NEW YORK (AP) -- There's Black Friday, then there's Target Tuesday.

In a scene that was reminiscent of the shopping frenzy that typically comes on the day after Thanksgiving, Target's website crashed several times throughout the day and more than hundred shoppers lined up at many of its stores early in the morning on Tuesday for a sale of limited offerings of its Missoni for Target collection of bikes, luggage, clothes and housewares.

The 400-piece line made by the Italian luxury knitwear designer Missoni exclusively for the cheap chic retailer features its trademark zig-zag patterns for between $2.99 for stationary and $599.99 for patio furniture -- a fraction of the price of the designer's real duds that can cost $595 to $1,500.

"This was Missoni mayhem," said Joshua Thomas, a Target spokesman. "This is unprecedented."

So-called limited partnerships, in which high-end designers create cheaper versions of their fashions for at lower-end stores, have become popular in recent years because they appeal to cost-conscious customers who want to be stylist but aren't willing to pay designer prices. At a time when Americans are watching every dollar they spend, the limited-time offerings are also part of a growing strategy by retailers to spur impulse buys by creating a sense of urgency for shoppers to buy.

Swedish retailer H&M, which caters to 20- and 30-somethings with trendy clothes, often attracts long lines at its stores that reach around the block when it offers limited-run affordable collaborations from upscale designers like Jimmy Choo. It also will be launching a less expensive version of the Italian designer Versace's fashion collection in November.

Target, in particular, has become known for creating a lot of buzz for its limited partnerships with designers and fashion brands, including its latest success with Liberty of London last year. Target offered 300 items with the designer, which is known for its floral prints, and sold out of most of the merchandise in a couple of days.

Likewise, Target Corp., based in Minneapolis, worked hard to create buzz around the Missoni by Target collection. Target declined to comment on how much the company spent on marketing, but it targeted social media sites like Twitter and had ads on TV and in Vogue magazine.

Ahead of the launch, Target also opened a temporary store in Manhattan at the start of New York Fashion Week last Thursday. But the colorful shop, which spanned six city blocks, had planned to stay open for three days, but winded up closing after six hours because items sold out.

Online, shoppers rushed to the site for the 6 a.m. launch. But soon after, online consumes came face-to- face with its mascot bulldog along with the disappointing news: "Woof! We are suddenly extremely popular. You may not be able to access our site momentarily due to unusually high traffic. Please stay here and we'll try to get you in as soon as we can!"

Even celebrities were tweeting about the launch. Actress Busy Phillips, who plays Laura in ABC's "Cougar Town," tweeted: "Got the bike. Not the colorful one but still SO EXCITED."

Target had planned to continue selling the line into October at all 1,700 stores around the country. But shoppers will be lucky if they can find something they want. In fact, based on a spot check by Target of stores in Minneapolis area, everything had sold out by Tuesday morning. Target is replenishing some merchandise over the next few days, but it will trickle in.

Some shoppers already are trying to capitalize on the fleeting nature of the Target's Missoni collection. As of Tuesday afternoon, there were 1,591 listings for Missoni for Target on eBay.com that were selling for more than double the price found at the discounter. Travel totes were going for $169, while shoes were selling for $129.99.

Such foolishness ~

Wendy mentioned this shit yesterday and I was like "Huh?"

This type of mayhem completely baffles me. And knowing that a lot of this shit is ending up on Ebay is too fucking comical.

So folks are paying damn near the prices for his REAL designer pieces???

Sorry but this shit is ugly. She looks like Charlie Brown

Gimme the REAL Missoni all day long

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SCNDLS said:

Gimme the REAL Missoni all day long

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This reminds me of an afghan my mom crocheted.

JuliePurplehead said:

SCNDLS said:

Gimme the REAL Missoni all day long

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This reminds me of an afghan my mom crocheted.

That's what he's known for but the quality is beautiful. The Target stuff's craftsmanship can't even compare. I can look at those pics and see the difference.

Even Bethenny was there

Absolutely ridiculous.

Well, that was fast. Both the Targets in East Harlem and on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn have been stripped of the Missoni collaboration, according to Twitter reports. @debrashriver estimated over 200 shoppers waiting at 7:30am for the Harlem location to open. (Among them was former Real Housewife Bethenny Frankel.) The collection there sold out in about 15 minutes, while @petitemaoiste says the racks at the Brooklyn location were emptied in about ten. Meanwhile, as of this writing, Target.com remains down.

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SCNDLS said:

JuliePurplehead said:

This reminds me of an afghan my mom crocheted.

That's what he's known for but the quality is beautiful. The Target stuff's craftsmanship can't even compare. I can look at those pics and see the difference.

