"Out Of Stock" & Killing Hypothetical Situations

I hate shopping. 

This might be because I am a blogger and we're globally acknowledged as being poor, poor bastards. 

But this might also be because I hate the general public and even a 5 minute  trip to the grocery makes me go all stabby. 

This is why I like shopping online. I can look at things I can't afford, without all the bullshit tourists and lollygagging-shopping types scuffing along in their Uggs and hotpants getting in my god damn way. 

But do you know what totally kills your Browser Shopping high?

Items that are sold out. 

If you're shopping IRL, you only see the item they have in stock. Sure, they may not have your size, but they never really taunt you with an item that COULD have been yours, if only you had been here a month earlier. 

But online, oh ONLINE, they show you something absolutely beautiful, and only just as you're about to put in your credit card details do they go -OH! Sorry. We don't have this. But, eh, we'll let you know when we do. Um, like, we're sorry. And stuff. 

But Mod Cloth put it all out there for you. 

If you're looking at the gallery of their dresses, they have a "Out of Stock" graphic underneath every dress they no longer have any of  - but keep on their website to taunt you and to make you click that YES OMG EMAIL ME WHEN YOU HAVE MORE IN button. (Which probaly 10000 other panicked women have clicked, which means you probably will NEVER be able to buy that dress.)

Mod Cloth totally killed my Browser Shopping buzz this evening, as all I wanted to do was to look at pretty dresses that I would buy if I could afford them, but they totally ruined that  with their god damn Out Of Stock signs, and their taunting of "only 1 left!" and "only 3 left!" and "you'll never make enough money to afford this, Cate!"

It felt like every single dress I went all gooey over was out of stock. I mean, every single dress I would have hypothetically bought and spent my invisible Monopoly money on - GONE!

So, because I have nothing better to do at the moment - here are the dresses I would have bought if they hadn't been sold out. Oh, and if I had money to spend on ridiculous things like $50+ dresses. 

The Gift Giving Dress 

Lasting Impressions Dress

Ferry Ride Dress

Lookout, Cookout Dress

Just think of how much fun I could have maybe had if I had been able to buy those dresses.

Image via About.com

Comments

[Mademoiselle Robot]

I feel 100% the same about Modcloth. I love their dresses but I am just sooo frustrated that they never have anything in stock, or so it seems.
Sigh.
x

[Jane]

For some reason I read the name of the third one as "fanny ride dress". Heaven knows what that dress would like, but it doesn't sound like the kind of thing they'd sell on Modcloth. Along with all their other lovely dresses that they don't actually sell, and just taunt us with.