to mention the ecological impact of such speculative methods (+ initial transport from China). I think about this more and more, especially for a craft that is paper-based.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 9:08:11 GMT
sleepingbooty I think Dollar Tree and racial/income disparity would be right up your alley for things you like to study about our country. You will also notice that big religions are a huge part of this problem. You will see why the Dollar Tree comments that were made were so jaw dropping and so wrong. You can find podcasts, YouTube videos and articles about the prevalence of Dollar Stores and poverty in the United States. You can also see the majority of them are in minority neighborhoods that have seen an economic decline. You will see that though everyone defends their Dollar Tree shopping that there is a huge racial divide who are consumers at these stores. If you're interested research articles about food deserts in the United States. It will also show you why Covid is spreading in the USA like wildfire and why we had to open so fast. I bet it would connect a lot of dots for you. Like, I said this would interest you very much. I am writing my paragraph to you because I don't want you to think my following rant was directed at you. Hugs! This is the only thing I am going to write about this. I hate racists with a passion. I stand by what I wrote. What I was trying to convey is not racist. Dollar Store's are known for low income and populating minority areas- www.propublica.org/article/how-dollar-stores-became-magnets-for-crime-and-killingtalkpoverty.org/2020/02/19/dollar-stores-sell-low-income-people-sense-belonging/www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/business/dollar-general-opposition/index.htmlwww.wbur.org/onpoint/2019/08/23/dollar-store-dominance-comes-with-a-cost-for-low-income-americansYes, I am grouping low income White, Blacks and Hispanics together in my Dollar Tree comment. My store is populated by that majority. I know for a fact we are considered the "bad side" of town. I never grouped low income, Black & Hispanics as Dollar Tree and trashy. Since that would be grouping me in the trashy group. This is the second time in a few weeks I have heard the term trashy or White Trash on this forum by white people. The reason I grouped low income & minorities together in my Dollar Tree comment that it is a known fact that Dollar Stores are the main stores in low income and minority areas. I have linked articles above to this. I have heard so many times over the years that it is food stamp people or Latino's or Black people shopping at these stores and bringing cheap "shit" from China in. Go over at Reddit or even here and look at the disparaging racial/income comments about Dollar Tree over the years. I have heard comments over here in the past few months why is Dollar Tree open during Covid. Seriously? Why is it open? We all don't have fancy grocery stores we can drive to in our Mercedes and then take IG pics of our food in the cart. A lot of us live in a food desert. Excuse us that Dollar Tree needs to remain open. We have to shop someplace so we can go work for the white privilege while they cough on us because you know we are replaceable and don't matter. It can take two hours to take a bus to a grocery store in an area that is in a food desert. A lot of us depend on Dollar Tree and other Dollar Stores for our food survival. We don't eat unhealthy. We are not in debt. We use Dollar Tree to be responsible with our money and to pay our bills on time. Yes, a large majority shop at Dollar Tree. There is the group that shop at Dollar Tree because it's a novelty to them. Then there is the other half that shop Dollar Tree because it's survival. Writing comments about how far Becky has fallen because her cards are at Dollar Tree even if it was innocent will be judged. Throwing words around like white trash is form of White Supremacy- thesocietypages.org/clippings/2018/09/12/how-the-term-white-trash-reinforces-white-supremacy/I know some of you are trying hard to understand your White Privilege and be better. There are some of you that your White Privilege just keeps rearing it's ugly head and you will never, ever get it. Remember it is this country that is so proud of setting up a system that white higher income people prevail and keep the poor down and keep their neighborhoods down. When Covid struck you all realized you needed to depend on us. We now have the upper hand. You are still trying to murder us by visiting our places of work without a mask because your poor little white rights are being trampled on. I am a minority. Yes, I look white but I am still a minority and have minority physical features and have been treated racially so. I had to identify myself as white for years to protect myself and get ahead in this world. I am tired of all the white racism lead by a "fake" Christian demographic. I am tired of hiding who I am so I won't have some white bitch attack me because I am not the same as her and I am a perceived threat. Even I use my white adopted name to protect myself from white people. I have so much rage about this now. I am sick of hearing about how white people are really offended. You have no right to be offended. You stood around for centuries, decades watching minorities get trampled on & murdered. You kept your head in the sand. You refused to educate yourself. You wanted a fancy grocery store in your neighborhood so you could walk to the store with your kids in your designer stroller. All the while a grocery store in a low income area closed so they could open up in your area and provide your needs. A poor Mother has to drag her stroller on a bus and take a two hour round trip to a grocery store to use her WIC coupons. While she was waiting for the bus, you walked by her with your designer stroller thinking all the time "Food Stamp" or "Welfare" Mom and god forbid if she was a minority what you must have added to your thoughts. If the DT comment was a joke or not it was not funny. It just shows the insensitive and lack of understanding to those who are low income/minorities in our country and how we have to survive.
