Sales that deserve some attention heading into the weekend, or sometimes, a bit earlier. Might not be some massive once a year event, but still worth a look. Those are what make up these handfuls. Expect these things when necessary. Five of the better sales, one for each finger, are below. Included are a few picks worth pointing out.
Jos A. Bank: “Nathan” Shoe by Allen Edmonds – $39.98 ($335)
File this one under “this has to be a mistake.” Made in the USA, recraftable, sure looks like the 5th Ave. Forty bucks? They forget to throw a “2” at the front there? It’s going into the cart at this price, but it’d be surprising if they actually shipped at this price. Black, walnut, and burgundy available. Thanks to David and Ritesh for the tip. Can’t imagine that this is the real deal though.
UPDATE: Looks like the deal is quickly drying up. Some have gotten confirmation emails, others are now reporting in the comments that the price jumps back up to $335 retail once you put the shoes in your cart.
Brooks Brothers: Summer Clearance
The Picks: Made in the USA Levi’s Trucker Jacket – $99.00 ($198), Leather Monk Strap Desert Boots – $99.00 ($198)
It’s a true clearance, so sizes are all over the place and often sparse. Especially when it comes to suits and blazers. So know that going in. But, there are a few items lurking with a good size selection.
Bonobos: Tiered Sale with codes for each tier… (exp. today, 7/3)
The Picks: “Tremont” Cotton/Linen Suit ($448) + Oxley Shorts ($58) & use JHANCOCK = $381
Multiple tiers, multiple codes, and the codes only appear once your shopping cart has hit a certain level. But hey, if you’re looking to get a pair of their flagship chinos, you can still get ten bucks off. Also, it’s worth dropping a pair of shorts in your cart to tip the $125 off level (as seen above) if you’re looking at a suit in the mid $400s. Here be the codes:
- $10 off $75 w/ OFFWITHABANG
- $25 off $150 w/ USOFA
- $35 off $200 w/SAYCANYOUSEE
- $50 off $250 w/ BROSS
- $125 off $500 w/ JHANCOCK
Billy Reid: Extra 25% off sale w/ JULY4
The Picks: Lewis 100% linen sportcoat – $223.50 ($595), Savannah wingtip in Beige, Bone, Black or Grey – $197.25 ($375), Canvas Laptop Sleeve – $102.75 ($195)
The blazer is a total splurge. But, 100% linen, looks like it has an incredible cut, there’s that nifty ticket-pocket, and it’s made in Italy. Quality should be pretty damn good. And when you compare the curb appeal of it to this, well. SONOFABEESTING. Ahem. Shoes are made in Italy.
GILT: Clearance (starts at Noon ET, and 9pm ET)
Careful with Gilt, as always, know their return policy… which is pretty rough being that most of it is for credit only. The more casual stuff launches (or launched, depending on when you’re reading this) at noon ET today. Sportcoats, blazers, suits, and designer stuff seems to go up at 9pm ET tonight. Could be awesome. Could be dreadful.
Also worth a mention: Banana Republic has put a bunch of inventory on sale, and an extra 30% will come off (unless it’s a blazer, suit jacket, or another excluded item) with the code STARS30… that drops their stretch shirts to around twenty bucks. Maxton Men is running 15% off site wide with the code FREEDOM.
$40 shoes + $21 tax and shipping? Whoever is running their “handling” department has no idea what their doing.
$40 for Allen Edmonds is great but the $25 shipping kills it (there always has to be that guy, right?). I ordered 2 pair, fingers crossed they come in!
Well, I just ordered the AE in walnut and the price held. We’ll see if it holds.
Here is to hoping that the deal goes through on the AE shoes, even with the high shipping cost.
Ordered those shoes in Burgundy. $15 for shipping… We’ll see what happens.
If you’re trying to use the JOS site from Canada to order the $40 Nathans (even to a states-side receiver) don’t bother. Get on the toll-free line and order there, like I just did to secure (hopefully) a pair in Walnut.
Ordered one in black and one in burgundy. If this holds, I’ll put in a donation for Dappered 😀
Isn’t that still incredibly low for a pair of Allen Edmonds? I mean, I get that it’s a ridiculous shipping charge, but don’t let that blind you to what the overall deal actually is.
