Ok so if you read my blog you know what my favorite store is. I live no where near an Anthropologie store so I shop on line for their cloths about 99% of the time due to the nearest store is in Seattle and I get there maybe once a year...twice if lucky. Soooo...shopping on line is a bit difficult. Something I really love is out of stock and then I am out of luck right??? Besides sending one of my Seattle friends to Anthro I found a tip on "Effortless Anthropologie" and will share the words of wisdom with you!
The first trick comes through an Anonymous comment yesterday as well as a couple of reader emails (thank you!). Flipping through the old catalogs online it was discovered that products that still have stock will show available sizes in the catalog popups (as shown for the Lolland Sweater Dress on page 3 of the October Catalogue). See link here. October 2009 Lolland Dress
Here are links to a few recent catalogues (which themselves become hidden on the site after three months, oy):
The second trick to seeing hidden inventory is to add items to your wishlist while they're available. These days I add an item even if I'm just remotely interested in it. That way once it's "sold out" on the site I can still track the item's inventory in my wishlist. This isn't failsafe unfortunately. The wishlist has been broken since the redirects were put into place, so some items on my list still show up as having stock even though they're long gone.
A last failsafe is to keep items in your cart or saved for later. This is particularly effective with sale items. Items saved for later won't stop you from placing an order quickly but they will clearly show when an item is out of stock vs. in-stock. This is super helpful for sale items that sell out only to have inventory come back due to returns. Unfortunately the more items you have saved for later the longer the rich cart takes to load so it's a tradeoff. I wouldn't recommend doing this for more than a couple of items.
Hopefully this helps you out if you're relentlessly stalking an item (we've all been there, right?). Of course a better solution would be for Anthropologie to drop these J.Crewesque website shenanigans but that seems unlikely. Do you have any other tricks to share with the community?
A last failsafe is to keep items in your cart or saved for later. This is particularly effective with sale items. Items saved for later won't stop you from placing an order quickly but they will clearly show when an item is out of stock vs. in-stock. This is super helpful for sale items that sell out only to have inventory come back due to returns. Unfortunately the more items you have saved for later the longer the rich cart takes to load so it's a tradeoff. I wouldn't recommend doing this for more than a couple of items.
Hopefully this helps you out if you're relentlessly stalking an item (we've all been there, right?). Of course a better solution would be for Anthropologie to drop these J.Crewesque website shenanigans but that seems unlikely. Do you have any other tricks to share with the community?
I want to thank "Effortless Anthropologie" for the tips. I noticed that on a rare occasion that the previous two ideas had worked for me but the catalogue I was completely blown away! Thank you for the tips...hopefully this will help my readers find the items they have been looking for! Especially for those of us that can only shop Anthro on line! Happy Shopping!
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