Shirt.Woot

It's simple really. What are the average sales for the shirts you've purchased?

The idea sort of popped into my head recently with all of the nonsense that woot has been doing recently. My opposition to the change has been less than secret, but I am not the only one who has expressed that they will be changing their purchasing habits.

I know my purchases are too low for woot to notice or care, but it got me thinking where I fall into the purchasing spectrum. Total sales seem to me the best gauge of mass appeal and the easiest metric for the average user to collect for themselves. I've excluded shirts I've bought as gifts or that were purchased by others on my account before they had their own. So without further ado....

Total shirts: 34

Average Sales: 2518

Top Seller: The Cake is a Liar (10486)

Bottom Seller:: Windup Wildlife Encounter* (771)

Shirts per year
2012: 1
2011: 5
2010: 2
2009: 10
2008: 14
2007: 2

Shirt Breakdown
Dailies: 13
Derbies: 18
Editor's Choice: 2
Side Sales: 1

*Side sales excluded because the numbers are by design lower because of the transitory nature of the offer and not directly comparable.

So where do you fit in?

That's way too much time & effort for me.

Not including randoms, and for only shirts that I have purchased for myself:

Khione is probably the lowest selling with 1858.

Acquired Taste is the bestselling shirt that I have purchased. I personally own 3 copies.

None of my other personal shirts have hit above 6,500.

Total shirts I've purchased is 39, plus an apron and a hoodie. Those are my total purchases for myself, family, and gifts. That's in less than 6 months.

Out of those 41 total Woot items, only one was a cat shirt.

And I'm not buying any Anvil.

elankat wrote:That's way too much time & effort for me.

It's sneakily easy. Took me about 15 minutes to compile everything. Just go to your account and open the duscuss page in a new tab for all the shirts you've bought. The number sold is right at the top and you can just close the windows as you write the numbers down.

Between my fiance and I, we own 15 woot shirts - trying to sell/trade 5 of them. So 10. Six last year (five of which were gifts given to us), the rest this year (bought, traded, or randoms).

Out of ones I purposefully bought from woot (which totals to an impressive 4 - 3 of which were on a Monday right before/right after the Reckoning):
Most common: The cheese is a Liederkranz at 20667
Least common: Too many cooks at 1537

Of ones that were given to me as a gift, received as randoms, or for which I traded:
Most common: It came out of nowhere at 37647
Least common: Housewarming Gifts at 114 (and trying to trade it still)

Total shirts: 4

Average Sales: 2197.5

Top Seller: Ironic Bunny (2771)

Bottom Seller:: Almost Free* (1667)

Shirts per year
2012: 2
2011: 2

Shirt Breakdown
Derbies: 3
Editor's Choice: 1

*Sales still ongoing.

Seems like I'm not hipster, but it doesn't seem like I'm mainstream either. I'm just discriminating in the shirts I buy - won't buy anything I won't actually wear.

This ... is going to take a loooooooong time for me.

Should multiple copies be factored into the average too?

I figured up the numbers for my Woot collection. I excluded side-sale items, shirts I purchased as gifts for others, and randoms I've never worn + want to be rid of. I included shirts I bought on both my own and my boyfriend's accounts (some of which were later traded away), randoms I kept and wear regularly, as well as designs I obtained via trade.

For my own curiosity I did two averages, one with and one without the top-seller, just to see what a drastic difference one top-selling shirt can make to the overall number.

These numbers are probably final, since sadly, I've likely made my last Woot purchase. Even if they did meet my sizing needs, I just don't like the new Anvil blanks. Given my declining purchases in recent years and "slightly less than mainstream" taste, it doesn't seem like Woot will miss my $. It was fun while it lasted, I suppose ...


Total shirts: 77

Average Sales: 2243.84
2026.70** (removed Epic Begins Outlier)

Top Sellers: 1) The Epic Begins (18747) purchase
2) Squeeze (8556) purchase
3) Villainous Victorian Velociraptor (7300) purchase
4) Friends are Forever (5948) purchase
5) I am become death, destroyer of worlds (5169) purchase


Bottom Sellers: 1) I'm Just Sayin' (337) trade
2) I Just Called To Say (365) purchase
3) Without Porpoise (459) trade
4) Headphone Funk (540) purchase
5) Seraphim (606) purchase

Shirts per year
2007: 11
2008: 31
2009: 17
2010: 11
2011: 5
2012: 2

Shirt Breakdown
Dailies: 35
Derbies: 36
Editor's Choice: 6
Side-Sale: 1 (Not included)

goldenthorn wrote:I didn't? I did it by number of designs, not shirts. Kinda felt it would be cleaner that way, since the goal is average sales according to design, right, so multiples of the same design wouldn't be useful/accurate to what's being measured?