Sorry for the unsuccessful sarcasm, my tongue was ensconced firmly in cheek
The price is simply insane for AEs, even if shipping was $60.
No worries; such is the peril of the internet.
I grabbed those babies in walnut. If they show up on my doorstep, what a kill!
Ha, I didn’t get the sarcasm either because I was like, damn… nothing is ever enough these guys!
In for price mistake. Nothing to lose here.
Update: Just got a confirmation email. Order is being processed…
use promo code RMNTEN for $10 off $75 for the AEs
Unbelievable price on those AEs – I live right by a JAB, so picked up a pair of black slacks not even close to my size to get over the free shipping amount, then will just return the pants. Fingers crossed…
For those complaining about shipping…smh. How cheap do you want it to get! Free shipping over $195. You can bet I’m ordering a bunch and hope this isn’t a price mistake. There will always be a market on EBay
Ordered black and burgundy. Shipped to the store for 16 bucks. Held true for 100 bucks total. (just ordered a pair of Johnson and murphy’s Melton’s for more than that so they may be on their way back )
I’ll also file this under “probably too good to be true,” but will also place it in the “too good to pass up,” and “what have I got to lose?” files.
Price goes back up during checkout for me. FYI.
Never mind. the deal is gone.
Boo………..! The price “changes” at checkout
I have not gotten my email confirmation (when I checked out, the price stood) which leads me to beleive they are having an “oh crap” moment and are busy cancelling orders and updating the information.
That was a good idea, wish I had thought of it. Still though, I bought a pair in all three colors just in case the deal sticks. I’ve got some similar AE’s I’d probably just sell and come out ahead on the deal.
didn’t change here. Im with the Admin, I wonder if it will ship at this price
Well, they’re going in my cart at the full $335 price, so it seems the good times are over.
Did Dappered manage to actually UN-DO one of JAB’s sales?
lollllll. can’t ever make the internet completely happy.
Same here. Email confirmation is $60.
You’re right! Those sons of guns jacked that sale right off the page!
I called one of the Jos A Bank stores near me and they said they must honor the online price. If you can get to one, that might be a surefire way to lock in the price!
I checked out for two pairs at just over $100, but still waiting for confirmation email…fingers crossed…
It absolutely is! Sorry, my sarcasm was incredibly hidden in this comment – this is a ridiculously awesome deal that I already jumped on and sent to 10 other people.
Got the email confirmation! BOOYA!
I shouldn’t but I would feel so duped if I were you, haha
I had the same problem at checkout. Prices went up…I just called the number on their website and the guy confirmed and honored $39.98. $8 to ship to my local store. Just picked up the black and walnut. Hopefully this all goes through. Would be great deal. Thanks for the heads up Joe!
I am overly happy with this deal! Just had to add in some sarcasm here.
went through checkout, two pairs $100 and change…waiting for confirmation email. There’s a hold on my card though. Fingers crossed…
2 comments on Facebook said they called and the price was honored. 1 person called and said the price wouldn’t be. Just wanted to give you guys the heads up.
Same thing happened to me but the customer service number is busy.
tried to call customer service, number is busy. Oh man, somebody at brooks brothers is in TROUUUUUUBLE
Brooks brothers?
Just called customer service, they claimed that the shoes are “all gone”.
Price was just changed to $335. Even though the link shows up as $39.99, the price in the cart is $335.
Whoops. Sorry, JAB. My bad.
I would recommend to keep calling and try to get another rep.
confirmation email just came through! Boom. Two pairs for $114.
5 pairs ordered. Confirmation in hand. Fingers crossed.
Reps are now saying that orders are going to be canceled for sure. Is there any chance there is room for a BBB complaint? Do they have to honor advertised prices?
Still waiting on my confirmation. Suspense is killing me.
My guess is no, unfortunately. People with a confirmation email may have a better argument than those without (could argue it was an acceptance of their offer to sell at $40), but either way they aren’t usually going to be held to advertised prices alone.
I called a couple stores around me here in NYC and they said corporate called and told them not to take any orders for it at that price and people have to call customer service. I keep trying to call customer services to order the shoes and all of the lines are busy.
