Hello everyone! And welcome to the first post of February LOL! I’m so sorry it’s been awhile, life has been extra busy, hectic and chaotic, but I’m hanging in there! Please do not think that I’ve stopped blogging, I am just busy! If I were to ever think of quitting this, I would let all of you know so I just don’t leave you hanging! So getting back to the article for today, and I’m afraid it’s not good news at all.
It looks like Pandora is trying to do a “reset” of sorts. I got my information from the Pandora Group, that is the name of their official corporate website so anyone can swing by and read the articles. For you though I’m going to keep it simple as all that business jargon kind of goes over my head and I get lazy and don’t want to read the entire thing LOL. Here is the excerpt I read:
I underlined in red the parts that I think we should focus on. In a nutshell, Pandora is saying that they have introduced way too many products and have perhaps overwhelmed their stores when it comes to merchandising the new product and it’s also causing a build up of inventory. Perhaps their marketing team isn’t pushing the new products adequately? I know in previous reports, including the one I just referred to above, their quarterly numbers aren’t what they used to be. The profits are going down, and they are reporting that the sales of charms have gone down dramatically.
The second part of this article describes that they will be doing a commercial resetting which means that they will be reducing the amount of sales and promotions!! That news is hitting hard if I do say so myself. I did hear about this through the grapevine, but the lovely Ilona from My Pandora Moments confirmed this for me, she lives in the Netherlands so I guess this is going to be a global policy. They will be reducing the sales and promos all around but still focus the sales during high gift giving occasions, so I’m going to assume Mother’s Day and Christmas? Is there another occasion I’m missing because I can’t think of another high volume occasion that calls for gift giving.
I really can’t imagine what Pandora is thinking right now, I know that a couple of years ago they started to buy back their franchises, and I’ve also heard that they no longer want Pandora sold in smaller boutiques, which I guess makes sense as the smaller mom and pop owned shops took their own prerogative when it came to participating in certain sales or promos. I know they sometimes also did not return all retired inventory and decided to keep them, to offer them at a discounted price or just offer retired pieces, perhaps Pandora wants more uniformity when it comes to those types of things. As a smaller boutique, these retailers buy their product from Pandora at a wholesale price, if these items are then recalled, I’m assuming they may not be getting credited back the money they spent on the product, which it would then make sense to keep the product in order to make the profit they were supposed to make on it. Here I am just speculating so please do not take this as any type of confirmation.
Another small tidbit of info that just came to me via Elizabeth from Fierce Zhai, was that Pandora is also considering stopping their catalog production. Apparently the costs of producing catalogs in different languages is a lot so that might be stopping as well, and they are also cutting down on the black little drawstring pouches and gifts with purchase. This last part boggles my mind, if it’s true that they will be getting rid or cutting back on gifts with purchase, that means they will be stop offering gift sets too? The gift sets are the ones that usually come with a free jewelry box, these boxes are sometimes very sought after, they are also collectible items, and they are going to just do away with them?
My take on all of this is mixed. I understand that perhaps previous management did not steer the company towards a more profitable couple of years, and now they are trying to fix it. But they can’t expect customers that are now so used to constant sales and promos to just pay full price. I remember the days when Pandora never, never went on sale, I never heard get Pandora for x percentage off, they were trying to emulate Tiffany and Cartier, which also never goes on sale (from what I have heard).
I remember when Pandora would only have two big promos a year, in March and in September, and those were the free bracelet events. Not even during Christmas would they offer a sale, (again from what I can remember, someone please correct me if I’m wrong here). I now wonder if they will be cancelling those promos as well! I also don’t agree with their cutting down on the production of catalogs. I rely more heavily on online catalogs, but not everyone is like me, and I can imagine people still like to have a hard copy of the catalog that they can flip through. I also know people like to collect them, if I had been smarter back in the day, I would’ve grabbed the catalogs way back when I started collecting to have an inventory of how many things have been retired, and to also compare how the prices have gone up through the years.
What is your take on all of this? Are you disappointed? Please keep in mind some of this is just my speculation, but the news of Pandora reducing their sales and promos is correct unfortunately. This will most likely also be extended to their outlets, so I guess my big hauls may be a thing of the past. Comment down below and let me know what you think!
When the new 5 year plan was rolled out a couple of years ago, it appeared to me that they were trying to take back more central control by buying back the smaller/franchised stores. They were trying to increase market share with the added promos, especially in the US. That usually results in less profit and more inventory for any business. Thirdly, they were attempting to rein in counterfeiting of their products.