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Post by lasteve1 on Jul 11, 2020 11:39:42 GMT
@amayalylac your rant is completely uncalled for and off base. You don’t know enough about me and my life to stereotype me. I took offense to your comment as someone who struggled with poverty as a young single mother on food stamps, WIC, TANF, etc. I have white skin so, as I said, I cannot speak for black and Latino people, but I do know what it’s like to be discriminated against for being poor and be called trash or assumed to be a drug addict because I was a young, poor single mother.
I also know what it’s like to be discriminated against based on my race, although my skin is white, I am Jewish and people can tell when looking at me and I’ve been the victim of more minor racial comments/slurs that I can’t even remember as well as the victim of a more serious incident where KKK people literally, physically attacked me. The most “fun” was when people combined the two... joking about how I was a welfare mom because I was such a greedy Jew I couldn’t pass up a handout.
I’m sure that a lot of people here, myself included, are constantly working to be better and do better, but I think you need to do the same. You are part of the problem, so stop hand slapping as if you’re not.
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Post by julie5 on Jul 11, 2020 13:04:09 GMT
@amayalylac would it have been less offensive if she said dollar spot at target? Because that’s literally all she neant. That Becky’s once $40 item is now $1, at a $1 store. I’ve tried to write a message towards you 4 times only to delete because I felt like I was trying to justify my White privilege. And there is no justification. It’s there, it just is. But I feel like you are lumping us all into the Becky category and I assure you, I’m not Becky. I despise her. Way more than I should. I’m not judging anyone who shops at the dollar tree because I’m literally ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE. I know what you’re saying, that we shop there because we want to, not because we have to. And you’re right. But when my kids were little, there was no want about it. I had to. I had very little money, and couldn’t get aid because I wouldn’t sue my ex for child support. I didn’t want to go through that. I COULDNT go through that. I struggled. I don’t have to struggle anymore but ...im going to stop again because I’m heading right back into justification. So anyways there’s my dimes worth.
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Post by Skellinton on Jul 11, 2020 15:21:33 GMT
I am not going to get into a big argument about Dollar Tree and my white privilege, but I will say our Dollar Trees are not all in low income areas. We have them everywhere and most are located right next to grocery stores. The one I was in that had the BH cards is next to Trader Joe’s and a Fred Meyer grocery store.
I never had a problem with them being open during the pandemic.
You are lumping a whole lot of us into groups of people that have nothing to do with us, people on Reddit make disparaging remarks about the DT so therefore we must be disparaging the DT whenever we mention it? I don’t recall any comments disparaging the DT here.
BTW,I just searched this post using the search feature and looked back myself 10 pages and you are the one who introduced the word trashy. You are the one who described it as trashy. No one else used that word unless we were copying what you said.
This comment is so damn far off the mark I can’t even believe you typed it “ You are still trying to murder us by visiting our places of work without a mask because your poor little white rights are being trampled on.” I don’t step foot out of my house without multiple masks in my purse and I keep one in my car so I can change them in case I am visiting multiple stores. Are there idiots who don’t wear masks, absolutely, but I see that as being an idiot problem, not a race problem. I am now in an area where masks are required, but I have been wearing one when out since March and prior to them being required I saw just as many POC not wearing them as white people. I also saw a large number of people that I would consider high risk due to age not wearing them.
You make some extremely wild blanket statements that are completely inaccurate to many of us on this board.
