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What Happened to Threadless?

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Re: What Happened to Threadless?

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Are there any alternatives to Threadless? Tees from my last order have a completely horrible quality.

Expanding on that - what's your go-to T-shirt shop inside the EU? Ordering from Threadless (US) to the EU is quite expensive (shipping + taxes) and I haven't found a quality EU alternative yet.

Have you tried Spreadshirt?

I have a few, and am satisfied with the quality (but only satisfied, they're still a bit thin.)

https://www.spreadshirt.com/

Re: What Happened to Threadless?

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I wonder if they lost a lot of non-US/Canada customers (like me) when they changed their printing set-up. You used to be able to buy a couple of T-shirts and have them shipped as one batch, so shipping and handling fees were reasonable when you ordered three T-shirts at once. I've gotten a good number of shirts from them this way.

A few years ago I tried ordering a few T-shirts again, but didn't get past the final order screen because custom-printed using Direct-to-Garment T-shirts had varying processing times, so I would have had to pay shipping fees for each separate T-shirt. That may be fine for domestic shipping (and Canada), but it quickly turns the deal unappealingly expensive anywhere else.

Re: What Happened to Threadless?

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post #5

Are there any alternatives to Threadless? Tees from my last order have a completely horrible quality.

Expanding on that - what's your go-to T-shirt shop inside the EU? Ordering from Threadless (US) to the EU is quite expensive (shipping + taxes) and I haven't found a quality EU alternative yet.

Spreadshirt? I've used it quite a lot and found it to be good quality, haven't ordered for about 18 months from them. I've got decade old stuff from them that's still good.

Way back I made a list whilst researching for EU t-shirt/mug places -- http://alicious.com/www-cafepress-co-uk/.

I've used https://www.tshirtstudio.com/ for mugs, they were good quality.

Most large towns in UK probably have a dye-sub printing place.

If you want cheap then Vistaprint is pretty hard to beat (cart abandonment usually nets offers).

Re: What Happened to Threadless?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Expanding on that - what's your go-to T-shirt shop inside the EU? Ordering from Threadless (US) to the EU is quite expensive (shipping + taxes) and I haven't found a quality EU alternative yet.

I usually go to qwertee ( https://www.qwertee.com/ ). As I've said in another comment I've had some minor sizing issues but the print quality is decent enough.

Side note:

I am looking at Qwertee and want to find out about their business model and designer compensation, but whenever I approach the page footer, a new batch of T-shirts thumbnails is loaded in the page content pushing the footer away…

Someone didn't think that one through.

Edit:

> Artists/Designers receive 1 Euro per shirt sold or USD or GBP equivalent. You also retain all rights to your artwork before, during and after it appears on Qwertee (most other t shirt design sites want ownership of your design forever).

Re: What Happened to Threadless?

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What isn't quite clear to me from the article: are they still places around doing the competition/selection thing, or is everyone now offering "stores" to everyone? EDIT: Limited production runs (maybe originally needed because of printing tech, but also a possible marketing move) where also quite popular for a while.

https://shirt.woot.com/ has been doing the competition thing since 2007 -- almost as long as Threadless -- and is still going strong.

Re: What Happened to Threadless?

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Are there any alternatives to Threadless? Tees from my last order have a completely horrible quality.

Expanding on that - what's your go-to T-shirt shop inside the EU? Ordering from Threadless (US) to the EU is quite expensive (shipping + taxes) and I haven't found a quality EU alternative yet.

I'm living in Russia, we don't have any extra taxes. Actually, we have a lot of local clones with the same prints from Threadless(of course illegal), but a price and quality worse than Threadless.
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