Do you all remember the old WOOT or even earlier Meh, when they offered cool construction gear, and fun artsy, and musical stuff. Alas! No more. I dunno…just makes me sad. And WOOT had the most excellent snarky Tees. I long to return to that time
@Kyeh It’s an old yellow pages advert in Britain… but anyone 30 or older in Britain would most likely remember it because they reran it for years and has been parodied by other ad campaigns (and sketch comedy shows) dozens of times. I think someone even wrote a book with that name and pseudonym to cash in on it.
Meh being a US only store, I didn’t expect anyone to catch the joke. I posted it for my own amusement.
@2many2no@Lynnerizer For a while when there were shirt sales, they discounted by dollars instead of percentages. Some folks may or may not have bought these at $2 or less.
I mean I remember the woot where they threatened you with a pallet of what were probably straight bulk returns to an electronic store and you had to deal with it/might get a tv in your BoC. So we were checking on our lab computers. Cause phone internet? Do you know what that cost?
@Kidsandliz well it never said that. What would happen is people would buy the BoC and then later someone who bought one would report “mmm I just got a freight delivery and there is a pallet in my driveway.”
Was a weird lottery. It’s changed a lot in 2 decades
The catalog is nearing 30,000 designs now. Unlike the rest of Woot, there is a search feature. I might be biased, however: https://shirt.woot.com/catalog?q=cat
@Kidsandliz@unksol Alas, they did. February 21, 2012 was “the change”, when shirt.woot went from USA made American Apparel blanks to imported Anvil blanks that did not fit the same.
February 22, 2012, the number one volume artist ventured out on his own (see write-up here.) – the timing purely coincidental, of course. But that was a double whammy and shirt.woot hasn’t been the same since.
Also since 2016, everything went to digital printing to varying levels of success and/or print durability. That set the stage for the subsequent Amazon Merch on demand, which is kind of the one running things for shirt.woot now.
@narfcake The current stuff from woot is using the newer setups with the ink that isn’t sticky and the pre-treat that doesn’t stink. The permanence is almost the same as screen printing, particularly in comparison to stuff that has minimal ink applied and can’t cross-link in curing as a result. (I do print-flash-print on most of mine, and I run the dryer on “barely short of scorch” so that the ink cross-links properly; I have shirts that I printed 15 years ago, and wear regularly, that still have no cracks.)
@DLPanther@narfcake
Limit up to five (5) free items per order. Yes, you can order up to 10 apparel items in a single order, and up to five will be free!
The discount is applied to the lowest-priced apparel in your shopping cart. If you have two items of equal value, then one of the items is free. You can order as many times as you want. If you wanna buy 3000 shirts (and get 1500 for free) it will take many orders to do it, but we’re not stopping you!
@lisagd@werehatrack I really haven’t had much of an issue there across hundreds of orders. Initial print quality issues like streaks, yes, but not print durability. For the one that do, the fabric itself was also getting worn, so i don’t chalk that up as a defect; screen prints would have had some wear too.
Front loading washer and dryer in use; print-to-order means they’re "replaceable ", so no special care done. My general exceptions are the older ones printed on American Apparel blanks; those typically get hung dry.
(With all that said, the BOGO was only up until yesterday the 29th.)
@lisagd@narfcake@werehatrack yes. And I was evaluating whether or not I was ready to make an attempt at graphic tees… I have always loved many of those designs. But I never go out anywhere so… Why.
I’m more a neutral color Walmart Hanes person. And even then I wear the ones the cats already put holes in around the house and save the good ones from them.
@narfcake@werehatrack I have Woot shirts more than 12 years old where the fabric shows more wear than the design. On two that I bought during the problem time (so less than 5 years ago), the design has flaked off so badly that you can’t tell what the design is. Both have long sleeves, so they don’t get worn as much as my short-sleeved shirts.
I was there at woot at the transition between crazy and mundane. I think it was a few years old, but not brand new. I never witnessed any of the crazy pallets first hand, but it was new enough people expected them to still happen. It had “matured”, but not yet been purchased by Amazon and turned into Yet-another-generic-store. I think there were two sites woot and shirt woot. Not sure if the page with deals on other shops was there yet. It hadn’t yet got overwhelming with too much content.
I mean it really only went downhill post Amazon. There was some branching out to limited thing like deals.woot.
But that was basically similar to Slickdeals. Users posting deals. Which I like. Wine.woot was fine. Meh has casemates.
There’s even sidedeals which is also good.
There was something about the post Amazon takeover where they tried to post so many “deals” at the same time. They diluted the community and started deleting posts for anything they didn’t like. So. There’s just no comments/community over there
I will treasure my zombie monkey from Three Piece Woot, but I almost never go there any more. I did give a couple of my very last Woot monkeys out for Christmas this year (2012 Monkey Games I think).