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Post by kiera on Jul 11, 2020 16:24:34 GMT
Just tried to use the PL app to collage two photos together. I used to do it all the time, it made printing two photos on a 4x6 SO much easier than having to put the photos on my computer, go into Photoshop, making the image, and then putting it back onto my phone. Now she wants $5 for that? When I've had the app for years and used to be able to do it for free? Looks like I'll be deleting the app since I have no use for it anymore.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 11, 2020 16:31:49 GMT
Me, returning to this thread a day later: Alright, let's just unroll things and get back to basics because I feel like emotions were running high and I get that in the current situation, that can be expected. 1. I couldn't find "white trash" references but maybe a comment got deleted? 2. The main issue seems to be with the conflation between the Dollar Tree and the "mighty have fallen" phrase which was in reference to Becky Higgins herself, not the people buying her products. Can we try to offer a more neutral parallel (fictional) example to help understand what several Pea Refugees were trying to say in here? For the sake of understanding what what originally meant (as far as I understand it: please correct me if I got things wrong), let's assume we're NOT talking about $30-40 Project Life core kits being now sold at the Dollar Tree for $1. Let's transform into a toiletry case that was all the rage back in 2013 and sold for around $75. That case is now being found for just $5 at T.J. Maxx. The proportions aren't right (it would have to be $2) but I'm trying to be a little more realistic here and rounding up significantly so I can emphasise my point later on (which is that the might *BECKY* has fallen, indeed). This toiletry case was all over YouTube. It was *the* case to have. The one that people would make unboxing videos for and show in detail, the one that everyone in the makeup/beauty products sphere wanted to own for travel. There was a major buzz around this and the buzz lasted for years. Every single new pattern or colourway that this toiletry case was released in had videos on YouTube for as soon as it was first spotted in stores. Some people event vlogged finding the new colourway of the toiletry case in their local store and filmed themselves opening the box it came in while they were still sitting in their car in the parking lot of the store they just purchased it at. This literally happened for quite a while when it come to Becky's core and mini kits (then rebranded as value kits). People filmed every aspect of it, showing how they used it and what they filled it with and how it fit in their suitcase/purse. It was something else. If you were in that sphere (beauty, travel) back then, you likely bought this. Seriously, Becky's core kits were a major trend in modern scrapbooking. You paid the full price for it just to make sure you got the new colourway/fabric pattern as soon as it was released. It went international. This toiletry case was being sold with the upmark due to import costs + taxes in so many other countries. Europe, Asia, South America, Oceania, heck even South Africa. People were paying a lot of money to get the more exclusive ones that didn't make it to their country/continent shipped from the US. But after a while, even its most adamant users were starting to be vocal about some basic issues with it. Nothing mean-spirited or unkind. They were genuinely offering ways to massively improve this very beloved product. Let's say that the toiletry case was rounded at the top. Didn't make a lot of sense to pack stuff that usually comes in tubes and would be much better suited to a square shape for better usage of available volume (obvious reference to people wanting square corners for their square-cornered pocket pages). On top of that, the case was lacking in compartments. A few easy adjustments would have made this case easier to use and better organised (parallel for the amount of repeated designs in a core kit). However, the original creator/designer is not at all receptive to this constructive criticism. They repeatedly denigrate those comments on social media, claiming that they're not changing their OG design because they don't want to and they prefer the look of the rounded case anyway. This goes on for a while (years). People start finding alternatives to the toiletry case that are taking into account their need for the square volume and the better inside organisation so they start buying those instead. Heck, even the fabric and zipper quality of those alternatives are superior so there's a shift happening. The designer doesn't seem to care one bit and digs their heels in. Fastforward several more years and that toiletry case is now sold in many colourways at T.J. Maxx for a ridiculously low price, heck it's just a small fraction of the OG price that everyone paid. $5 instead of $75, really? We've since learned that the OG designer lost their distribution contract and is no longer in a partnership to get these toiletry cases made. Essentially, they're now desperate to empty that warehouse and make place for a new product from someone else. That OG designer is now boasting online about their new classes that you can enroll in to learn how to prepare for travel and pack your suitcase efficiently to better enjoy your holidays. Kind of ironic, right? Like, WTF? The OG toiletry case is sold for peanuts at a discount store because the designer refused for so long to take their loyal customers' constructive criticism into account, pretending they knew better than all those people paying $75 per toiletry case (and most owned quite a few because FOMO). Yep, those previous customers would definitely say: "How the mighty have fallen." I mean, great for people needing a basic toiletry case that they can now purchase one for $5 at T.J. Maxx, no shade whatsoever on that front, but that designer can go take a walk to the moon with their new plans for helping you travel efficiently, yadda yadda. I hope this was a correct (fictional) comparison and that I got everything right. Again, it was never about the actual people going to the Dollar Tree (or T.J. Maxx). It was never about food deserts in the US (which is a HUGE problem but not at all correlated with Project Life or toiletry cases). It was about the original designer's superior attitude, refusal to listen to their paying customers' helpful remarks and necessary fall from grace years on because of their repeated business and client/follower interaction.
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Post by kiera on Jul 11, 2020 16:53:31 GMT
Booty, that was how I interpreted it as well. No one's buying the products anymore because they're not shown how to use them, or because they still have 6 copies of 100 different cards and will never need another set again. I read the original post as a mighty-have-fallen story as well - Becky's excess products were purchased by Dollar Tree. I didn't see anything about race or economic level until it was dragged in. Maybe we're missing something.
