I know that its unfair to compare a newbie like Tee Fury with the Shirt.Woot behemoth, but when you see a tee site that sells one design a day you can’t help but think “hey, that sounds a lot like Shirt.Woot except their tees are a dollar cheaper.” Shirt.Woot sells their tees for $10, Tee Fury sell theirs for $9…. but Shirt.Woot’s price includes shipping (+$5 for overnight shipping or international) whereas Tee Fury pop $2 on for shipping. But hey, its just a dollar extra so I probably shouldn’t have wasted time explaining it.
I like the way that because Tee Fury only sell one tee at a time that they can keep the site really simple and keep the artwork/artist on the front page, with the tee at the top and comments on the design straight underneath them. They aren’t hiding away what people think of the tee, its right there on the front of the site, which takes serious amounts of belief in your artists and your designs. It’s hard to tell whether their designs are consistently good since they don’t have an archive of previous designs, but I do like the one featured today (which is actually yesterday, since I wrote this post yesterday). Looking around the Tee Fury forums they seem to have a few recognisable (Tom Burns, Rikki B, Jimiyo) names from the tee world that are already getting involved, which bodes well for the future.
One reason why those artists might be fans is because Tee Fury won’t ‘own’ your design if your tee is sold through them. As I understand it, the design is just ‘rented’ to Tee Fury and they sell it for the day, then the artist owns it again and can do whatever they want with it.
