Thanks for the reply. I must say that I’m getting more information and feedback from you now than when I was a member.

May I clarify your fine point? It it impossible for a member’s design to receive ANY approval from the community if the site never posts the design for viewing. That is what happened to me. I submitted a design, told my friends to go vote for it, and waited three weeks for it to “go live” on the site for voting. Then I received four emails from you saying it didn’t receive enough votes. Maybe that’s because no one in the community ever saw it. I have no problem if my design (good or bad as it was) didn’t get enough votes because not enough people liked it; my problem is that my design was never put on the site for *anyone* to see it and vote for it.

And may I make another point? “Sorry but read the blog” exemplifies my experience with your level of customer service. Is “sorry but read the blog” your company’s best effort at correcting a customer’s bad experience? Unfortunately, that seems to be the case.

And yes, your site still has a lot of great designs.

“it’s still a beta process, but the results you see now are pretty incredible compared to where this started in late 2005.”

There are some incredible developments being made in this area and the ability to produce/fabricate almost ‘anything to order’ makes for a potentially massive shift in our behaviour towards clothing in particular.

It’s like Haute Couture for everyone!

I think DTG is getting a lot better but there are pros & cons to both processes that you have to think about when setting up shop.

Great discussion btw!

We currently offer over 250 shirt styles and colors including American Apparel, organics, and more. We were also the first to launch on-demand production around dark apparel – it’s still a beta process, but the results you see now are pretty incredible compared to where this started in late 2005. We’d encourage anyone to try us out and check out the quality.

theyre a good gang over the lake at bountee, thanks!

We’ve got some pretty good photos from users who’ve received their shirts; these are great close-up shots of the print (and a nice comparison to the design as well).

http://blog.bountee.com/2007/05/16/delivery/

In reply to p00neil; I’m sorry you don’t seem to have had a good experience – but if you read the history on our blog you’ll see that we’ve tried to be as open as we can throughout the beta process.

As for the comparison to Threadless – I would like to make a fine point if I may?

We are NOT a ’submit your design to be judged and then maybe we’ll print it’ site at all – we are a ’submit your design, and then if you get ’some’ positive approval from the community we WILL print it and sell if for you’ site.

You only have to look at the 1000 designs submitted and made live within the past 6 weeks to see the variety of quality and style – http://www.bountee.com/search.jsp

Cheers for the critique though – and we hope that we’re improving daily and turning into the kind of site that people want!

They are pretty cool and close to traditional screenprinting in that they use similar inks (watered down a bit). The machines are actually like a large version of an inkjet printer. The shirt goes on a platten and is moved electronically under the print head. The print head shoots the ink onto the shirt as it moves. Then the shirt has to be dried like traditional printing. It can be sent through a dryer or dried with a heat press.

I think the process is way better than what cafepress and the like have to offer. The print size and placement are also way more flexible.

Keep up the good work!

As a former member/user, they are some great designs on the site, but the people who run Bountee seem to have A TON of problems with communication and customer service.

Good luck to ‘em.