brigid_fitch: FTFA: Guilford said she had learned her lesson after standing in line last September for the wildly popular Missoni line at Target: Get to the store early, and be prepared to elbow your way through the crowd.

Or just shop online and avoid the hassle, moron.

Except, online sales started at 12:01 am and were sold out by 12:15 am.

Phoenix_M: brigid_fitch: FTFA: Guilford said she had learned her lesson after standing in line last September for the wildly popular Missoni line at Target: Get to the store early, and be prepared to elbow your way through the crowd.

Or just shop online and avoid the hassle, moron.

Except, online sales started at 12:01 am and were sold out by 12:15 am.

The next shipment probably cleared customs at 12:17 am.

A couple of months ago I stood in line for the Casey Anthony trail, and this woman in front of me in line began complaining about how much vultures everyone was for going to see the trial. BIATCH, WHY WHERE YOU THERE?

I was about to say, won't the store have more in stock later in the month?

Sybarite: I wonder how many people in this thread mocking these women will have themselves stood in line for hours waiting to purchase the latest iPhone or video game console.

I stood in line for Black Friday ONCE in my life and I swore to never do it again. If I can't buy it online then I wasn't meant to have it.

Target clothing?

/oblig

degenerate-afro: Sybarite: I wonder how many people in this thread mocking these women will have themselves stood in line for hours waiting to purchase the latest iPhone or video game console.

I stood in line for Black Friday ONCE in my life and I swore to never do it again. If I can't buy it online then I wasn't meant to have it.

This. I'm amazed at how the idea of manufactured, artificial scarcity is used as a marketing tactic - not that it's used, mind you, but that it actually works.

Instant Gratification, what America is now known for.

While everyone laments the 'Second Great Depression', people with shiat to do all day stand in line to buy clothes they don't really need with money they claim they don't have.

I'm surprised there isn't a debate about the "ironic" tag on this one. I would have gone with "Dumbass."

It's like rush hour traffic. Why are there so many cars on the road when I am trying to get to work?

Women are crazy. Can you imagine straight men lining up to buy designer clothes?

talulahgosh: i look forward to purchasing this line of clothing in less than one year from my local thrift store

This. And living in a college town makes it even more of a sure bet that I'll have a wide selection of cute cast-offs to choose from.

Lost me three words in.

This started waaaay back with the Liberty of London stuff at Target. Know about it before hand, get it the moment it goes on sale, expect everything to be picked through within an hour.

brigid_fitch: -they'll be available again well before mid-March.

Arthur Prefect: I was about to say, won't the store have more in stock later in the month?

No.

Still think the discount wedding dress stampedes are worse.

talulahgosh: i look forward to purchasing this line of clothing in less than one year from my local thrift store.

yes, or you could wait a week and get the clothes without waiting in line. did these people not own any clothes prior to this?

BHShaman: Instant Gratification, what America is now known for.

While everyone laments the 'Second Great Depression', people with shiat to do all day stand in line to buy clothes they don't really need with money they claim they don't have.

Clothes are now a want, and not a need?

$20-$60 for clothing's a pretty good deal. Beats the crap you get at Walmart. Bought a $5 shirt there for painting, it survived two washing and literally fell apart in the washing machine.

"This is insane. I'm totally shocked," said Jennifer McNamara, 23, of West Hollywood, is not very bright. while eyeing her competition in line.

FTFY

As a member of a household that has a new tote bag with a cat on it, I am getting a kick out of this thread.

Wasn't that crazy around here according to the Mrs.

Only thing I've ever stood in line for was Zeppelin tickets. (Lawn - OFF!)

Shazam999: Bought a $5 shirt there for painting, it survived two washing and literally fell apart in the washing machine.

i bought a three-dollar shirt at wal-mart 12 years ago, still got it and wear it regularly...

/wash?

FloydA: "This is insane. I'm totally shocked," said Jennifer McNamara, 23, of West Hollywood, while eyeing her competition in line. "I cannot believe how many people are in line. It's just clothes."

Yes, those people are crazy, right Jennifer?

Nobody shops at Target anymore--it's too crowded.

proteus_b: Shazam999: Bought a $5 shirt there for painting, it survived two washing and literally fell apart in the washing machine.

i bought a three-dollar shirt at wal-mart 12 years ago, still got it and wear it regularly...

/wash?

Yeah, that's the thing with a place like Walmart. You can get perfectly fine merchandise one day from there, and the next day it'll be replaced by something else that's inferior. Price is usually lower too but there's a limit to how low it can go.

Canada's got some pretty stupid clothing taxes, so our stuff is usually never as cheap as the USA's.

My girlfriend was at Target Sunday morning when the doors opened to get some of this designer's dresses and some handbags. She got 4 bags, and is going to sell the extras on Ebay. As of last night when she last checked, $40 bags were going for upwards of $160 on EBay and selling very briskly.
Cha-ching!

