Wardrobe malfunction, indeed.
Discount retailer
Target is still reeling from the nightmare that the launch of its sought-after
Missoni collection caused, as customers continue to take to the web to express their anger over the fashion fiasco. Will the highly publicized faux pas take customers elsewhere for their designer threads?
Curbed.com complains, "
Now that the Missoni budget collection has successfully knocked Target offline and screwed up just about everything else, eBay sellers are laughing all the way to the bank.This is our favorite of the absurd number of Missoni for Target auctions happening right the second: one guy's selling a full/queen-size comforter and sham set for $715. Original cost of the cotton/polyester bedding? $99."
In addition to the gleeful seizing and reselling of the zig-zagged items by ruthless fashion pirates, hapless fashionistas who were lucky enough to purchase by phone or the web are losing hope as stories circulate of widespread cancelled and botched orders.
"If you placed online orders for Target's Missoni line," New York Magazine cautions, "you may have received an e-mail from Target late last week asking you to confirm that you still wanted the order, which would be delayed for at least a month. "If we can't deliver your item(s) by this new estimated delivery date, we will automatically cancel your order," the e-mail message read. We did not place orders for the line but are told that when going to the Target site to confirm orders, customers were only given the option to cancel orders."
"After reaching out to Target for comment on Friday, late last evening we were only sent the statement Target has posted to its website, reading that "unprecedented demand" for the line "impacted our Target.com site and affected the shipment and delivery of select guest orders." Target does not say when or if all customers who placed orders will receive them."
Will the Missoni debacle drive loyal Target fans elsewhere? Or will savvy shoppers keep coming back?