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Jun 27 '07 by alister

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Idea for Threadless

Everyone goes through phases of desperately wanting a tee to be reprinted, i know i do, but wouldnt it be better to have some kind of indication if a tee is remotely close, quite near, or very close to being reprinted.

Just a thought, but if on every product page of tees that are sold out, but not retired, there is a bar, split into three parts say of red, for no way near a reprint, orange and green, for looking good for a reprint; based on the number of people that have voted for a reprint.

Yes, i know that the amount of votes that a tee needs to be reprinted may vary, but the Threadless staff will have an idea, and be able to judge, on the three levels, where a tee is for a reprint.

Some of you may argue that, yea... but then it just takes all the fun out of seeing what is the surprise reprints each monday, but i think that a good point is that, if you are desperate for a tee to be reprinted, but the bar is on red, it is much easier to just get over it, because its far off a reprint, other than living in suspence and hoping that very monday it will pop up.

I think its a pretty good idea but i dont know what anyone else thinks.

Guys, Threadless staff, what do you say?

ladykat on Jun 27 '07 at 12:50pm

Well, they usually print the ones that are high on requests, but not always.

alister on Jun 27 '07 at 12:52pm

yea, but still, the Threadless staff can still kind of judge which tees they think have a good chance next to the amount of votes each tee has, so from that they could be able to base a tees chances on a scale of 1 to 3

alister on Jun 27 '07 at 2:05pm

anyone?

asfi235 on Jun 27 '07 at 5:50pm

Red would discourage people from making reprint requests.

Green would encourage them to swamp the system with multiple requests from fake accounts.

alister on Jun 28 '07 at 4:25am

The Threadless staff can see if people are doing that from the IP addresses so they will be able to fix that and just ignore the "swamping of the system". I dont think red will discourage people from voting.

19 days later

therecouldbenothingafterThis on Jul 17 '07 at 3:26pm

im sure the staff can see information like that. They just keep things simpler by not displaying it to us.

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