The_Philosopher_King: Only thing I've ever stood in line for was Zeppelin tickets. (Lawn - OFF!)

we're not worthy of your lawn

I have to side with the women on this one.

My wife is nuts over this farking Target designer stuff, and it never used to be a problem.

Target did online order fulfillment through Amazon, and it went like clockwork. The stuff went on sale at midnight, she'd just order what she wanted, and it would show up a couple of days later.

Target took the order fulfillment away from Amazon and decided to do it themselves--the Missoni thing was a clusterfark, and this wasn't much better.

Target can't seem to get their web site to go up with new merchandise properly--for this Wu stuff the main Target page had a link to a set of pages that was supposed to be for that stuff, divided into clothes and accessories, but the links to the categories didn't work. She went on at midnight and the links that were supposed to lead to clothes and accessories didn't work. Farking with some of the subs for clothes got some results--switching from the default, which displayed nothing, to small pictures suddenly produced items, except where there was no shopping cart link and instead a notation "available in stores" for items that were supposed to be available online only.

Target had posed on a twitter page links directly to items, which she found after half an hour of screwing around with trying to make items display directly from the site, but some stuff had already sold out by the time she figured out that the way to find things on Target's web site is to use twitter and not their website.

Because things were going on and off being available, she had to check out in three different shopping cart transactions. With the Missoni stuff people would check out, receive order confirmations, and then have their orders cancelled while people that had closed out orders later got their stuff. My wife got confirmations for two of the three orders she made, but no confirmation for one of them, which happens to be the first set of items she bought.

Meanwhile, at the store (for the one and only shipment the store will ever get of the stuff, no you can't come back in a week because their IS no second shipment) some items either weren't received at all or only two or three of some items were received. The store was supposed to only let people buy two of each item, but it wasn't enforced so at some stores the first person in line was allowed to just dump the entire collection into a shopping cart so they could go list it on ebay.

I could kill her for bothering me with this crap to begin with, but the fact is that Target is just farking with these women for the publicity it generates--they have the ability to make things go smoothly and fairly in the store, but don't do it because that wouldn't generate news stories. They had an online system that worked well working through Amazon, but decided to instead do the job poorly themselves.

Those are all very, very ugly.

The high waist would make me look like a hobbit. The neckline would double is effect, and would make my large breasts appear awkward. The color is off and would make your average woman look pale.

I could see these being cute in children's sizes, but for a grown woman?

WTF women?

Here is the whole collection (?) if you're curious (pops)

I graduated kindergarten long ago. I also have the misfortune of not being Mary Poppins. So, I will not be purchasing any of these items.

Sarah Palin's Conscience: Here is the whole collection (?) if you're curious (pops)

I graduated kindergarten long ago. I also have the misfortune of not being Mary Poppins. So, I will not be purchasing any of these items.

The black dress has a kind of retro rockabilly look to it, but the rest of it looks like absolute crap. Horizontal stripes? Bleh. Shrimp looking blue dress? Double bleh.

This all looks pretty terrible. Has America lost all sense of taste?

Shazam999: $20-$60 for clothing's a pretty good deal. Beats the crap you get at Walmart. Bought a $5 shirt there for painting, it survived two washing and literally fell apart in the washing machine.

Spend the extra 5 bucks and get a shirt off of Woot. They're generally funny. If you're lucky, you can hit a random day, and you only pay 6.66 instead of 10.

Target clothes is just low rent JC Penny's. Their men clothes selection is worse than wal-mart. Honestly you can nicer for cheaper on sale rack of Macy's.

Shazam999:

$20-$60 for clothing's a pretty good deal.

They have aisles and aisles of clothes in that price range. Or, you can go to Kohls.
You don't need to wait hours in line for a chance at a piece of clothing that you don't know will fit you, since you have to snarf your size before all the other vultures and that means a clothing grab.... not a leisurely browse, pick, try on, and admire.

It is about exclusivity and bragging rights, not about saving money.

BHShaman: Shazam999:

$20-$60 for clothing's a pretty good deal.

They have aisles and aisles of clothes in that price range. Or, you can go to Kohls.
You don't need to wait hours in line for a chance at a piece of clothing that you don't know will fit you, since you have to snarf your size before all the other vultures and that means a clothing grab.... not a leisurely browse, pick, try on, and admire.

It is about exclusivity and bragging rights, not about saving money.

It's still a good deal... I guess you wouldn't be outraged if it was aisles of $200-$600 clothing?

Why are all these less-hip-than-me people here buying the same clothes I want? These are FOR ME!

/did I capture the sentiment of said Target shoppers?

talulahgosh: Sarah Palin's Conscience: Here is the whole collection (?) if you're curious (pops)

I graduated kindergarten long ago. I also have the misfortune of not being Mary Poppins. So, I will not be purchasing any of these items.

wow, really? those are really boring.

Yeah, I don't understand the hype.