I don’t know if they succeeded in upping market share, even here. The extra promos were nice for us as customers, but hell on the stores. They tried to do all the traditional promos coupled with all the holiday stuff other US retailers do. And the dizzying rate at which they were introducing new products and discontinuing older, and not so old, products made my organized head spin.
The fun of collecting Pandora, as I have for almost 4 decades (yes, I am that old!) has been designing a bracelet in my head and then collecting the pieces over several collections to realize the design. For example, the blooming dahlias. It took several collections for me to identify enough coordinating charms to realize my beautiful bracelet. That type of collecting has been impossible of late, the charms in the collections are all stars, or center focal charms, with very little cohesion to each other. And there’s no supporting pieces. So even in the marketing photos the bracelets are disjointed.
So if other older collectors, their core business, are feeling the same as me, they are in trouble. If they are marketing to younger affluent women and their SO’s and feel the need to fulfill the latest fad instead of classic collectibles, they will lose me and a lot of other long time customers.
It appears to me from this latest document that they have perhaps realized this. I suspect they will continue to have promos at the same time as their retail counterparts in the US. And maybe scale back on the 10 collections a year plan. Introducing so much, and then having such sales have indeed caused everyone to wait for a sale before buying. Their price increases of late have helped the company stay afloat as they had all these sales, but the poor stores margins have no doubt suffered as a result.
Maybe sanity has prevail. Fingers crossed.
I didn’t know any of that, makes sense I guess, and you are right, the rate they were discontinuing and introducing new items was very dizzying indeed!
And I design like you, I’ll have an idea of what type of bracelet I want to design, and throughout collections I’ll pick and choose which charm works the best with my bracelet. Makes very much sense what you said, there are no supporting pieces, and thus their marketing campaigns ar disjointed. I’ve actually felt like the right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing half the time!
And I again you hit the nail on the head, they are trying to market to the younger more hip crowd. Like last year, they tried to get on the bandwagon and get “influencers” and young fashion bloggers to wear their stuff. They made that ridiculous ad campaign featuring these girls that no one has ever heard of and interviewed them, asking them what essentials they needed for festival season because apparently that’s a thing now too.
I remember reading a couple of years back that they planned on introducing a new jewelry concept at least twice a year, and that they would stop with the usual big releases (which would be spring/summer and fall/winter) with the smaller releases you alluded to. It’s just too much and it’s at a pace that they just can’t keep up!
I hope you are right, they fixed something that wasn’t broken, and now it really is broken, hope they can go back to the way things were and focus on quality.
Every company I have ever worked for or with has decided at some point that increased market share and revenue are needed, even at the expense of profit. I never understood why. It never works. Pick the lane you are good at, do it well, provide a good customer experience, and market share is your logical result. My husband and I left a company, moved 2200 miles to a new city, and founded a successful business. Never once did we try a shortcut to market share.
How awesome that you own your own business, I feel like that is the dream!
Thanks for such an interesting blog post! The idea of stopping with so many promos makes me think of the big cosmetics companies like Clinique. Back in the day, each department store chain would have Gift With Purchases twice a year. Now, with online shopping, Clinique has a CONSTANT promo. Every single day of the week there is a GWP now. Add in loyalty points programs at places like Sephora and I think why on earth would I ever pay full price for Clinique and get only the product I’m paying for? As much as I love a promo, I think Pandora is probably smart to pull back on the promos before people get too used to it.
Reminds me of Chico’s clothing. New collection and mailing once a month. Two weeks later it’s 1/3 off. Two months later, most of it is on sale 60-80% off. I haven’t paid full price for anything in that store in years.
yes exactly, it’s like why should we pay for full price if eventually everything will be on sale?
I think it’s a bit too late for that now! The customers have been spoiled! I hope they ease the customers into less promos and don’t just go cold turkey with absolutely no sales or promotions. But you do have a point, I kind of think having so many sales kind of cheapened the brand, but many people are also wondering, why should they pay full price?
I even told the Pandora SAs with all of these sales and promos the customers are going to expect it! There were so many sales one right after the other that the SAs weren’t even prepared! Rushing to get merchandise out and even some items not even available!
