Nowadays, the collaborations between major fashion houses and big box retailers and also cheaper clothing stores like H&M are getting very common place, but wait: not really common place enough.
The Missoni for Target collab was the craziest thing ever. Making me, yes yours truly completely obsessed... And i was obviously not the only one!!!
Could not think about anything else for weeks: anticipating the September 13th opening of the collection, being able to buy the items despite of the web crashes and then subsequent e-mails saying that the items' shipping was delayed (uh-oh) and then that they were finally shipped... Geez.
Was obviously waiting to see if the items I've managed to snag would get safely to my hands... So I did write this post earlier, but had to see the items to believe I was getting them...
Well, target did a MAJOR PR/advertising campaign for this latest collab and obviously did not prepare itself for this tsunami of people trying to get their hands on anything Missoni.
Long story short, the demand was so crazy that Target's website CRASHED for almost the whole day of launching!
I did wake up earlier than usual (7:30am), EVERYTHING LOOKED NORMAL, was putting a bunch of things in my virtual shopping cart and then BOOM!
The website stalled and I COULD NOT CHECKOUT!
After some refreshes, I did get this screen:
Got so angry!!! Had to rush to get dressed and go to work completely crestfallen...
By then, I did get to work and tried the site MANY times and nothing...
Even
The New York Times and CNN reported on the madness!
I've particularly liked this:
"But on Twitter and other social media sites, thwarted shoppers posted furious messages and commiserated about the site’s failure,
with a few bragging that they had made it through in the brief periods that Target.com was working."
Yep that was me! I don't know HOW, but I DID manage to "enter" the website for a BRIEF period that it was working and managed to get the sweater I wanted (all of the other items I've put on my cart were already gone).
Check it out:
HAD TO RUSH and do the checkout for only this one - did not want to have this cutie sitting in my cart and lose this once again. Missed the free shipping opp, but hey who cares...
Well, since the website was STILL working, I just ran and got two other items:
Cute, but not my original color - the blue/brown one was completely gone by then... I do have a REAL Missoni scarf in pink tones, but this one is kinda different from mine... So to the cart it went.
Looks cute overall in an outfit:
And this scarf was like 25 bucks. Way better than a regular Missoni for more than $150 (see below):
Aren't they crazy similar? This one above is from Zappos and it was marked down from like 200. So I did manage to get a Missoni scarf for a tenth of the price!!!
As the website was still working (don't ask me how) at roughly 10:30 am, I did manage to get the sweater I really wanted:
Cute or what? I does have gold threads woven all over it. Looks way more than the $49.99 I've paid...
*Exhaling* . Did feel a little better because I did get some of these things (had order numbers and confirmation e-mails and all) before the website crashed for good that September 13th!!!!
Was worried that my items would never come, maybe they would get canceled - saw some people complaining at Racked.com...
You know what, after all of this I did still get very disappointed with Target. I've had a better image from them. That they could handle all this traffic and also impose a quantity limit so these morons cannot buy everything and sell for super crazy prices on Ebay. Racked is reporting that there are more than 21 THOUSAND Missoni for Target items on Ebay. This is ridic.
Note the Harrison Ford "bonus" shot (haha).
I did NOT want to reward those Ebay unscrupulous sellers, but the infinity scarf I did miss at the site spoke louder...
It is gorgeous and matches my sweater! I really did not see this one at the site on the brief window that the site was actually working. Saw it later, when it was already sold out...
Paid only 20 bucks more than the $24.99 price tag. Not bad...
Now (drumroll): this is me modeling my fresh out of the box Missoni loot!!!
The golden infinity scarf is WAY beyond my expectations... Has a gold thread all over and shines! The quality is amazing, not itchy at all. Super soft... LOVED IT!!!
The cardigan is also amazing! Thought it would be too busy, but no. Just loved it!
I am just wondering if I should have ordered the size M... Now it is too late. I don't think it is too snug...
Now I am just waiting for my gold cardi and the pink long scarf... Will post them as soon as I get them!
Ciao bella!!!
