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Danl90 please start writing things down things on list i've given you so much more than this, you even missed off todays HBlad Camera and Cat Walks !!

Sooo right here before your very eyes your starting to give me a Platform list and you didn't even realise it, i very much doubt that you'll ever be in press conference of a Fashion Company but if you are you will thank me because when a CEO blurts out the word Platform you will hopefully by then have a comprehensive list (even if you may not u/s the list) and not just take him at face value but be able to challenge him.
Are you getting those Universal Works Cords or not? If there a bit punchy on px BH do have some, there quite street tho, not sure there really you.
https://www.boohoo.com/relaxed-fit-cord-trouser/MZZ03034.html
or you could go double cord , if you get the below can you please post pic of you wearing coz if they look any good i maybe tempted myself
https://www.boohoo.com/corduroy-utility-shirt-and-trouser-set/MZZ32598.html

GPJ -Yet another Manchester Based Company only this ones a bit different, guy starts up from his Bedroom with little knowledge and gets to a stage where he gets to a IPO , impressive.
I know the company but don't work with them and also don't know Adam but to get to this point means he is a creative and very driven, he needs to be because as you point out it's getting a bit crowded, unlike many retailers that raced to the bottom on px they need to add value into the Brand with marketing and targeting the right influencers which they seem to be doing, this burns cash tho, room is def getting very busy and it's hard to keep getting noticed.
Dan your list "for all you need to know " for me is getting quite long now, you're learning fella.

Only cash burn going on at mo is infrastructure and inventory of product to generate sales. Can tell you that Q1 to Q3 will be less than pretty for most if not all.

Dan you made correct decision selling but you need to walk away from the board, be sure to look both ways mind.

Berenberg initiates on Boohoo, says 'Not for the faint-hearted'

Danl90 your an accoutant , people give you bits of paper and figures, we have a design team, we create, we dont create we die, you dont hsve a creative bone in your body, you will never ever understand and from your posts its clear you never will.
Your quote
Most important thing is your platform
Wrong most important thing is to design product your demo falls in love, your platform is the easy bit , you can have best one in World but if your product is not liked your buggered, Supreme, worst platform form in World , sell out in seconds when they launch a line on a archaic site with shocking deliveries, why?
Your an accoutant, you will never understand, which is why im in on this share and you ain't.
Your an accountant.

PP - whilst i have in depth understanding of the market i just want to point out that BH have a moutain to climb, Now young Daniel has a very shott selective memory, i explained this journey to him back in Jan ish , so not that long ago and he argued and argued with me till he was blue n the face that it was not that bad and they had marketplace and would nail it. You yourself have had similar disagreements with me , i at least have respect for you for sticking to yiur strategy and defending it. However this mountsin is pretty tall , i can see that BH Group have the kit and climbers to get to the top but not without the odd avalanche that might take em down a bit. Dans a sherpa , bigged it up at base camp, gave lots of chat , recited the leader to give him the balls to start the climb, first rock fall he gets a bit nervous , second rock fall he s running back down to base camp. This share and many others could be hit by a massive avalanche that cud wipe it out , no guaranteess, i know the terrain, i know the climbers i can't see the weather but im as sure as i can be that we will get to MY top. Meanwhile Dans back at base camp watching everyone carrying on praying that we dont get to top, convincing himself it was right decision as he saw ydays and todays weather.

Dan , sooo let me get this right your comparing Moonpig against fashion companies, yep , i thought so.
Warning, warning, warning, do not buy back into fashion companies.
PS whats this Ha thing all about, bit Paul Daniel esq , RIP .

Thats it Dan , well done all that time key board warrioring and thats it, thing is you have to look it up i dont and you have hardly answered anything

Smoke coming off Danl90's keyboard while he tries to Google a tit bit, could be a long night.

Danl90 some impact of course has to be but once again your looking backwards, this game doesn't stand still, it changes at speed when required, do you think JL sat with K, whisky in hand going oh damn all our gear is stuck , never mind JL , more ice.

This is your JL the guy you uttered every sentence from and hung on his every word like he was the new Messiah!

Dan says
Also I think it’s more that the pricing is now hugely impacted a £30 jacket is costing €45! That’s crazy and didn’t used to be that far apart so clearly boo is trying to pass cost to customers.

One jacket, seriously, across a multi Brand Worldwide offer, which now incs Debs Website (platformish) that incs Beauty and the game changing marketplace that you lavished over when JL spoke about it which you immediately u/s it and pigeon holed it into your head, fella your in the wrong game with this share, thank God your out.

God knows why this is impacting, Asos have a massive DC in Berlin, we ship direct from India , BH also shipping direct from source. They do not just make in UK but Turkey , China , India , ****stan all can ship direct.
UK production an issue but £ v Euro 1.17 last year 1.08, for BH Group new recent Brands they don;t make in UK for DP's we ship direct to EU, AR will intro UK supply base but if its problematic won;t happen.
Asos , BH again ship direct to US.

