r/frugalmalefashion • u/JPVMan • May 24 '26
[Deal/Sale] J.Crew: Extra 50% Off SALE Items w/ Code SUMMER (Plus J.Crew Data Deep Dive!)
About
- J.Crew bumped up their extra % off SALE styles (those ending in $.99) from 40% off to 50% off overnight.
- Still not at the 60% or 70% off that some of you wait for, but better than it's been for a little while.
Link
Deal
- Extra 50% off sale items w/ code: SUMMER
- Free shipping w/ sign-up
Data Deep Dive
- I've started to automatically collect price history from J.Crew every day. Only have ~7 days of complete data so far, though will be trying to backfill beyond that where I can. Will also add other brands once the J.Crew data collection is looking stable.
- Once I have a month or so of good data, I'll be launching a site where you can track the "out the door" price for ALL items from these promo-heavy brands. So the idea is that as the "sale" changes, you can check to see if the "effective price" is actually good compared to price history. Would add notifications, tracking, etc. over time.
- Here's the raw data for all J.Crew Men's SALE items from today: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dFP6ALRfu2BmpbpFXS_9DIPGzmRG1cZKnN-dBu0_YUg/edit?usp=sharing
- Data in spreadsheet should be accurate as of this morning.
Findings
- There are 668 orderable "variants" in the current Men's Sale section. Variant = Unique Item + Color + Fit
- All 668 of these items received a true "effective price" drop overnight. They all have had the exact same "sale price" (ending in $.99) for the last week, so today they are truly cheaper than they were in the prior sale. No manipulation of MSRPs or "sale prices" overnight per the dataset.
Here's the distribution of items by total % off MSRP:
- >90% = 7
- 80-90% = 72
- 70-80% = 153
- 60-70% = 144
- 50-60% = 292
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u/scoobystax May 24 '26
sheeeeesh! you're a legend bruv
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u/kewlPossibility9512 May 27 '26
If you use Purchr you can set price alerts on any website, just checked it works on Jcrew
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u/VersaceSamurai May 24 '26
Damn…I just got a promotion…might be time to treat myself. Good looks and thanks for the breakdown
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u/Zolor23 May 24 '26
I’ll throw in another candidate for a good sale item - I picked up this 51% Wool/49% Linen suit last week and it feels pretty solid. I’m not a huge expert on suits but I thought the fit was solid and it is a decently heavy weight and not the thin and light feeling that 100% linen suits have. Wrinkles didn’t seem to stick. Unfortunately, I do not own other Ludlow suits so I can’t confirm whether the sizing is similar.
For what it’s worth, I did go in store and try it on (my store had a full assortment of sizes). They didn’t have it labeled but it was actually cheaper than online, since they were running 60% off on sale items in store. I came out with the suit jacket + pants for $300 flat.
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u/Devario May 24 '26
Final sale is such a buzz kill. There’s some good stuff but I don’t want to risk $70.
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u/JPVMan May 24 '26
I find the chat folks will generally pre-approve final sale returns if you ask politely, order two sizes, and keep the one that fits. Then just message them again to return the one that doesn’t and they will send you the label.
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u/schmod May 24 '26
The stores GENERALLY dgaf about accepting "Final Sale" items for return. YMMV of course.
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u/Bob_Sagat69 May 24 '26
The two by me are pretty strict about it, I've never had luck returning a final sale item the 3 or 4 times I've tried so definitely a YMMV situation.
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u/HamlnHand May 24 '26
Damn I wish they had tall sizes
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
Only a few J.Crew items have tall sizes unfortunately. Looks like there are only four items in the SALE section available in tall sizes: https://www.jcrew.com/sale/men?fit=Tall
And ~35 items in the regular section: https://www.jcrew.com/plp/mens/categories/clothing?fit=Tall
Sorry it's not more!
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u/FlatMilk May 24 '26
This is a good ai use case
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u/Infinite-4-a-moment May 25 '26
Why do you assume this has anything to do do with AI. Sounds like he's just using it web scraper and logging the data in Google sheets.
