Ah, didn’t know that! But yeah, sending without payment is just odd. It actually says on all of the sales posts in that group that payments must be received within 30 minutes!
The sample sale thing is another FOMO creating gimmick. There's one of each dress in the sample sale and the company sells 1000s of dresses a week, but selling individual ones of one size one at a time on social media seems a very odd business technique to me
You have to be the first to comment to get the dress and in a group with thousands of people it's going to lead people to jump on to comment without having time to really read the post or look at the dress just so they get a 'bargain'. I'm sure I read they used to sell these dresses when people went to the 'factory' but maybe they are cutting down on that so people don't go and investigate the actual lack of manufacturing going on there...
I feel sorry for CJ but think it's a) the responsibility of people in her actual life to help her manage this sort of thing (her Mum is on the group so must see this stuff but she has wheels of all her dresses to choose what to wear so she's also fallen for the cult), b) Popsy to prevent under 18s being in a group that is a selling group. She can't afford the dresses and it's making her miserable.