Saturday, May 14, 2016

Myhabit fashion sale site is closing on May 20, 2016

Unfortunately Ideel fashion sale site started offering less interesting sales and then closed its doors. Now Myhabit is following Ideel. Recently it has significantly increased the price of international shipping. Besides that sales became less attractive. All these factors have probably forced many customers to leave Myhabit. No wonder Amazon is closing the doors of Myhabit now.

Myhabit fashion sale site is closing on May 20, 2016


Before closing Ideel (former ideeli) offered awesome sales. Until now I haven't noticed anything like that at Myhabit. Amazon can sell stuff from Myhabit via other its ecommerce sites including Amazon.com, so no wonder we may not see any real bargains at Myhabit. But it is worth keep watching Myhabit until May 20.

Amazon suggests to use Amazon Fashion instead of Myhabit. But it is interesting that BuyVIP, a European version of Myhabit offering different products, keeps working. It doesn't ship internationally, but I was able to ship BuyVIP products to Russia via a parcel forwarder Qwintry. The disadvantage of this method is that the seller can't exclude VAT when shipping to a location in Germany.

As for other American fashion sale sites, I will keep using many of them including RueLaLa, Gilt and Zulily. These fashion sale sites won't replace Ideel and Myhabit for us, but it is better than nothing.

Fashion sale sites like Ideel and Myhabit became very popular several years ago. They have managed to get tens of millions of customers. Unfortunately what was good for customers, didn't allow the sellers to be profitable. The end was inevitable. But still customers can use the fashion sale site that have survived to their benefit.