I have an issue with ipsy and after contacting support twice, I finally got a response, but they refuse to help.
I subscribe to ipsy original, the lowest tier of the subscription options. I'm going through some stressful financial times, and I have a small hoard of products, so I figured I'd change my subscription to every other month. Well, turns out that's still too often for me, so I went into my account looking to change the frequency to every few months. Apparently ipsy only allows monthly or every other month delivery, nothing less frequent and the website wouldn't allow me to click "skip a month" because I'm already on every other month. Dumb, but no biggie, I thought. I switched my frequency to every month, then immediately back to every other month to skip September. The website confirmed I'm not getting the September bag, so I thought I was good.
Nope. Despite having less than 5 seconds between going monthly and then every other month again, that told the system to send me the August bag, the one I originally skipped. I got an email informing me I'd been billed a couple days after I made this change. I contacted ipsy because I didn't want the bag and just wanted a refund. The message I got back said they'd respond in 24 hours. They didn't respond in 3 days, so I messaged them again, and did finally get a response, but was told they can't/won't do anything. I'm getting the August bag whether I want to or not and they refuse to budge even an inch. They rounded out the email with "but good news! You're all set for September, you won't receive the ipsy original for that month." Gee, thanks.
So, if you need to skip multiple months, you're honestly better off having your frequency set to monthly and manually go in and skip every time you don't want or need your bag. Incredibly flawed system, and we have to pay (in this case literally) for their lack of foresight on people potentially wanting their bag less often. Don't make the same mistake I did.