The soap opera that is now TPC

Wow. I have seen rock stars get less attention than The Perfumed Court has in recent days regarding the changes taking place.

Am I the only one that doesn't give a &^%$? I get far better deals elsewhere and I never cared for the way they shipped in piecemeal fashion.

Sorry for the rant. I am plain sick of reading threads about this on every site I peruse. " The sky is falling.....The sky is falling...."
Really ?????? I'll go even more against the grain by saying I could care less if the new ventures succeed. Their prices are ripoffs.

No, you're not alone, Aromi! I renounced decanters some time ago, having realized how much of people's wallet share they're siphoning off, greatly diminishing potential revenues to independent and niche perfumers...

I consider decanters to be parasites--no worse but no better than e-bay hawks who procure free samples posing as consumers and then sell them for 100% profit. Not a noble enterprise, IMNSHO...

Isn't there an Aesop's fable about this? Something about a crow trying to pick up a bunch of grapes and losing what he already had in his mouth?

hmmm...

I haven't ordered all that much from The Perfumed Court myself but I like their service a lot. Yes, decants are cheaper by the liter as are discounted original bottles if you can get them but TPC offers/offered thousands of niche samples, many of them vintage or (in some parts of the world) hard to get. It is a means of getting a whiff of a particular scent or a sampler on a theme, and I hope one or better yet both of the resulting enterprises will be able to provide that service in the future.

It seems to be a complete mess as of this post. I'm just happy TPC wasn't one of my go-to sample stores.

Just for laughs, last night I took a look at the Creednotes forum, and the number one thread was about TPC! A long string of totally boring nonsense.

Then I took a look at the new website. It looks very amateurish and sad to me. Oh well, it doesn't matter because I renounced decanters quite some time ago.

Yes, I was referring to "Surrender to Chance," a phrase which by the way quite nicely and concisely captures the essence of the decanter/ebay perfume re-selling enterprise, it seems to me...