Comments on: T-Shirt Hell’s Personal Stimulous Package

By: Teenormous T-shirts

Teenormous T-shirts — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:08:09 +0000

I too posted about them but I did say: “Not really sure what to think of it, but it’s a fun read.” I was suspicious, but it was news, regardless. I too feel slightly duped (I say slightly cause I never FULLY believed it).

By: matthew.reinbold

matthew.reinbold — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:54:30 +0000

@Michael
No, even before his recent actions it was pretty clear he doesn’t care. This is not about changing him. It’s about a change with me.

@Andy
To each their own. I’m not calling every t-shirt blog and review site ban t-shirt from hell shirt (although the rapid response from some shows there is support for the idea). I can only speak for the content of this site. And going forward even if T-Shirt hell creates the most jaw-droppingly clever geek shirt since the shroud of turin – a design so perfect that affiliate sales could bathe my grandkids in riches and fondle a thousand mistresses with trackbacks I won’t cover it.

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:27:41 +0000

I fell duped as much as the rest of you, but I don’t think that us tee bloggers would have had that much of an effect to be the cause of a large chunk of those 100,000 tees (which is an accurate figure from what I’ve seen), especially since every (tee) blog post I saw about the closure was pretty negative about the site.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:20:08 +0000

“The biggest point tho – would you trust this guy with your credit card number?”

Oh, give me a break. Name a t-shirt company that’s been on the net longer than T-Shirt Hell? Have you ever heard of any issues with orders or fraud or the like? I haven’t. Did you look to see how many complaints they’ve had in their history with the BBB? I looked the other day and it was 1. 1 complaint. Compare that with Busted Tees who have 43 complaints in the last 36 months or Threadless who have 20 and I think you answered your own question.

Just cause the ass pulled a prank to get sales, doesn’t mean he would do something illegal or screw customers over.

And I agree with Jan, it’s not like you bloggers ever covered T-shirt hell to begin with. Do you think they really care if you say you’re not going to cover them in the future?

By: matthew.reinbold

matthew.reinbold — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:47:32 +0000

Jan, Fair enough, I've only covered one shirt from t-shirt hell in the past. A bulk of their merchandise was either off-topic or too crude for coverage here. But I certainly won't bother browsing in the future. But as someone who personally helped dupe the blogsphere your opinion is not entirely unbiased either. Depending on the state what t-shirt hell did could be construed as false advertising (see point #3). It was more than a joke. And the bridge has pretty much been burned if he should try something like this in the future. The biggest point tho - would you trust this guy with your credit card number?

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:40:49 +0000

I’m dying to see if my comment gets approved.

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:40:20 +0000

You never covered T-Shirt Hell in the first place. Quit pretending that now you’re going to stop covering them. And so what if they pretended to close down. It was a joke and it’s perfectly in keeping with the tone and the humor the site has always displayed.

By: kat

kat — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:09:54 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with you. I keep the same line of never-posting-about-t-shirt hell-again too, and I’m starting from now by not even posting about the fact that it’s not closed. T-shirt Hell is closed to me. I can’t believe I even felt sorry they were closing down!

By: The Taddict

The Taddict — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:03:16 +0000

Agreed.