Best Online Places for Teens to Shop
ALLOY
www.alloy.com
Alloy.com is a fun, interactive website & clothing store, that sales teen clothing and targets young women, but what makes this site so unique is its flashy marketing style and design of the site. This spot has articles, quizzes, beauty tips for teens, horoscopes, fun features on celebrities and Hollywood heart throbs, and teen advice on relationships. When you first arrive at ALLOY, you would expect to be greeted by models in the latest fashions, like most typical clothing websites; however, when you arrive at ALLOY, you’re caught off guard by the excitement and commotion. It’s easy to get distracted by all of the interesting features on the site, and before you know it, you’re intrigued with the ambience of colors, links, and news. You came to the site to shop, but your focus will quickly blur, leading you to one of the 5 sections. ALLOY has shattered the typical mold of boring internet shopping sites, replacing the drabness with entertainment, while appealing to the masses of teen girls.
When you first arrive at ALLOY, you’re greeted with a colorful, flash animation that bursts into flowers and paisley prints, ending in solids. At the top of the page, are sections in bold links titled: Shop, Diva, Flirt, Life, and VIP. The ‘Shop’ link takes you to the Alloy’s catalog. The ‘Diva’ section features fashionable teens with style, latest teen fashion trends, celebrity spotlights and gossip, polls, and contests. If you glance to the left of the web page, you will see cascading flash animation, advertising the latest girl books, cosmetics, movie trailers, and much more. The Flirt section really rocks and is loads fun. The ‘Flirt’ section offers teens advice on love, break-ups, and relationship tips. “Life” focuses on issue that creat havoc in the lives of all girls while offering ways and advice on how to work with these issues. VIP focuses on celebrities news, gossip, and fashion trends. What’s really cool about this place is that you do not feel obligated to shop right away, you can surf the spot for a while, read, and delight your soul with information. ALLOY is a lot like an online fashion magazine, combining entertainment, advice, latest celebrity style trends and more. It’s a breath of fresh air.
What Rocks:
Free shipping on order over $75.00, catalogs available.
Quirky styles and selections of tights.
Return Policies:
Return items within 60 days from the ship date.
Will make an exchange, credit your account or refund your payment.
After 60 days we’ll be glad to issue a merchandise credit.
Delia’s
www.delias.com
Delia’s is a clothing web store and retail shop that carries the latest teenage fashion, catering to the masses of teenage girls and young women. The price ranges are reasonable and the ends of season sales are outrageous. Prices range from 6.50 for accessories, to 44.50 for clothing items. You will find shoes, jeans/denim/cropped, jewelry, accessories, pants, tops, cami’s, skirts, pj’s & Sleep wear, tanks, logo tees, swimsuits, shorts, and even casual office wear.
What Rocks: Free shipping over $75.00.
All logo tees: buy one get the other for half.
Return Policy:
Return any item within 60 days from the ship date
Will make an exchange & credit your account or refund your payment.
After 60 days you will issued a merchandise credit.
For exchanges: there is no additional shipping charge.
Shipping and handling on returned merchandise is nonrefundable.
Will not accept open or used cosmetics.
Worn swimsuits or lingerie; or garments used, worn, soiled or altered by the consumer.
Zappos!
www.zappos.com
Zappos.com has to be the Mecca site of online shoes stores! Zappo’s carries over 68 brands of designer shoes that range from dress, casual, sport, athletic, western boots, nursing shoes and also stocks hand bags and totes for nearly all occasion. This spot also rocks because it even carries shoes for children. If you’re looking for the latest Van’s, Puma’s, Nike’s, or Addidas, but you can’t seem to locate your shoe in your local mall shops, than you have an excellent chance of finding your shoe at ZAPPOS in the width, size and color you desire. Zappos’s even has vegetarian shoes! I came across this site 2 years ago. I was referred by my sister who’s a shoe goddess. It’s easy to become addicted to this place due to the never endless selection or styles, prices, shoes, and guarantees.
What Rocks :
68 designer brands of shoes.
365-Day Return Policy
Need to Return Your Shoes? It’s easy, and it’s FREE!
guarantee your 100% satisfaction. If you are not happy with your purchase, they we will be happy to accept a return.
Return shipping is absolutely free. We will provide you with a pre-paid UPS or USPS domestic label to return the purchase to us.
You can return your purchase for up to 365 days from the purchase date. Products must be in the condition you received them and in the original box.
110% Price Protection Policy
If you find a shoe for a lower price on another web site or in a shoe store, we will refund you 110% of the difference between the lower price and our price. We’ll even refund the difference if we lower the price at Zappos.com!