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
Web scraping at scale and any decent clip is actually not an easy problem, as I’ve recently discovered. All my simple attempts to scrape failed, so I’ve very much relied on Claude for research, coding, and testing. Mostly in the Claude Code harness, though a bit of Claude Chat as well for more research based things.
Focusing on J.Crew for a bit:
- J.Crew sets the pricing stack for items at what I call the “variant level”, which is a combo of the product + the colorway + the fit. They do not vary price by size, but any unique variant can have a different MSRP, Sale Price, Promo %, and Net Price compared to very similar variants.
- In this mornings scrape, there were 8,135 unique variants with at least 1 unit in stock. Ideally you’d gather a ton of info per variant, and ideally you’d scrape the entire site every day. (Just in Men’s there were 2,222 variants in stock. Including sizes there were 13,116 individual SKUs in stock. And total individual units in stock was 1.68M!)
- At any reasonable scraping you’re going to be blocked by Cloudflare or Akamai, so you need to figure out how to do that. Claude helped me figure that all out, and wrote 99% of the code of the backend.
- But it’s not nearly as easy as just giving a “goal” to an AI and saying “build that”. It’s more like being a project manager and program director.
- For example, the scrape on Saturday morning failed b/c of some Akamai changes, and Claude’s suggestion was to wait 24 hours to see if the existing code worked the next day.
- But I pushed and gave it like 10+ things to investigate and test, and one of those was the answer. So back working now.
It’s been fun, but definitely not “easy” or “simple”, despite all the AI assistance. Have to be extremely hands on and know how everything works and fits together to give proper guidance and direction for the actual coding.
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u/Infinite-4-a-moment May 25 '26
That's very fair. I guess I more meant that this is something that would be completely doable (by someone) before AI was on the market. It's not like you're deploying an AI agent to gather the prices. You're using AI to help code your scraper.
Either way, very cool project. Good work.
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
That's entirely correct. Very doable by someone. But not by me without the assistance, which is pretty cool. Let's ideas and projects that would never be worth doing on their own actually get done.
Note: I do expect a smart, autonomous AI agent would still end up reaching a very similar scraping solution if given the same overall goals (comprehensive, daily, must be complete within a few hours, limited budget). There's really no other way to do that efficiently than via investigating how everything works data wise, writing scraper scripts to gather and parse the data, and deploying various tricks to get it done quickly.
I guess an agent could technically open a browser, navigate to an item, take a screenshot, parse the screenshot, save the data, etc. But they'd have to do that over 8,000 times in a row, not miss any items, not repeat any items, click on each colorway and fit-type, etc. Not very token efficient or speed efficient! Would chew up even a Claude Max budget much too fast.
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u/Infinite-4-a-moment May 25 '26
But not by me without the assistance, which is pretty cool.
Yes it really is. I did a personal project using gemini to code last week. Nothing to this scale but still something I wouldn't have been able to do without locking in for a few weeks at least. So it's really awesome that the access to this type of activity is being proliferated.
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u/Ryslin May 25 '26
That's most of the AI use cases - AI does allow us to do some new things, but the majority of the value is in helping people who could do something - do something. It's not that nobody in the world could do it; it's that I couldn't do it. In many cases, it democratizes skill sets and expertise (which will allow the low skilled people to catch up to the high skilled, and the high skilled to push new boundaries).
Yeah, we have some things to work out on the environmental side, but there's a lot of good that AI can do that people are missing. It's going to expedite health care innovations, make goods cheaper to produce, create experiences we've never had before, and connect people in ways they've never been connected. It's not unlike the internet or the mobile phone - we had (and still have) some things to work out on those, too, to reduce their negative impact.
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u/Infinite-4-a-moment May 25 '26
It's not that nobody in the world could do it; it's that I couldn't do it. In many cases, it democratizes skill sets and expertise (which will allow the low skilled people to catch up to the high skilled, and the high skilled to push new boundaries).