True, I have a confirmation email, where they give me a ship date as well as a confirmation that my order is being processed and says the shoes were “sold” to me. That seems to imply an acceptance to me, but I’m not a lawyer.
Same position I’m in. fingers crossed.
I ordered 2 pair and used the $10 off $75 or more and they went to the cart with the sale price. After entering my credit card info and hitting submit, the price went back up to the original $335/pair but showed only $93.91 charged to my card.
After about 15 minutes I got an “order processing” email with the following:
Merchandise: 69.96
Freight: 10.95
Add’l Frt: 13.00
Total: 93.91
Not hold or charges to my credit card yet. Fingers crossed…
Well that de-escalated quickly.
Anybody else thinking there is about to be a glut of these on Ebay?
FYI, for Brooks Brothers, the “buy 2 shirts for 50% off” discount will not show up until the very last page before submitting your order.
Ditto, it’s going to be hard not to be distracted until I get that confirmation or cancellation. This is too good to be true
AE’s go back to retail when you put it in the cart now. Cudos to Joe for finding it and to the guys who got the deal. In other news, there are 4 other sales above that are looking very lackluster right now…
Just went down to my local JAB (actually there are three nearby) hoping to figure out the right size in AE and heard it was a system glitch. Fortunately I had already ordered two pairs, one in each of the sizes that I thought I’d be. Now here’s hoping they honor the orders. (My hope/understanding is that for those who ordered at the discount price, they should honor it, but for those who were caught in the middle of the order or after the price went away may be SOL).
I went in to my local JAB & ordered. The guy in store pulled up the sale price & got all the way to checkout before getting the “all sold out” message. He called the help line & was told the sale was in error & couldn’t order them. Darn. If only I had been 30 minutes earlier.
Just an FYI, I called the JAB online number on their website, and was successfully able to place an order (for the $40 price). So, I would recommend going that route!
The BB leather desert monk strap is possibly one of the worst ideas in the history of shoes…
From /r/MaleFashionAdvice user ADBee on Reddit:
“My friend just got off of the phone with them. It was an error. He
said that the woman he spoke to said that their web development team was
in a meeting drafting an email to apologize for the mistake and cancel
the orders…”
Let’s hope that’s not the case
I got my confirmation email too. I went black and walnut. Hope it isn’t too good to be true.
They’ll cancel my order and that’s within their right and I’m not angry about it at all, but it was worth a shot anyway.
To quote my parents, “I’m not angry. Just…disappointed.”
I got a confirmation email AND a response/confirmation to my request for a changed shipping address. Everything looks smooth on my end. Fingers crossed.
the one time I check dappered late in the day. Damn!!
I am quite upset I didn’t get to take advantage of this :(. Esp since I’ve been wanting this exact set.
Well it’s been over 2 hours and I still haven’t gotten a confirmation and nothing has shown up on credit card statement so I would imagine it’s not going through.
From the SlickDeals thread here:
http://slickdeals.net/permadeal/98206/jos-a-bank-allen-edmonds-mens-nathan-dress-shoes-black-burgundy-walnut?page=19#comments
(Post 276) longhornh8r says:
“I just got off the phone with them…VP of Customer Relations says anyone who bought 3 or less pairs will absolutely get their shows. Allen Edmonds is honoring the prices!!
YES SIR!”
Well that is good news. Thanks Joe.
Only in my dreams could I get a pair of new AEs for $40.
Missed out on the deal. If anybody bought multiple pairs and wants to make some money (maybe 100% markup) on a burgundy pair (10.5D), i’m game.
There is another post up above where someone listed an email saying they will honor any one pair if you placed an order. Regardless, looks like people will at least be getting some shoes.
Just about had a heart attack when the email notification of your reply came through, thought it was my confirmation! It would be very nice to have this go through, as I was already looking at the 5th Avenues and only ordered one pair of the Nathans. I ordered by phone though, so I hope it’s just taking longer for my confirmation because of that!
And… the AE deal is now gone. Oh well.
Will be interesting to see how this all plays out…Just talked to Customer Service and they said all AE deals will be cancelled because of mistake. Never got my confirmation which is why I called.
Called JAB Customer service and they said they won’t honor the listed sale price. Missed that train…
JAB told me they would fulfill the sales in the order they were received until they’re out of stock.
