Threadless t-shirt news: Server Issues, Apologies, Coupons! ... and the sale's extended until Wednesday!

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Mar 20 '08 by Threadless

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Server Issues, Apologies, Coupons! ... and the sale's extended until Wednesday!

Hi Everyone!

Earlier this week, during your most crucial purchasing moments of our Spring Cleaning sale, we experienced some serious down-time. The frustration that many of you experienced while trying to make purchases is unacceptable and we promise to never ever let this happen again forever ever.

To allow you to make the most of the sale, our friends at Rackspace (the folks that host Threadless) are sponsoring five thousand $5 coupons on orders of $50 or more. The first five thousand people to use the coupon code 'spring08' during the Spring Cleaning sale will receive $5 off their order on top of the already discounted sale price. Time to go on a shopping spree!!!!

In addition to the $5 coupons and to make up for lost time, we are extending the Spring Cleaning sale until 11:59:59 CST on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008! The new shirts to be released on Monday will also be on sale!

If you are interested in all the geeky details of what went wrong, please join Harper Reed, our CTO, in a live discussion of your questions and concerns. To chat with Harper please visit threadless.com/springchat. Harper will be available to answer your questions from 12pm to 3pm CST on Monday, March 24th, 2008.

Again, we apologize for the unreliable shopping experience and hope that you enjoy the rest of the sale!

Sincerely,
Jake Nickell
Founder, CEO

radiomode on Mar 20 '08 at 8:38pm

first

radiomode on Mar 20 '08 at 8:39pm

yesh

Pizazz on Mar 20 '08 at 8:41pm

nice, except I already ordered... maybe I'll order again on monday!

viralVISUAL on Mar 20 '08 at 8:43pm

Hope next monday's tops last monday's. That'd be a good deal

fatheed on Mar 20 '08 at 8:44pm

You guys are so nice. Not like them other nasty corporations.

ilovedoodle on Mar 20 '08 at 8:44pm

yay

Pizazz on Mar 20 '08 at 8:46pm

yeah, they only give us scrap cardboard and old lemon drops.

book02683 on Mar 20 '08 at 8:52pm

wow, yes.
i already ordered 3 times,
but i will definitely order again monday,
well, if prehistoric freak is reprinted.

ir0cko on Mar 20 '08 at 8:56pm

hooray

squeegebeckenheim on Mar 20 '08 at 8:59pm

You guys rock so hard!

ofthecoast on Mar 20 '08 at 9:00pm

oh nice. As if you all weren't nice enough already. I just paid 9.25 for 3 shirts.

chelly on Mar 20 '08 at 9:15pm

haha craziness. thanks threadless.

littlem on Mar 20 '08 at 9:20pm

sweetness! you guys are numbahh one!!

i carnt spel on Mar 20 '08 at 9:23pm

i cant wait to get my shirst!!!

book02683 on Mar 20 '08 at 9:24pm

oh, i forgot to say i

book02683 on Mar 20 '08 at 9:24pm

i??

that was supposed to say i love you threadless.

Ste7en on Mar 20 '08 at 9:25pm

you had me at hello

cristinaish on Mar 20 '08 at 9:42pm

oh man. i'm so tempted to place yet another order now. and i don't know if i should wait til monday for the new prints, because i'm afraid the 5000 coupons will be gone by then.

AHHHHHH DECISIONS

thanks for continuing to be awesome threadless!!

oneitis on Mar 20 '08 at 9:53pm

So nice of you :)

Though I can't use those coupons cause orders over 36$ will land my package in customs, I'm happy about the extended sale. And even with the new shirts, yay!

