Follow-Up to "J.Crew Event: you're invited..."

As mentioned in the August 12th "J.Crew Event: you're invited..." post, J.Crew hosted a special event in stores across the country. What made this event a bit more exciting was the promise of the following:

Be one of the first to spend $150 or more and receive an exclusive gift from our very own Jenna Lyons.

Usually the gift is pretty luxurious, like the Pearl-Cluster Necklace (Item 14503; $125.00) & the Jenna Bracelet (Item 98337; $75.00). Well, in the cases of the NYC stores where Jenna Lyons was actually present for the event. (Refer to the "J.Crew Holiday Collection In NYC with Jenna Lyons" post as an example.)

Unfortunately, the gift for JCAs this time around was not as impressive- the Reusable Canvas Tote (Item 24934; $10.00).

"Thanks!" to the following JCAs who shared their stories of the event.

• Elise (in this post) shares: "Sadly disapointed with the Jenna Lyons "hand picked" gift wih a $150 purchase last evening. Seriously - the $10 canvas bag that they have already sent some J.Crew fans via mail as free token gift. WTF???"
• Girlification of Jules (in this post) shares: "Oooof. OT but I went to the event at the Houston Galleria - the "exclusive handpicked gift from Jenna Lyons" was one of the canvas totes. Which is a $10 item. Tomorrow starts Tax Free weekend in Texas. Tax on $150 (minimum to get the gift) is $12.38."

I also attended this event and their gift to customers was the Ribbon Raindrop Necklace (Item 25534; $45.00, now $19.99). This is the same necklace that languished in stores for weeks at the low price of $14.99 (before 30% off!)

It's clear that all the gifts for this event were the less expensive, want to move from inventory, kind. I doubt that Jenna hand selected these gifts (but who knows?) Which is disappointing, only because the previous gifts were so f-a-n-t-a-s-t-i-c. I thought that they would be fantastic this time around too.

Did you attend the Special Collection event last Thursday? Did you get the same gifts from your local J.Crew store? If so, please share! :)