Straight from their mailout:

Hi Everyone!

Earlier this week, during your most crucial purchasing moments of our Spring Cleaning sale, we experienced some serious down-time. The frustration that many of you experienced while trying to make purchases is unacceptable and we promise to never ever let this happen again forever ever.

To allow you to make the most of the sale, our friends at Rackspace (the folks that host Threadless) are sponsoring five thousand $5 coupons on orders of $50 or more. The first five thousand people to use the coupon code ‘spring08‘ during the Spring Cleaning sale will receive $5 off their order on top of the already discounted sale price. Time to go on a shopping spree!!!!

In addition to the $5 coupons and to make up for lost time, we are extending the Spring Cleaning sale until 11:59:59 CST on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008! The new shirts to be released on Monday will also be on sale!

If you are interested in all the geeky details of what went wrong, please join Harper Reed, our CTO, in a live discussion of your questions and concerns. To chat with Harper please visit threadless.com/springchat. Harper will be available to answer your questions from 12pm to 3pm CST on Monday, March 24th, 2008.

Again, we apologize for the unreliable shopping experience and hope that you enjoy the rest of the sale!

Sincerely
Jake Nickell
Founder, CEO

So I guess that explains why my order was processed and shipped in less than two days. I don’t know how quickly they’ll get through 5000 orders, and it seems like tempting fate for Rackspace to encourage everyone to rush to the site in the hope of using the coupon, so if you want $5 off then you’ll probably want to place your order sharpish even if it does mean wading through the cold-treacle like pace of their hammered servers.

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Episode One: Spring Cleaning! from Threadless.com on Vimeo.

We all know that at the weekend I’m usually out sailing the yacht that my HYA blogging riches have paid for, but I thought I’d better take a moment out from sipping Cristal with my excessively large entourage to let you know that Threadless are having yet another of their famous sales. I was going to say that it was another of their famous $10 sales, but this time around some of the tees are going to be as low as $9! Presumably those cheap tees will be slogan based, whilst ones with larger designs will be more than the usual $10 (boo!). Also, I would expect that this sale is clearing out whatever they have left in Fruit of the Loom stock as well now that they print tees on their own stock.

Just to reiterate, the sale starts tomorrow (Monday 17th) with no specified end point that I can find, so expect some slow load times and a lot of items to be going out of stock as you order them.

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Threadless Bestee Awards Recap from cshimala on Vimeo.I’m not going to ruin the surprise of the Bestees for all y’all, but if you click through to this link you can see all the winners of the various categories and prizes, or you can watch the awards recap in the video embedded above (feedreader…. readers may need to open up the webpage to see it). Congrats to the winners (even if I do not agree with some of the winning designs), and well done to Threadless for actually having the awards in the first place, from my quick tally they gave out $100,000 in prizes for the Bestees, crazy stuff.

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Even if you don’t recognise the name, I’m sure you’ll recognise some of his previous Threadless winners, one of which has a great shot at winner a Bestee when the Threadless awards are announced soon. Also, I should probably mention that I got the above picture from his site, since it showed off the design and the tee better than the fun pics on the Threadless site, but I don’t think it will annoy him too much since it helps expose his design.

If you get your kicks from faux-vintage, faux-technical, faux-factual designs then I’m sure you’re a pretty happy chappy (or chapette) having taken a look at this design. The colourway looks really nice as well, it keeps the illusion of old paper going pretty well.

Costiness=$17/40 tee/hoodie (gee, that new pricing structure is working out great!) Link

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There was a bit of a serendipitous moment on New Years Eve this year (last year?) when I managed to create a costume that bore a passing resemblance to a reprint that Threadless made available on New Years Eve. Now that I’m looking at it almost two weeks later I must admit that in my hungover state of January 1st I felt that the two were far more similar, but I needed an excuse to post a picture of my New Years outfit and this was about the best I could manage!

Clearly, Electric Jellyfish is a decent design, but it ain’t got nothing on my made-up superhero, ‘Bone-man’, which is me, if I were a superhero, I had no made-up superpowers beyond being slightly more awesome than I already am. Clearly, the LEDs are the biggest draw (and boy were they bright), everyone I met that night gave them a second look, some people even came up to me an patted my belly, I don’t know what that was meant to achieve, but one thing remains clear lights=friendliness. Oh, and I know it just looks like gren paint in the picture, but around the outside of the fabric B glowed in the dark so that the design could be read with lights and LEDs turned off, it it was a similar situation on the cape (which I apparently forgot to take a picture of).

