German style platform About You has eliminated all merchandise of secondhand platform Mädchenflohmarkt from its ‘Second Love’ class. The transfer follows robust accusations made in opposition to the secondhand platform. The cooperation began three years in the past.
The German secondhand style platform Mädchenflohmarkt has been beneath scrutiny for a few months. It’s accused of withholding proceeds from gross sales by sellers for months, or not pay them in any respect. Customers have written unfavourable evaluations on Trustpilot, the Baden-Württemberg Shopper Heart warns in opposition to promoting on the platform and prison proceedings are underway.
Mädchenfloharkt would withhold proceeds from sellers, or not pay them in any respect.
In keeping with a spokesperson from About You, the style platform turned conscious of the information on the finish of final week. Since then, it has began inner processes to take away the objects from Mädchenflohmarkt from its personal secondhand class, referred to as ‘Second Love’. The product supply is now offline.
Collaboration began in 2020
About You had been working with the secondhand platform for the reason that finish of 2020. In Could, the corporate launched its outcomes of the previous fiscal yr, which ran till February this yr. The fiscal yr ended with an working lack of 137 million euros.
About You needs to achieve operational break-even this yr.
The corporate needs to reverse this within the present fiscal yr. In keeping with founder Tarek Müller, it ought to be capable to obtain operational break-even. After all, receiving unfavourable publicity a couple of cooperation with Mädchenflohmarkt wouldn’t be fascinating.