It seems like everybody is getting wildly different answers from customer service. I’m seeing everything from “all orders will be fulfilled until stock runs out” to “all orders will definitely be cancelled.” Who is controlling the message at Jos A. Bank anyway? The second this hit the big time, an email from on high should have locked all of these employees down with a canned answer until things are sorted out.
Ship to store saved me a few bucks.
I’m going to be upset if they do that – not because I begrudge anyone else a great deal but because I didn’t bother because it seemed like a waste of time to create an order that would get canceled.
If I get my pair and don’t immediately love them, we will talk sir.
I tried with the Allen Edmonds but it jumped to 335 when I put them in the cart. Wish I had seen it earlier.
4 hours later… no cancellation email, and the charge is on my card as pending.
The site shows the AEs as $335 before even adding them to the cart. At least, for me.
Jos. A. Bank
Due to a pricing error on our website, orders received on July 3, 2013,
prior to 1:30pm Eastern Time, for the Allen Edmonds Nathan shoe will not
be filled. We apologize for the error.
Sincerely,
Jos. A. Bank Customer Service
Just received this email:
”
Jos. A. Bank
Due to a pricing error on our website, orders received on July 3, 2013,
prior to 1:30pm Eastern Time, for the Allen Edmonds Nathan shoe will not
be filled. We apologize for the error.
Sincerely,
Jos. A. Bank Customer Service
”
It was worth a try, anyway.
Official word is in!
“Jos. A. Bank Due to a pricing error on our website, orders received on July 3, 2013,
prior to 1:30pm Eastern Time, for the Allen Edmonds Nathan shoe will not
be filled. We apologize for the error.
Sincerely,
Jos. A. Bank Customer Service
Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc., 500 Hanover Pike, Hampstead, MD 21074
Questions? You can reach us Toll Free at 1-800-285-2265”
My processing confirmation email is 11:28 CST > 12:28 EST so… it’s safe to celebrate right????????? 😀
Btw, this seems too simple of an explanation/apologize imo. They could have make it sounds more sincere…
I just got an email from Jos. A. Bank saying orders for the Nathan shoe placed before 1:30 PM EST won’t be filled. Bummer!
Was just told they will not be honoring those orders…..
just a heads up, i got this message from jos a banks after ordering two pairs:
“Due to a pricing error on our website, orders received on July 3, 2013, prior to 1:30pm Eastern Time, for the Allen Edmonds Nathan shoe will not
be filled. We apologize for the error.
Sincerely,
Jos. A. Bank Customer Service”
Called to get details, I was told that the rep would not “argue” with me and that corporate was not honoring the deal. I had a confirmation email.
I had the same thought too initially
Then I re-read it:
“prior…not be filled”
Yeah. Got the email too. I ordered these very early in the morning and as the day went along and I saw more and more people posting, commenting and tweeting about them, I realized that it was obviously too good to be true. Ah, c’est la guerre. I can’t be mad about it.
I’m good with that!
If you ordered very early in the morning then your order SHOULD have gone through since the cut off time for honoring these prices is “prior to 1:30 EST”.
Oh. my. god…
I guess the brain hears what it wants to hear, lol
It is saying all orders before 1:30 et (I assume when they figured out the error) will not be filled. I checked with the website and, sure enough, my order was cancelled. Amusingly enough, they still have it listed as charging me for shipping and handling even though the shoes are gone! I’m sure that will get fixed soon enough.
Yes it was a pretty big mistake in pricing, but I don’t think that curt email did them any favors in terms of customer service. Plenty of other companies have made errors of this nature. You just bite the bullet,honor the deal for those who got it, be glad for the temporarily raised traffic and try and encourage those who got the deal to continue as customers.
$300 off? Yeah, you don’t bite that bullet. Looking at the number of posts here, in Reddit, and on Twitter, they had at least 1000 orders for shoes. You don’t bites a $300,000 bullet just because a bunch of people are going to be snippy because your email wasn’t nicely worded enough. Through, since the fault was probably on Allen Edmond (who was shipping the shoes and, as far as I can tell, would have had to honor the price), my email wouldn’t be too overly apologetic either.
