About Designers ClubQ: What is Designers Club?
A: Click on the Designers Club button to read about it.

Q: How does Designers Club work?
A: Designers post their stuff in the Catalog, when somebody buys one of their designs, an email is sent to the designer (and reported in their account) with info about the sale and who to send it too. The Designer sends the item to the buyer and the buyer is sent a follow-up email 2 weeks after the sale to make sure they've received their item, if no complaints then payment is then issued to the designer the 15th of the following month. This is to make sure the shopper is happy and there are no charge-backs.

Q: What kind of fashions ARE acceptable?
A: Womens and mens original clothing, costume, cosplay, stage wear, and accessories designed and made in San Francisco, Bay Area, Northern and Mid Cal for now. Our target audience is aged 16 to 60, has a modern lifestyle, and appreciates original fashion and costumes.

Q: What kind of items are NOT acceptable?
A: We are NOT accepting children’s apparel, printed t-shirts, gifts, knick knacks, holiday items, 2nd hand items, or home décor at the moment, but maybe in the future.

Q: What do I need to sell my stuff on EcoCouture.TV
A: Here's a general check list:
1# A collection of ready made apparel and/or accessories, at least 6 pieces.
2# Clear photos of each piece, prefer on a live model, front, back, side, and close ups.
3# A Paypal account or some other service to receive online payments.
4# Care labels and hang tags on all items.
5# Phone number and email for customer service for your shoppers to contact you.
6# 250 words or more describing you as a designer for your profile.
7# Email list of friends, associates, fans, and clients to invite to EcoCouture.TV
8# A Paypal account to receive payments.
9# An EcoCouture.TV Designers Club account

Q: I know lots of designers, can I invite them and make money from their sales?
A: Yes, if their designs qualify and sell on EcoCouture.TV you will earn commissions from their Catalog sales and earn commission from their Designer Club sign ups.

Q: I don't know how to post e-commerce and all the configurations?
A: We have real people to post your products for you for $ 3 per item. Once in your Designers Account use the contact form to leave your phone number and best times to call and a designer services rep will call you to set it up.

Q: I don't understand why it's not free like other sites?
A: There are 4 huge other factors which aim to keep EcoCouture.TV independent of commercial corporate control from venture capital backing:

1# Tech Stuff in a Nutshell in non-geek speak - Software needs to be updated regularly so that security and function is 100% 24/7 keeping members and sellers safe and happy; most software updates are free, but it takes time to maintain and the work is constant.

2# EcoCouture.TV Spam Control is partly automatic with the catchpas and having folks fill out profiles first, partly with having folks pay up front before posting products and blogs, and partly by done by hand by real people to delete the spam or off-topic posts that do get through, which is also time consuming and constant work.

FYI = Real life examples of "dead in the water" tech problems: One of my old sites without the automated cachpa software and pay to post had me deleting from 20 to 300 porn spam posts a day (one post at a time - old software). Another site got too popular to handle the traffic and kept crashing - server update problem. And another 2 sites, each with different software, got hacked through glitches in code and lost their whole databases – total over 36,000 members and 4 years of stories, editorial, how toos, FAQ's, and resource library compilation – major ouch. Viewers/users usually don't know about any of these problems, they only know that the site is working or not working. But behind the scenes these are the kind of problems that make free or cheap to post sites sell out to corporations and become full of banner ads and pop ups and too much stuff to find your stuff.

3# Then there is quality control, if it were free to signup and sell stuff on EcoCouture.TV it would be all printed t-shirts, knitted slippers, and hand made Santa hats and then being bought out by a corporation. That’s not what EcoCouture.TV is about. EcoCouture.TV is about quality indie designer fashion from an indie source.

4# The per sale fee is to pro-actively attract shoppers with discounts, coupons, and affiliates for the success of EcoCouture.TV designers. Larger sites don't charge enough to really promote indie designers and small labels, and also aren't run by fashion professionals who can quality control and properly categorize fashion. EcoCouture.TV still charges less than a consignment boutique or co-operative, but it provides a lot more in quality online exposure and pro-active user-friendly marketing and social networking facilities and services.

Q: When do Designers get paid?
A: The buyer is sent a follow-up email 2 weeks after they've bought the item, to make sure they've received their item and are happy; if no complaints then payment is then issued to the designer the 15th of the following month. Example: If the item is sold on the 22nd of November, the follow up email is sent the 6th of December; if no complaints by the 13th of December, then payment is issued on the 15th of January.

Q: Are designers responsible for shipping?
A: Yes, remember to include your shipping charges in your sales price.

Q: How much should I give for Club discounts?
A: A minimum 10%, the more you give the faster the sale.

Q: How much do Designers earn as Affiliates?
A: Affiliate referrals pay 10% per sale.

Q: How long should I leave my stuff up if it does not sell?
A: 3 Months for In Season, 3 months for Last Season, for a total of 6 months is recommended. A Clearance Items sale section will be installed in the near future for items that have been up for more than 6 months.

Q: How do I check my orders and sales?
A: 1# Login to your EcoCouture.TV account.
2# Click My Account - in the left menu.
3# Click the Orders tab or the Selling tab.

Q: When will the site be fully operational?
A: Right now the site is operational and you can sell stuff and earn cash and use the blogs, forums, social networking, coupons, affiliates, etc., but fine tuning and software tweaks should be finished in within months.

Q: How do I post images in my listing?
A: Still waiting on automated upload software to be finished; but meantime host your images on another site and use HTML tags in your Product listing, use a right click mouse (they work on Macs too)
How to::
1 - Images are hosted on example mysiteblabla.com
2 - Right click the image and click View Image
3 - Copy URL of the image from browser address window. example: http://www.mysiteblabla.com/image/myimage.jpg
4 - Paste image URL into your listing in between < > and image tags, example:

5 - Use the width and height tags to adjust the size of the image as it appears in your listing no more than 400 by 400 pixels else your image will mess up the layout of your listing.
6 - Make sure to double check before clicking save.
7 - The image will appear in your listing when you've saved and published your listing.

If you have more questions please post them in the Web Site section of the forums.