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The Offer
Check your AmEx Offers for the following deal:
- Spend $25+ on gqbox.com and get $25 statement credit.
- There’s also a similar offer for Allure to get $10 off $15.
Our Verdict
There are two boxes you can get for around $29-$33 (depending on your taxes). It will end up $4-$8 cost after the $25 AmEx Offer credit.
One Reddit users reports the possibility of this stacking with using a shopping portal, such as $5 from Rakuten or $5.25 from Topcashback. Others say this won’t stack, probably not worth the risk.
Hat tip to Future_Car9082
I was able to use this on their “shop” and received the $25 credit from Amex… although it looks like they recently brought back the 50% off :/
The AmEx offer, at least on P2’s card, unfortunately expired on 10/14. Would have been nice to stack the AmEx deal with the 50% off coupon (and TopCB, as some reported successfully doing).
Yeah, I used a Cashback portal + bought one item off their shop (~$27) which triggered the amex offer ($25), but yeah I should have checked sooner for the half off deal oh well, c’est la vie.
Rakuten is now at 7,500 MR… I just don’t know what box to buy, it all seems overpriced.
750 MR you mean.
Ha, yes. My bad.
The fall GQ Box is out now (https://www.gq.com/gallery/gq-box-fall-2023). Looks like it comes with a watch valued at $150, a mini speaker valued at $79, and various creams/shampoos/cleansers. Cost is $59. Rakuten has a $5 back offer right now as well.
Thanks for the update. The watch isn’t my style and the fact that eBay sellers are offloading them at $30 sounds about the right price point for them.
I got the box last week and today got a $10 bonus credit email for their member store. Wonder if I could buy something on there and use P2s AmEx credit to cover $25 of it.
They have a 10% off promo code (ORDER10) or the targeted $10 off via email. You might get more from the 10% depending on what you grab.
Not to be totally negative, but I would say this is an OK deal at the $7 I spent. Basically a bathing suit that is TDB in terms of quality/size, body wash (useful), a hat, and a few samples of products I neither want or will use.
boxes start at $59 now. rip
they really aren’t worth it
Got my box today. Very similar to the Allure Beauty Box in terms of lotions. Only thing worthwhile was the hat but I have lots of hats. Put in a missing credit request to Rakuten and got credit right away. Will cancel once Rakuten sends me my points.
So happy, my box included a 4Ocean bracelet and I recently lost mine. Nice surprise.
My experience with this offer:
AMEX $25 credit posted next business day. I didn’t use a shopping portal. The Summer Box shipped out quickly and already arrived.
Watch out for a surprise: the swim trunks aren’t one-size-fits all and aren’t even included in the box… they give you a voucher inside the box and you have to go to the company’s website to redeem your promo code. It’s free plus free shipping, but feels like a scummy way to get us to share email and shipping info with someone else, and it prolongs the process. On the plus side I did get the bonus gift that the signup process promised. GQ didn’t really cheap out on us.
Overall an ok experience, I’d say it was worth the $~6 cost. Easy to regift anything you don’t want. Is it worthwhile at full price though? YMMV, it may depend on how early you start your Christmas shopping.
I also got a sweatshirt/sweater via a redemption last year. Do you really expect a box to be able to handle sizes? No way you can do one-size fits all swimming trunks. But I agree the $200+ value is horribly overstated.
Shipped out yesterday. Rakuten and Amex both posted