Oh, and note to Threadless, if you want Electric Jellyfish to be really, really good, you’ve gotta make it glow in the dark (presuming it doesn’t already) and have LEDs poking through, then it can receive the title of “most ridiculous shirt ever”, which would probably be a fun Bestee category.

Costiness=$45ish (plus about 5 hours labour) Link

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I was perusing my old bookmarks, when I noticed “SpearTalks: Threadless - Josh Spear“, and thought, “hey, people might like to read this!”

There aren’t any startling revelations, but if you need to brush up on your Threadless history and want to learn a bit more about the guys that run Threadless, its a pretty decent read, although some of the info is a little dated now since the interview is from last September.

One very interesting thing I picked up from the interview:

Threadless goes international… because we set up a partnership to have a mirror warehouse just north of London to better serve our European customers. We haven’t launched that, but the year ain’t over yet!

Was anyone else aware of this? Its certainly the first time that I’ve heard it mentioned. Hopefully this will lead to lower shipping charges for us EU dwellers and no more customs charges (like being charged £11 on £22 worth of goods - sickening!).

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Here’s Andy’s pick o’ the week from the latest crop of Threadless tees. I’ve picked ‘we have ways of making you talk’ because these tees which have lots of little elements on a theme neatly arranged seem to be gaining in popularity (there were similar Threadless designs with stereos and rayguns), and because this tee actually has more depth than you’d imagine. Do you see the the feather, I can’t decide if that’s a ‘pen is mightier than the sword’ reference, or if the designer just really hates being tickled. This tee also has ‘we have ways of making you talk’ printed on the upper back of the tee, which is fairly rare to see from the typically front-printing Threadless.

Oh, and if they’re listening, top notch bunch of product photos this week Threadgang!

Costiness=$10 (until Saturday when the sale ends) Link

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Threadless just dropped some knowledge on us about their upcoming awards:

Woohoo! I think we’re all ready for a much-anticipated update on the annual Threadless Awards aka The Bestees, huh?

The 27 categories will be announced in all of their glory on Monday, December 31!

As mentioned in the previous newspost, we’ll be awarding $100,000 in cash and it breaks down as follows: Five $10,000 prizes. Seven $5,000 prizes. Fifteen $1,000 prizes. We’re also going to be awarding ten extra “honorary” Bestees! All of the winners will be receiving the incredible Bestee The Elephant trophy!

Get ready to roll out that red carpet!

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I Love Tokyo by Kumorfos

I haven’t done a ‘Threadless pick’ for a while, not because the releases sucked, but just because they didn’t amaze me and I was worried about hitting you with Threadless overload, but this weeks releases had couple of real gems amongst them. I’ve picked the above design, ‘I Love Tokyo‘, because 1) I do, and 2) Pink on black tees works really well when the pink is used fairly sparingly. And I’ve picked Sound Advice, because Olly Moss seems to be able to only design tees that I like, and he’s hit the nail on the head again with what appears to be a t-shirt disguised as a public safety sign.

Sound Advice by Olly Moss

In other Threadless news, they’ve finally released a tee on their own brand of custom tees (how long did that take? Didn’t they have some of the ‘I [heart] Threadless’ tees on custom earlier in the year?), and picked ‘Home Is Where the Heart Is‘ as the tee that should receive that honour, personally, I don’t understand why they picked a design that is better suited to a polo shirt, but hey, I don’t run a successful tee business so I’ll let them decide. Oh, and remember, the $10 sale is continuing until December 16th.

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Fancy having a piece of limited edition (limited to 1, I guess) that has hung in the window of the Threadless retail store? I kinda do.

For those who are unaware, Threadless put up three new paintings by Joe Suta (their “in-house magical graffiti musician snowboarder extraordinaire”) in their window each week. The paintings are a hand drawn mashup of the winning tee designs from that week, which is a pretty cool idea. They sell for $250 a piece, is that high? Low? It seems pretty reasonable to me, especially since the paintings are on the large side (48″ x 36″). Yes, I’m equating the size of art to its value…

Threadless Retail Art

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