Dear Friends,
We are really sorry for the recent screw-ups and don’t want to lose your confidence. 
I personally want to apologize for the errors in the sample sale dates/addresses for Prive and eco(mpassion) sales and I want to show that we mean what we say, and we say what we mean….. To prove that, I will send a $50 check to each of the members who brought errors to our attention.  We will make this our policy to say “I am sorry”, but it will be only one check per error so if you notice a sale date or address wrong in the future, please post a comment ASAP and you’ll get a check too but only if you were the first one to notice. Now, that’s responsibility! I wish the CEO’s of large corporations and our political leaders were as responsible as we are.  Mirela Gluck – Founder

You know you are famous when you are warned by a major publication…

PAGE SIX is no more… Celebrity and controversy often come together, and TheVogueCIty.com has been presented today with its first official threat from a large newspaper. The counselors for New York Post sent us a long letter reminding us that they are the oldest newspaper and one of the largest newspaper websites in the country. Really? SRSLY?
Anyway, it looks like we caught their eye. Yes, I am flattered.
According to them, NYP Holdings has used PAGE SIX trademark since 1977 and is not to be used by anybody. Darn! All these years, I’ve used it indiscriminately in school essays and weepy diary entries. If only I’d known then what I know now.
So, the question is: if I write Page Six in Romanian, is that still an infringement of the PAGE SIX trademark?
I don’t want to take any chances here, I’ll circulate a memo in the office to ban the words ‘Page Six’ (and only use the number ‘six’ lightly in any written correspondence). So say goodbye to our short-lived P*** S** gossipy which will be replaced with Page Six ½.
I like it, it has a Fellini ring to it. 
 

-Mirela Gluck

Our site has been around for a couple of years now (as you can see from our ‘Story of the Site’ page), and we’ve always been devoted to finding bargains in New York. But it’s only with the advent of the recessionomics that we’ve found ourselves in the limelight. And while that’s a good thing for the site, it’s bad for us all in so many ways.

Those signs on Madison, between 86^th and 87^th, where the entire block is out of business. Those sale signs - usually such a buzz! - but now with “Coop tripling the rent, going out of business” noted beside. I felt melancholy just seeing that, and I bet I wasn’t the only one.

Seventeen years ago, my first year in the States, I had the good fortune to be living in this exclusive neighborhood, and I remember buying these shoes. They were truly gorgeous, but too small. But hey!They were on sale and I could never afford anything that gorgeous new, so I bought them anyway. And tried to wear them. And regretted it.

Over the last seventeen years, my financial situation has substantially improved, but I’m still no fan of buying full price. I must admit I do it sometimes, but only when it’s a well-considered choice—never an impulse buy. No, the danger for me is when things are on sale. That’s when we all get tempted, and with sales everywhere now, the temptations are everywhere.

But ladies: Don’t do anything you might regret later on.

Think twice before you buy—even if it is a bargain price! The golden rule is that a bargain is only a bargain if you get to use it. Consider the price, the item, the benefit you would have from owning it: consider the ROB (Return on Bargain)

If the price is low but you don’t use it or wear it, it’s not comfortable, or it gets you more odd looks than complements, then the ROB is low and the purchase was a bad one.

Don’t leave home without an idea of what you need, what you like, and how much money you have to spend on those items that you don’t really need. And always be thinking about the ROB.

Mirela Gluck

Founder