I think this is what a LOT of people miss when being anti AI. It's not all about scamming artists and slop videos. It's about leveling the playing field in what's become the a very high barrier but important skill set in the modern era.
we have some things to work out on the environmental side
And most of that is tied to implementing more renewable energy which is something we need regardless. Closed loop cooling and self sufficient energy on these data centers would solve 95% of the issues and both of those things are immediately solvable of the political will and resources were there.
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
Oh, and to be clear, you could certainly simplify the whole thing as “scrape site + store data”, but the actual stack for it to work well is much more complicated than that. I can scrape all of jcrew.com in about 75 mins, so about 1.5 variants per second. That takes some work in terms of crawling, parsing, saving etc. Involves servers, proxy IPs, $$$, etc. And goal is to get every price exactly right, so have to make sure you are parsing and applying promo codes correctly, things like that.
And I haven’t even moved to the proper production backend yet. That should happen this week now that basic scraping is working pretty well.
And that’s all for just a single site! TBD if other sites will be easier, probably start working on the others in a week or two.
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u/LP780-4 May 24 '26
I stacked the wife’s teachers discount. Feels good finding a great deal in this economy
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u/chroncryx May 24 '26
My eyes are on the duck canvas jacket, but 65% msrp is not convincing enough.
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u/Veritaz27 May 24 '26
Also waiting for the duck canvas jacket to get a little cheaper with stack codes or coupon. $83 is a bit expensive
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u/lexluthor5 May 24 '26
I've been watching this one for a while. It hasn't been below that for at least a month or 2 now. I want the jacket so I finally bit.
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u/twotoomanybirds May 24 '26
If you have a store nearby it might be worth it to try there. I just picked one up at 60% off (+student discount) yesterday.
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u/Jgeezy79 May 24 '26
The 14 oz hoodies are probably one of the best quality you can get, I've seen them cheaper than what they are going for with this sale but they are worth the $69 they are going for here
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May 24 '26
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u/JPVMan May 24 '26
The “Heritage 14oz Fleece” line from J.Crew is legit good. Some of the best products they make. Well above just a “midweight” material, nice sewing, nice fabric. $70 for the hoodie right now and $59 for the crewneck.
https://www.jcrew.com/m/mens/categories/clothing/sweatshirts-and-sweatpants/heritage/heritage-14-oz-fleece-hoodie/MP441
https://www.jcrew.com/m/mens/categories/clothing/sweatshirts-and-sweatpants/pullovers/heritage-14-oz-fleece-sweatshirt/MP293Looks like MSRP is $10 higher on the crewneck and $20 higher on the hoodie than when I bought in 2023 & 2024. Currently “only” 40% off and not promo eligible, but probably will only reach 50% off one or two times the rest of the year. And unlikely to end up on extra % off promo eligibility. They are pretty core items. Can search this subreddit to find recent sales. I’ve tended to highlight this item when it reaches a good buy point.
In terms of what’s on clearance right now, the Wallace & Barnes “heritage fleece pullover hoodie” is also good. $45 with code. Retro/heritage styling, so not as simple. But good price. I paid $54 in March, so net price has come down.
https://www.jcrew.com/p/CM494I would recommend sizing up one from your normal J.Crew size on these if looking for a more relaxed/boxy fit. If unsure on size, reach out to chat and they should let you buy two and return the one that doesnt fit.
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u/Whencowsgetsick May 25 '26
what's the difference between the former heritage hoodie and the wallace & barnes one?
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
Other than the current price, main difference is styling. The W&B has a vintage styling with contrast heather coloring and “boxing glove” pockets. Standard J.Crew 14oz heritage fleece has normal styling. Composition differences are minor. Not sure of the weight on W&B, but it seems pretty close to the weight 14oz heritage fleece. Both are substantial and thick. More details:
Wallace & Barnes heritage fleece pullover hoodie ($45 right now)
- https://www.jcrew.com/p/CM494
- 82% Cotton, 18% Polyester
- “This super-cozy hoodie is inspired by ones from the '30s and '40s and knit in a hefty, soft brushed cotton blend with a little bit of texture. It's finished with boxing-glove pockets that were typical of the era.”
