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Exhibit 10.8.II




	 	 	 

	Restricted Stock Agreement

	 	Bluestem Brands, Inc.

ID: 61-1425164 

6509 Flying Cloud Drive

Eden Prairie, MN 55344






	 	 	 	 	 	 	 

	%%FIRST_NAME%-% %%MIDDLE_NAME%-%

	 	Grant Number:
	 	%%OPTION_NUMBER%-%

	%%LAST_NAME%-%

	 	Plan:
	 	%%EQUITY_PLAN%-%

	%%ADDRESS_LINE1%-%

	 	ID:
	 	%%EMPLOYEE_IDENTIFIER%-%
	%%ADDRESS_LINE2%-%
	 	 	 	 		 
	%%CITY%-%, %%STATE%-% %%COUNTRY%-%
	 	 	 	 	 	 
	 %%ZIPCODE%-%
	 	 	 	 	 	 
		 	 	 	 	 	 





Bluestem Brands, Inc. (the “Company”) grants you an award of %%TOTAL_SHARES_GRANTED,
‘999,999,999’%-% shares of the Company’s common stock (the “Restricted Shares”). These shares are
restricted until the vesting date(s) shown below. This award is subject to the terms and
conditions of the Company’s 2011 Long-Term Incentive Plan (the “Plan”).




	 	 	 

	Date of Grant:

	 	%%OPTION_DATE,‘MM/DD/YYY’%-%
	Total Number of Shares Granted:

	 	%%TOTAL_SHARES_GRANTED,‘999,999,999’%-%
	Current Total Value of Grant:

	 	%%MARKET_VALUE,‘$999,999,999.99’%-%





This award will vest in increments on the dates shown below:




	 	 	 
	Shares	 	Vesting Date
	%%SHARES_PERIOD1,‘999,999,999’%-%

	 	%%VEST_DATE_PERIOD 1, ‘MM/DD/YYY’%-%
	%%SHARES_PERIOD2,‘999,999,999’%-%

	 	%%VEST_DATE_PERIOD 2, ‘MM/DD/YYY’%-%
	%%SHARES_PERIOD3,‘999,999,999’%-%

	 	%%VEST_DATE_PERIOD 3, ‘MM/DD/YYY’%-%
	%%SHARES_PERIOD4,‘999,999,999’%-%

	 	%%VEST_DATE_PERIOD 4, ‘MM/DD/YYY’%-%





By your acceptance of this grant, you agree to all of the terms and conditions contained in this
Agreement (consisting of this cover page and the Terms and Conditions on the following pages) and
in the Plan document, a copy of which has been provided to you online. You acknowledge that you
have reviewed these documents and that they set forth the entire agreement between you and the
Company regarding your grant. You also acknowledge that you have reviewed the copy of the Plan’s
Information Statement made available to you online.


















 








Bluestem Brands, Inc.

2011 Long-Term Incentive Plan




Employee Restricted Stock Award Terms and Conditions


Any capitalized term that is not defined in this Agreement shall have the meaning set forth
in the Plan as it currently exists or as it is amended in the future.





	1.	 	Date of Grant. The grant of the Restricted Shares to you (the “Award”) is effective
as of the Date of Grant specified on the cover page of this Agreement.
	 
	2.	 	Delivery of Restricted Shares. As soon as practicable after the Date of Grant, the
Company shall cause the Restricted Shares to be evidenced by a book-entry in your name with
the Company’s transfer agent or by one or more stock certificates issued in your name. Until
the Restricted Shares vest as provided in Section 4 of this Agreement, any such stock
certificate shall be held by the Company or its designee and bear an appropriate legend
referring to the restricted nature of the Restricted Shares evidenced thereby. You must sign
and deliver to the Company or its designee an assignment separate from the certificate, in
blank, which will be held by the Company or its designee until the Restricted Shares evidenced
by the certificate vest. Any Restricted Shares evidenced by a book-entry shall be subject to
transfer restrictions and accompanied by a similar legend.






	3.	 	Applicable Restrictions.
	 
	 	 	(a) Beginning on the Date of Grant, you shall have all rights and privileges of a
stockholder of the Company with respect to the Restricted Shares, including the right to
vote and receive regular cash dividends on such Shares, except as follows (the
“Restrictions”):






	 	(i)	 	other than regular cash dividends, distributions
declared and paid with respect to the Restricted Shares before they
vest shall be subject to paragraph 3(c);
	 
	 	(ii)	 	none of the Restricted Shares may be sold, transferred,
assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered or disposed of before they
vest other than by will or the laws of descent and distribution; and
	 
	 	(iii)	 	all or a portion of the Restricted Shares may be
forfeited in accordance with Section 6.






	 	 	(b) Any attempt to dispose of Restricted Shares in a manner contrary to the Restrictions
shall be void and of no effect.
	 
	 	 	(c) If the Company declares and pays a distribution on its common stock other than a regular
cash dividend, the Company shall retain custody of all such distributions made or declared
with respect to any unvested Restricted Shares. The Company shall not be required




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	 	 	to segregate any such retained distributions. At the time Restricted Shares vest, the
Company shall pay to you (without interest) the portion of such retained distributions that
relate to the Restricted Shares that vest.
	 
