I was going to do it. I was finally going to buy the Coco mirror from West Elm that I’ve been obsessing over forever. Yes, we’re moving, but it’s such a classic piece that it could be hung anywhere in this house or the next one. And I was just gonna go for it- all $199 of it. Even though I’m usually too cheap to buy things full price (even if I’m head over heels in love) I had this whole talk with myself about putting on my big girl pants and bucking up and just splurging for something that I’m 99.9% certain would make me happy for decades. Then I saw this when I clicked the link.
No longer available? I want to die.
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Heather Jo says
That sucks! The same thing happened to me with the Waterloo bedding from
Anthropologie. Except to my dismay, I found out the the bedding had been discounted by 40% right before it was unavailable. I called everywhere to find it and I still check eBay (even though this happened over a year ago!) I stillndteam about that bedding- it was too beautiful to forget. Ahhhh.
Jamie says
Sherry if there are any in the Bay Area I’d be happy to pick it up for you. Try calling Corte Madera or Emeryville. I have something I’ve been meaning to send your way anyhow…
pattilouwho says
Hey YHL…not sure if anyone else posted this or not, but I thought I’d mention that I found it here too: http://www.ochre.net/en/display.product.php?accessoriesID=accessories&productID=a14
Maybe you could contact them about ordering? Just a thought. :)
Melissa says
I’m so sorry Sherry! I hope that your store will carry it SOON or it will become available online. It’s one of my favorite mirrors too!
Carrie says
Call the store in Memphis and have it shipped to you. This happened to me with Crate and Barrel and a vase. (I am so cheap I won’t buy a $15 vase I love.) I don’t have a C & B closer than 3 hours away (I know, its sadness.) so I went online to order it and…. gone. I live chatted a rep and he found a store that had all 3 vases I wanted and I called and they shipped them to me. :)
I love happy endings.
Well except now I can’t find the perfect bedding for the bedroom where the vases will go….
I hope you get your mirror!
YoungHouseLove says
Thanks for all the suggestions guys! We figure if it’s meant to be we’ll end up with one. And if not maybe we’ll even attempt a DIY someday…
xo,
s
Jen**LifeByAnInch** says
ugh, i haaaate it when that happens!! that always seems to happen to me at tj.maxx. i see something i like, but decided to “think on it”… get home, obsess about it for a few days, convince myself i have to have it, get all psyched up about what i’m going to do with it, go back to the store, and sure enough it’s gone. lately i’ve learned to just buy the item if i’m at all interested and do the “thinking on it” at home while it’s safely in my possession, then simply return it if i decide against it. (although 9 times outta 10 i just end up keeping it so i’m not so sure if this is really a good solution or not). anywho, i feel your pain sistah.
Leanne says
they do that all the time! i loved their capiz shell mirror and accesories and they are all now discontinued! i had a room done up in photoshop based around that mirror and gone. oh well.
Sima says
I feel your pain. This has happened to me soo many times with West Elm and Pottery Barn. I would take the suggestion Carrie mentiomed. I had a friend who did the same thing with cushions she wanted. They found them at another store and shipped them to her. Definately worth a try if you have your heart set on it.
harmony says
Awww Sherry, I’m sorry! It’s so disappointing when you have your heart set on something and it falls through :-/
beth says
Try Ebay…..I have great luck finding items long after they are out of the stores. Good luck.
liz says
Absolutely LOVING your additional random-in the moment-quick posts throughout the week and weekend! Thank you, it is a breath of fresh air!
Tara @ Tara Being Tara says
I tried on a pair of blank pants at Banana Republic SEVEN YEARS AGO that I didn’t buy and still think about sometimes…… you aren’t alone!!
Sweet T says
This could easily be done as a DIY… But I’d still check eBay and Craigslist if I were you!
Marlena says
oh, I love that mirror too! but it cost to much for me.., by the way I think you are not the only one i had the same situation last winter, i wanted to buy a jacket and obviously it was expensive at that time, i was visiting website and thinking “should i buy it or not”. After a week i opened website again and guess what my jacket or rather “my navy jacket” was sold out! i was so mad at myself that i dind’t buy it…. I was still thinking about it and one day i went with my mom to Marshall’s and I found my NAVY JACKET for only 20$, now i can wait for winter! and until i’m going to wear it!
Sara says
Happened to me at west elm too with the modern ladderback chairs last year. Still think about them regularly…
Paula M. says
Argh! Don’t you hate when that happens?
Boy, do I know the feeling!
I am STILL pining over the Teresita candle wall panels that Crate and Barrel carried for a long time — but not long enough for me to finally get around to buying them.
I was planning to buy three to put up on the wall behind my dining table, to help define that area of the long dining/living room. I phoned Customer Service but no luck, and have looked high and low for something similar, but not found anything I like nearly as much for the price, despite having some keyword alerts logged on ebay.