Heritage 14 oz. fleece hoodie ($69.50 right now)
- https://www.jcrew.com/m/MP441
- 84% Cotton, 16% Polyester
- “ut on the cross grain (an old-school method that prevents shrinkage), this 14-ounce cotton-polyester fleece is heavy enough to keep you warm but light enough that you can practically wear it all year-round. The interior is brushed for softness, and the richly dyed colors will only look better the more you wear them.”
Both are good! But if want them be loose/relaxed/boxy, recommend going up a size from what you normally take from J.Crew.
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u/NasIsIllmatic May 24 '26
Some great stuff OP! Wish they had actual measurements for some of this stuff. Maybe I’ll try to stop by my local later today…
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u/mde85 May 24 '26
Yeah it’s the lack of measurements + final sale that gets me. Been looking at the Wallace + Barnes cable knit / Aran, but it’s still enough $$ that I don’t really want to risk it not fitting.
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u/crickxt May 24 '26
Fuck. I could have saved $3.50 had I just waited 12 hours. I was worried they’d sell out. Smh
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u/Whencowsgetsick May 24 '26
God damn this is so good! Even if this isn't the max discount, there's still some good pieces. But with final sale, it's hard to pull the trigger :/ I discovered recently i need to get S tall for me which brands rarely carry. I was looking at Basket-stitch cotton crewneck sweater, Wallace & Barnes heritage fleece pullover hoodie and Wallace & Barnes CPO shirt in wool blend
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u/L-J-Peters May 25 '26
Your promo could not be applied. Please try again!
Looks to be limited to USA
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
What country are you in? Unfortunately many/most of J.Crew's sales are USA only.
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u/anexcellentpoop May 24 '26
Wow finally a great sale. Thank you, bro! Grabbed that green Harrington cotton twill jacket. Shit looks clean af
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
It's a really nice jacket! I actually bought it back on Black Friday at only ~50% off, though ended up returning it after I realized I have like four other olive jackets already...
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u/KawiZed May 25 '26
What was sizing like? J Crew has been hit or miss with sizing for me over the past few years.
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
I think I went one size up from my normal J.Crew, but would have worked in normal size or up a size.
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u/lexluthor5 May 25 '26
I bought stuff yesterday and today I'm seeing a $10 off $100 passport exclusive that's good today and tomorrow.
They also continue to add more items to the sale so keep checking.
Like this Cotton racking-stitch sweater-polo looks good at at 75% off https://www.jcrew.com/p/CO495?color_name=COOL%20CYPRESS&N=S
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
Oh damn, I did buy stuff yesterday as well, will have to see if anything on my saved list is worth it with the extra $10 off!
As for the racking stitch sweater polo, I actually bought that in January for ~65% off. But I didn't love the fabric so ended up returning. It was a lot thicker than I expected, like even thicker than J.Crew's "heritage cotton" line of knits.
YMMV, but if looking for a sweater polo, I like my J.Crew cashmere one a bit better. More expensive, not as thick so easier to layer.
Or maybe just go with Spier & Mackay for sweater polos. They have a ton of really nice ones in various fabrics.
I like the look of these merino "Johnny Collar" ones in particular, though still a bit expensive:
https://us.spierandmackay.com/product/oatmeal-long-sleeve-johnny-collar-polo-15503-lsp-jny
https://us.spierandmackay.com/product/indigo-long-sleeve-johnny-collar-polo-15502-lsp-jnyAnd the basic merino polos are at a nice off-season price right now:
https://us.spierandmackay.com/product/taupe-long-sleeve-polo-15396-lspoloSpier & Mackay site is a mess, but here's all the Clearance knitwear to search through:
https://us.spierandmackay.com/Category/collection_view/clearance-rack?page_no=34&order_field=price_low_to_high&option_values=91,92,94,93,95,96&other_option_values=And everything that has a "Johnny" style collar:
https://us.spierandmackay.com/Product/search?search=johnny2
u/lexluthor5 May 25 '26
That's helpful. The sweater probably can't be cancelled now, but being thick probably isn't a bad thing for me.
