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Selling on ASOS
nellb
Posts: 3 Newbie
Hi everyone.
i was wondering if anyone had sold on Asos. I have a small business and i was thinking about opening a boutique on asos. But the price has just gone up to £50 a month with 15% fees on items sold. This seems quite steep to me, so what i want to know is, on average is a boutique worth it?
i was wondering if anyone had sold on Asos. I have a small business and i was thinking about opening a boutique on asos. But the price has just gone up to £50 a month with 15% fees on items sold. This seems quite steep to me, so what i want to know is, on average is a boutique worth it?
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I don't run any business but when looking at a site I tend to ask a couple of questions.
Do they have a forum? That always seems to be a good gauge of what is happening on the site and whether people find it gvfm. This looks like a link here: http://getsatisfaction.com/asos_marketplace/?WT.ac=Mktp_Foot_Support. The lack of 'no sales today' messages seems to suggest they have a reasonable amount of traffic (as compared with Folksy where the forums are peppered with 'slow sales/how to improve sales' topics.
Do they have a completed listings function? Not everyone does but if they do that might demonstrate what is selling at the moment and for how much.
Good luck and I hope you get going there. I'm not into clothes so I don't buy or sell on the site but it would probably be interesting to have a topic or two about it as I'm sure there are other people out there with the same questions."Well, it's election year, Bill, we'd rather people didn't exercise common sense..." - Jed Bartlet, The West Wing, season 4
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BTW it's £20 not £50 pm for a boutique, but also 20% commission.
https://marketplace.asos.com/help/features-fees?WT.ac=Mktp_Foot_Pricing
Boutiques also need to be applied for and, apparent more from the forums than from the following page, the applications are manually approved.
https://marketplace.asos.com/my/boutiqueapplication/information
One issue that concerns me as a buyer is that their returns policies are not DSR compliant (though I guess you can supersede that and offer proper buyer protection) and they rely totally on Paypal dispute procedures rather than monitoring transactions themselves. I'd expect a site with that sort of % fee to cover more than that."Well, it's election year, Bill, we'd rather people didn't exercise common sense..." - Jed Bartlet, The West Wing, season 4
Am now Crowqueen, MRes (Law) - on to the PhD!0 -
Thanks for that Crowqueen. I think online is the way forward, but there are so many market places now to choose from. I sell jewellery btw and i do use all the other sites too. Asos just seems to have a different type of clientele. I think i'll start slowly & see how it goes. Thanks again
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