Temptation from our sponsors...
Temptation from our sponsors...
Teextile just launched their first shirt, Good Old Times by Fat Mouse. The site launched about 20 days ago to the public and recently announced the first 5 shirts that will be available on the site. Well, those 5 shirts are now available for purchase with each being sold only for a 24 hour time period. And, this week only, the first person that buys the daily tee will receive it for free!
So, you might be asking, what is Teextile? It’s basically another t-shirt competition site. Basically, they are following a mixed Threadless/TeeFury/Shirt.Woot model. Like Threadless, they allow people to submit their designs and then the community gets to vote for their favorite. However, unlike Threadless, they will not have a constant stock of the same tees – all tees will only be sold for a 24 hour time period much like TeeFury and Shirt.Woot.
There’s no huge upfront prize at Teextile, instead, designers get paid based on the number of tees sold. They receive $4 per shirt for the first 500 sold. $2 per shirt for every 500-1000 sold, and then a buck for ever tee sold past 1000. The tees are sold at $15 a piece.
I have to admit that I like the layout of the site and the overall design of the site. Of course, the success of Teextile depends heavily on its community. How well will the t-shirt loving community embrace Teextile? Will designers flock over to submit their designs? They have all the bells and whistles in place to make it interactive community based site. You’ve got the forum where members can go crazy and post whatever they want and they’ve implemented comments on the design pages.
I do find it interesting, though, that they allow visitors to view a weeks worth of tees, despite only being able to purchase a givens days tees. This might work against them since people will make a decision early on in the week whether or not they will buy the rest of the weeks tees. It takes away the element of surprise and might cause less people to buy on impulse.
What are your thoughts on Teextile?