And you are right Jhandra, there were only two promos a year, the free bracelet promo. I paid full retail price in the beginning! Don’t know why Pandora has decided to do away with the two tones and semi-precious stones in their designs. It was so popular with collectors! I feel they lost a lot of that market. I for one got turned off with the over use of CZs!! And of course, the prices!!! My saving grace was a sale.
Even the Essence line seems to be forgotten.
I feel the same! I stopped collecting for a while because I had no interest in the products coming out. I love two-tones and I’m sad so little new designs are coming out. Now that I’ve decided to collect again, all the charms I had previously wanted are discontinued! The Forest Fairy and the Sparkling Ladybug (perhaps the only CZ charm I like) are gone and I’ve had to track them down from secondhand sellers. They were released just in 2015 🙁
I feel most of my Pandora purchases now are made second-hand, rather than in-store because besides murano glass, many of the newer charms lack the character and quirkiness that I used to associate with Pandora.
Yes very true, I find myself tracking down the older charms as well, vs the newer ones. And I also remember a time when things weren’t retired so soon! I remember when things took years to be retired!! Now we’re lucky if they stick around for more than 3 months!!!
Yes the poor essence line, the last bastian where they still used gemstones, even if they were lab created. And I like a little cubic zirconia as well, but I agree with you, it’s been overused!! I really miss their two tones and gemstones as well, its’ too bad they did away with them.
Hi, Jahndra!
I gues some of this is truth. Last time in Russia we have jewelry box as gift with purchase in the end of 2014 (and you must to spent $300 or $400) and printed catalogs last time I get at summer 2015. And Pandora prices are very high in Russia, espessially compare to russian jewelry brands (i just bougth silver bead charm from Sokolov for $8! and it’s the same weigth as pandora charms). And we Sunlight Jewelry with a lot of sales and discounts, not mention other companies making charm beads, If Pandora stop making sales and promos I just stop buying Pandora.
I love and collect jewelry for a 20 years, buying pandora only 5 years. And I follow the development of local jewelry companies – most of them (modern tipe) make two seasonal collection (catalog) with a 100 products (incuding rings, earrings, pendants, neckless, braselets, brouches) for spring/summer and fall/winter. All collection are silver and gold with CZ, precious and semiprecious stones. And they have themed collections expanding with new products ones in year or two (for example https://sokolov.ru/collections/russe/). But the prices of local brand mutch lower then Pandora’s. For the price of Pandora bracelet I could buy a silver bracelet with a lot of citrine and smoke quarz or topaz and amethyst, or even a gold bracelet!
And all the jewelery made from precious metals in Russia must be examined in the assay chamber and receive a stamp confirming that the product meets the requirements of the law. But in shops Pandora this passport is often cut off, which violates the law. Jewelry can not be returned, only in case of a defect exchange is possible. On this point in Russia there are many claims against Pandora, because they often sell products of the wrong size, just to sell, and they cannot be exchanged. There are so many complaints from local buyers to Pandora, if they cut off sales and promos, their sales will fall further.
Yes and you’re getting real gemtsones and real gold! not plated or lab created gems stones!
Yes it’s very discouraging! I remember when silver charms and jewelry overall (not pandora) were much cheaper and they were nice heavy pieces! Things just seem to keep getting more expensive and more expensive!
The jewelry industry in Russia is very developed, cubic zirconia was invented in our country, therefore jewelry with cubic zirconias in silver or gold is very cheap. I find it difficult to understand why silver with cubic zirconias from Pandora costs like gold.
By the way, Pandora copied several of these designs in the latest collections, from products of our popular brand Sokolov. The Sokolov Ring 94011532 (price $12) came out 2-3 years ago and in the Christmas collection of Pandora I see exactly the same ring 197744CZ ($100 in my country). It smiles that Pandora has always struggled with copying its products, but this does not prevent it from copying products from other brands.
I think we saw the large price increase over the last year so they had room to discount 40-50% in the sales. I went back and read the whole annual report. They seem to realize that they over expanded with regard to both new stores and new product. They introduced the Now Programme to the board, and have added 2 new board members. They have, through the annual report, put shareholders on notice that this may impact profitability over the short term. So they seem serious about a change. Value added promos will be what we get again, like $125 spend for free item. And they referenced a return to their core business, which means us I hope. They want to be known for collectible jewelry again. All positives I think.
I hope that also means a return to real gemstones and two tone charms!
I find the part about inventories interesting too. Looks like stores will buy and hold less stock. Together with increased number of smaller releases in a year, it looks like they are trying to create a sense of urgency with new product, to steer customers to buy it when released at full price for fear of it not being in stock for very long????