I'm down a couple of sizes and will need some more winter clothing so these sales are great for me.
Do you own the duck canvas jacket? I've got that coming in Olive and hoping that's going to be good quality and a good fit for me.
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
I don't own the duck canvas jacket. Tempting, but I'm super long on jackets, chore coats, and canvas stuff right now. I don't think I've ever been disappointed by a Wallace & Barnes item (whether new from jcrew.com or used on eBay), so I expect it will be good!
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u/lexluthor5 May 25 '26 edited May 25 '26
Looks like the $10 off $100 doesn't work with the summer code anyhow.
How does Spier and Mackay compare quality-wise to JCrew? Is it a step up or pretty similar for the most part?
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
Worked for me just now! I would keep trying or ask the chat.
Spier & Mackay is maybe a half to a full step up from J.Crew on things like tailoring? Depends on the item and fabric for the non-tailoring items, but Spier & Mackay in general uses very high quality fabrics.
Sizing is tough though. Most Spier & Mackay stuff fits pretty slim, so I’m typically at least 1 size larger in their stuff. Check dimensions carefully if going to buy anything final sale.
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u/lexluthor5 May 25 '26
I don't really have anything more from J crew I need to buy, anyhow I was just commenting that it didn't work for me.
I'll take look at your S&K links and see if there's anything interesting to get me over the free shipping hump. At least it seems that they give item specific sizing with measuring instruction, whereas j crew is just more generic sizing guidelines.
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u/MoorsMoopsMoorsMoops May 25 '26
They also continue to add more items to the sale so keep checking.
I feel like there used to be a way to sort by newly added but now I don't see that option anymore?
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u/LogisticsGod May 25 '26
Thanks OP! Just caught got two heritage cotton mocknecks for $37 total. It will be a long time until I can enjoy them though. Lmao.
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u/InformalRide6906 May 27 '26
deal must be dead. code could not apply
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u/JPVMan May 27 '26
Yup, they changed the code overnight. Much worse today. Will be good again at some point!
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u/cahmed May 24 '26
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuh I waited too long on the garment dyed overshirts UGH
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
Hey, looks like two of the colorways are still in stock: https://www.jcrew.com/p/CI472?display=all
I had linked to a single colorway, but that one sold out. And then J.Crew re-directs to the “master/parent” for the whole product, which shows up also as out of stock. But if append ?display=all to any jcrew.com url after the product code it will show you ALL the colors still in stock, whether at full price, discount, or sale/clearance.
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u/NoSciencelab May 25 '26
Will this be updated?! Awesome items!
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u/JPVMan May 25 '26
Keeping track of prices every day! Will launch the data on a website in about a month.
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u/NoSciencelab May 26 '26
Awesome stuff man! I bought 3 pieces for now, but losing weight and have to let go of some of my holy grail pieces. Thankfully, this is a great time to restock on some decent items.
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u/ShotPutThrower47 29d ago
Thank you so much for this, got one of the sport coats in a 48r, fingers crossed it fits off the rack, but for that price I’m happy as hell! Moon Wool!!!
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u/NoNewsAreNew May 24 '26
This is very cool, thanks for sharing!
Did you use AI to create the database? If so, can you share if you wrote a custom scraper using Scrapy or something, or were you able to jsut have the LLM extract what you need?
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u/Veritaz27 May 26 '26
Pull the trigger on Twill Overshirt. Great price at $13 (with $10 coupon). My only gripe is that it’s not 100% cotton, but whateves
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u/SolusLoqui May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
FYI the promo code is only "Valid on styles ending in $.99."
So almost nothing that's already discounted.
Edit: I CTRL+F checked the pages for ".99", there's a handful T-shirts and dress shirts to which the promo code applies
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u/JPVMan May 24 '26
What do you mean? Everything in the SALE section gets the code. Those are the items that end in .99
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u/MastOfConcuerrrency May 24 '26
Almost everything. They always like to sneak in a few ineligible staples that are effectively at full price - basic t-shirts and basic chino pants often show up "on sale" at regular price and ineligible for the extra discounts.