I wish retailers would warn folks before they discontinue a piece — Couldn’t they splash a warning over their catalog entries and Web pages reading something like “limited availability”? It probably would have gotten me off my butt and they would’ve had another sale. Ditto for Pottery Barn’s Verona floor lamp, heh! But especially those Teresita wall panels. Dang!
Jenna says
I liked YHL before, but I LOVE this new real-time blogging thing. I feel like the blog is so much more conversational now. Even your writing style has changed a little to reflect that. I love it!
Rosemary says
Girl, story of my life with West Elm. Case in point: The Moroccan window rug that I still check ebay for regularly. AND I bought a pair of the moroccan scroll window panels but now I want a second set. They’re long gone.
Let’s start a letter writing campaign to have West Elm bring back our faves!
Shelly P. says
Sherry, You should call customer service. They usually are not completely out of stock, just not enough inventory to keep on the website. I had this happen with a fountain I was obsessed with from RedEnvelope. I called, talked to a very nice customer service person who looked up the SKU and found they had 5 left in inventory! Good luck:)
~Shelly
YoungHouseLove says
Hey Shelly,
I actually gave them a call this morning. Looks like they’re all out except for the outlets, who seem to have a few semi-damaged ones (and who will only ship with the disclaimer that if they break during shipping they’re non-returnable or refundable). Oh well, wasn’t meant to be. Maybe we’ll DIY one someday…
xo,
s
Janice says
What a bummer! I totally feel your pain and hope that you fall in love with another beautiful mirror again soon.
Meredith says
Check back! You never know – I had my eye on a way too expensive JCrew Crew Cuts dress for my oldest daughter. I finally decided to get it when it went down below $100. Then it was sold out of her size. I almost bawled my eyes out. I kept checking back to look at it – over a month or two – and low and behold – HER SIZE was in stock AND it was on sale a bit more! I did the happy dance and couldn’t buy it fast enough!
Her dress was that mirror in dress form! Same color, same classic styling, with a little soft edge.
Good luck!
Steph says
Hi!
Why don’t you look on ebay? I did that when they stopped selling their round shell capiz chandelier (same one you guys have in your master) and I wanted it for my daughter nursery. I found it on ebay from someone who snatched it up when it was on sale. I bet if you save your search for it it will eventually pop up on there. Just a thought from my past experience. :)) Love your guys’ blog btw, it’s the first blog that really got me into reading blogs! Love your style.
sue says
I am a very thrifty shopper. I was hitting the GW and other thrift stores before it became popular. HOWEVER. There are times when you know in your heart of hearts that some item is the one that you must have. If you make do most of the time, you need to get those pieces that you will treasure forever. I have a piece of art that I spent almost $100 over 35 years ago, a fortune when I first got married. The ex-husband is gone but the art still has a prominent spot in my home. If you will love it every time you look at it, then you should buy it. Perhaps it will turn up somewhere else, but if it doesn’t, it was a lesson for the future. Oh, by the way, I have just splurged on a handbag for myself. Usually, I have GW or thrift store bags, but this one I ordered is one I will love until it is in shreds.
Jamie says
Keep your eye on ebay, and start calling all the brick and mortar stores and have them ship one to you. OR, just put it down to the universe telling you you’ll find something better.
Kristi says
Just writing to commiserate. This is the story of my life. It’s gotten so ridiculous that we just laugh about it now (although it still stings, each time). In fact, we have a joke about how the surest way for a company to sell out of an item is to convince me to purchase it…
allison says
West Elm will probably send you one as a gift for directing all this traffic and attention to their site. You guys are like the next Oprah—anything you like is instantly a best seller (or sold out)!!
YoungHouseLove says
Haha. Nah, we’re not expecting anything like that. We’re just gonna take the “meant to be approach” so we plan to swing by an outlet that’s about 2 hours away in a few weeks when we’re visiting John’s parents (it’s out near them) and if they still have one there that’s in decent shape we’ll scream “meant to be!” and snatch that baby up!
xo,
s
Valerie says
This happens to me all the time! Except I am usually waiting for it to go on sale! I always think if it’s meant to be it will! Good luck with the hunt for one at the outlet!
Jane says
Every so often I do a google image search for round sun or star like mirrors. Some are ok…. but I just don’t love any of them.
I saw this coco mirror, and thought, “wow, that’s it!”
So, now I’m saying noooooooo along with you. (Although the truth is, I probably wouldn’t have had the courage to spend $200 anyway.)
Shannon says
The same thing happened to us with a beautiful red fan we wanted to buy for our kitchen at Lowe’s. We finally went looking to order it and it’s no longer available! SO sad!
Linda says
Oh gosh, I’m so sorry, I have that curse with everything I fall in love with. By the time I decide to buy it, it’s no longer in stock, no longer available, or has been discontinued, so I feel your pain.
I even checked eBay and did a Google search for you, but didn’t have any luck. Maybe someone will end up putting one on Craigslist that you can snatch up?
