ASOS shuts down ‘underrated’ site — but shoppers don’t need to panic

Right now, you’ve astir apt got an ASOS handbasket afloat of items acceptable for cheque retired (if lone you had unlimited funds).

The fashion retailer is the go-to for shoppers, whether it’s a caller holiday wardrobe, oregon a large nighttime retired outfit.

And now, ASOS has announced that they’re shutting down the Marketplace conception of the website, which features vintage items and collections from independent covering brands.

ASOS Marketplace has been dubbed ‘underrated’ and ‘amazing’ by fans, but shoppers don’t request to commencement grieving the nonaccomplishment of yet different manner retailer (RIP Topshop).

ASOS is migrating its marketplace sellers implicit to its main site.

It means that those autarkic sellers volition beryllium portion of ASOS.com, and shoppers volition lone person to browse connected 1 cardinal website, to spot everything.

ASOS besides added that determination were benefits from sellers. A connection connected their website reads: ‘Brands that migrate volition payment from accrued postulation and entree to customers, arsenic good arsenic enhanced tract functionality specified arsenic Buy the Look, which enables customers to bargain full outfits from aggregate sellers successful 1 click.’

The migration is acceptable to beryllium completed by April 2025. An ASOS spokesperson confirmed to Metro that ‘the Marketplace tract is being unopen down’, but added that ‘not each sellers are migrating’. 

ASOS’ marque director, Shazmeen Malik said they’re ‘excited’ for the change.

‘This migration embodies our committedness to curating the precise champion merchandise for our customers and empowers our sellers with accrued visibility and enhanced lawsuit experiences whilst maintaining inventory control.

‘We look guardant to the aboriginal possibilities this integration brings.’

ASOS Marketplace was launched successful 2010, and is location to astir 800 brands from astir the world.

The tract peculiarly saw maturation during the Covid pandemic, arsenic request surged from boutiques looking to articulation the platform, who had antecedently been selling astatine markets oregon successful bricks-and-mortar stores.

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