I neglected to tell you about Glenn Jones’ (better known as Glennz, who has had many tees printed by Threadless) new tee store a few weeks ago when everyone else was mentioning it. It’s not that I don’t like the designs, I just forgot to do it, but hopefully I can make it up to you by posting about the three newest designs that went on sale at his store a couple of days ago.
My fave is ‘Team Photo‘, it suits Glennz style really well, ‘Haunted Housework‘ is pretty funny and works well as a tee since there’s still a lot of people out there that love Ghostbusters, but I’m not really a big fan of ‘After Hours‘, possibly because I’m more of a pirate person than ninja person, though the image is pretty funny.
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.
Threadless: Spring Sale Starts Tomorrow
16 Mar
Posted by Andy as Mens, T-shirts, Threadless, Womens, sales, video
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.
Inaugrual Threadless Bestees Winners Announced!
15 Mar
Posted by Andy as News, T-shirts, Threadless, video
Threadless Bestee Awards Recap from cshimala on Vimeo.
How Many Licks? by Ian Leino @ Threadless
26 Feb
Posted by Andy as Mens, T-shirts, Threadless, Womens
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
If you’ve got a date for Valentine’s Day (not me… sigh) then you’ve got to be very careful about what you wear. I guess if you guys are taking your girl to a fancy restaurant then t-shirts might not necessarily be part of your dress code, but some of you might be taking the more casual approach, in which case one of these tees might be right up your alley. As usual for my lists, they aren’t in any particular order, and I know there’s a lot more romantic tees out there but I really thought it would be best to keep this list to the appropriate figure of 14 items. Affiliate links are marked with a *.
1. Only a few left at time of writing but a damned nice design. $15 Link*
2. Come on, it’s Ralph! $17.99 Link*
3. Here’s one for those of you that love math, and really, who doesn’t love math? $12 Link
4. Admittedly, this one is kinda on the edge, perhaps best worn if you haven’t got a date but are just desperate for a sweet embrace from a stranger. $13.95 Link*
5. As they say “nothing says friendship and commitment like a t-shirt …seriously, nothing.” $10 Link
6. This is probably the best use of glow-in-the-dark ink that I’ve ever seen, a heart shaped speech-bubble during the day, a not-as-cheesy-as-you’d-expect line at night. $18 Link
7. A cactus and a balloon; if they really love each other, I’m sure they can work it out. $15 Link*
8. Great idea from the La Fraise team, and they’d probably look pretty good as single tees too (more designs for couples are in their shop). €22 Mens/Womens
9. Clearly, I’m a sucker for tees based upon anything that has come out of the mouth of Ralph Wiggum! $14.95 Link*
10. A heart made out of tetris pieces? Awesome! $17.99 Link
11. Since most of the tees I’ve picked tend to be a bit cutesy, I thought I’d rock it up a bit with this detailed design from Ffee clothing. $25 Link
12. A really great idea from the ThinkGeek crew, the closer the two tees are the more hearts light up. Unfortunately these are sold out until about March/April, but I just had to put them on the list. $24.99 (each) Link
13. Simple, but pretty funny, it could do with some ThinkGeek trickery to make it change depending on your mood though. $12 Link
14. It just wouldn’t be a decent list if I didn’t give the emo kids some love with this design from Rob Dobi’s Fullbleed. $16 Link
Now go out there and make some magic happen!
The polls have been thrown open for the people’s choice award for their Bestees 2007 Awards ceremony. The winner gets ten grand, so head on over and make your pick. I was actually kinda disappointed looking at the selection available, I feel as if all the design available to vote on are great illustrations, but I’m just not sure so sure if they make for great tees.
Very interesting article over at the Crowdsourcing blog about everyone’s favourite user-submission and rating tee shop, Threadless. As you would imagine, the article is about the economics of crowdsourcing and something called ‘long-tail’, which are a bit over my head (though it is fun to learn about the business behind the cotton), but there are some very interesting numbers in the article:
- They sell 60,000 t-shirts a month
- The estimated gross for 2006 is $18 million
- The user community amounts to about 350,000 people
- When they do a reprint, they reprint at least 1,200 of the design (and remember how fast Flowers in the Attic usually sells out)
- They’ve turned down offers from Target and Urban Outfitters and 99% of sales occur online.
I know it’s a subject a bit off the beaten track of HYA, but I’ve noticed a spate of articles recently about small and underground tee companies, and thought you might want to hear about one of the success stories.
Threadless are having another of their famed $10 sales, but with an ever so slightly different theme this time. It’s a back to school sale, buuuut…. school is evil.
Everytime that they have a sale the inventory seems to disappear within a matter of hours (well, that’s probably a bit exaggerated, but I need to illustrate my point) so this time they’re releasing new designs over the next few days which will hopefully extend the longevity of the sale and keep their servers slightly less on fire, and guess how many new tees are coming each day?
6! Because of the evil theme! 6 today, 6 tomorrow, and then finally 6 on Wednesday, so keep your eye out for the new designs.
Oh, and just in case you missed the affiliate link earlier: Threadless, Threadless Bo Bedless… Threadless!
When I got the regular weekly newsletter from Threadless I was expecting the usual round of new designs and reprints, but the e-mail just kept going and going. They’ve added some new lines, redesigned the website (though there’s a distinct lack of web 2.0 ajax-ification), a new competition (with a massive amount of prizes), and there’s a sale on (do people ever buy Threadless shirts when they aren’t on sale?) until the 15th of June.
It’ll be interesting to see what people make of these changes, escpecially the Select range, which is more expensive ($25 a pop) than the usual offerings, though they are commissioned designs, Aiko is responsible for one of the designs.
Jungle Life has done a very thorough run-through of all the changes, check it out.
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