Even more sample sale sites...

When Gilt and Hautelook started doing business we nearly jumped for joy.  No more digging through boxes at sample sales, no more standing in line, pushing, and shoving for the best merchandise and no more scrounging around for the best deal.  Then Rue La La popped up along with Editor's Closet and Top Button.  The list goes on and on.  Obviously we have favorites and we do appreciate the sites' main goal (to get us designer merchandise at a lower price, sound familiar?).  We are just wondering when the market will be fully saturated, or what will happen when the economy gets better and designers don't have as much overstock.

Well get ready for another sample sale site, although this one has more promise than most.  Daily Candy is launching a new site, Swirl. The soft launch will be the week of November 16th and luckily the editors of Daily Candy will be picking the merchandise.  We may be sick of all of all of these websites, but we know we will for sure be checking this one out.

Gilt Groupe announces Gilt Fuse

Today we got a nice little email in our Inbox from Gilt announcing their newest site Gilt Fuse. This new site goes live on August 12th and is said to be Gilt's attempt to fuse fashion and affordability. We have had great luck using Gilt's original site. We've found exceptional deals and whenever we had any kind of problem, Gilt's amazing customer service people have been there to help us. Every interaction we have had with this site has been great including the amazing little notes they put in with every purchase.

Gilt fuse is said to have deeper inventory (less sold out stickers??) and lower prices. We are also excited because this site promises to sell some lesser known brands, and everyone knows, finding unknown brands is one of TheStylist's favorite things.

Membership to Fuse is invitation only, but if you are already a Gilt member you are automatically in.