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asfi235 aka Colin is a 43.58 year old boy, has been a member since January 19, 2007, has scored 17343 submissions, giving an average score of 2.97.

URL: http://www.meccanion.com/

Aug 10 '07 by asfi235

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EVIL CHINESE THIEVES blatant Threadless rip-offs

Put the name of a popular Threadless tee into Google and inevitably you'll find a bunch of thieves cashing in.

These cretins are unusually blatant, even ripping off the product pics and having some kind of scoring system (what, so they can figure out which designs to steal next?).....

www.mytee.cn

Joelnz on Aug 10 '07 at 5:05pm

whoa, that sucks

sp0m on Aug 10 '07 at 5:08pm

this blog is racist!

asfi235 on Aug 10 '07 at 5:09pm

No it's not. Look at the TLD.

FRICKINAWESOME on Aug 10 '07 at 5:22pm

HAHAHAHAHA! They don't even bother to mask the fact everything is straight up Threadless. There's even Shimala pics everywhere on the product pics and such! I don't think Threadless is too worried about this....im sure the shirts have the consistency and print quality of a used tampon.

Luke... on Aug 10 '07 at 5:26pm

what sucks more is that they dont steal any of my designs...how depressing, even the thieves of china do not accept me...
;[

FRICKINAWESOME on Aug 10 '07 at 5:28pm

hahaha luke...give em time man, i'm sure your designs will go black market soon. They just don't understand quality.

kiLLyou on Aug 10 '07 at 5:30pm

nuke em'

DrawingEvils on Aug 10 '07 at 6:36pm

Man, they rip everything...

peater on Aug 10 '07 at 7:05pm

hmm.... question:

How do we know they're ripoffs, and not just the real thing but marked up for profit?

radiostaticstar on Aug 10 '07 at 7:11pm

that is sooo strange, look they even list the name of the designer...

Noobits on Aug 10 '07 at 7:18pm

I want threadless to reprint monsterwash. It reminds me of trying to bath my dog.
Really though, the Chinese rip off market is a law unto themselves. they couldnt care less about the blatant taking another's intellectual property thing. If there is a demand for a product they will make it.

asfi235 on Aug 10 '07 at 7:23pm

Peater: marked up? When you do the currency conversion, you'll see that the thieves are selling them for about $9.

Also, look at the folded-shirt photos. They have mytee tags.

ISABOA on Aug 10 '07 at 7:31pm

this is evil

peater on Aug 10 '07 at 7:35pm

ah, okay.

beesneak on Aug 10 '07 at 7:45pm

Makes me embarassed for my people:(

peater on Aug 10 '07 at 7:50pm

Your people? I think any people would do it, if in their position.

I blame the circumstances.

miknsteph on Aug 10 '07 at 7:57pm

woah! at first glance i thought they were just marking up prices like what peater thought but they're actually selling it cheaper! threadless should probably put a watermark on the pictures in the near future so that it won't be so easily stolen.

Noobits on Aug 10 '07 at 8:03pm

dont be Beesneak, your people are surviors.
Like peater says, blame the circumstances.

beesneak on Aug 10 '07 at 8:20pm

In their position? These aren't the poor farmers in the fields trying to feed their family. These are greedy people trying to make a quick buck.

asfi235 on Aug 10 '07 at 9:38pm

Yeah, it wouldn't exactly cost them a whole lot more to find some local artists who'd be thrilled to create designs for pennies.

It's not like pirating an operating system or a Hollywood blockbuster, where a DIY effort would require insane amounts of time, money, labour and infrastructure. We're talking about screening some artwork on a bunch of t-shirts. In a pinch, you don't even need a computer for that.

beesneak on Aug 10 '07 at 9:40pm

Well, at least they credit the artist. Are we sure this isn't some sort of partnership with threadless? (highly doubtful)

Noobits on Aug 10 '07 at 9:48pm

fair enough

2 days later

radiomode on Aug 13 '07 at 6:58am

I found the website about a year ago. I dont think they are actually selling the tshirts, since there is no change at all as for the products and/or the designs in the voting since the last time i visited it.

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