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Good morning all. I just launched a t-shirt sales site, not exactly a web app, I know. But we have a freaky business model, which required a correspondingly freaky e-commerce cart. My buddy essentially reverse engineered Ticketmaster's cart. Anyway, I love this community and respect it's opinion greatly. In fact, I learned most of my web/customer-experience design stuff by reading things I found here.

Anyway, I'd love to know what you think of the site's usability etc... I opened with the cart, because I figured hacker types would be most interested in that, but all comments/criticisms are welcome.



Yeah, while the counter is great, it could use a sentence or two more of description. Keep the counter, add a fun sentence about why its there, not just what it does.


Done.


I like the site. I would be more inclined to bid for the higher cost shirts if I knew some of the profits went to fund a defense fund for the RIAA (like FSF fund). When it's appropriate I think it makes sense to give a small % of profits up so that all the customers get that extra smug feeling when buying their shirt. Again, interesting idea definitely more rewarding than buying from Cafe Press or Threadless!


"Again, interesting idea definitely more rewarding than buying from Cafe Press or Threadless!"

Oh, god, thank you so much! That's what I wanted to hear.


I am probably viewing a much revised version of the site at this point, because everything is looking really nice right now. I am loving it.

Really friggin great idea.

The name is perfect. I wouldn't worry about blokes crying NSFW here today, you shouldn't be shopping for T-shirts at work anyway. Plus I think the name will go over well with the crowd that typically purchases these types of shirts.


That's an interesting way of dealing with scarce items. I liked the timer as well. I agree with comments about the need for better design, but it's a good start.


OK, I just finally figured out what the timer is for. Anyone who doesnt go as far as the shopping cart won't know why there is a timer...


"Shirts counting down are already in someone's cart and will be available when the count down ends, unless purchased."

This should appear in red right above the number matrix on the home page. It only appears if there are shirts counting down.




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