From the Shirt Desk:

[Wheels03]

@mtn3pitt

• Over Saturation

1. Not including the garage sale (because I think of that more like a “Clearance” side sale then a “Shirt” side sale) there are currently 6 side sales going on with 6 different “categories”, 5 of which have an avg of about 30 shirts in each one. The blanket side sale I’m good with. But an extra 150 designs seems over kill for me. Woot, in general, has blown up with side sales, extra sales, more items. I know, I know. They’re trying to make money and more items means more sales but it’s hard to keep up. Then you add the derby and I’ve already lost interest or wasted too much time and have to get back to work.

2. I’m on the forums daily during the week and since logging out yesterday around 5pm EST and now there were 130+ new topics in the forum. Not all of them are new item topics but >90% of them are. Some of them show up in new side sales across the site which are easy to find. Others are added to current side sales which get lost in the mix. Still others are just lost in the ever growing system of Woot. I skim through the forum topics to see if there’s something I might like. I hardly ever just browse Woot which means I’m not spending a lot of time at Shirt.Woot.

This has been a concern of mine since I posted about it a month ago in this topic thread.

I’m all for new tees, but the fact that there’s been 15 new designs every week along with dailies and 6 different curated catalogs that are only paying artist per shirt sold, it’s becoming apparent Shirt.Woot wants to lessen the amount paid to artists when a majority of their shirts are being sold as non-exclusive contracts.

I see the appeal from a business standpoint. Saturate the site so no customer is excluded from finding something they like, but it’s starting to hurt monthly sales when I can only sell 5 shirts from an editor’s choice (including the free tee I buy for myself with the credit I’m given) from a derby sub that only scored 12 votes. I’m extremely thankful my design was chosen by the staff, but when I only score a minimal amount of votes and don’t think the design will sell very well, I feel like I should have the option to decline being included with the honorable mentions.

Just my 2 cents.