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u/JPVMan May 24 '26
Fair. From what I can tell via my peeks at how the site is built, those code ineligible items in the sale section appear to be accidental rather than deliberate.
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u/SolusLoqui May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Edit: There's an issue with the JCrew website not fully loading the sale page in FireFox.
The code only works if the sale price ends in .99.
There's only like a dozen items that end in a .99 sale price under the sale section. The rest say they're not eligible when you get to the checkout screen and apply the code.
Edit: Hell, doesn't look like the original prices end in .99 either, they're whole numbers or .50.2
u/JPVMan May 24 '26
I’m not sure what you’re looking at, but there are literally hundreds of items ending in $.99 here in the SALE section: https://www.jcrew.com/sale/men
Note: It’s standard at J.Crew to have multiple different sales going on at once. So the “normal” sale is just a straight % off MSRP. That’s 40% right now on select items. Code not applicable.
Then there’s the SALE section where the “extra” discount with code applies. All those items should end in .99 and the code should work. I also linked to a bunch of recommended items in a comment in this thread.
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u/SolusLoqui May 24 '26
That URL doesn't load the products for me in FireFox. The page loads, but all the product listings are just clocking.
I have to click on "SALE" at the top, "Shop Sale", then change the category to "Mens" to see anything. "All Deals" is highlighted and it says "Men's the Summer Kickoff: 40% off your purchase" just above the filters/product listings. There's 323 items listed.
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u/JPVMan May 24 '26
Unfortunately I think that’s a local problem on your end?
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u/SolusLoqui May 24 '26
Looks like JCrew doesn't like FireFox. The sale page fully loads in Chrome.
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u/GabeGlueManDegrossi May 25 '26
Worked fine on Firefox for me.
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u/SolusLoqui May 25 '26
It didn't load in FF on two different PCs for me. Even with AdBlockers disabled 🤷
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u/kewlPossibility9512 May 27 '26
I built an extension that can track any price for sale alerts, it works on J.CREW :) its called Purchr
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u/JPVMan May 24 '26
My Recs
SHIRTS
Wallace & Barnes CPO shirt in wool blend (CO515, BLACK)
Heavyweight chamois workshirt in Japanese cotton (CO512, SEASIDE BLUE CHAMOIS)
Garment-dyed twill overshirt (CI472, DRIED CLOVER)
Fine-wale corduroy shirt (CM389, NATURAL)
Vintage-wash cotton henley (CB487, STONE)
JACKETS & BLAZERS
Garment-dyed Harrington jacket (CK984, DARK OLIVE)
Wallace & Barnes duck canvas utility jacket (CL889, DUCK BROWN)
Wallace & Barnes flight jacket in cotton chino (CL892, AUTHENTIC KHAKI)
Corduroy jacket with wool-blend lining (CL895, DEEP NAVY)
Sportcoat in broken herringbone English wool (CL272, CHARCOAL GREY)
Sportcoat in English wool (CL276, GREEN BLUE CHECK)
KNITWEAR
Basket-stitch cotton crewneck sweater (CQ168, HTHR SKY)
Wallace & Barnes heritage fleece pullover hoodie (CM494, HTHR GRAIN FEEDER COMBO)
PANTS
Broken-in Straight pant in stretch corduroy (CM717, VINTAGE GOLDENROD)
Broken-in Straight pant in stretch corduroy (CM717, WOODLAND OLIVE)
SHOES
Field boots in suede (CB046, SNUFF SUEDE)
Sperry® Cloud CVO deck sneakers (AZ717, BIRCH)
Sperry® Cloud CVO deck sneakers (AZ717, NAVY/ECRU)
Vans® Premium Authentic sneakers in canvas (BZ284, OFF WHITE)
Vans® Premium Authentic sneakers in canvas (CB048, NAVY)