I feel really sorry for the Ten Bills crew over this story, because it proves that no matter how hard you work there’s always someone out there trying to screw you over.

An e-mail sendout to TenBills shoppers in 2007 announced the release of airplane keychains that would be included with the purchase of three $10 t-shirts. The declaration read, “Free Airplane with Purchase of $30!” One TenBills fan, however, expected a full-sized airplane and filed a lawsuit to get it.

And it actually worked. Ten Bills had to buy this guy a $39,000 Cessna airplane. Seriously America, you did some good stuff last month electing Obama, just when I think that you’re cool you go and pull something like this. [via Fletchy]

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When I heard that there was such a thing as ‘International T-shirt Day’, I thought two things “what the hell is this?” and “it must be a publicity stunt.” Spreadshirt own the domain (hurrah for whois!), so it could be some kind of publicity stunt, and probably not a ‘real’ international day, like Christmas or Talk Like a Pirate Day (just 126 days to go!), but I know Spreadshirt love their tees, so I’m interested to see how this will go, and what will happen in June 21st, which also just happens to be the first official day of summer.
Part of it, presumably, is linked to this blog post, in which they ask you to send a picture of you wearing your favourite tee and a short story explaining why it’s your favourite tee. And the prizes that are on offer? Well, 5 people are going to win one of those massive tees in the picture above, which have lots of little printed tees on them in all the colours that Spreadshirt offer. Not exactly that wearable for most people, but still pretty cool and very limited (just 5).T-Shirtday.com
Spreadshirt’s related blog post

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