Agreed. I have multiple copies of some shirts, but based my #s by design as well.

goldenthorn wrote:

The top five lowest-selling designs:
1. 365, I just called to say (2 for me)
2. 405, final approach (1 for me)
3. 564, how the deer gets his antlers (2 for me)
4. 635, the amazing one trick pony (1 for me)
5. 652, the awakening (2 for me) (<--FAVORITE SHIRT EVARRR!!1!)

A fellow VonMonkey Fan!! [HIGH FIVES] I Just Called To Say, The Awakening, and LeFluff are all on my list of favourite shirts (and inexplicable low-sellers) as well.

I'll Play!!

Total shirts: 24

Average Sales: 6,317 (3,729 if I exclude The Binge and Fresh Cake)

Top Sellers:
The Binge (56,863...)
Fresh Cake ( 12,705)
In the Library (8101)

Bottom Seller::
Waiting for the suB (777)
Tucan Sheds Tint (1081)

Shirts per year
2012: 3
2011: 17
2010: 4

Shirt Breakdown
Dailies: 0
Derbies: 21
Editor's Choice: 3

So where do you fit in? I guess I am pretty Mainstream.

Got my first Anvil this week with Curiosity. Went from WXL to WM. I don't think the fit is as terrible as some do, (I always tuck my shirts in, it was long enough and the extra fabric at the bottom didn't bother me) but somehow the quality felt lacking. The shirt just didn't seem as nice, and the printing seems a little bit off kilter. Still need to wash it and see after that.

Removing the top and bottom 2, average is 2914.

80 shirts. 5 in 2008, 32 in 2009, 23 in 2010, 16 in 2011, 5 so far this year.

High seller: Nevermore, Kitchen warfare, Fresh Cake, Pandemonium

Low Sellers: Mission Pigpossible, How the Deer Gets his Antlers, Ouroboros, Modern Elephants.

Yay, something to do while my code runs! Here's mine:

Total shirts: 20

Median Sales: 1635

Top Seller: It Came Out of Nowhere (37647)

Bottom Seller:: Last Flight Home (763)

Shirts per year
2012: 2 (Counting random 3 pack of blanks as 1)
2011: 6
2010: 8
2009: 4 (since 10/31/09)

Shirt Breakdown
Dailies: 5
Derbies: 12
Editor's Choice: 1
Side Sales: 2

I have 14. Yeah not a lot but I like to live on the edge with randoms and they're not figured in here! And I'm not counting my own prints here either.

5 dailies
7 derbies
1 editor's choice
1 side-sale shirt (a comeback of a daily)

Two of those derby ones were part of a two-for-one shirt sale.

Lowest seller: Oh, Hole-y Night (775)

Highest seller: The Filthy Hippies (4552)

purchases each year
2008: (5)
2009: (6)
2010: (1)
2011: (1)
2012: (1)

Not included in these figures are 1 tote, 1 apron, 1 hoodie, 14 randoms, 15 of my own prints, and 4 gift purchases.

(edited because apparently I don't know how to count?)

Here are my numbers...

Total unique shirts: 20

Average Sales: 6114

Top Sellers:
1. Acquired Taste (21982) <- still my all-time favorite
2. The Cheese is a Liederkranz (20667)
3. Unstealthiest Ninja (14495)

Bottom Sellers::
1. Jump For It (1580)
2. Royal Shame (759)
3. Hugs and Kisses (113) <- Favorite Derby Loser (side sale)


Shirts per year
2012: 5
2011: 15

Shirt Breakdown
Dailies: 3
Derbies: 15
Editor's Choice: 1
Side Sales: 1

Thanks to my love of Acquired Taste and Cheese, I guess I'm pretty mainstream. Many of my purchases only hung around for a couple weeks, though, so I also run the gamut.

mrwednesday wrote:So where do you fit in?

I shall participate, because....yeah, why not.