OOH that’s a good point! Well I don’t appreciate that because I as a customer will definitley pounce on items I really want, now I’m frantic that everything i want wont’ stick around! I mean some pieces are only around for as little as 3-6 months now! That’s ridiculous!
There’s always Rue…
Very true!
I find the comments to your post very interesting, looks like I missed out on a lot of beautiful charms from years ago and GWPs!
Retail always fascinates me. If a company has more and more sales in my mind their products are not selling at full price which makes
you wonder why. Design? Quality? Price? I don’t mind there being fewer sales as long as they have a few and do not exclude Disney! 🙂 I would have a spring and a fall with a bonus Xmas holiday sale/promo if it were my company.
My concern is with the speed they are retiring charms. I thought last year’s spring collection was cute (mouse, snail, birdhouse, teapot and cup) and was something that you could build upon with flower charms, etc. I noticed a few if not all of those charms are on clearance. That is a shame.
Maybe they need to do customer focus groups or just read the blogs and social media pages of collectors. Why are we buying Pandora? I buy jewelry because it has a special meaning. I never bought it to accessorize my wardrobe. Time will tell what happens. They need to go back to what made them special and focus on that.
I feel like they were trying to pull away from meaningful jewelry and focus on jewelry to acessorize the wardrobe! Hopefully now they will go back to meanings!
I am very disappointed that Pandora feels the way to increase sales is to stop our promotions – if they really want to attract those of us who collect charms they are going the wrong way. I agree with most others here, I have really not liked most of the new stuff. I hate the plated stuff and wont buy it, and now they seem to be replacing two-tone gold and silver with plated and silver so I won’t be able to buy that either which makes me very sad. Also recently the new charms are HUGE! They dont fit with what I already have and look far too bulky on my wrist anyway. I collect Pandora instead of other brands because I have always thought Pandora has a more delicate feminine look. I did buy a couple I liked (Enchanted teapot and heart) but took them back and exchanged them as they just didn’t look right. Add to that the czs instead of authentic gemstones (although I don’t even mind a few czs if done well) and there are fewer and fewer charms I will buy. Also instead of meaningful and intricate charms we are getting unoriginal generics. I have loads of floral and animal charms and will always buy more, but who needs more than one button that says Pandora? I have wishbone and heart jewellery of all kinds in my collection from years ago, I dont need to buy any more. But I am hoovering up the older charms that I do like in the sales – if the outlet goes, I will not be able to do this. If I am not totally sold on a new charm, i might be persuaded to buy it if I get a pretty jewellery box as well. But instead of going back to the old quality and original designs Pandora wants to stop all the little extras that make collecting fun! They also want to take away the catalogues and they have already stopped us having the fun of getting previews in advance – how are we supposed to know or care what they are selling? Sorry to rant but I cant believe what Pandora is doing, why dont they listen to their customers? To be homest it seems to me as if they are doing all they can to discourage collectors not gain more!
I kind of feel like they are completely out of touch with their customers. I agree with you, they’ve swapped out real gem stones and gold jewelry for cubic zirconias and plated jewelry. They have recycled so many designs and now those recycled designs are being used on essence, why would i buy a smaller version of the same charm to put on my essence bracelet? I totally hear you, rant away!! This is a safe zone!
I agree that the newer charms are bigger, not so much height wise, but they are much thicker. That makes the. Stick out from your wrist more. I have bought a size bigger in the bracelets I have designed lately to accommodate the charms.
I have a small silver shop by me that just recently starting carrying Pandora. Thought they were doing away with that…. Anf I’m sure a lot of us collectors feel that the decline in profit was not due to sale/promos. It is due to price increases, change of designs (to overly CZ’d and almost every charm being a large centerpiece style charm), and over saturation (too many releases). They should put their efforts into a few, thoughtful, well done collections a year. And I agree about bringing back more quality materials like stones and 14k.
Well said! You are not the only person who’s telling me this, everyone agrees with you, too many releases, not enough focus on quality or prime materials, offering up plated jewelry and too much cubic zirconia. I say what did they expect was going to happen?
Ooooh Jahndra! I have so many words and so many thoughts around this!!! Where to even begin.
First of all, thank you for creating this post! Such a good topic and I’ve wnjoyes reading the comments.
