Comments on: Bountee doomed to fail doing better http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/ Whispering sweet nothings into the internet's ear since May of 2002. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:36:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Steve http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-65183 Steve Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:40:05 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/#comment-65183 Thanks for the kind(er) words C.K.! We've worked a lot over the past few months and I think everything is starting to rock on pretty perfectly now. It's critique like yours that has helped immensely - so an acknowledgement from a one-time, fierce critic is praise indeed. :) Thank you! Thanks for the kind(er) words C.K.!

We’ve worked a lot over the past few months and I think everything is starting to rock on pretty perfectly now.

It’s critique like yours that has helped immensely – so an acknowledgement from a one-time, fierce critic is praise indeed.

:)

Thank you!

]]> By: mark http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-60946 mark Wed, 05 Sep 2007 14:02:21 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/#comment-60946 "It’s a minimalist doodle". yeah, right. “It’s a minimalist doodle”. yeah, right.

]]> By: A. http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-47403 A. Fri, 08 Jun 2007 03:59:19 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/#comment-47403 maybe your designs got rejected because they sucked? that doodle face could have been drawn by a 2 year old. i joined 2 days ago and have already sold 2 shirts. maybe instead of whining about it...you should work harder on your designs? maybe your designs got rejected because they sucked? that doodle face could have been drawn by a 2 year old. i joined 2 days ago and have already sold 2 shirts. maybe instead of whining about it…you should work harder on your designs?

]]> By: c.k. http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-41671 c.k. Tue, 08 May 2007 21:25:12 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/#comment-41671 I applaud your brave rudeness, Cale, as well as your inability to follow the point of this post. I applaud your brave rudeness, Cale, as well as your inability to follow the point of this post.

]]> By: Cale http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-41665 Cale Tue, 08 May 2007 21:01:08 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/#comment-41665 What Bountee was afraid to say, I am not. Your drawing would not make a good t-shirt. That's why the website is there. Nobody would buy a shirt with disproportionate facial features sketched on it. What Bountee was afraid to say, I am not. Your drawing would not make a good t-shirt. That’s why the website is there. Nobody would buy a shirt with disproportionate facial features sketched on it.

]]> By: unhappy too http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-39926 unhappy too Wed, 18 Apr 2007 07:06:35 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/#comment-39926 I got the same thing for decent ideas nothing x rated or anything.. I uploaded (and yes the SVG deal is a Royal PIA) Tried 4 or 5 designs and got the same letter for all of them.. Simply .. I dont need them.. they needed me.. I bring in quite a bit of income to some of the other PODs.. my theory? Bountee You lose You Lose YOU LOSE all the money I would have made you.. I got the same thing for decent ideas nothing x rated or anything.. I uploaded (and yes the SVG deal is a Royal PIA)
Tried 4 or 5 designs and got the same letter for all of them..
Simply .. I dont need them.. they needed me.. I bring in quite a bit of income to some of the other PODs..
my theory?
Bountee
You lose
You Lose
YOU LOSE
all the money I would have made you..

]]> By: Sample the Web — Bountee possibly finding the road to success http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-39863 Sample the Web — Bountee possibly finding the road to success Tue, 17 Apr 2007 13:35:36 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/#comment-39863 [...] I complained openly about how irritated I was with Bountee’s exclusivity with a post called Bountee doomed to fail. Sometime in the wee hours last night, Steve from Bountee left the following comment on that [...] [...] I complained openly about how irritated I was with Bountee’s exclusivity with a post called Bountee doomed to fail. Sometime in the wee hours last night, Steve from Bountee left the following comment on that [...]

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]]> By: Steve http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-39849 Steve Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:48:54 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/#comment-39849 Hi CK, It's Steve from Bountee here - and I just wanted to say a few words in response to your post if I may. Firstly, you're right. It's too much of an autocratic process at the moment and we're working on a more 'community led' solution as I type. We have been quite simply swamped with the number of designs that we have received; but that hasn't been the issue. What we have been more than a little surprised at is the content of a lot of these 'designs'. Something which we had hoped that limiting our submissions to SVG only would have gone some way to resolve. Over the weekend we received submissions that included (the perhaps obvious) crudely drawn penises, blatantly copyrighted imagery, text with arabic script (which we didn't have translated) alongside celebratory pictures of the twin towers burning, white power slogans and various levels of offensive material too numerous to mention. We also fell victim to a lot of people testing out the the system with clipart and similar style artwork. It appears that your line drawing fell foul to an over zealous team. We haven't been transparent with our process - and that is a mistake (hindsight is a great thing right? :/ ) but just so that you know; every design is approved (or not) by a chain of individuals and the majority decision of this 'group' is taken as the final decision of approval. Quite how your design didn't make it through the process is unclear to me - and I'll be sure to go off and check - but we had hoped and still, genuinely believe that for the moment this is a system that is working 'ok' for now. We're sorry that it has resulted in some 'rogue' refusals and we are frantically trying to make the whole thing more robust. What I will say - in our defence though - is that we are literally 1 week old, and are not a multi-million dollar funded company with cash reserves and allusions to a fancy, cash rich exit strategy. We're just a couple of guys who built a t-shirt site in our spare time and who wanted to share it with our peers. And I hope that we'll learn as much as we share. Apologies again. Hi CK,

It’s Steve from Bountee here – and I just wanted to say a few words in response to your post if I may.

Firstly, you’re right.

It’s too much of an autocratic process at the moment and we’re working on a more ‘community led’ solution as I type.

We have been quite simply swamped with the number of designs that we have received; but that hasn’t been the issue. What we have been more than a little surprised at is the content of a lot of these ‘designs’. Something which we had hoped that limiting our submissions to SVG only would have gone some way to resolve.

Over the weekend we received submissions that included (the perhaps obvious) crudely drawn penises, blatantly copyrighted imagery, text with arabic script (which we didn’t have translated) alongside celebratory pictures of the twin towers burning, white power slogans and various levels of offensive material too numerous to mention.

We also fell victim to a lot of people testing out the the system with clipart and similar style artwork.

It appears that your line drawing fell foul to an over zealous team.

We haven’t been transparent with our process – and that is a mistake (hindsight is a great thing right? :/ ) but just so that you know; every design is approved (or not) by a chain of individuals and the majority decision of this ‘group’ is taken as the final decision of approval. Quite how your design didn’t make it through the process is unclear to me – and I’ll be sure to go off and check – but we had hoped and still, genuinely believe that for the moment this is a system that is working ‘ok’ for now.

We’re sorry that it has resulted in some ‘rogue’ refusals and we are frantically trying to make the whole thing more robust.

What I will say – in our defence though – is that we are literally 1 week old, and are not a multi-million dollar funded company with cash reserves and allusions to a fancy, cash rich exit strategy. We’re just a couple of guys who built a t-shirt site in our spare time and who wanted to share it with our peers.

And I hope that we’ll learn as much as we share.

Apologies again.

]]> By: RobotSkirts » Blog Archive » Sample the Web — Bountee doomed to fail http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/comment-page-1/#comment-39833 RobotSkirts » Blog Archive » Sample the Web — Bountee doomed to fail Tue, 17 Apr 2007 05:10:47 +0000 http://www.sampletheweb.com/2007/04/16/bountee-doomed-to-fail/#comment-39833 [...] Bountee doomed to fail Sounds like Bountee is combating the cost of overhead with elitism. Honesty would win more friends. [...] [...] Bountee doomed to fail Sounds like Bountee is combating the cost of overhead with elitism. Honesty would win more friends. [...]

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