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Post by krcrafts on Jul 11, 2020 17:08:29 GMT
Just tried to use the PL app to collage two photos together. I used to do it all the time, it made printing two photos on a 4x6 SO much easier than having to put the photos on my computer, go into Photoshop, making the image, and then putting it back onto my phone. Now she wants $5 for that? When I've had the app for years and used to be able to do it for free? Looks like I'll be deleting the app since I have no use for it anymore. In the app, click on Create and then Small Print. That’s where the old collage category is.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2020 17:10:03 GMT
Just tried to use the PL app to collage two photos together. I used to do it all the time, it made printing two photos on a 4x6 SO much easier than having to put the photos on my computer, go into Photoshop, making the image, and then putting it back onto my phone. Now she wants $5 for that? When I've had the app for years and used to be able to do it for free? Looks like I'll be deleting the app since I have no use for it anymore. I have always used PicFrame for this (and never updated it . I don't know how much it is now. Mine is so old, I think it was free. It's amazing - tons of options super simple. I even have it on my desktop for the same reason. And it works on iOS AND Android! Can you imagine!! And no Becky nonsense. Win-win-win.
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Post by Night Owl on Jul 11, 2020 17:36:52 GMT
I remember the days when companies had deals that their products were to be sold only at local scrapbook stores (RIP) and not in the big box retailers like Michaels and Hobby Lobby. I was surprised when Becky's PL products were being sold at my grocery store, that may have been due to American Crafts who I feel have cheapened some of the companies they bought. My dad & mom loved going to the Dollar Tree (pre Covid) and we'd always ask them what goodies they found at the dollar store that week and they enjoyed taking the grand kids there too. So the Dollar Tree has good memories for us but I can see why somebody would say it was a step down if they marked PL products down to $1.
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Post by julie5 on Jul 11, 2020 20:40:12 GMT
Just tried to use the PL app to collage two photos together. I used to do it all the time, it made printing two photos on a 4x6 SO much easier than having to put the photos on my computer, go into Photoshop, making the image, and then putting it back onto my phone. Now she wants $5 for that? When I've had the app for years and used to be able to do it for free? Looks like I'll be deleting the app since I have no use for it anymore. In the app, click on Create and then Small Print. That’s where the old collage category is. Yes. Go to small prints. That’s where the old collage is. I’ve been printing digital papers with the app lately.
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Post by Skellinton on Jul 12, 2020 0:09:02 GMT
Booty, that was how I interpreted it as well. No one's buying the products anymore because they're not shown how to use them, or because they still have 6 copies of 100 different cards and will never need another set again. I read the original post as a mighty-have-fallen story as well - Becky's excess products were purchased by Dollar Tree. I didn't see anything about race or economic level until it was dragged in. Maybe we're missing something. Exactly. And the person who dragged race and economic level in is the one doing the accusations of racism and economic snobbery.
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Post by kiera on Jul 12, 2020 7:02:23 GMT
krcrafts and julie5, thank you!! Much appreciated. I've used PicFrame as well, @zingermack, but I always had trouble getting the ratio right so that my photos fit how they should. I know that's user error, though.
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Post by hop2 on Jul 12, 2020 15:03:23 GMT
It’s professional, just personal enough that I know her ‘story’ yet still professional. There’s no crying, no preaching, no blaming. It doesn’t in any way, any where, imply that I am ‘doing it wrong’ because I’m not doing it ‘her’ way. ( or her old way ) Ali seems very careful to not do that. She often picks & posts examples that are different or use different products on her IG and seems to encourage people to get the story wether or not they use product or her products. Sure, she promotes her products ( which are ever increasingly expensive ) but she mostly does it without putting other ways down. And it’s her business to promote her products so why wouldn’t she? Yes, Ali shows us books & other stuff she buys or promotes but she mostly does it on her PERSONAL IG and her company IG is mostly company related stuff. So if there’s a promotion on the company IG it’s a paste from her personal IG or a business related promotion. IF I am someday over all the book suggestions I could mute her personal IG and still follow the corporate one. Easy.
It’s called proper business practices. Becky should try them.
Ali is not perfect, I’m sure there were mistakes made, she’s human, her staff are human. But if there were mistakes made, they were addressed and moved past. You grow as a company, you grow as a person. That’s how life works. She doesn’t dwell on the mistakes and therefore neither do I.