Secondly, my thoughts. As a major hauler of Pandora I obviously loved a good sale. BUT as a major “omg I need to buy on day 1” and then would get extremely frustrated when a sale would come just a few weeks later. The other “dark side” of promos is the amount is overspend just because there was a sale. Kinda took away from getting and prioritizing that special charm. From a business standpoint I see why they need to pull back. Last year and part of the year before it felt too constant. But! I always forgave their price increases as I felt it offset promotional activity. I do think they should consider reeling those in. Murano glass beads don’t hold a candle to Trollbeads glass and need to be more affordable in my opinion.
Now. The part that actually ticks me off (okay, okay, I’m being dramatic!) is the No catalog part!!! Are they kidding? I love those catalogs. LOVE!! If they want to go paperless and be current then they need to bring back the app and make it better.
I think that’s it. For now. 😊
That’s a great point! If they do away with the catalogs, then they should DEFINITELY bring back the app!! OH I miss that app! Pinterest helps but it’s not the same!
And yes I know they are a business and they have investors they need to keep happy, I just think they should’ve never offered so many promos, now we are spoiled and don’t want to pay full price! But who am I kidding, if it’s getting retired I’ll be purchasing it LOL
As someone who worked for the company for 6 years, I am really happy to see that they are “getting back to their roots,” and lowering the amount of sales. When I started working there, there was one event each year. People were always excited for it and no one ever gave us a hard time about getting a discount. Even when it was twice a year, it was the same energy. You were happy for them, they were excited, and it was just overall good vibes! But when they started doing one after the other…things really changed. Customers started interrogating us about sales and even started accusing of of lying. There were also times when there wasn’t supposed to be a sale, and they surprised us with one. I worked at a very high volume store and our team would be EXAUSTED from working back to back promos.
From a customer point of view, YES, less sales kinda sucks, but it’ll make collecting more special and more of an experience. I’m now a customer, so I’m looking forward to making a list and working with someone on my purchase. Having a moment to remember. That’s what Pandora is all about!
Also, never forget that there is a survey at the bottom of every receipt that gets you $10 off your next $100 purchase, if you fill it out! Also… we actually read them, they don’t go into an abyss, so be aware of that!
LOL Thank you for commenting! Loved getting insight from someone who actually worked for Pandora. I’m sure you are right, and I know customers know have been spoiled by constant promos and sales. We often forget about you guys and how overworked you are! You made some really good points, getting back to their roots would be ideal, and hopefully they will also bring back the quality and craftmanship they were once known for.
I like the sales and I think with the sales they create exposure. I dont think of it as cheapening the brand – it just made it more popular and accessible with lots of people. In all honesty if they are going to cut sales they should cut their prices then. Yes pandora used to never go on sale but they were never that expensive either. You used to be able to get a charm for 30$ or even 20$ back in the day. Now almost all the charms are 50$ and above. And I don’t agree with their decision to discontinue the catalogues at all. Catalogues are a collectors item. People look at them, study them and then they will want more stuff from the collection. They should’ve offered them at a price and many companies actually do that.
Yes them cutting back the catalogs is indeed a bad decision i think, but I’m hoping they will realize that mistake and not go through with it. You’re also correct about the price increases, they have steadily gone up, so sales made up for that fact. If no more sales, then they should also stop hiking up the prices!
If you read deeper into their last financial statements and their strategy announcements I don’t see things getting any better for us collectors. They are planning to bring out yet another new bracelet concept in the fourth quarter of 2019, and are considering using “other metals”, which means what, silver plated charms, stainless steel, or titanium charms? The identification of risks to the company they identify seem to be more about returning cash (dividends) to investors, developing new markets in India and China, and influencing customers to continue to buy charms through advertising, etc. Far down the list of their concerns is whether the charms they design will be accepted by their customers, they seem to have some arrogance in assuming they can put out any old thing and through some sort of hypnosis we will just lap it up. I think, although unmentioned, they are very concerned about their share price which has declined significantly in the last couple of years, not just because of pressure on their margins, but there has been a lot of short selling of the stock as well. I see that there has been a significant increase in operating costs, which between the pressure to reduce these costs and to maintain their dividend, and keep charms affordable in developing countries, something has to give, which to me has been charm quality (eg silver weight and the use of plating). Did you know that 88% of the silver they use is recycled from electronic items, which is not something they brag about in their stores, probably because it doesn’t sound luxurious or something. I’m waiting to see what will come in the Spring collection – will they completely give up threaded charms, which was what originally set them apart, and for which they (may) have a patent, will the silver be thin like tin foil as some of the winter charms were, will they give up on murano charms? And yes I am sad about them discontinuing the paper catalogs. I think it is a mistake, as eventually websites and electronic listings become lost with a revamp or in the jumble of too much information and poor indexing that is the internet.
