Gilt City: Take an extra 25% off at J. Crew Factory
“Gilt City” is Gilt’s flash-sale site version of Groupon or Living Social. Usually their deals are city specific (hence the “city” in Gilt City), but they’ll run national offers like this from time to time. Here’s how to get the most out of this voucher, if you so choose.
1. Get the voucher.
You’ll have to hand over an email address if you’re not a member at Gilt.
2. Wait for the voucher to show up in your inbox.
You’ll get more than one email. The first email saying you’ve “purchased” the voucher for free, and then another email will deliver the voucher. Took 20 minutes for me.
3. WAIT. It’s not that good of a deal yet. Expiration is Sunday 9/15.
Don’t use it just yet. J. Crew Factory’s prices fluctuate wildly online, and they just went back up after the Labor Day weekend. The new herringbone blazer was priced at $118.50 over Labor Day, but now it’s back to $168. Use the voucher now and it only drops to $126.
We’re waiting for the next “extra 30-50% off site-wide, no code necessary” sale. Not having to use a code is key. These gilt city vouchers go in the promo code box. So, if Factory runs an “extra 30% off with SHOPNOW” code or something similar? You can’t use both.
The Gilt City voucher goes in the promo code box. It’s not considered a giftcard.
So if Factory runs a 30% off code, you can’t use both.
And speaking of doubling up, there’s this in the fine print on the GiltCity deal:
Cannot be redeemed for cash or combined with any other offer
Hmmm. Define “offer”. Is an “Extra 30% off sitewide!” sale an “offer”? Who knows. Worst case scenario is you don’t use it. The cost is handing over an email if you’re not already a Gilt Member. The payoff could be getting 30% off during a sale, and then an extra 25% off with that voucher. Lots of ifs. Could be worth a few clicks though.
Hat tip to Adam T. with the style tip via Twitter.
Anyone else just kind of over JCrew Factory? Quality’s fine, prices are fine, but it’s just not worth the hassle of constantly changing prices.
JCF is offering up to 50% off button downs. The code works for those reduced prices at least.
It seems like standard practice to charge X for something, but to have a constant “sale” reducing X by at least 25%.
It must be basically psychology 101, but I absolutely hate it.
This has basically been J Crew “proper”s MO as well – I think they’ve done extra x% off sale constantly for the past year at least, and there’s almost always an additional percentage off of standard retail as well.
I used to work at J Crew in college, and it has almost always been my first stop when I need an article of clothing. The hassle of having to track sales has basically kept me from shopping there, period which is unfortunate. I know they haven’t been doing well financially but I wish the constant sale tactic wasn’t the only fix.
the shirts are still the same price from labor day; so if you’re thinking of picking a few up this might be worth it.
the shirts are still the same price from labor day; so if you’re thinking of picking a few up this might be worth it.
I just wait until I see what I think is a good price, not necessarily the “best” price. By the time the best price rolls around, the item usually isn’t available in my size anymore.
I still grab basics from there, but I’ve regularly snagged JCrew mainline stuff at comparable prices, just gotta be patient.
Fun fact- if you change the quantity to 5, they will send you 5 different codes. I figure I’ll take advantage of the 50% off button-downs now, then if another good sale comes up I have extra codes for later.
I’m not a big fan of it, personally. Some stuff is decent, but the quality is lackluster at best. The shirts I’ve seen there look like they’re made of plastic. It’s not much better than other factory stores.
So the 30% off any purchase going on right now renders the Gilt promo totally irrelevant. And kind of bothersome, since all the prices went up right before.
The prices will go down again when the 30% off code expires on the 8th. They’ll do a “xx% off prices AS MARKED”, which will lower the prices to roughly where they are right now WITH the 30% off code. Then you use the gilt city 25% off.
Thats the whole point of this article. The 30% off is a worse deal.
Didn’t know this! Sweet. Thanks!
Just got an email from Gilt bumping the coupon to 40% over the weekend
**nvm only one promo code can be used at once 🙁
i bet they run the no-code site promo the day after this expires 🙂