Gilt Groupe Wed. 1/19 NOON ET – Brooks Brothers Shirt Giveaway
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Credit to reader Joe for sending in the style tip.
And they won’t even charge you for shipping. Gilt Group and the people behind the USA Network’s “White Collar” are doing a giveaway on Wednesday to help promote the second season of that particular TV show. Brooks Brothers is apparently along for the ride as well, and here are the details that are worth knowing:
- At NOON ET on Wednesday 1/19 Gilt will begin to give away 813 Brooks Brothers White Dress Shirts
- Two men’s styles and two women’s styles will be available
- Retail value of each shirt is purported to be $90.00
- The first 813 Gilt Group customers to place one of these shirts in their cart get theirs for free.
- The sale will probably appear in both the Men’s and Women’s section.
Got all that? No word on the fit of the shirts. Seems like a well put together promotion. The TV Show gets solid promotion (never seen it), Brooks Brothers might get some new customers, and Gilt gets what perhaps could be a much needed spike in traffic. Afterall, the grounding of Gilt on this website was lifted back on New Year’s Day… and they haven’t made an appearance since. Until now. So their promotion worked in at least one (very) small case.
Are you even going to bother? Will you give it a shot? If you do, make sure your computer clock is set to the official US time, which is what Gilt appears to run off of. My guess is these are going to be gone in under three seconds. If you do give this contest a run, c’mon back here afterwards and let us all know if you were successful…
say whaaaaaaaat i am all over this!!
I’ll definitely give it a try.
I guess it’s worth a shot…not getting my hopes up though!
I guess it’s worth a shot…not getting my hopes up though!
White Collar actually did this promotion in New York City last year, giving away Thomas Pink Made to Measure shirts….so i’m pretty sure this is legit.
You were really close … 2 seconds.
you were right about 3 secs. I did get a 15×34. I wanted a 15.5 but beggars cant be choosers.
Got one! Thanks Joe! Mine was 32×15.5, I hope it fits…
Just got the free shirt. It was a non-iron slim fit. Your typical simple white dress shirt. Very nice offer. Thanks for the tip.
Woo, got one too . . 15.5 x 32. Love the spread collar. Too bad it wasn’t the extra slim-fit version though
Got one – bummer they didn’t have my exact size, but c’est la vie. Can’t complain for a nice, free shirt.
Okay, I’ve been pretty ambivalent about Gilt, but this was ridiculous. I was on the site at the Brooks Brothers giveaway within 5 seconds of the promotion starting and every single size and shirt was sold out. How is that possible?
Wow they went fast. Got my shirt in the size I wanted
Wonderful. I hit Add to Cart immediately and have been stuck with “Please wait, now loading” for about 10 minutes. Oh well.
Wonderful. I hit “Add to cart” and have been stuck at “Please wait, loading…” for about 10 minutes. Oh well.
lol… was on at 12:01, and was WAYYYY too late. haha, oh well.
That sucked. I had one being added to my cart, but then it just kept loading and my cart showed up empty!
Sorry for the previous double post. I was actually able to get one by using the trick of waiting until exactly 10 minutes have past, then refreshing the page furiously (after 10 minutes, people who have items in their cart but have not checked out yet no longer have a hold on the item)!
Half an inch bigger than ideal in the neck measurement, but I’m sure a little tailoring will get me a good fit.
Thanks passing on the giveaway information, Joe!
No problem guys. Yeah, 3 minutes, 3 seconds… all the same. I’m impressed that at least a few of you guys got one! Hope they’re decent in person. Well done fellas.
My cart has been loading since noon. I doubt i get it.
So i just got one. I am SUPER excited. I love free stuff. In a panic though, I bought the spread collar instead of the point. As a thinner guy was this a bad or good choice for me?
I say if you got one? It’s all gravy!
still loading…should i just give up?
I got one, much easier than I expected. surprised there wasn’t a server crash.
Gotta love internet mistakes, i had one in my bag within 5 seconds of 9am…it said loading for about 2 minutes and never did anything about it. I refreshed page and than everything was sold out. I had one too….damn
Did the same, Tat. Came up empty.
Managed to snag one! 15.5 x 33, would’ve liked a 34 but those were the first ones gone. Can’t complain though – I couldn’t believe it was free shipping as well, definitely an added bonus!
Thanks for the tip, I was able to get a 15.5 x 34. The 15.5 x 35 seemed to be the first gone for the point collar…
Got one also. Spread collar 14.5×32 if I remember correctly.
Was able to snag a 14.5×32 point collar 🙂
I got a 14.5×32 spread. Thanks for the heads up!
Update: My shirt came in today. nice quality and construction, unfortunately for a “slim fit” model its still huuuge. Guess that’s the downside of being 5’10” 140lbs, but I’ll take a free shirt anyways. Still useful under a suit or blazer.