wow you truly gave me a lot of insight!!! I hope you are wrong about their arrogance of them just assuming customers will love any piece of crap they come out with, unfortunatley I think they may be right. I’ve been adding less and less charms to my wish list, and I”m scrambling to get all of the older stuff, and I keep hearing how people like the stuff that’s coming out and i’m like really? I as a customer can also tell they have been cutting corners, even with their bags, they used to be heavy, weighty, now they are flimsy and light. And they are getting their silver from recycled electronics, really? Where is the luxury in that? I used to hear, and even researched it for myself that their biggest competition was Tiffany and Cartier, and now we have a company mining their silver from recycled electronics….smh I don’t think I have any words anymore.
Hi Jahandra. I don’t think there is anything wrong with using recycled silver, I just think it is interesting the different messages they give to their investors vs store customers. I think it is interesting though, that there are very few women either on their executive board or their operating board when the majority of their ultimate consumers (I won’t say customers) are women, and they talk blah, blah ,blah about gender equality – probably most of the employees on the factory floors are women, and now that they have increased their salary costs with the purchase of a bunch of concept stores and franchisee, on their retail floors, which I guess if they have competitive salaries equal to what men are paid in the same position, oh ha, what am I saying? Anyway do they really understand their consumers? If they did, they should be able do that little bit extra with their designs that make us all go, I want that, I need that, I don’t care what it costs…
Hi Jahndra. Sorry I spelled your name wrong 😦
LOL it’s ok, it happens all the time! Yes I’m sure you are right about using the recycled silver, it’s just that when I see that craftmanship video they have playing in their stores sometimes, it’s misleading you know? They make it look glamorous and fancy, when it really isn’t, so I feel mislead. I feel like the product I’m buying is not the best quality and it shows. Lighter charms, cheap looking, non threaded, it’s a let down.
Ok, now that I’ve previewed the new spring collection, I feel less cynical and more hopeful about the direction Pandora is going in. This seems back on track with the pretty collections they normally put out – there are even muranos and threaded charms! Hooray! I was so happy, I went to the Pandora store and bought more charms! And I hear from a reliable source that the summer collection is going to be spectacular! This is what they need, happy customers to keep their revenues going up!
I’ve seen about 90% of the summer collection and there are a few pieces I did like, unfortunatley I’m not a huge huge fan of the spring, I much prefer the fall and winter collections, but you do have a point! Lots and lots of charms this time around, although I saw no gold and no essence, so that concerns me.
Thank you for the update.
I have collected Pandora for a while. I have the old Murano and the wood beads. I refuse to buy the SHINE collection and I hate the Rose Gold. I don’t mind the CZs. It did get to the point that I would NOT buy anything unless it was on sale.
I hated last years collections with the pastel paint and the gaudy multicolour CZ.
Hopefully they will return to promos for Valentine’s Day; Mother’s Day and Christmas and eventually add back there two semi-annual promos in March and September.
I have lovely collector jewelry boxes. I have many catalogues that I will hold onto.
I also collect Tiffany and David Yurman but I’m very selective as those two brands have maintained their value
I too round out my collection from second hand – BE CAREFUL – I have only got a fake ONCE but now I can spot any fakes a mile away.
I hope that Pandora keeps it’s Christmas ornaments but stops doing the regular ornament and the Jared ornament for the US! I spend a lot of extra $$$ trying to get those ornaments off of eBAY.
Let’s see where Pandora goes – I think we are going to see short term pain at Pandora hopefully for a better future if not it will go the way of Eaton’s, Sears, Simpsons, etc.
Hi Jane thanks for your comment! I think the long standing semi-annual promos will definitely stand in March and September, those are a proud Pandora tradition and I would be shocked if they did away with those as well. I’ve heard through the grapevine that there will be a promo in March, and rumor has it, it will be a buy more save more event, but who really knows at this point.
I completely agree with you, I’m not liking a lot of their stuff lately and I can probably count on one hand how many charms I actually like. Lately I’ve been busy hunting down older pieces and it saddens me to see old classic Pandora when I compare it to the newer stuff they have coming out.
Hopefully you are right and they will get back on track.