Why does it seem that companies always pull this stunt of discontinuing colors. For example, MAC's C-Shock Collection which was simply fabulous was discontinued. Urban Decay also discontinued many of my favorite colors also. WHY DO THEY HAVE TO DO THIS!!

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Awww...tell me about it...I sharpened my Oil Slick (? the black one...haha I dont' even know if that's the right name it's been so long!) Urban Decay Pocket Rocket soooo slow today. I'm gonna cry when it's all gone. Slicks on so smoothly. I remember when I broke my MAC Blue Absthine and I went back to the counter for it to learn it was a limited shade. It's like the perfect turquoise for a WOC. I mean I like Steamy but it's just something about B.A. So yeah I feel you sista.

To make more money. I guess the good part of that is eventually they'll release something you like better.

C-Shock came out as a LE collection, and it seems that you can still find many of the colors for sale through other specktra members or MUA.

I just tell myself that things get discontinued so that better items can take their place eventually.

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Hmm for me I don't correlate LE products to being discontinued. To me discontinued products are those that have been in the permanent line and are then discontinued because either something better is on the horizon or it is not selling well.

with MAC (and especially what I've experienced over the past year) there are tons of LE collections so you've got to get it while its available or wait for something new. I am pissed they discontinued my Hyper Real foundation though....GRR!

I found Urban Decay Lip Gunks at the last minute. So, now I'm stalking the color I like on ebay. It irks me when they discontinue something, but there's not a suitable replacement in the perm. line.

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:0 they discontinued the lip gunks? thats like...blasphemy!

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Aside from the fact that C-Shock was limited, I have realized that as much as i loved C-Shock, many did not. If you look at the thread on the best and worst of 2007 - sooooooo many people have listed c-shock as the worst collection in their eyes. Think of the returns that mac had to get from that one which signifies that it was not a great collection in the eyes of the customer.

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In general I think it's dumb that MAC releases so many limited collections. That's like all they do. I know when we get a new focus product or collection from a company, 90% of the items released become permanent to the line, if not in our store, at least to the company and it can be ordered or found somewhere besides eBay.
This is why I don't go to MAC for new collections anymore. Everything is beginning to look the same, and that doesn't matter, cuz in two weeks when it sells out, it's too late to care cuz it won't be coming back.

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Unfortunately. I had no idea. I ordered 1 during their F&F in November, liked it and decided to order another the following week. GONE! Luckily, I won 2 auctions this morning.

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I remember Oil Slick also. It was one of my favorites. The Roach and Gash Lipsticks were amongst my favorites. I loved Urban Decay's Lip Gunks.

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You said it all!!!! I'm wondering if I should even bother buying items at the store or counter anymore. I see most of the items from C-Shock are at my local CCO. I paid full price for a few of those shadows and I was pissed.

I agree as well. It's as if they assume MAC users have ADD.
I find that most MAC collections are pretty much the same stuff but packaged differently.

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