Return Policy:
– The shoe must be currently available in the same style, size, and color that is on Zappos.com.
– If a web site, it cannot be an auction site.
– If a store, it must be a legitimate store located in the United States.
– Taxes (if any) and shipping charges (if applicable) will be included when calculating the price difference.
For Guys:
Van’s
www.vans.com
Van’s on-line store is another great place and is mostly an extreme sports clothing store. Van’s.com is unisex version of ALLOY, and like ALLOY, it’s very interactive, entertaining, and wild. This place rocks because it appeals to males and females of all ages. What’s so interesting about this site is that it’s fashion and styles focuses on extreme sports such as skating, snowboarding, surfing, motor cross, motor x, BMX, X-Games, and latest sport fashion. Another amazing feature is that Vans.com provides it’s on line patrons with extra features that focus on music, bands, hosted van’s events; skate park directories, skate camps, and videos of extreme sports. Also features extreme athletes who are in the news. A clothing Mecca for those who love extreme sports and it’s fashion. You can expect to find brands such as the famed DC extreme sports Shoes. Prices are very reasonable and the return policy is great! Like ALLOY’s site, you do not feel obligated to shop right away. You can just sit, relax and browse the site as you absorb and read the profile of the latest newest BMX rider, or find out about local skate parks in your area or upcoming events hosted by Van’s Shoes & Vans.com. prices range from $30.00-$50.00.
What Rocks:
Hosted & Posted Event’s
Return Policies
Athletic Profiles
Recreation Directories
Return Policy:
If a product has a material or manufacturing problem or does not fit properly, you may return it back to us for a refund in the original form of payment.
Returns without original receipt must reference the original order number (which you may reprint from the order status page of shop.vans.com)
All domestic orders are shipped with a PREPAID UPS return label.
To ship an item back to Vans, simply pack your item in its original packaging with invoice included, and affix the prepaid mailing label. You package can be dropped at any UPS drop site or transit location.
American Eagle
www.ae.com
American Eagle.com is also a unisex online clothing store. This place is so unique because it offers girl, guys, men and women the latest trends on fashion. All sizes and you can even shop by size. Not as interactive as ALLOY and VAN’s, but its assortment of flash videos of models sporting A&E fashion will tempt anyone to whip out their credit card and shop to no end. This shop offers jeans, jewelry, logo and graphic tees, hoodies, sweat shirts, dresses, all styles of shoes, accessories, purses and handbags, hats, leggings, back packs, lingerie, under garments, sleep wear, and more. The prices can be on the high end, depending on your budget. The best part about AE is the American Eagle All Access Pass which is a new program that allows members who sign up to collect certain amounts of pints for every purchase made. You can then use points to redeem discounts on sale items or regular priced items in retail stores in the U.S. or online. When you join AE All Access for free, you receive 1 large AE credit card sized discount card to carry in your wallet to apply towards in store purchases or online, 3-4 mini cards to place on your key ring, stickers to place on your cell phone, wallet, or wherever you desire and a tiny info/membership booklet. You also receive discounted books in the mail that notifies you of sales and discount promotions. The neat thing is that the items may be a bit on the pricey side, but AE gives you points for every purchase. The points that you earn are based on your purchases which are detailed in your AE Pass booklet. I would recommend anyone to join!
What Rocks:
Shop by size – allows you to shop by your size, saving time.
Gift cards
Wish lists- save your favorites. Can’t shop today, its okay, just make a wish list and save your favorite items.
AE all Access pass.
Return Policy:
Can return items to any AE store.
Does not allow returns of under garments.
Converse
www.converse.com
Everyone has had at least one pair of converse tennis shoes or sneakers in their lifetime. Most of our parent’s owned a few pair. Converse.com is an interactive clothing and tennis shoe site known for it’s low rise Chuck Taylor style of show. This site allows the shopper to create/customize their own shoes, locate hard to find brands, shop for the latest brands and do much more. Converse also carries clothing items such as sweatshirts/hoodies, sweats, shorts, socks, silk screen tee’s and long sleeve shirts. Their prices range from $10.00 for accessories – $50.00 for shoes and or athletic attire.
What Rocks:
Site allows customers to customer and design their own shoes.
Large assortment of styles.
Return Policies
Assortment of styles and colors the shopper can select.
Return Policy:
Can return items within 60 days.
Keep receipts or use order number if unable to locate receipt.
On-line shopping is the new craze. Before you know it, you’ll find yourself, on one of these spots rushing to complete your back-to-school shopping.
