DutyFreeZone.com, claimed to be the world’s first virtual duty free shop, has announced the launch of a global concierge service.
The new service aims to help consumers worldwide with a variety of tasks, from arranging travel (e.g. travel agent services such as purchasing airline tickets, reserving hotel rooms and rental cars) and activities, to handling more localised services such as recommending a different route to work based on road/travel conditions.
The appointed personal concierge will offer assistance in several areas, including finance (paying bills), shopping (meal planning, remembering special occasions and purchasing gifts) and fitness (exercise monitoring and motivation, the way a personal trainer may do).
Consumers can search for deals through a web-based system, pay for items via secured credit card processing and have their purchases delivered directly to their home or office anywhere in the world.
The company said the DutyFreeZone.com business model offers benefits to both consumers (B2C) and businesses (B2B).
For B2C, a store owner uploads its products on DutyFreeZone.com, and the consumer logs on and buys the product at a discounted “˜Duty Free Zone price’. Products features are sold for as low as -50% off the retail price. “The retailer can move store inventory, drive traffic into the store while DutyFreeZone.com generates the traffic,” the company explained.
For B2B, DutyFreeZone.com offers bulk buying for importers/wholesalers worldwide. Sellers or manufacturers can upload their products on DutyFreeZone.com.
“Our concierge service is going to revolutionise the e-commerce industry and generate online business, and in-store traffic for small to medium store owners,” DutyFreeZone Vice President of Operations Angel David declared. “We challenge and invite retail store owners to upload their products on DutyFreeZone.com at no cost to them. DutyFreeZone.com will display the selected products and sell them to consumers using our proprietary marketing technology.”
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The new concierge service aims to help consumers with a variety of tasks |
About DutyFreeZone.com
DutyFreeZone.com, an official distributor and authorized dealer for the brands listed on its website, claims to be the first virtual duty free shop in the world. The company ships duty free goods to consumers from a network of logistic platforms that it operates in several duty free zones around the world.
Consumers shopping at DutyFreeZone.com do not have to pay import duty fees for items less than US$200 in accordance with the administrative tax exemption in place by US Customs. Import duty fees for items above US$200 will be absorbed by DutyFreeZone.com in most cases.
