I am so delighted when I received an invitation from Etude House Philippines, a party at the Republiq in Resorts World, New Port Pasay City.
cute invitation.... parteeh!
In my desirousness and excitement, I canceled all my meetings, activities and other errands that fall on the same date, Oct 7, 2010. I even exerted an effort to follow the dress code, at least to wear something in shades of pink.
I am not surprised at all when some beauty bloggers walked out. Why? because invited bloggers are mistreated inside the venue (geez).
I was with my beauty blogger gffs last night and yes we felt like we were party crashers. There were no seats for bloggers, or since it was a standing party at least a specific place for us to stay. We looked so stupid last night, they asked us to go out because the program has not yet started. They indicated in the invitation that the party will start at 7:30, and hell no! It was 9:00 PM and we were effin hungry. We came from work and therefore we can’t bear to stand for more long hours.
It was past nine when I heard Tim Yap hosting the program. Since we don’t know where to tarry, we decided to rest at the lounge, although we laid our heavy asses at the lounge area we were cognizant enough to know that the program has been started, but we opted not to watch since we were exhausted, disappointed and pissed.
At 9:30 we decided to go out for dinner. We went back to get our press kits, but they gave us kits without CD since we had pink stubs and not the green ones. The organizer said: “sorry ma’am press kits are limited for media people only,” I replied “I was invited as a blogger here, so what am I going to write?”
In the first place, if they don’t consider blogging as a new media they shouldn’t even bother to send us invitations. IMHO, I am one of Manila’s beauty bloggers who’s not asking for a VIP treatment and not even after some goodies.
Bloggers should be treated with respect!
I don’t know who were responsible for that event. As far as I know I still like Etude House products, it was the event that I am not happy with.
Thank you for the invitation anyway! I love the theme and the venue, it was just not a blogger-friendly event.
A message from Etude House Girls:
“Dear Ms. Shiena,We are very sorry if you have felt disrespected but it was indeed unintentional in our part. Please accept our sincerest apology.”
Okay, I will let this pass, your products are good but please handle the media properly, otherwise, expect for a bad online reputation that will backlash to your brand.
Early birds…
Photo Op…
Camwhoring…
AnneMP
Wow, the organizers indeed cause you a great lot of inconvenience. Hope it never happens again.
earthlingorgeous
Can the Etude House Girl/Girls name herself? God kahit sa email di nya sabihin name nya. Nyeta naiinis parin ako sa kanila…. what do they think bloggers are ack I want to make a blog post and SEO it …
It was a GRAND LAUNCH ! not just a party of whatever!
Nyeta sila!
admin
Puso mo friendship… 😀
Lynx
Glad they responded promptly…
admin
yes, mabilis naman. Although copy and paste ‘unintentional on their part’ ~ wateveh!
Lush Angel
I was there too! I thought I was just late or something that’s why there were no seats available! LOL! I was trying to figure out if there were tables for bloggers ‘coz nobody even ushered us. 🙁
admin
nobody talaga. usherettes were guarding the vacant seats para walang makaupong others…
Mrs. Kolca
I can just imagine how pissed you are that time. Hope the event management of Etude House learns their lesson. Shame on them!
Hi sis! Visiting you here from GT 😀
admin
I’m not the only one, ang dami namin. Shame on them…
mudraka
Awts. That went pretty bad.
I organize media events but we always made sure everyone from the press went home happy.
admin
I organized events too… and I always make sure that our guests are well accommodated.
Lush Angel
really?!?! super late kasi ako kaya i didn’t bother asking na where’s the table for bloggers. nahiya na ako. gulat lang ako pagpasok, parang almost everyone were seated pero wala naman naguusher sa entrance kaya i thought baka puno na lahat ng seats. i drank nalang kasi i was feeling hungry na rin. parang they weren’t serving food kasi sa mga nakatayo naman. i think i saw you guys sa lounge area. i was just hesitant to approach you guys kasi i wasn’t sure if bloggers rin kayo. ^_^ i don’t know much people yet sa blogging world. ^_^ i hope to finally meet you guys in future events. 😀
admin
let’s meet one of these days… bloggers day out … marameng bloggers naka tayo… sa pagod namin we stayed na lang somewhere else.
eyzel
Nice review. i was there together with my sister. i got an invite by sending an email as per their grand launch announcement. i witnessed how extremely unorganized the party was. instead of grand launch party, they should have renamed it as “Press media launch” since almost all the couches was reserved for press people, leaving their invited “princesses” standing by the bar.
i also want to ask, did they categorized the loot bag? my loot bag contained press powder, bb cream trial pack, a ballpen, minisize trial pack and another trial pack. i got no makeup kit nor umbrella. they said 1 invite = 1 loot bag so i had to share mine with my sister (who is my +1). major turn off. my sister also received a Bluetooth msg saying that she won a product. it was announced numerous times that we can claim the prize at the reception area. when we approached the people at the reception area, they were all clueless! a coordinator asked my sister to wait until 11pm to claim her prize. before we left the event, we showed the msg to the coordinators and guess what they told us, we have to claim the prize at a mall branch. what a shame. the amount of time wasted while waiting for the program to start was more than the whole program proper itself. i’ll blog about this tom together with the loot bag items.
thanks again and by the way, i’m one of the girls by the bar in the photo above.
admin
Wow, shared same experienced. The loot bag for press has CD for guests just the little loot bag with samples. We opted to leave na lang, super badtrip.
Lynx
Yeah Let’s Have a Bloggers Day Out ^_^ that would be a nice campaign/ event thing…