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Rodney · July 22nd, 2007

The first "official" design is up today (12AM Texas time): Woot : One Day, One Deal (Sore Thumbs...a gaming related t-shirt design)

Looks like they are keeping with the $10 with free shipping gig.

They really are going for a low margin on these tees, especially since they are using American Apparel.

I just bought one and they aren't even upcharging for the 2XL.

Solmu · July 23rd, 2007

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Originally Posted by Rodney


	The first "official" design is up today (12AM Texas time): Woot : One Day, One Deal (Sore Thumbs...a gaming related t-shirt design)

Sold out in 48 minutes.

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Originally Posted by Rodney


	Looks like they are keeping with the $10 with free shipping gig.

Looks like I was wrong on that front then. If they just chucked on a couple of bucks for shipping I doubt it would affect their sales, but it would probably affect their profits significantly.

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Originally Posted by Rodney


	I just bought one and they aren't even upcharging for the 2XL.

At this rate it's more likely to be the woot killer than the Threadless killer

The stats page says they made $6200 off 500 shirts... which is interesting since that's more money than they even sold for.

Aaaanyway, I think this is going to continue to be an interesting thing to watch.

(on a personal note, I can't believe that with so many game controllers the Sega Master System was left out... again!)

edit: actually, I dare say that's meant to be a SMS controller top right... it just doesn't actually look like one.

Rodney · July 23rd, 2007

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Originally Posted by Solmu


	Looks like I was wrong on that front then. If they just chucked on a couple of bucks for shipping I doubt it would affect their sales, but it would probably affect their profits significantly.

I agree, the cost could be bumped up a few dollars and still be a darn great deal. $10 is probably around what the shirts would go for wholesale.

I wonder if it's going to be 500 shirts each time.

Definitely will be an interesting thing to keep an eye on.

ladyeinstein · July 23rd, 2007

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Originally Posted by Solmu


	Sold out in 48 minutes. Looks like I was wrong on that front then. If they just chucked on a couple of bucks for shipping I doubt it would affect their sales, but it would probably affect their profits significantly. At this rate it's more likely to be the woot killer than the Threadless killer The stats page says they made $6200 off 500 shirts... which is interesting since that's more money than they even sold for. Aaaanyway, I think this is going to continue to be an interesting thing to watch. (on a personal note, I can't believe that with so many game controllers the Sega Master System was left out... again!) edit: actually, I dare say that's meant to be a SMS controller top right... it just doesn't actually look like one.

I wondered that on "Woot Wage" in the past and it's always prorated as if the sale went at least an hour:

Shirt.Woot: The Community: Sore Thumbs

so get the number per minute sold and then multiply times 60, the x price to get the "Woot Wage" then you have a comparable measure of speed from sale to sale regardless of sellout and quantity.

wmdzign · July 23rd, 2007

Guys, guys, guys. It's all a marketing ploy. Start off with 500 shirts and see how it does. Next thing, 1000, 2000 shirts...plus if there doing this every day 6200 a day = 1,612,000 for the year...not to shabby

monkeylantern · July 23rd, 2007

Oh god. You shouldn't have shown me this.

Solmu · July 24th, 2007

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Originally Posted by ladyeinstein


	so get the number per minute sold and then multiply times 60, the x price to get the "Woot Wage" then you have a comparable measure of speed from sale to sale regardless of sellout and quantity.

Ah, that makes sense - thanks. I (mistakenly) read it as one of those modern business transparency things. It's a good way to give the obsessed a number to play with without giving anything important away actually

TickTac · July 24th, 2007

I started a site very similar trying to do the woot 'one deal per day'(7 days a week) idea... i didn't think they'd get into shirts.

wmdzign · July 24th, 2007

Guys, As I mention yesterday.

Woot added more shirts for today's design 50 more..watch how the quanitiies will keep on rising.

genius.

Rodney · July 24th, 2007

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	Guys, As I mention yesterday. Woot added more shirts for today's design 50 more..watch how the quanitiies will keep on rising. genius.

Nothing too surprising about that

I'm sure they'll find a spot where it is still "limited" but not too limited so that it sells out in 30 minutes each time.

I'm most surprised that they are selling them for $10 with free shipping. They are printing them in house, which helps to cut down costs.

Today's design took a bit longer to sell out than yesterdays. It will be interesting to watch and see which designs are "hot" sellers and which designs linger around for the full day.

ronr76 · July 24th, 2007

Rodney, you keep saying it will be interesting to see what happens with woot..
But why??
Will what they do somehow revolutionize the T-Shirt industry?

I just see this as a company leveraging their expansive user base to sell T-Shirts.
Their is synergy between their core business and their new t-shirt venture.

I'm just wondering what the big woot is all about.

T-BOT · July 24th, 2007

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	I'm just wondering what the big woot is all about.

well, pumping out shirts at $ 10 a pop (volume) is sure to shift some things around. Thats the woot.

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mj00 · July 24th, 2007

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Originally Posted by Rodney


	Nothing too surprising about that I'm sure they'll find a spot where it is still "limited" but not too limited so that it sells out in 30 minutes each time. I'm most surprised that they are selling them for $10 with free shipping. They are printing them in house, which helps to cut down costs.

Hi guys, I designed the Sore Thumbs shirt so I thought I'd pop in here to clear up a few things...

On the first day a shirt is sold, it is sold at the $10 price. Even if it sells out, it will still be available through a backdoor link (the link for mine is Woot Shirt : One Shirt, No Shoes, No Service (SM) if you want to see how it works), though at the higher price of $15. So if you don't mind paying a little extra, there's no real need to be up at midnight when new shirts go up.

I know there were also some questions about how designers get paid. It's a flat fee for the first night of sales and a dollar amount per shirt after that (I'm not comfortable being more specific, but they'd probably tell you if you emailed).

Also, I had my t-shirt blog linked in the product description and as a result I got over 2500 hits. I had a post about Threadless up and enough people bought shirts through that link yesterday that I have enough street team points for a free shirt. So some of you who have t-shirt businesses could have a ton of potential sales if Shirt.Woot sold one of your shirts. I think that's the thing that will make Shirt.Woot so huge- I can see a lot of businesses being interested in getting that many potential purchasers to their site, especially since the number of Shirt.Woot members is still growing.

T-BOT · July 24th, 2007

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	So some of you who have t-shirt businesses could have a ton of potential sales if Shirt.Woot sold one of your shirts. I think that's the thing that will make Shirt.Woot so huge- I can see a lot of businesses being interested in getting that many potential purchasers to their site, especially since the number of Shirt.Woot members is still growing.

makes sense.

i wish i were a t-shirt designer.

...but most here are.

thanks for the informative post.

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