“Try” Allows You to Try on Clothes Before Shopping Online.
Chrome: It’s convenient to buy clothes online, but there is one drawback: you don’t know what the product will look like until you buy and deliver it. Try.com is a free service that aims to correct this inconvenience.
The website works with a number of online clothing retailers (J.Crew, Zara and Urban Outfitters to name just a few). You sign up through their site and then download the Chrome extension. Once you have done this, whenever you browse the sites of any supported seller, a Try option will now be available, allowing you to “order” the item through Try.com instead of from the seller.
From there, Try will ship the item to you along with a prepaid label. If you don’t like it, you just return it. Your credit card is never charged and shipping is free. Of course, if you like it and leave the product with you, Try will withdraw money from your card.
You can try on up to five things at the same time, and you have 10 days to decide. CEO Ankushev Segal says that they are making money, increasing sales to retailers. Here is a complete list of currently supported retailers:
- Aldo
- Barneys new york
- Bloomingdale
- Eastern dane
- Forward
- J. Crew
- Neiman Marcus
- Reformation
- Revolve Clothing
- SSENSE
- Shopbop
- Topshop
- Urban Masters
- Zara
Of course, you can usually buy and return the item to an individual seller. But different stores have different return and exchange policies, and you may need to pay or not pay shipping to return. It is incredibly convenient to send goods back with this service. In addition, you do not take any action until you try on the item and decide to keep it for yourself.
Of course, the service requires you to associate your personal information with your credit card information in order to work. The site uses Stripe as its payment processor. This is the same service that Lyft, Kickstarter and TaskRabbit use. You can read more about Try’s privacy and security policy here , and here’s a quick summary of Stripe’s security:
We use industry standard Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology to protect the account registration process and registration information. Other security measures include, but are not limited to, data encryption, firewalls, and controls on physical access to buildings and files.
Here’s the rest of Stripe’s Privacy Policy and you can check out the Try it out at the link below.
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