Maxime Meiland has taken her webshop with expensive children’s clothing offline. She says she is a victim of the high gas prices. “People pay more attention to their money.”
It was a big flop right from the start: Villa Vito, Maxime Meiland’s webshop with very expensive children’s clothing. She sold the most old-fashioned items for prices up to 200 euros. The people didn’t buy it; they remember that Maxime sold all AliExpress junk in her previous webshop, but for ten times as much.
Maxim Victim
Maxime blamed our national character for the difficult start of Villa Vito in June. We would be too stingy to buy her very expensive children’s clothes. “I sell brands from Portugal and Spain. I think they spend more money on children’s clothing in those countries than here, I have the idea that it shouldn’t cost anything in the Netherlands,” she complained at the time.
Now, three months later, Maxime has decided to take her webshop offline. What does she blame now? High gas prices. “I also hear from other companies around me that they say: ‘That corona has cut it so badly and now with the gas prices…’ People pay more attention to their money! That is of course also logical,” she says in Shownieuws.
Not as expected
Two weeks ago, Maxime already had doubts about continuing Villa Vitto. “I notice that it is not as sales as I expected,” she then told the show column. “It’s going a bit less, so I’m thinking about it a bit: yes, do I have to go through with it?”
Daan Nieber, presenter of RTL Boulevard, thinks that Maxime better put his hand in his own bosom. Her prices were just too high, he says. “This news does not come completely out of the blue, because earlier there was a lot of fuss about the prices of her clothing line, because they are said to be too high.”
Maxime herself likes to wear expensive clothes:
