Birchbox Reward Points

It finally occurred to me why everyone spoke highly about writing reviews for Birchbox points. I vaguely knew about it, but I never bothered to look at the fine print. Apparently, if you review your samples that you receive each month you get 10 Birchbox points PER REVIEW. There’s typically a minimum of 5 samples in each box, which equates to a chance of 50 Birchbox points. That’s $5 worth of points!

Your points get recycled basically. It’s a win win situation if you really think about, because that means you’ll always get full sized Birchbox product on sale. Birchbox is known for their selection of high end products, and you can never go wrong with a sale on the item you really want to get. I’ve been eyeing a few products since I first signed up for the subscription, but I’ve only slowly been working on that wish list because the prices are pretty steep. But now that I can build my Birchbox points faster, this wish list will soon become a shopping list! And with every full size purchase from my wish list, I get 1 point for every dollar spent, and most of those full size products are over $30. If I chose to apply my points I could either get the price reduced or FREE.

Since I’m a Birchbox subscriber anyways, why not make it worth even more by reviewing my samples. The cost of $10 for the monthly subscription will be cut to $5 just by reviewing the sample products. All this requires me to do is be more active with Birchbox each month, which I do not mind. Just keep in mind, if you're shopping through Birchbox and you reduce the retail price of the full size item, let’s say $50 to $10, you only get 10 points from that purchase and not 50 because it’s based on the amount you paid out of pocket.

Here’s the official rule for receiving Birchbox points from reviewing your monthly samples:

AND if you earn 500 Birchbox Points within the calendar year, you’ll automatically gain a spot in Birchbox Ace! Birchbox Ace is their VIP program. Once you’re a Birchbox Ace member, you’ll unlock a whole suite of perks and privileges special to members only! The Ace experience includes: 

• Free Shipping. Automatically get free standard shipping on all orders, plus free 2-day shipping on full-size orders of $100 or more.
• Concierge Service. You’ll receive priority service whenever you contact their Discovery Specialist, if you want a one-on-one consultation to find just what you need for that perfect product or the ultimate gift.
• Exclusive Shop Offers. You’ll be the first to hear about select product launches and get exclusive access to offers from their brand partners.
• Anniversary Perks. Hit your one-year Ace mark and you’ll score a sweet gift.
• Surprises. There will also be gifts and offers year-round for Ace members. This will be announced at a later date, just keep your eyes and ears open for these surprises.

It’s not difficult to become a Birchbox Ace if you really think about it. If you’re already a monthly subscriber, and you don’t mind writing reviews each month, that’s a minimum of 50 points in the bag for each month. So after 10 months you hit your required 500 points, just by doing the bare minimum. I mean, the whole purpose of writing the reviews each month is to save up the points for cheaper full sized items from the Birchbox store. That alone would motivate me to write a small review each month. And on top of buying these full sized items you’ll get 1 point for every $1 you spend. A $65 item will give you back 65 points, and you could always use your rewards towards it to drop the price down to practically zero if you’re patient enough to hoard all your Birchbox points until then. That’s totally something I’d do to be honest. Amidst all the discovering, shopping, reward building and reward redeeming with Birchbox, it will all add up towards your 500 Birchbox points for the Ace status. Redeeming your Birchbox points does not take away from the 500 points going towards the Ace member qualifications. 

Building up points from shopping on their Birchbox website or through their store front in Soho will be much slower if you’re aiming to shop for free, basically build up enough points to make a purchase without putting in a cent, but that won’t be the case for me when I’m shopping for others. Within one year there are enough holidays for me to splurge on people and that alone will make up 50% of my accumulation of Birchbox points. Before I fully understood the Birchbox point system, I spent annually about $200 without the help of Birchbox points. That’s $200 out of pocket, without writing a single review. Christmas shopping made up 85% of the $200 spending. I have an unhealthy obsession of spoiling people.

I enjoy sharing my Birchbox finds with my friends. I’m already looking forward to Christmas, and it’s currently 85 degrees outside. I know I’m silly, but you wouldn’t think that if you were on the receiving end of my Christmas list. It just means I’ve been planning your gift all year long, because you're just that special to me.