Dan
You don’t need to answer it. Whatever you can say would just be words. If topshop could do what asos and boohoo could do it wouldn’t have been so wedded to sell via asos. And instead it would have been aggregating brands like the rest are doing

Again you are not privy to the back story, firstly the whole test repeat thing is as i've told you is a given everyone does it, until Etail came along all UK retailers would do trials of 300pcs to 750pcs across each store category from site A to site D, when online came along of course it was easier to see but yet Next still does these store trials today, they must be wrong tho Dan i'll let em know.
What you are not aware of is that due to underfunding as already described and shocking management appointments PGs days were numbered, he haemorrhaged some great people, who saw writing on the wall, left right and centre to Asos, he is allegedly supposed to have even rung up Nick Robertson threatening him down the phone. PG resisted and resisted, whilst everyone was cross pollinating, from selling to Asos, in the end he had no choice and relented.
As i've said PG didn't see what was coming and Asos especially smashed him to bits but the reasons why are many, so many and arguably sitting in a 100m yacth in Monaco reminds me of George Best story, he's in Hotel and opens the door to the bell boy who is delivering Champagne, behind George is a scantily clad Miss World lying on the bed surrounded by cash from Georges winnings at the Casino, Bell Boys says, "So George, where did it all go wrong" Hopefully you get the picture Dan.

Dan already told you that BH is doing W/H deals and will ship direct to EU from other Countries to mitigate across BH group Brands

Right young Daniel i think we maybe getting somewhere and your starting to put some flesh on the bones a bit with quotes press releases.

Sooo the stuff i have taken for granted for the last 20 years you are lumping under one single title and your understanding is that all this stuff is somehow new and it's the Holy Grail and has been overlooked by the great and good.

So i will write a list of what you think is a platform, mine by is short, two words, transactional site, if i miss anyhting be sure to let me know, i may have even give you some heads up on this like the first one below for instance.
Transactional site that is:-
Able to be dual currency linking £ prices to Country of Platform offer
Easy to Navigate
Strong back office with easy transactional payments
Possibly in your eyes a Marketplace, where each Brand can upload new product easily (this can be a nightmare,i've done it)
Easy return policy
I dunno knowing you you've probably lumped marketing under this title as well.

You are putting many other things under this and i totally u/s why because you don't see the nuances so for the likes of you JL and others call it a platform what they wont say is this.
White works better then grey when taking pics.
Models with face tattoos worked well from 2018 and till 2019 but don't now.
Rotating of pages on a twice weekly bases is imperative and the ability to do it because everyone switches off after page 5
Drill down menus have become so sophisticated that it has increase a buy through by 50%
Expanding reasons for return lists have enabled Asos to reduce them by up to 2% in some categories.

Now you have no clue if any of the sites you mention have this knowledge.

You are also now lumping distribution under platform, really its not, its part of the offer but you can by all means call it a platform. Simply put if you have a got a easy returns and delivery next day then your no in the game, call it platform i call it a state of the art DC and Courier Service.

NOW MOST IMPORTANTLY ABOVE AND BEYOND ANY OF THE ABOVE IF YOUR BUYING TEAMS AND MANGEMENT BUY WRONG THEN FORGET THE ABOVE GETTING PRODUCT CORRECT FOR YOUR DEMO AND TELLING THEM ABOUT IT IS THE OVERALL NO1 MOST IMPORTANT THING , BUT THEN AGAIN YOU PROBABLY CALLING THIS PLATFORM.

Dan your not an ideas man your an accountant, if it's not already written on some report or chart you don;t get it, you can analise , lol, but you can't create, all the charts and graphs you use come from an idea first , everything else your reading is after the idea has gone to market, your always looking backwards, this is why you are nervy.

Dan firstly answer my point re Topshop then we can move on.

Anyone D/T BH and Asos at mo are filling their boots.

So bitter and jealous of the March dipper buyers, Dan has spoken, shares are only for accountants.
Danl90
You're right there are a lot of people who bought the Mar-20 dip and saw their holdings double and seem to think they knwo what they are talking about
- no understanding of the business model
- ability to read financial statements
- basic valuation methodology
and that is why they aren't sure if this is going anywhere fast and also why they hold £4 as some holy grail number although what £4 actually represents they aren't sure or could tell you

Dan, can you explain exactly what you mean by platform, you appear to be using this as a generic term and you also seem to think that whenever a CEO mentions platform that their idea of a platform is exactly the same as yours?
Now i maybe missing something here but if you mean by platform a website to sell off then i'm really unsure why you say a lack of one bought T/S to its knee's ?? Actually you wont probably know this but i remember when Arcadia launched Zoom in 1999 with the aim of making the brand synonymous with online shopping, at the time it was at forefront and considered revolutionary, rather than me trying to explain have a read about it.

https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/zoom-boost-arcadia/124835

Asos launched in 2000 whilst they were busy forging a way on line PG was disappearing up his own egotistical Ar** and fixating on being the Don of the H St in trying to buy M&S , he was looking in the wrong direction but they def had a Website from very early on, so as i say not sure where your getting this whole no platform idea from.
Arcadia failed for many reasons but not because they didn't have a platform , they did, but instead chucking a ton of cash at it he decided to yank out a 1.2bill divvy, nice and fair play, private company can do what he wants but don't expect when you underfund a company for it to remain a market leader because other companies are ploughing ever penny they have back into all aspects of their business to take your crown and so we are where we are today, this is about so much more than f***king platforms, they are a given but they are only a tool for the ideas, with out ideas you have nothing.

Apad , sorry they are not on my radar, middle marketv Ladieswear doing mainly soft separates, im in fast fashion young streetwear sector so i havent come across them, wish i cud help more , sorry !