Aw man that was way too good to be true :[
The posted price isn’t an offer to sell. But your order is an offer to buy, which the confirmation email could reasonably be understood to have accepted.
Or so my bar review course tells me.
Same offer on a 9D.
A moment of silence for the JAB deal that almost was…
Okay, now how about those monk boots from BB? I don’t even know if I have a use for them, but I want them.
Well, I’m not surprised at the cancellation, but I was hoping for a gift card or something. I’m greedy.
totally agree with you. I can’t remember what the legal term is but in a situation where the consideration for an offer is absurd ie “im so thirsty, I’d give you a million dollars for a glass of water”. Similar to thinking the price of a pair of $350 shoes are marked down to $40. Clearly not reasonable and every person who bought it realized it was not a valid offer thus a contract was never actually formed.
Spoke to both a lawyer and a store manager. It is illegal for them to not fulfill the service if they have already received the money. At this time you have entered what is known and a contract to sell. Any other lawyers wanna confirm?
I spoke to one as well. The confirmation and the hold on the credit card (the hold is the iffy part) are most likely reasons that JAB is contracting to make the sale. However, it’s unclear whether it would hold up in court. I already emailed them threatening legal action hoping they would cave.
It was a mistake. Why are do you want to punish them so heavily for a simple mistake? Personally, if these shoes were some clearance that Allen Edmonds was so desperate to get rid of that they were willing to sell for a tenth of their price, then I would be happy to grab them but they were not. It was a mistake. A mistake that threatened to cost them hundreds of thousands of dollars. I’m happy to not cost them that. If I have to wait and save to get some Allen Edmonds shoes, so be it.
As for any lawsuit, what can you do? According to Internet sources via google, you are free to sue but don’t expect winning anything especially when there are no real damages.
Correct me if I’m wrong but in this case, if they sue, it would be for a specific performance, aka, to honor the price and sell the shoes to all customers (probably until inventory is out) at the errored price!
All this threatening legal action, talking to lawyers, etc seems kind of petty and tasteless to me. Do people really think they are owed something because a mistake was made? Deals are great, but when something is too good to be true what do you expect? Even the original post suggested “this has to be a mistake”. People entered into this transaction with some level of expectation that they were capitalizing on an error.
No point is legal saber rattling, I am sure there is a provision in the TOS about online pricing mistakes. This sort of thing happens all the time unfortunately.
You can’t sue for specific performance for mass-produced shoes. It’s usually only for real estate or one-of-a-kind items.
More importantly, any reasonable person would have known the posted price was a mistake. You’ll never enforce it in court, and it would be stretching the boundaries of ethics for a lawyer to try, IMO.
They pay their former CEO 900k a year for “consulting”, of which he does none. He retired in 2008. They just had to release a statement trying to justify it to angry stockholders. It’s a company awash in bad judgement and fiscal waste, most of it wasted on self-dealing upper management, an upper management that no doubt agrees with you regarding those pesky retail customers. One of the many reasons I have been happy as a clam to short the stock this year. You should send them your resume. They will love the way you think.
Again, anybody who did the order should have noticed that the order was being delivered by the manufacturer. Allen Edmonds. Jos A. Bank just provided a way to purchase directly from AE. They probably have firm paper evidence that AE had mistakenly requested the price drop (maybe they wanted the price down to something like $319 for the weekend and missed the 1) which is why Jos A. Bank was originally saying that the price would be honored. If you check the direct communications from the company, they talked about Allen Edmonds honoring the price. So you would have to sue AE.
As for Jos A. Bank, I have a fine job in a completely different part of the country but the company doesn’t seem too bad. Sure they gave their former CEO a big golden parachute before the recession but most analysts blame the problem with their finances with selling luxury menswear during tough economic times. Most are bullish with the economy getting better and, personally, I like their charity work with veterans. Anyways, if you have the resources to short a stock then you don’t need to hound a company for $300 over an obvious mistake so good for you!
Yeah. They could point to every online discussion (including this one) to show the disbelief in the price and how everybody expected it to be too good to be true (but still had hope anyways!)
Ah, you’re right! Thank you for the clarification. It was not too long ago that I had business law yet it seems as though everything are gone, lol