Maltzmania on Mar 20 '08 at 10:17pm

oh threadless you always know how to treat a lady

Edword on Mar 20 '08 at 10:19pm

man you guyz rawk!

colorstoobright on Mar 20 '08 at 10:46pm

Awesome. :D

TritoneXX on Mar 20 '08 at 11:36pm

Oh, I will have to order again. I want more shirts. =D

shakethesheets on Mar 20 '08 at 11:40pm

y'all are the best ever

shakethesheets on Mar 20 '08 at 11:42pm

just when I was like man I don't like the fit of these new shirts, you go and make all the excellent old shirts 9 freaking dollars! Including Selects!!!! And now more sale shirts? Insane.

jublin on Mar 20 '08 at 11:46pm

FIRST!

Little Apple Girl on Mar 20 '08 at 11:47pm

I don't know it it's working for me or not. It goes through but doesn't show up as $0.00. I am using my street team points too, so I am worried about having them wiped out again if something is wrong and the coupon isn't working for me and have to cancel.

Little Apple Girl on Mar 20 '08 at 11:50pm

And now, I don't even get the
*coupon code $0.00

book02683 on Mar 20 '08 at 11:50pm

repwwwinint prehistoric freak or sean combs mightttt frickk out

rschroed on Mar 21 '08 at 12:40am

yeah, i put in the coupon code and the coupon line sez:

Coupon Code: 'spring08' Thank You! Coupon = -$0.00

:(

cristinaish on Mar 21 '08 at 2:10am

sheesh did they go through 5000 of them already or what? :\

SteveOramA on Mar 21 '08 at 2:20am

thanks for the head's up, jake!

belladonna.demarco on Mar 21 '08 at 5:03am

yep, coupon doesn't work, which is stupid given i only got the e-mail 15 minutes ago...

lunchboxbrain on Mar 21 '08 at 5:50am

Nice! I'm sure any other corp. would offer up a sorry ass apology and leave it at that.

jrouse1 on Mar 21 '08 at 8:20am

yeah, i just tried the coupon and it didn't work either. it said it was worth "$0.00".

radiostaticstar on Mar 21 '08 at 8:40am

that was a fast 5000...

atomic child on Mar 21 '08 at 8:42am

threadless you so hot

snaggle tooth on Mar 21 '08 at 9:08am

Chat with Harper Reed, our CTO, about what went wrong during our Spring Cleaning sale.

hilarious

loserbeech on Mar 21 '08 at 9:15am

lol @ Rackspace

spires on Mar 21 '08 at 9:23am

I should hop on this sale. Been so busy.

Phiffer on Mar 21 '08 at 9:47am

SALE EXTENSION!!!!!!! Also thanks Threadless.

cliffdogg on Mar 21 '08 at 1:58pm

How did I miss this?

I just placed my order 2 hours ago! Fuck!

cliffdogg on Mar 21 '08 at 1:59pm

Oh shit nvm, I guess they're already gone. Yay?

t4sh4 on Mar 21 '08 at 1:59pm

^5!

skaw on Mar 21 '08 at 2:11pm

The coupons are not gone yet - make sure you are using the coupon on an order of $50 or more to obtain the discount.

mlnewco on Mar 21 '08 at 3:23pm

threadless=awesomeness

snaggle tooth on Mar 21 '08 at 3:51pm

i'm sure most people will just chat with harper, since explanations were given in the blog... seems silly...

so harper, what went wrong?

snaggle tooth on Mar 21 '08 at 3:56pm

nickv on Mar 21 '08 at 6:06pm

This is kind of frustrating to me since I already placed two orders both of which were well over $50 this week. I'd cancel them and place them again but many of the shirts are now out of stock in the sizes I ordered...

Can anything be done for your loyal customers who already dropped big bucks this week?

5 days later

Sam17 on Mar 26 '08 at 9:57pm

^ Yeah, sucks to be early. I just bought 17 shirts last week :(

berrynoir on Mar 27 '08 at 5:23am

Also, it's now about 6:30am here on the East Coast and the sale is still a-happening...

Little Apple Girl on Mar 27 '08 at 11:31am

Can someone give me back my STPs that were victims of the orders that didn't make it? It wasn't a fortune or anything, but I'm poor and could use some beer money. Gracias.

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