Teextile Shipping Update

Today, I received my "Starving for a Hug" tee from teextile. They seem to get shirts to you in about a month. There are TONS of alert boxes all over their website about shipping and how long it could potentially take for you to get your shirt(s) now. Anyway, the shirt rules...it's a really awesome color...I only have one other shirt remotely close to the color of this tee and it looks awesome! I can't wait to sport this one at work =)

There is a Threadless "heatwave" sale now (a lot of tees are just $5!), but none of the shirts I wanted from last week are on sale...I may wait even longer to pick these up...

That's it for now...only one sport today, but two tomorrow. I can't wait to play hockey again!

Starving for a Hug!

I'm starving for some lunch right now...but will hold on that for a much needed update. Nothing last week in the t-shirt department tickled my fancy, but this week seems to be starting out just fine with this cute tee from teextile.

Other than the ridiculous amount of time it takes for one to receive a tee from teextile (which they so conveniently decided to explain when you check out now...kudos!) I have no other issues with this place. And here's a plus: if you vote for the design, they ship it to you free! I actually voted for this one a while back, so I get to save a couple dollars on the shipment....awesome. Not too shabby for a Monday...especially since I'm suffering from some sort of allergy / cold combination. ROCK AND ROLL.

domo arigato mr roboto

The teextile tee yesterday was cute. I picked it up...the thing that did it for me was the stars...and the fact that I didn't really like any of the other tees on teextile this week. It's called "Flying Robot". Raaawrrrr.

I'll give an update on the whole shipping fiasco with teextile. Saturday, I received the "To the Stars" tee...still no sign of "Cranberry Tree", though. Actually...while looking at this tracking information, I realized they emailed me two shipping notifications for the two "To the Stars" shirts I ordered. I ordered the shirts on Monday, March 23rd...teextile shipped them on Monday, April 13th...and I received them on Saturday, April 18th. Business day turn around = 19 days. At least shipping across the country didn't take too long....but I'm still waiting for the shipping information on the Cranberry Tree tee...by these calculations, I should receive notification of shipment for that on April 29th, haha.

That's all for now....the Woot shirt today was pretty cool but I don't really want to buy it.

Cranberry Trees and Shipping

So, this was purchased over a week ago and I'm just getting around to posting it on here. The placement of this design is what sold it for me. It's the Wednesday, April 8th design on teextile entitled "Cranberry Tree":

It seems like a metal band should use this for their shirts, haha.

Okay. Now...a little about shipping here. I purchased another shirt from teextile on March 23rd (see this post) and heard nothing from their shipping headquarters on the status of shipment. Five days after purchasing the Cranberry Tree design here, I received shipment notifications for BOTH shirts. That's a good 21 days after I ordered the "To the Stars" shirt. After reading community forums on teextile.com, I understand that they only print as many as ordered and obviously cannot print them until the end of the week, when all sales are over. That still doesn't justify shipping something out to me three weeks after I ordered it. Also note: that both shipments still only say that "electronic shipping information has been reveived" so god knows if they actually left their shipping facility. They are also on the completely opposite side of the country to make matters worse. Not sure if I'll ever see these shirts, honestly.

With Woot shirts, I generally don't expect to get them quickly, but they are always dilligent with the shipment notification emails and have even shipped another shirt to me (that was a Christmas gift for my brother) overnight when I told them I didn't receive it yet and it had been a month (I also sent them the totally crazy tracking information which sent it from Texas to New Jersey then back to Texas and eventually where it should have gone....a week after I got the replacement). TeeFury's a little on the slow side as well...but you pay $2 for that and at least they let you know when it ships. I'm kind of disappointed in this whole teextile shipment procedure. Not cool. I'll let everyone know when I finally get these shirts!

To the Stars!

Teextile is a relatively new t-shirt company. They feature 5 designs a week (one a week day) based on your votes. I regret not buying an awesome one last Monday, but have sort of made up for it with today's t-shirt.

Rock. Today is my last full day in Austin, TX and I plan on getting a haircut at a punk rock barbershop on E. 6th street. We'll see how well they can butcher my hair into something more manageable and awesome.