Community Chat

[Tori3569]

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@Lucky Charm wrote:

I recently started purchasing clothing from Jennie Garth, who, to me, is a 'newer' vendor.

She's on Q2, which I don't ever watch, but my TV records her shows.  Mostly shot from her home.  

So if Q goes down, I'm hoping I can still purchase from her, via SM.  I signed up for some platform she is on, although I didn't choose to pay for it as suggested.

If she wants to continue to sell clothes, she'll have to do it without me 'paying' (to be a patron of sorts?).

She'll still make money from me, but just for her clothing, not her platform...

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Highly doubt Jennie Garth would just sell via socials.  She needs the distribution system of QVC--the contacts for manufacturers, the warehouse space, people to package the products for shipping and the shipping contracts themselves.  

[shoekitty]

I am pretty sure Jenny Garth has her own distributor. She does help design her clothes and she has someone manufacture them. QVC wouldn't  manufacture them.  Unless... it was a QVC made item, like Susan Graver, or Denim and Co, etc.  Jenny wouldn't have an problem selling on a website and other media if she didn't sell on QVC.    QVC just has widened  her audience and given her more selling ability. QVC does give her the opportunity to sell more items, and ship.  The more numbers you have made of each item, the cheaper in cost it is.  So, if she didn't sell on QVC she might not sell as much, an items could cost a bit more. But she seems to have gotten quite a clientele and following, so they most likely would follow her.....if she chose to continue if the Q ceases. Which I doubt it will. In the near future anyway. 

basically some vendors like Jenny, have a product,  a manufacturer,. They have product shipped to QVC, and they send out. Some of the vendors actually get the order sent to their warehouse and it is sent out from there.  I have had that done with a few vendors. 

[CalminHeart]

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@santorini wrote:

I do not know anything about retail and I'm just trying to understand what might be at risk. 

If XYZ Clothing wants to sell its items on QVC, does it get the items ready, agree on a bulk price with QVC, and then sell the entire block to QVC for future handling?  If so, they probably would not have to worry about returns because that would then be QVC's problem. 

Maybe there is a second possibility where the clothes would just be "on loan" to QVC as they attempt to sell them and XYZ Clothing would only get paid for the items that sell.

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I think it depends on the contract that is signed between the vendor and Q. I'm sure they aren't cookie-cutter contracts.  

A new, unknown vendor might not get the same perks as a long-standing vendor or well know brand. 

[Desertdi]