Luxury sample sale sites Gilt Groupe and RueLaLa pick up traffic, despite recession - VentureBeat

Tue, Jan 13th, 2009

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Luxury sample sale sites Gilt Groupe and RueLaLa pick up traffic, despite recession

Luxury spending may be down, but that doesn’t mean that fashionistas aren’t clamoring for deals. Sample sales, which have been around for years, are often a way for designers to get rid of overstocked pieces and clothes that didn’t sell well in stores - at a steep discount. Shoppers in the know can get onto mailing lists to attend boutique and warehouse sales. But now it looks like that exclusive trend is progressively moving online, with unique visitors to online sample sale sites increasing over the past year - Gilt.com and Ruelala.com among them, according to a recent report from Compete.

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