ho lee fuck

whoa.

ouch..

$57583y32lqz9672 (USD)

Just did a quick calculation, and that's how much you've earned from getting printed twenty three times at Threadless.

Just sayin'.

LOL

The Post Office thanks you for your continued support.

:(

yikes!

This smacks of protectionism.

subtracted from the 30 grand you've won it doesn't seem quite so tragic to me.

30 grand - 660 = $ 29340 ...just sayin

Won't Aled's winnings get taxed, though? Or does it not work like that in the UK?

lol

OH MYYYYYYYYYY!!!!
u need TH europe definitely aha!!!!!

yep the totally unreasonable customs charges really make me reconsider how much i order from threadless. i vote for threadless UK!

YEAHHH my sale shirts arrived yesterday, with another £11 customs charge.

So basically, that's it for me and Threadless. It's been awesome, but I can't afford the customs fees anymore. And the fact that they hold the package for a week or more before telling you you cant have it until you pay more money.

So, unless something amazing comes out that I just have to have, I can't buy from here no mo'.

:/

yeah, I can't buy anymore either adrienne, it's far too much

But the Threadless stuff has been my only income living in London over 2 years. It's not been money to burn.

Eww that's a lot of money ! I'm in Paris but I was never charged any customs fees, even for the art print I ordered once, but obviously it works differently in the UK ! Yay for continental Europe :p

You need to deliver them to Calais then smuggle them through the chunnel in your luggage like low level scumbags get old people to do with cigarettes. They look just like regular t-shirts, they'll never know.

That makes the £12 custom charge I had to pay yesterday on my tees seem very very small!

But I agree, we need a Threadless in Europe!

I live in Spain and don't have to pay any additional charges for receiving Threadless stuff.

custom fees here are bogus too man. when i won i bought a huge load of shirts and had a surprise + 100 dollars i had to pay to receive them. never did that again either.

Is there any way got get around this. Lets say you have someone in the states buy the shirts or w/e for you and in turn they can send it back to you as a "gift"?

Technically, yeah. But far too much hassle.

Also I'd like to stick up for Al - the money he's won has been his living - just like us, the dude's gotta pay his rent, and buy his girrrl nice thangs ;) He's also given away a substantial amount of GC's to bloggers, so he's allowed to be bummed out like the rest of us.

I know it's all in jest, so don't think I'm angry - just, all the customs charges suck, even if you are a gazillionaire with a bionic drawing hand.

:)

*fist-bump*

thats sucks.. your prize money is you're prize money.. and when you buy something and pay for shipping that should be it. I don't understand customs fees but it sounds like government blackmail to me. You've already paid for your item.. why should you have to pay for it again?

This isn't meant to come off in a negative way or anything, but why haven't you had some other source of income (such as part time or full-time employment somewhere/anywhere) for the last two years?

He's been a student.

because he hasn't need extra income! and being a student is so full time it's unbelievable.

bad grammar.

That's a completely fine answer, I'm a student myself, and I can only find time for a job during the summer. It's tough as hell. I was merely curious, that's all.

i feel bad though for not even having a shitty part time or once a week job as a student though. my job resume sucks because of it.

Okay, then, let's try this. You could rebel against the government and start your own country. I've never once paid customs on a Threadless shirt.

I hear you, ginette. Last summer between semesters I worked as a checkout-clerk at a grocery store, part-time. Terrible, terrible job. My parents had to always spot me a little extra each month just so I could make rent (and I live in a shitty apartment). Before that, I had nothing on my resume', so I faked a bunch of things to get the grocery store job.

Now, this summer, I applied to about 30 different jobs in downtown Halifax (where I live), and was hired for none.

Thankfully my University hired me and two of my friends (all film students) to design the new online video-advertising campaign for the school, so I'm making enough money for rent, and actually doing something that's close to what I enjoy. But fuck, the last two or three summers before this one were absolute hell.

Doesn't change the fact I have zero time for work during semesters though. Now that's hell.

yeah threadless has been virtually my only income too, for 4 years.

gosh...who else here that their only income come designing t-shirts on threadless....i was planning too...it looks like a dream job...but planing to get married...and the missus to be and so hapy about it...if you just can see her face when i told her my plan about threadless....WTF?@?$?$%##

just the sight of those royal mail red slips sends me into convulsive anger spasms

that sucks man. :( I would hate to pay customs charges.

just like I hate filling out customs forms when I mail international customers things.

this is America, god dammit. if I wanted to just go around writing things, I'd be a school teacher, or a food critic, or a break dancing gang member circa low-budget Hollywood, 1982.

Threadless Europe, yes please.

Eh. You'll survive, Aled.

We should put our petty differences aside and all rally behind fatheed to campaign for change.

this is me rallying, aled. threadless Europe all the way!

I tend to order shirts in 1s and 2s and pay the extra $9 shipping which is cheaper than the £12 customs. so far I haven't been charged but my max single purchase has been $30 which may be why. I don't think I buy as many tshirts as you guys do so I may be getting away with it easier.

as for customs sucking, this takes the cake:
i once ordered off amazon.com, had to pay £12 customs only to receive my package and find out amazon had sent the wrong item. I had to send it back and then got stung by another £12 when they sent me a replacement. no one - post office or amazon - was willing to understand the ludicrousness of charging me £12 for an item i returned and then chargin me £12 again when I got the replacement. I couldn't get either of them to even consider a refund.
wankers, all of them.