I find this stuff all unattractive ! ~ Power to the people that love it ... it's just NOT my idea of attractive !

Machaela said:

SCNDLS said:

That's what he's known for but the quality is beautiful. The Target stuff's craftsmanship can't even compare. I can look at those pics and see the difference.

I find this stuff all unattractive ! ~ Power to the people that love it ... it's just NOT my idea of attractive !

Everything ain't for everybody. Not my fave designer by far but I still appreciate the QUALITY of his work. His knits are very complex and intricate.

SCNDLS said:

Machaela said:

I find this stuff all unattractive ! ~ Power to the people that love it ... it's just NOT my idea of attractive !

Everything ain't for everybody. Not my fave designer by far but I still appreciate the QUALITY of his work. His knits are very complex and intricate.

Oh I can do that with most anything ~ even things I find "unattractive" ~ pretty easily really !

Anyway ~ i'm back to my "such foolishness" frame of mind now !

Machaela said:

SCNDLS said:

Everything ain't for everybody. Not my fave designer by far but I still appreciate the QUALITY of his work. His knits are very complex and intricate.

Oh I can do that with most anything ~ even things I find "unattractive" ~ pretty easily really !

Anyway ~ i'm back to my "such foolishness" frame of mind now !

Yeah, that whole standing in line for hours to invade a store to SHOP confounds me.

SCNDLS said:

Machaela said:

Oh I can do that with most anything ~ even things I find "unattractive" ~ pretty easily really !

Anyway ~ i'm back to my "such foolishness" frame of mind now !

Yeah, that whole standing in line for hours to invade a store to SHOP confounds me.

Yeah ! I'll PASS !

Machaela said:

SCNDLS said:

Yeah, that whole standing in line for hours to invade a store to SHOP confounds me.

Yeah ! I'll PASS !

For real! Did you see that gatdamn line winding around the parking lot???

I'll never understand people who do this. I've tried black friday a few times, found something minor like CDs or some shit, stood in line, then sat there trying to rationalize the point of standing in a line for hours to save $2. I'll walk out and leave that shit right there. Online shopping has me spoiled.

Now the day after Xmas, I'll get up early for that cuz I can clean up at Target and Crate and Barrel and get a lot of decorations for the next year.

There were a whole bunch of women in my office this morning, talking about what they bought at Target last night. I said, "I can't wait 'til all the folks who bought this stuff start meeting themselves on the street."

Why would you want wear the same thing everyone else is wearing? Get a job where you have to wear a uniform, if that's your kinky inclination.

I didn't know about this until it was over, but I wouldn't have gone anyway.

People will get on the bandwagon for just about anything

Of course, how many of those peeps that went were only buying it to put on ebay anyway?

obsessed said:

I didn't know about this until it was over, but I wouldn't have gone anyway.

People will get on the bandwagon for just about anything

Of course, how many of those peeps that went were only buying it to put on ebay anyway?

The sheer frenzy around stuff like this is crazy. I didn't know about it either until I saw it on Wendy and then it was everywhere on the news and online last night. The video from this mess is just wacky

SCNDLS said:

Sorry but this shit is ugly. She looks like Charlie Brown

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I'm not hot on that dress either, but I do have a short-sleeved sweater with a similar

zigzag print on the top 3rd, and my daughter calls it my "Charlie Brown" shirt

I do love those cups and plates, however

SCNDLS said:

obsessed said:

I didn't know about this until it was over, but I wouldn't have gone anyway.

People will get on the bandwagon for just about anything

Of course, how many of those peeps that went were only buying it to put on ebay anyway?

The sheer frenzy around stuff like this is crazy. I didn't know about it either until I saw it on Wendy and then it was everywhere on the news and online last night. The video from this mess is just wacky

I'll have to look at that video, just for entertainment purposes

obsessed said:

SCNDLS said:

The sheer frenzy around stuff like this is crazy. I didn't know about it either until I saw it on Wendy and then it was everywhere on the news and online last night. The video from this mess is just wacky

I'll have to look at that video, just for entertainment purposes

The clothes were ugly and cheap looking and looking at all them damn zigzags gave me vertigo.

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i'll just wear my old clothes from the 70s. that zig zag design is not 'missoni original' y'know....

SCNDLS said:

obsessed said:

I'll have to look at that video, just for entertainment purposes

The clothes were ugly and cheap looking and looking at all them damn zigzags gave me vertigo.

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I agree, a few toooo many zigzags...kinda drives the eyes bonkers!

I just realized however that I've been seeing this stuff in Target for a long time already,

but until it was advertized, nobody seemed to be scarfin' it up much

obsessed said:

SCNDLS said:

The clothes were ugly and cheap looking and looking at all them damn zigzags gave me vertigo.