Becky instead constantly publicly regurgitates her past mistakes, rewritten to try to appear as the victim. But we aren’t stupid, so we all remember she is not a victim but a mean girl who was mean. Stop bring it up & reminding me of how mean you were to someone who liked your products and asked a business related question on your combined business personal IG. I might ‘forget’ it or move past it, or put it in the back of my mind, but Becky brings it up ALL THE TIME trying to play victim. So I’m re-annoyed each time. Sometimes I think I’m more annoyed each time. So the more she brings it up the more angry I am at her, over something that probably might have left my consciousness, only to be brought up as ‘remember when’. Instead I’m freshly pissed off at her every so often. And I don’t even follow her.
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Post by artisticscrapper on Jul 12, 2020 20:39:55 GMT
I don’t use Beck’s PL app but I did have to check out that logo change. The first thing I noticed was that she removed her name. More distancing from the product?
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Post by oldgardengirl on Jul 13, 2020 19:05:24 GMT
Becky reminds me of that crazy lady in FarCry 5 who is always trying to brainwash you. You just made my day, which frankly, is pretty difficult to do in July 2020. Well done, friend.
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Post by refugeepea on Jul 13, 2020 21:58:03 GMT
I am not going to get into a big argument about Dollar Tree and my white privilege, but I will say our Dollar Trees are not all in low income areas. We have them everywhere and most are located right next to grocery stores. The one I was in that had the BH cards is next to Trader Joe’s and a Fred Meyer grocery store. It seems to be subjective. I live in a rural area probably considered mostly low income (I am) and there are grocery stores. There is no public transportation. However, there wasn't a place to buy things like gift bags, wrapping paper, cleaning products, or toiletry items for a reasonable cost. Three smaller chain stores came and went out of business (for various reasons) before Dollar Tree came and I'm very glad they are still here. I'm such a thrifty nerd, I follow a couple of accounts on instagram. I'm keeping my eye out for some very cute monogrammed pumpkins I saw.
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Post by Skellinton on Jul 13, 2020 23:02:19 GMT
I am not going to get into a big argument about Dollar Tree and my white privilege, but I will say our Dollar Trees are not all in low income areas. We have them everywhere and most are located right next to grocery stores. The one I was in that had the BH cards is next to Trader Joe’s and a Fred Meyer grocery store. It seems to be subjective. I live in a rural area probably considered mostly low income (I am) and there are grocery stores. There is no public transportation. However, there wasn't a place to buy things like gift bags, wrapping paper, cleaning products, or toiletry items for a reasonable cost. Three smaller chain stores came and went out of business (for various reasons) before Dollar Tree came and I'm very glad they are still here. I'm such a thrifty nerd, I follow a couple of accounts on instagram. I'm keeping my eye out for some very cute monogrammed pumpkins I saw. My point is that it is subjective. The person posting said they are all located in poor areas where there aren’t grocery stores, which clearly they aren’t. I completely agree with you.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 14, 2020 11:43:27 GMT
Hey Becks, this is what story-telling looks like when it's done well. For the love of dogs, don't give Becky closed eyes selfie ideas!
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Post by lisacharlotte on Jul 14, 2020 12:55:12 GMT
Hey Becks, this is what story-telling looks like when it's done well. For the love of dogs, don't give Becky closed eyes selfie ideas! and now Ali’s got Aaron doing it too. Obviously this is her thing, but it looks so affected. I don’t get this or the “let me take a selfie of me pretending to be asleep”.
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Post by sleepingbooty on Jul 14, 2020 13:01:59 GMT
For the love of dogs, don't give Becky closed eyes selfie ideas! and now Ali’s got Aaron doing it too. Obviously this is her thing, but it looks so affected. I don’t get this or the “let me take a selfie of me pretending to be asleep”. I've said it before in the AE thread but Victorian death portrait vibes.
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Post by scrappieannie on Jul 14, 2020 22:27:25 GMT
On the My Modern Story account, she just posted a job listing for a VOLUNTEER virtual assistant. WHAT!? No, no, no, no, no. She makes a point to say how much she is spending on producing the content. And how picky she is about how organized and awesome this person needs to be. No, no, no. For the love, anyone remotely interested needs to RUN the other way!
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Post by lisacharlotte on Jul 14, 2020 23:09:06 GMT
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Post by lostwithout2peas on Jul 15, 2020 0:38:23 GMT
So wait, from the "volunteer" description it looks like she actually might let someone else actually also post on her Instagram? So is she finally getting some business advice and listening by doing a separate Instagram and possibly letting someone else help run it? And if so, what topsy turvy world did I step into??
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