Technology Fab.com: Winning in E-Tailing With Whimsy

摘要

Products on shopping site Fab.com are often so campy and overstylized that words fail to describe them: They are... fabsurd? Colorfully described in daily e-mails to Fab's 12 million registered customers are items such as "In the Seam Animal Pals" (pillows molded into shapes of pets) and the "Awmoo Red" (a spherical bong fashioned by designers "after years of hiding their unsightly water pipes"). In mid-March, the site's supply of dangling, sterling silver earrings in the shape of attacking sharks, priced at $58, sold out in an hour.