@duodec oh. Yeah I still have monkeys. Pull tabs and everything. I did give a sample set away. But I’m pretty sure my sister’s wouldnt have liked me if I gave them to their kids one Christmas and taught them to fire them.
Then again we don’t talk that much anyway and. Their kids aren’t THAT old. I mean oldest are about to graduate highschool but. Also younger. And the monkeys are just sitting there other than a cat getting one now and then… I mean what are they going to do about it… They can’t stop me. Bwahahahaha. Christmas monkey wars
just checked my account (first time in forever that I have hit the woot site). Joined 11/3/09 with 51 purchases.
By comparison, joined here 10/6/15 and have almost 100 orders…
I agree it totally tanked after the breakfast octopus…
@chienfou right before amazon took over, i scrambled my user information and the email address. didn’t go back for over 10 years, when i got something but it’s tied to my amastupid account now, safe the user name, hehe, which is mehisbest
"The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there” - L.P. Hartley
@Kyeh
“Fly Fishing” - J.R. Hartley
Shame no one in America knows who J.R. Hartley is.
Still, I’ll leave this one out there in case one person gets it.
@OnionSoup I’m not familiar with it, but it looks lovely. I should see if my brother has read it.
@Kyeh It’s an old yellow pages advert in Britain… but anyone 30 or older in Britain would most likely remember it because they reran it for years and has been parodied by other ad campaigns (and sketch comedy shows) dozens of times. I think someone even wrote a book with that name and pseudonym to cash in on it.
Meh being a US only store, I didn’t expect anyone to catch the joke. I posted it for my own amusement.
@OnionSoup OH - yeah, I went back and looked closer and realized that the book came after the ad, which is hilarious. Thanks - it seems so British.
I Miss the Old Woot
@2many2no
Well how PERFECT is that!
@2many2no @Lynnerizer For a while when there were shirt sales, they discounted by dollars instead of percentages. Some folks may or may not have bought these at $2 or less.
@2many2no @Lynnerizer @narfcake Some folks like you!
@2many2no @Kyeh @Lynnerizer
@2many2no @Lynnerizer @narfcake Oh, I don’t blame you one bit! I’d have done the same.
I mean I remember the woot where they threatened you with a pallet of what were probably straight bulk returns to an electronic store and you had to deal with it/might get a tv in your BoC. So we were checking on our lab computers. Cause phone internet? Do you know what that cost?
@unksol Gosh. I had forgotten about the buy a random pallet of stuff they had on occasion.
@Kidsandliz well it never said that. What would happen is people would buy the BoC and then later someone who bought one would report “mmm I just got a freight delivery and there is a pallet in my driveway.”
Was a weird lottery. It’s changed a lot in 2 decades
Still a good bit of snark from shirt.woot.
https://shirt.woot.com/catalog?q=snark
The catalog is nearing 30,000 designs now. Unlike the rest of Woot, there is a search feature. I might be biased, however:
https://shirt.woot.com/catalog?q=cat
@narfcake And you own all “2239 tees that have something to do with ‘cat’”. Right?
@Kidsandliz @narfcake Great, I had to order one. now I am one cat shirt closer to Enlightenment.
@Kidsandliz No. I didn’t even wear a catshirt today.
(Teeturtle shirt from 2012. That was … about 5 or 6 thousand designs ago.)
@narfcake
Are you sure the world won’t end today? Do I need to take precauations? I won’t tell my cats about your transgression.
@Kidsandliz About 80% of my shirts are NOT catshirts. They’re disproportionately worn, but I don’t always wear them.
@Kidsandliz @narfcake shirt.woot is probably the one thing Amazon didn’t ruin.
@Kidsandliz @unksol Alas, they did. February 21, 2012 was “the change”, when shirt.woot went from USA made American Apparel blanks to imported Anvil blanks that did not fit the same.
February 22, 2012, the number one volume artist ventured out on his own (see write-up here.) – the timing purely coincidental, of course. But that was a double whammy and shirt.woot hasn’t been the same since.
Also since 2016, everything went to digital printing to varying levels of success and/or print durability. That set the stage for the subsequent Amazon Merch on demand, which is kind of the one running things for shirt.woot now.
@narfcake Were those early DTG machines using that nasty perma-sticky salad-dressing-smell ink?
@werehatrack Yes, albeit it was the pretreatment that smelled of vinegar, not the ink itself.