Megan says
You could totally make this. The first thing that comes to mind is using spray painted palm strips, you know the ones us good old Catholics collect on Palm Sunday (unblessed of course). Unfortunately you can probably only order them during Lent. They would provide some of the rigidness but you could also coat them in something like mod podge or hair spray for additional stiffness.
sonya says
That sort of thing has definitely happened to me…I see something and then think about it all the time but don’t have the guts to buy it for one reason or another.. then when I finally decide to go for it, I look for it and it’s gone! Probably just means that something even better will come along eventually. Or who knows, you may round a corner somewhere one day and there will be one sitting there for half the price!
Tasmin says
I usually just read and not comment (over the last year) but this ALWAYS happens to me. It’s a common joke in our house that I have a knack for falling in love with things that become obsolete before I can take the plunge.
Just today I managed to sneak by – was thinking about a diaper bag (“the” diaper bag purchase I’ve been debating over online for a month and checking sales because I don’t want to pay that much for a silly bag) and saw it in the store. Last one. No more. whew. Sometimes if you fall in love with something you should just suck it up and go for it!
Brittany Frederick says
This happened to me once with a light fixture that I loved from Pier 1. I was waiting for it to go on sale and before I could grab one, they sold out. However, a couple of months later I found one on Craigs List (for drastically less). I hope this happens for you! Sometimes, it’s a blessing in disguise.
Jessica says
That happened to me once. I saved for nearly 8 months to get this chair that I loved… Only once I got the money, the chair was no longer available in the pattern I was wanting! I was so upset… So I’ll just hang on to it and wait for another to come along.
KatelynLikesThis says
Haha, I loved this post. Not to say that in jest or anything, you guys just seem so perfect that it’s nice to know that these little annoying things happen to us all!!!
I always sit on stuff until it’s too late! I’ve been coveting a pair of black capris pants since like 2002.
Jamie says
Does anyone have the West elm outlets number? I’m having a hard time finding it, and the west elm here is telling me there is no such thing?! weird! It seems so secretive! There are some sheets (the printed percale in british khaki… the zig zags)i’ve been in love with, and they just stoped carrying them! Soo Sad!! =(
YoungHouseLove says
It’s actually the Pottery Barn outlets that carry West Elm things, so if you google “pottery barn outlet” hopefully you can find a list of them. Good luck!
xo,
s
Katie says
Sherry – I just got the new West Elm catalog in the mail and the round coco mirror is in it.
YoungHouseLove says
I know- so in love! Now to convince ourselves that the million other projects that we’re saving up for are less important. Not sure how it’ll go…
xo,
s
Cait @ Hernando House says
It’s back!! http://www.westelm.com/products/round-coco-mirror-w522/
YoungHouseLove says
I know! Ahhh! Now we just have to convince ourselves that those funds are better spent on a mirror than ten projects we have on our list. Ack! It’s hard being this cheap. Haha.
xo,
s
Jenn M. says
hi sherry…im sure you already know but west elm is selling the same coco round mirror that was sold out for $199.++ just wondering if you will still get it. i wonder if its a light as the picture shows. anyway, i remember you had a posting several months ago about this mirror so i looked it up so i hope you can still see this post :)
YoungHouseLove says
We’re so excited it’s back! But true to our cheap-o nature, we’re nervous to spend that much money on a mirror- especially with so many projects on our to-do list that should take priority. Maybe it’ll go on sale or we’ll figure out how to DIY one…
xo,
s
Melissa Matthews says
It’s BACK!!!!!! Hooray!!
http://www.westelm.com/products/round-coco-mirror-w522/?pkey=cmirrors
YoungHouseLove says
So pretty. Gasp.
xo,
s
Karen says
The coco mirror is back and on sale for $159.99. Good luck!
YoungHouseLove says
Wahoo- thanks for the tip!
xo,
s
Chelsea Koppmann says
I’m sure you’ve already seen this..but the Coco Mirror is on SALE.
Chelsea
YoungHouseLove says
Woooot! If only it were bigger than 18″ – I have the perfect spot for a 30″ mirror :(
xo,
s
Sara says
Hey, First off I love you guys! I’m a new follower to your blog and I’m now addicted. Anyways, I just discovered this post and I know it’s nearly a year later but the mirror is now available and on sale.
YoungHouseLove says
Isn’t that funny! At first I was so excited and ready to pull the trigger. Then I read that it was only 18″ wide. So sad because I somehow thought it was 30″ wide. Sadly I have the perfect spot for a 30″ wide mirror like that but no place for a smaller 18″ guy. So I will have to love this guy from afar I guess. Haha.
xo,
s
Vanessa says
I see this post is really old, but did you ever get one? Its $159.99 now and looks to be available.
YoungHouseLove says
Crazy story- we saw it come back and only then realized that it’s 18″ wide (we thought it was closer to 30″) so we don’t have anywhere to put it! Haha. If only it were bigger! Oh well, not meant to be. Haha.
xo,
s