	4.	 	Vesting Schedule. Subject to Section 14 below, the Restrictions will lapse and the
Restricted Shares will vest and become non-forfeitable, in the amounts and on the dates
specified in the vesting schedule on the cover page of this Agreement, so long as your Service
to the Company and its Affiliates has not previously ended. The vesting of some or all of the
Restricted Shares may be accelerated or continued under certain circumstances in connection
with your termination of Service, as described in Section 6(e) of the Plan, in connection with
certain transactions involving the Company, including a Change in Control, as described in
Sections 12(b), (c) and (d) of the Plan, and at the discretion of the Committee in accordance
with Section 3(b)(2) of the Plan.
	 
	5.	 	Release of Unrestricted Shares. Upon the vesting of Restricted Shares and the
corresponding lapse of the Restrictions, and after the Company has determined that all
conditions to the release of unrestricted Shares, including Section 8 of this Agreement, have
been satisfied, it shall release to you the unrestricted Shares, as evidenced by issuance of a
stock certificate or certificates without restrictive legend, by electronic delivery of such
Shares to a brokerage account designated by you, or by an unrestricted book-entry registration
of such Shares with the Company’s transfer agent.
	 
	6.	 	Termination of Service. Except as may otherwise be provided in accordance with
Section 4 above and the Plan Sections referenced therein, if your Service to the Company and
its Affiliates is terminated before all of the Restricted Shares have vested, you will
immediately forfeit all unvested Restricted Shares, which shall be returned to the Company.
	 
	7.	 	83(b) Election. You may make and file with the Internal Revenue Service an election
under Section 83(b) of the Code with respect to the grant of the Restricted Shares hereunder,
electing to include in your gross income as of the Date of Grant the Fair Market Value of the
Restricted Shares as of the Date of Grant. You shall promptly provide a copy of such election
to the Company. If you make and file such an election, you shall make such arrangements in
accordance with Section 8 as are satisfactory to the Committee to provide for the payment of
all applicable withholding taxes.
	 
	8.	 	Withholding Taxes. You hereby authorize the Company (or any Affiliate) to withhold
from payroll or other amounts payable to you any sums required to satisfy any federal, state,
local or foreign withholding taxes that may be due as a result of the receipt or vesting of
Restricted Shares, and the Company may defer the release to you of any and all unrestricted
Shares until you have made arrangements acceptable to the Company for payment of all such
withholding taxes in accordance with the provisions of Section 14 of the Plan. If you wish to
satisfy some or all of such withholding tax obligations by delivering Shares you already own
or by having the Company retain a portion of the unrestricted Shares that would otherwise be
released to you, you must make such a request which shall be subject to approval by the
Company.




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	9.	 	Governing Plan Document. This Award and Agreement are subject to all the provisions
of the Plan, and to all interpretations, rules and regulations which may, from time to time,
be adopted and promulgated by the Committee pursuant to the Plan. If there is any conflict
between the provisions of this Award Agreement and the Plan, the provisions of the Plan will
govern.
	 
	10.	 	Choice of Law. This Agreement will be interpreted and enforced under the laws of the
state of Minnesota (without regard to its conflicts or choice of law principles).
	 
	11.	 	Binding Effect. This Agreement will be binding in all respects on your heirs,
representatives, successors and assigns, and on the successors and assigns of the Company.
	 
	12.	 	Discontinuance of Service. This Agreement does not give you a right to continued
Service with the Company or its Affiliates, and the Company or any of its Affiliates may
terminate your Service at any time and otherwise deal with you without regard to the effect it
may have upon you under this Agreement.
	 
	13.	 	Non-Solicitation. You agree that during the period of your Service with the Company
or any of its Affiliates and for the one-year period immediately following termination of such
Service for any reason, you shall not (i) directly or indirectly, engage in the recruiting,
soliciting or inducing of any non-clerical employee or employees of the Company or its
Affiliates to terminate their employment with, or otherwise cease their relationship with the
Company or any of its Affiliates, or in hiring or assisting another person or entity to hire
any non-clerical employee of the Company or any of its Affiliates or any person who within six
months before had been a non-clerical employee of the Company or any of its Affiliates and was
recruited or solicited for such employment or other retention while an employee of the Company
(other than any of the foregoing activities engaged in with the prior written approval of the
Company); or (ii) directly or indirectly solicit, induce or encourage or attempt to persuade
any agent, supplier or customer of the Company or any Affiliate to terminate such agency or
business relationship.
	 
	14.	 	Forfeiture. You agree that during the period of your Service with the Company or any
of its Affiliates and for the one-year period immediately following termination of such
Service for any reason, if you (i) breach any term or condition contained in Section 13, (ii)
materially breach the Company’s Code of Ethics and Business Conduct, or (iii) breach any
nondisclosure, non-competition or similar obligation owed to the Company or any Affiliate,
then in addition to all rights and remedies available to the Company at law and in equity,
this Award will be immediately cancelled and all unvested Restricted Shares shall be
forfeited. The Company may also recapture from you the Fair Market Value of any Restricted
Shares that vested during the twelve months prior to the date of your termination of Service.
Such Fair Market Value shall be determined as of the applicable vesting date of the Restricted
Shares. You will promptly pay the full amount due upon demand by the Company, in the form of
cash or Shares at their current Fair Market Value.




By accepting this Award and Agreement, you agree to all the terms contained in this Agreement and
in the Plan document.





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