February 23, 2018

Is Ulta Testing Out Free Shipping for Platinum Members?

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What’s this!? What’s this!? Is Ulta Testing out Free Shipping for Platinum Members?

Today there are two exclusive Ulta Platinum Exclusives at Ulta.com the first of which is the new Alannized X Laura Geller New York Illuminating Kit and the second is the new Becca Hydra-Mist Set & Refresh Powder and guess what? THEY SHIP FREE! What?! Shut up!

Earlier in January when news broke about the Ulta Diamond Rewards Program launched I was pretty vocal about how I expected and wanted free shipping from Ulta. I’m happy to see that they are making some effort to make my hopes a reality.

I hadn’t noticed them shipping Platinum Exclusives for free in the past so this seems new to me!

One thing I find utterly odd is how they continue to promote items as Platinum Exclusive. Umm hello? What about the Diamond Reward Members? Shouldn’t they also be included in the exclusive launches?

None the less, I’m still happy to see free shipping. Typically that’s reserved for their special sales like 21 Days of Beauty. But hey, I’ll take it because sometimes they’ll launch some exclusive palette that I want but I don’t want to do a complete haul just to get free shipping. Now I can pop that bad boy in my cart without spending extra cash.

Thanks Ulta.

But still, can you work on getting us Platinum and Diamond Members free shipping all the time? Or at least a membership service like Sephora Flash that allows us to get our goodies with free shipping?

That’d work just fine for me 🙂

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  • kimkats

    I would jump on a free shipping subscription like sephora flash if Ulta had it, AND it was as cheap as sephora’s. I wish we could combine the best aspects of sephora’s and ulta’s rewards programs – THEN we’d have a system that rocked the dock!! 😀

  • MJ

    I have a feeling that they can’t offer free shipping on ALL orders because they have so many cheap/drugstore products! And so people might order $1-$2 items and they would lose money? Just a guess. Either way, it’s pretty cool that they’re offering it with these new items! Thanks for the update 🙂

    • Isabella Muse

      could be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still wish they’d offer some sort of subscription for it though 😀

  • Carol

    I didn’t even notice the free shipping!!!! I just skinmed the email and thought, eh.
    Thanks for the heads up!

  • Christina D.

    Hey Sista and TGIF! This look promising and if it comes to fruition will be great. I do recall that, during Beauty Steal events, featured items ship free for Platinum Members. Other than that, it’s the usual UPS Surepost delivery method. But perhaps Ulta is trying to do something to save face between the extremely disappointing (and ridiculous) Diamond Rewards, and the lawsuit which, based on my personal experience, I completely 100% believe.

    • Isabella Muse

      hey sis late to the party ;-D happy belated TGIF lol! I sure hope it does. Honestly, even if I had to pay $50 bucks a year for free shipping I’d do it as I order enough that would be a value! Surepost isn’t too bad as lately I can order on a Friday and by Tuesday it arrives. So it is pretty fast! ugh…! It saddens me all in all because for a hot second there they were doing so much to build up their name and become something better than Sephora and than Diamond Rewards happened not to mention the nasty lawsuit!

  • Meghan

    I agree. I would totally buy more from Ulta if they had a free shipping option. I think $10-$15 a year I would be willing to pay to get free shipping on every order. Ulta has so many brands I love and they seem to get the new products sooner than other companies…I will never be Diamond I know, but with free shipping or more free shipping options I would definitely be Platinum again!

  • Emily

    Ulta can’t imagine how many times I’ve gone elsewhere to buy a product I otherwise would have bought from them, just because I refused to pay for shipping. (Yesterday, Shiseido cotton squares, Sephora.) They do pepper free shipping in here and there, but why they can’t make it available all the time, no idea.

    • Isabella Muse

      They sometimes do the $35 free shipping which is good but still would love a better option!

  • kjh

    And who, pray tell, is diamond already, except for bloggers who are not ‘gifted’ by the co, or ‘important’ people who rely on their personal assts to buy everything new? I’m certain that D members get it as well; any higher level usually counts, except when the tiers have different dates, like S’s sales. We’re at the end of the second month; I think I had one U skincare order. This year, maybe will fail to reach rouge/platinum. Hallelujah! U stock was 203/share yesterday. I’d like to look at their 52 week hi/lo and 5 year financials. They certainly are doing something right.

  • Gayle Galor

    They’ve actually done this before. Last year when they released the Jaclyn Hill Morphe palette, I just happen to somehow stumble across it and they had it for one day as a Platinum Perk with free shipping before they released it to non-Platinum folks. I’ve seen it at least one other time, too, but I sure hope you’re right! They have GOT to get it together with this shipping – especially after all the hoopla about their returns.

    • Isabella Muse

      oh yes you’re right I remember they did it with the JH palette ;-D AGREED!

  • as

    I’m confused though.. When I click on my email to get those exclusivises from Bare Minerals, they still show as coming soon!! I am logged into my account & a Diamond member, so what the check is up!
    Thank you for the wonderful blog, Issabella!

    • Isabella Muse

      Hi AS! They were available as a platinum perk for one day only but should be in stock soon again! Sometimes Ulta does a one day sale with items and releases them more wide spread later which is the case with this 😉 Hope this helps! Thank YOU!

      • GiGi

        Haha I don’t know why my name came up as as GiGi! 🙂 And, I am on my phone so please forgive the typos. Thank you very much for the useful information. Oh, as a diamond dove member, I am pretty positive I get free shipping when the order is at least $25. That’s pretty good…. But…. meh lol.