MacGruber T-Shirt

I don’t usually mention shirts that are on preorder but things change. I’m not a fan of the Saturday Night Live MacGruber sketches but the movie looks like it might be funny. Who knows? I like the line about the upper decker in the trailer.

Local Celebrity: It’s just business

I got the Local Celebrity newsletter today announcing two new shirts and looking at one of them the first thing I thought was: I’ve seen that before. And I had. For those of you who don’t know the reference it is from a Flight of the Conchords song. Watch the following video to understand why these t-shirts are clever. I chose this title because I have been thinking of the Sopranos recently and it is like something Tony would say. It’s just business, nothing personal.

Anyway the new t-shirt from Local Celebrity is not actually a new idea. Very similar versions are already available (for quite a while) on two college humor sites: 6 Dollar Shirts and Nerdy Shirts.

I am a little disappointed by Local Celebrity. I would have thought that they have more integrity but … well…whaddya gonna do? Anyway, what do you think? Leave comments below.

Kanye West is a Douche T-Shirt

I don’t know what Kanye is really like but I, like most everybody else, read the news about his faux-pas at some music event…”I’mma let you finish but…” etc. and it was quite a douchy thing to do. This Kanye West douche tee from Nerdy Shirts is using the style most associated with Shepard Fairey’s Obama poster. It works well enough but the main reason I am posting about it here is that I am wondering how long it will stay up. I am imagine Kanye and his douche posse will be sending a cease and desist letter soon enough.

Busted v. Nerdy

I got an email from Nerdy Shirts informing me about a new t-shirt they have on sale so I decided to check it out and in my googling way to their store I came across an interesting link. The title of the link was NerdyShirts.com Honors BustedTees.com Designers. I wondered why Nerdy Shirts would be honoring Busted Tees so of course I had to take a look. What I found was very interesting indeed. It seems that Busted Tees is accusing Nerdy Shirts of stealing their web site design and when you compare the sites you can see why.

Here is what Busted Tees have to say about the situation.

Sometimes, we do not give enough credit to our behind the scenes team. Two of the most valuable team members we have are Amir Cohen and Zach Klein, who design our website. Lucky for us, a competitor of ours, NerdyShirts.com decided to honor Amir and Zach by copying our design for their t shirt selling website. If they “borrowed” our design, we only wonder where they borrowed their t shirt ideas from, because here at BustedTees, we do original work.

The problem we ran into with Nerdy Shirts taking our design is that Nerdy didn’t pay Amir and Zach for their work … but if someone uses their work, they have to get paid for it. Now, we could have called our lawyers and made a big deal about nerdy shirts but instead we decided run a sale on our original site, that we didn’t copy from anyone, on original shirts, that we didn’t copy from anybody, to make money to pay Amir and Zach for Nerdy Shirts using their work.

We also have our smoking-hot, original, BustedTees.com t shirt wearing models. They can’t copy our models … or come close enough to feed them. Support our originality, our models, and our designers, buy BustedTees.

That last dig got me wondering about how they stack up to each other in sales and of course I don’t have their sales figures but I think that there is a certain colleration between traffic and sales so the following graph might lend some weight to Busted Tees insinuation that Nerdy Shirts doesn’t make nearly as much money as they do.

The dig at the Nerdy Shirts models was a bit uncalled for though. That said, I do think some of the Busted Tees models are hot. No, I’m  not talking about you Jake.

Anyway if you still interested in shopping at Nerdy Shirts here is a 25% off coupon that they sent me: twgs8828. Unfortunately they didn’t give me any other information about it.

Nerdy Shirts Contest and Sale

About a week ago or so Nerdy Shirts announced that they are holding a contest in which all you have to do is upload a video with “http://nerdyshirts.com” as the first text in the video description to receive a free t-shirt. One t-shirt per person per challenge. You can read more here. Best video as chosen by Nerdy Shirts will receive $100 gift voucher. It is a pretty cool attempt at viral marketing by Nerdy Shirts but it may not be so successful as I couldn’t find any of the videos on youtube. Maybe I should take out my new Nikon D90 to make a little high def video for them.

The current challenge is “I love NerdyShirts!” You can simply say that or you can elaborate. It’s up to you! Remember, the more crazy/fun/weird the video the better.

I also received an email from them today telling me that they are having a pretty cool sale this week where you will be able to get your hands on a 4 different $4.99 t-shirts every day. Today’s offerings you can see below. They are apparently clearing out some stock.

More T-Shirt Sales

Just thought I would let you know of a few sales that are going on at the moment. First up, Crooked Monkey are 20% off having a sale through December 25th. (20% off all shirts-no need to type in a promo code. And if you buy 2 shirts you get free shipping.)

Deez Teez are also having a 20% off sale with the coupon code XMASDEAL.

Nerdy Shirts are giving, yes, that’s exactly right, 20% off shirts using the coupon code: lastminute. It’s only for 48 hours though and some of that is already up.

T-Shirt Sales Roundup

I have been notified of a couple or quadrillion sales that I thought you might want to know about so here is a list of some of them below. Don’t forget that for POD shops like Zazzle, Cafepress and Spreadshirt you can check the respective forums in The T-Shirt Review. I have also recentle added a T-Shirt Coupon page above so you can check there too. You can’t say I don’t help you get t-shirt bargains. (If you have a t-shirt store and would like to offer The T-Shirt Review readers some coupons please feel free to contact me or leave a comment on the Coupon page and I will add it.)

Anyway let’s get down to business. First up is Busted Tees selling all tee or $15 until midnight tonight (12th) so don’t waste any time.

EDUN LIVE: Blank t-shirts that help create jobs in Africa.

Nerdy Shirts Sale

When you buy…

2 shirts get a free gift
3 shirts get 10% off and a free gift
5 shirts get 20% off and a free gift

OK, so it’s not the best sale in the world but if you want options you’ve got ‘em now. Nerdy Shirts have some cool tees though like these Nintendo inspired ones with Mario and Donkey Kong.

Nerdy Shirts Sale

Purveyors of fine pop culture reference t-shirts along with a few geek and even political t-shirts thrown in for good measure, Nerdy Shirts, are having a sale at the moment. 20% off everything in the store. Don’t forget to check out the belt buckles while you are there. Sale is for 72 hours only so get your skates on.

$1 T-Shirts from Nerdy Shirts

Unbelievably cheap t-shirts from Nerdy Shirts. They are practically giving them away. One dollar? You can’t go wrong. The fact is that they are doing a bit of spring cleaning and I’m sure they want to make room for their newest designs. This sale is a limited time offer so don’t delay. Below are a few examples of what’s on offer and it seems that the $1 t-shirt selection may change so check back if they don’t have the shirt you want at the moment.

To see the $1 items just go to Nerdy Shirts and click on the sign that says “$1 Sale This Week”. If you can’t see it, may be you are too late.

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