Update on Walmart Beauty Box

UPDATED on 9/4/14 at 5:15PM Pacific to include an email from the Walmart BrandShare Sample Box Team. Please see email below.

If you're interested in this beauty box, or have already signed up, please take a moment to read through this update...

When I post about deals here on Nouveau Cheap, I always strive to make sure that they're legitimate, to the best of my knowledge, before sharing them with you. In the case of the Walmart Beauty Box, I checked the legitimacy of the link by visiting the actual Walmart website, where I found the Beauty Box listed in the "Special Offers" sidebar of the Walmart Beauty landing page here:

source:  Walmart website

When you click on the link on the Walmart website, it takes you to the same address that I posted in my original blog post. So just to confirm, this is a legitimate program that Walmart is offering to customers on their own website.

After my original post, I received some questions regarding this beauty box here and on social media, and I want to address those issues for you now, since I have just spoken to a Walmart representative on the phone using the number that's offered at the bottom of the Walmart Beauty Box home page. As some of you mentioned, there is a third party handling the distribution and fulfillment of this beauty box named BrandShare. According to the Walmart representative I spoke with, this third party was contracted by Walmart to handle the Beauty Box program.

(Revised on 9/4/14, 5:48PM Pacific)

Some of you were concerned, and expressed that concern to me, that the sign-up page where you enter your credit card information may not be encrypted due to lack of a visible "https" in the address. Reader CosmeticCrazy received the following email from the Walmart BrandShare Sample Box Team, which I wanted to pass along to you:

"I wanted to answer your question about the mis–perception that our site is not secure. Please see the below information about the security measures that we took when building the site, and take every day, for our Beauty and Baby Box sites. 

First, we are fully committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure we have put in place Industry-Best physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. 

We use a Level 1 PCI compliant provider to validate all credit card transactions. The checkout connection forces HTTPS connections and all data from the website to the credit card authorization service is encrypted. Verisign digital certificates are used to sign, send and open all data. 

The website was developed to support secure transactions employing socket layer (SSL) technology; using 128 Bit encryption. This site is also secured by firewalls to ensure that no unauthorized access is permitted. Firewalls are an additional safety method that guarantees that only people who know your ID and Password are able to access your account. You will be required to enter your private User ID and Password to access you account information.  

I hope this helps with your question. Please let me know your thoughts, or if we can answer any other questions."

I hope this helps, and if you have any additional questions, please direct them to Walmart since I am in no way affiliated with Walmart and cannot answer any questions that I haven't already addressed here in this blog post.