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T-Shirt Hell pulls a fast one; closing message a troll for more business
- trickjarrett 18y agoShock of all shocks. NO ONE saw this coming. eye roll
- baddox 18y agoYeah no joke. Every comment on every submission of the original story to every social news site on the internet expressed suspicion that this was marketing.
- petercooper 18y agoAnd yet they kept discussing it and were interested in the (non)story. Proves human nature.
- pg 18y agoThe surprising thing was that TechCrunch wrote about it.
- nihilocrat 18y agoI see the McRib is back.
- daniel-cussen 18y agoI believed it. A guy who changes his name to Sunshine Megatron might do anything.
- chaostheory 18y agoI guess they learned something from furniture stores
- agotterer 18y ago100K shirts sold in 3 weeks. Brilliant. Props to the marketing concept.
- condor 18y agoyes props for making each and every one of those customers feel like suckers, brilliant marketing move that's sure to pay off handsomely over the long term . . . although something tells me t-shirt hell's customers don't have a problem with being made to feel like suckers.
- petercooper 18y agoA lot of Microsoft's customers feel like suckers but most keep paying for upgrades and buying more. It works.
- agotterer 18y agoI didn't say I respected them. The whole company is about treating everything as a joke. They aren't selling expensive software licenses here. They aren't fishing for respect. They want the "wow" factor. And they are good at getting it.
- condor 18y agoI understand their deal, I just don't think manipulating your customers into making a purchase is a good longterm strategy, even if some of the customers get the joke . . . time will tell I guess. Also, props usually means proper recognition/respect . . . http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=props http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=props just sayin . . .
- pxlpshr 18y agoObnoxious isn't a marketing concept.
- petercooper 18y agoIt can be - it's just rarely a good one. Rich Jerk is a great example of this - a heavily cross-promoted product that's done very well.
- ivank 18y agoAlready flagged and deleted yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484639 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=484639
- petercooper 18y agoThe discussion and votes given seem to indicate people are interested in the story nonetheless. censorship--
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- Harkins 18y agoQuality control != censorship
- petercooper 18y agoCensorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful or sensitive Quality control would be removing spam, nonsensical content or, in some cases, content that's wildly off-topic. Considering the original T-Shirt Hell story was run here without being "quality controlled" away, it seems reasonable to accept that a followup is, therefore, not off-topic for HN. That makes the removal of said story censorship and not quality control.
- Erf 18y agoWould've appreciated an NSFW on this.
- jrockway 18y agoWhat exactly is NSFW? (Of course, reading HN is not exactly work-related anyway, right?)
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- brentr 18y agoPerhaps they should now create a new shirt that says, "I got suckered by tshirthell.com". That's sure to create more buzz for them.
- keltecp11 18y agoi bought 3 shirts... you got me.