@narfcake The current stuff from woot is using the newer setups with the ink that isn’t sticky and the pre-treat that doesn’t stink. The permanence is almost the same as screen printing, particularly in comparison to stuff that has minimal ink applied and can’t cross-link in curing as a result. (I do print-flash-print on most of mine, and I run the dryer on “barely short of scorch” so that the ink cross-links properly; I have shirts that I printed 15 years ago, and wear regularly, that still have no cracks.)
@narfcake Thank you for reminding me about shirt.woot. Teeturtle isn’t quite my style and my closet needs some fresh catshirts
@DLPanther Currently there’s a BOGO offer for Prime members.
https://forums.woot.com/t/prime-exclusive-buy-one-get-one-free-march-27-march-29-2024/1633013
Link to the catshirtswoot CATalog:
https://shirt.woot.com/catalog?q=cat
@DLPanther @narfcake mmm danger Will Robinson…
I had to burn my prime trial offer for dryer parts so I’ve got 30 days. May get myself in trouble. Could use some shirts though. Thanks. I think. Lol
@DLPanther @narfcake
Limit up to five (5) free items per order. Yes, you can order up to 10 apparel items in a single order, and up to five will be free!
The discount is applied to the lowest-priced apparel in your shopping cart. If you have two items of equal value, then one of the items is free.
You can order as many times as you want. If you wanna buy 3000 shirts (and get 1500 for free) it will take many orders to do it, but we’re not stopping you!
@narfcake what have you done? WHAT have you DONE???
@DLPanther
@Kidsandliz @narfcake So you wear one of these when you’re feeling disproportioned?
@Jackinga @Kidsandliz
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@narfcake @werehatrack So it’s safe to order replacements for my shirts whose design flaked off?
@lisagd Should be, yes.
@lisagd @werehatrack I really haven’t had much of an issue there across hundreds of orders. Initial print quality issues like streaks, yes, but not print durability. For the one that do, the fabric itself was also getting worn, so i don’t chalk that up as a defect; screen prints would have had some wear too.
Front loading washer and dryer in use; print-to-order means they’re "replaceable ", so no special care done. My general exceptions are the older ones printed on American Apparel blanks; those typically get hung dry.
(With all that said, the BOGO was only up until yesterday the 29th.)
@lisagd @narfcake @werehatrack yes. And I was evaluating whether or not I was ready to make an attempt at graphic tees… I have always loved many of those designs. But I never go out anywhere so… Why.
I’m more a neutral color Walmart Hanes person. And even then I wear the ones the cats already put holes in around the house and save the good ones from them.
@narfcake @werehatrack I have Woot shirts more than 12 years old where the fabric shows more wear than the design. On two that I bought during the problem time (so less than 5 years ago), the design has flaked off so badly that you can’t tell what the design is. Both have long sleeves, so they don’t get worn as much as my short-sleeved shirts.
I was there at woot at the transition between crazy and mundane. I think it was a few years old, but not brand new. I never witnessed any of the crazy pallets first hand, but it was new enough people expected them to still happen. It had “matured”, but not yet been purchased by Amazon and turned into Yet-another-generic-store. I think there were two sites woot and shirt woot. Not sure if the page with deals on other shops was there yet. It hadn’t yet got overwhelming with too much content.
And wine.woot right?
@kc5rbq the best. I don’t dislike casemates, but i miss the occasional real gourmet food offerings, introduced me to many brands of items i still buy
I mean it really only went downhill post Amazon. There was some branching out to limited thing like deals.woot.
But that was basically similar to Slickdeals. Users posting deals. Which I like. Wine.woot was fine. Meh has casemates.
There’s even sidedeals which is also good.
There was something about the post Amazon takeover where they tried to post so many “deals” at the same time. They diluted the community and started deleting posts for anything they didn’t like. So. There’s just no comments/community over there
I will treasure my zombie monkey from Three Piece Woot, but I almost never go there any more. I did give a couple of my very last Woot monkeys out for Christmas this year (2012 Monkey Games I think).
@duodec oh. Yeah I still have monkeys. Pull tabs and everything. I did give a sample set away. But I’m pretty sure my sister’s wouldnt have liked me if I gave them to their kids one Christmas and taught them to fire them.
Then again we don’t talk that much anyway and. Their kids aren’t THAT old. I mean oldest are about to graduate highschool but. Also younger. And the monkeys are just sitting there other than a cat getting one now and then… I mean what are they going to do about it… They can’t stop me. Bwahahahaha. Christmas monkey wars
just checked my account (first time in forever that I have hit the woot site). Joined 11/3/09 with 51 purchases.
By comparison, joined here 10/6/15 and have almost 100 orders…
I agree it totally tanked after the breakfast octopus…
@chienfou right before amazon took over, i scrambled my user information and the email address. didn’t go back for over 10 years, when i got something but it’s tied to my amastupid account now, safe the user name, hehe, which is mehisbest