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I agree, a few toooo many zigzags...kinda drives the eyes bonkers!

I just realized however that I've been seeing this stuff in Target for a long time already,

but until it was advertized, nobody seemed to be scarfin' it up much

Now that and these fools spending more to buy it on Ebay is REALLY funny

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I don't like the Missoni patterns. What I mean is, they seem like something a teenager or younger child would wear.

XxAxX said:

i'll just wear my old clothes from the 70s. that zig zag design is not 'missoni original' y'know....

Yeah, I love second hand shopping.

SCNDLS said:

Wendy mentioned this shit yesterday and I was like "Huh?"

This type of mayhem completely baffles me. And knowing that a lot of this shit is ending up on Ebay is too fucking comical.

So folks are paying damn near the prices for his REAL designer pieces???

Sorry but this shit is ugly. She looks like Charlie Brown

Gimme the REAL Missoni all day long

[Edited 9/14/11 6:34am]

Actually, this reminds me of the whole HP Touchpad episode back in August. For those you you who aren't aware, Hewlett Packard was putting out a computer tablet which was supposed to compete against the iPad. They had commercials touting the product featuring some fairly famous celebrities.

But tech critics said that while the HP Touchpad was a decent device, it lacked enough features to truly compete against the iPad. Nevertheless, HP launched the device in July and sold it in stores for the same price as the iPad ($499). No one bought it. Inventories started piling up in stores and collecting dust. HP then slashed the price by $100 but even then not many people bought it. Then by the second week of August the new CEO of HP told the world that the company was abandoning its hardware division and would no longer be manufacturing computers, tablets, or smartphones, instead focusing all its attention on its software business. The following day they announced they were slashing the price of the HP Touchpad to $99 to clear out inventory.

All hell broke loose.

Once word got around that HP was selling the Touchpad for $99, their website crashed, other websites quickly sold out of their inventory, and all of the brick and mortar retail stores saw it fly off their shelves in just hours. In fact, it sold so quickly online that many people who ordered the Touchpad (including myself) had their orders canceled because they exceeded their available inventory. I did manage to snag two of the devices, one of which I kept for myself and the other I raffled off at work for an ailing employee who had a stroke. But the whole episode was a debacle because HP handled this so poorly.

728huey said:

SCNDLS said:

Wendy mentioned this shit yesterday and I was like "Huh?"

This type of mayhem completely baffles me. And knowing that a lot of this shit is ending up on Ebay is too fucking comical.

So folks are paying damn near the prices for his REAL designer pieces???

Sorry but this shit is ugly. She looks like Charlie Brown

Gimme the REAL Missoni all day long

[Edited 9/14/11 6:34am]

Actually, this reminds me of the whole HP Touchpad episode back in August. For those you you who aren't aware, Hewlett Packard was putting out a computer tablet which was supposed to compete against the iPad. They had commercials touting the product featuring some fairly famous celebrities.

But tech critics said that while the HP Touchpad was a decent device, it lacked enough features to truly compete against the iPad. Nevertheless, HP launched the device in July and sold it in stores for the same price as the iPad ($499). No one bought it. Inventories started piling up in stores and collecting dust. HP then slashed the price by $100 but even then not many people bought it. Then by the second week of August the new CEO of HP told the world that the company was abandoning its hardware division and would no longer be manufacturing computers, tablets, or smartphones, instead focusing all its attention on its software business. The following day they announced they were slashing the price of the HP Touchpad to $99 to clear out inventory.

All hell broke loose.

Once word got around that HP was selling the Touchpad for $99, their website crashed, other websites quickly sold out of their inventory, and all of the brick and mortar retail stores saw it fly off their shelves in just hours. In fact, it sold so quickly online that many people who ordered the Touchpad (including myself) had their orders canceled because they exceeded their available inventory. I did manage to snag two of the devices, one of which I kept for myself and the other I raffled off at work for an ailing employee who had a stroke. But the whole episode was a debacle because HP handled this so poorly.

A hot mess all around

I guess we can expect to see more stuff like this between now and the end of the year. For right now I'm just a spectator.

morningsong said:

I guess we can expect to see more stuff like this between now and the end of the year. For right now I'm just a spectator.

I just saw a commercial for the Kardashian's Sears clothing line for hos on a budget

SCNDLS said:

morningsong said:

I guess we can expect to see more stuff like this between now and the end of the year. For right now I'm just a spectator.

I just saw a commercial for the Kardashian's Sears clothing line for hos on a budget

Those clothes are superfluous and wholly unappealing . No wonder JC Penny said "bump that".

reminds me of the rugs my grandma ruby used to buy back in the 1980's from the dollar store.