Profile for tcritic - cashed in $2000 worth of STP for gift certs and am giving them away

tcritic aka karl long is a 42.63 year old boy, has been a member since May 10, 2006, has scored 110 submissions, giving an average score of 2.83, helping 2 designs get printed.

URL: http://tcritic.com/
AIM: kar11ong

Sep 28 '07 by tcritic
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cashed in $2000 worth of STP for gift certs and am giving them away

Hey all,

I write tcritic.com which is a blog about t-shirts, i refer a fair amount of business to threadless and accumulated almost $2000 worth of STP's. I was trying to figure out what to do with them so I decided to give them away to people that submit t-shirt related news stories, and info about new and cool stuff happening in the t-shirt world. I've already given away my first two. here's the info:
http://tcritic.com/archives/threadless-25-gift-certificates-for-t-shirt-related-news-and-posts/

If you like the idea spread the word, i'm hoping to spread some threadless love and get some new readers on my blog :-)

Cheers,

Karl

tcritic on Sep 28 '07 at 4:20pm

and the link is: http://tcritic.com/archives/threadless-25-gift-certificates-for-t-shirt-related-news-and-posts/

tcritic on Sep 28 '07 at 4:26pm

Doh, I forgot to mention i'm giving them away as $25 gift certificates, I got 80 of them.

FRICKINAWESOME on Sep 28 '07 at 4:34pm

That's craziness and mega-awesome of you my man. I gotta start up a t-shirt blog that just says: "Threadless Tees. Buy One. Here's the sSite." and rack up a million spacebucks like you have done!

stubby43 on Sep 28 '07 at 4:43pm

Damn it, I want a gift cirtifcate but I'm trying to build up my own blog (dont worry talking about tee shirts and companies is only part of it, I cover bands and artists).

I'll think about it, I suppose I could call it a commision.

stubby43 on Sep 28 '07 at 4:44pm

But your an amazing guy for doing it and I wish I knew how you managed to make your site so successful.

angelito on Sep 28 '07 at 4:44pm

That's very nice of you

Stevethegreat on Sep 28 '07 at 4:45pm

snap

tcritic on Sep 28 '07 at 4:45pm

Nice, I think that's what Captain_Obvious must have done, now he's got mondo space bucks :-) Doing the t-shirt blog has been fun for sure, but it takes a lot to keep coming up with original content. mind you the other side of it is you learn so much about the business its crazy, i'm meeting loads of really cool people behind the t-shirt companies and that has been super cool.

stubby43 on Sep 28 '07 at 4:47pm

So are you actually going out and meeting them? I mean my stuffs basically been limited to online interviews.

Roostersauce on Sep 28 '07 at 4:48pm

some of my friends just got a company together, or got a design printed on a new company. ima find out the deal and for sure write something up and send it

angelito on Sep 28 '07 at 4:50pm

lol @ phil interviewing me but never posting it :P

stubby43 on Sep 28 '07 at 4:51pm

I just realised how prentious and a dick I sounded, your doing something nice and I'm acting like I've actually achieved something, your way down the line from where I am, once I'm caught up on my articles I'll write you something.

stubby43 on Sep 28 '07 at 4:52pm

Sorry Adrienne I got way side tracked with canada stuff, I mean I planned to write blogs about my adventures in canada and the states and I have done it I really think I need someone to work with to push me along.

tcritic on Sep 28 '07 at 4:52pm

@stubby I just went to Threadshow in san francisco and met lots of t-shirt designers, t-shirt companies and indie clothing folks. It was great, here are some flickr photos from it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/karllong/sets/72157602137186004/

and my write up on the blog:

http://tcritic.com/archives/threadshow-san-francisco-redux/

angelito on Sep 28 '07 at 4:54pm

haha dude dont sweat it!

chelly on Sep 28 '07 at 5:07pm

cool tcritic, that's really nice of you. can't think of anything you don't already know, but good luck giving out free cash!

2 days later

cARtOoNer on Sep 30 '07 at 8:59pm

tcritic, im glad you are giving back to the t shirt community here at threadless and when i heard about this, as a fellow t shirt lover, a topic jumped in my mind and i started working on a write up of my own that i will email you. who knows, for 25 dollars if you like my style i may do more than one :)

iDanSimpson on Sep 30 '07 at 9:29pm

you can find an e-mail from me, my friend!

L.T. on Sep 30 '07 at 9:39pm

what would it take for this wish to come true? :)

iDanSimpson on Sep 30 '07 at 10:05pm

alright, baby, i sent another!

tcritic on Sep 30 '07 at 11:03pm

Awesome guys, i'm getting lots of great emails. I've got a good one lined up for tomorrow morning :-) Keep em coming and don't take it personal if I don't email back, i barely have enough time to post to the blog. @Dan, great story BTW in your last email, I love hearing about t-shirt companies doing the right thing.

renfrue on Sep 30 '07 at 11:08pm

i emailed a bunch of links

I don't want to type a whole to-do

in case you've already heard of the shop

deathcabfortom on Sep 30 '07 at 11:41pm

i just emailed one... Where was I when this started?!? ha.

7 days later

chelly on Oct 08 '07 at 12:16am

happy birthday t-critic

:)

juliejeremiah on Oct 08 '07 at 10:10pm

I just emailed you a little summat! Hope you likey.

mj00 on Oct 08 '07 at 10:55pm

Whoa, it's tcritic's birthday today? Mine, too. What are the odds? It is the unofficial day of t-shirt bloggers, I guess.

chelly on Oct 09 '07 at 8:28am

happy belated birthday mjoo!

tcritic on Oct 09 '07 at 12:13pm

Wow, thanks guys I totally missed this yesterday, but I appreciate it :-) Yesterday was national Tube Top day as well so i hope you were wearing yours :-) Also today is PJ Harveys birthday, she was born in the same year so I'm 1 day older than her.

cARtOoNer on Oct 09 '07 at 4:02pm

hey i sent you my article a few hours ago, so if you recieved it email me back and tell me what you think

PS i love this while giving back to the community thing man

tcritic on Oct 09 '07 at 5:53pm

Very nice Cartooner, I like the comparisons. It's going to take a bit of effort to link everything up but i'll let you know when I post it. Cheers.

yonghweefoo on Oct 10 '07 at 8:55am

Hey Karl, I've sent you an email. Hope to hear from you soon.

15 days later

cARtOoNer on Oct 25 '07 at 10:14pm

is your website down... i cant get to it for some reason???

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