Total shirts: 13 (not counting shirts for wife/kids)

Average Sales: 8785 (3333 without outliers. I have Cheese is a Leiderkranz because my son wanted us to match )

Top Seller: The Binge (56873) This was my first Woot shirt, and I still like it, though my tastes have changed since.

Bottom Seller:: Waiting for the suB* (777)

Shirts per year
2012: 2
2011: 10
2010: 1
2009: 0
2008: 0
2007: 0

Shirt Breakdown
Dailies: 3
Derbies: 8
Editor's Choice: 2
Side Sales: 1 (+reading rocketship poster)

Listed in order of purchase, active shirts in bold...

Shell Competition--4/13/2008--895
Perpetual Emotion--4/27/2008--2400
Happy Birthday to Us--7/21/2008--2659
You are a Pirate!--10/26/2008--2623
Slow Death--10/16/2011--2219
Jimmy…Is That You?--8/29/2008--6132--Purchased as side sale
Changing Sides--11/6/2011--1855
Nevermore--4/5/2008--47286--Remember this from its debut, but non-debut day purchase
Elephicanswim--11/3/2011--1860--Non-debut day purchase
Easiest Thanksgiving Recipe--11/15/2011--4271
Schrodinger's Equation--11/27/2011--8344
If a tree falls in the woods --11/29/2011--5142
Meatatarian--12/10/2011--6298
Nose Thief--12/24/2011--2812
They See Me Rollin'--1/2/2012--5070
Unstealthiest Ninja--5/4/2011--14495--Non-debut day purchase
Unstealthiest Ninja II--12/23/2011--6134--Non-debut day purchase
A Wild Night--12/30/2011--4208--Non-debut day purchase
Acquired Taste--2/18/2011--21982--Non-debut day purchase
Sissy Sea Fight--2/9/2012--564
Force Equation--2/16/2012--2366
Too Many Cooks--2/22/2012--1537
1971-Floppy Diskette--2/24/2012--8057
Wrestling Taxonomy--2/29/2012--1151
Extended Bell Curve--4/6/2010--3725--Purchased as side sale
Reflections on Pi--2/9/2011--11052--Purchased as side sale
Not Like the Others…--3/9/2012--3189
Hungry Hungry Games--3/22/2012--4306
Free Hugs--3/29/2012--924

Maximum sales: Nevermore (47286)
Maximum debut day purchase: Schrodinger's Equation (8344), but will be passed by 1971-Floppy Diskette (8057) soon...

Minimum debut day purchase: Sissy Sea Fight (564)

Average sales: 6330

Average sales for debut day purchases: 3334

Average sales including a few I forgot to buy on debut day(Elephicanswim, UN:II, A Wild Night): 3430

Have also purchased 30 shirts through Random sales and Forbidden Future Remix through a side sale.

Here's the math I ran for mine. I've been trying to compile numbers from two accounts (my husband and mine), as we occasionally purchase for each other.
If I bought a long-sleeve or hoodie, I used the original designs sale numbers, instead of the side sale numbers, because I would've bought the original if it had been available.

Shirt.Woots Bought Per Year across both accounts (includes side sales and randoms):
2009: 2
2010: 0 (Didn't become a daily wooter until mid-2011)
2011: 22
2012: 13

Details for me:
Total Shirts (Excluding 6 Unworn Randoms): 21
Average Sales: 4630 (includes 2 shirts still available via reckoning - Nyan's Dream and Free Hugs)
Median Sales: 3893 (jasneko's Existential Whale)

Bottom Seller:
Epic Hairball - walmazan - 671

Top Seller:
Fresh Cake - walmazan - 12705

Details for my husband:
Total Shirts (Excluding 2 Unworn Randoms): 11
Average Sales: 14148 (includes 1 shirt still available via reckoning - The Binge)
Median Sales: 6660 (RamyB's Transitions)

Bottom Seller:
Changing Sides - jlegos - 1855

Top Seller:
The Binge - Tjost - 56887 (still on sale)

Excluding top and bottom..

Total shirts: 40

Average Sales: 5500

Top Sellers:
- It came out of nowhere (37647)
- Some motivation required (23291)
- Donut panic (17508)

Bottom Sellers: (not counting Free Hugs today)
- I met system I (917)
- Office Surprise (1022)
- Don't look back, I've got you (1042) (one of my favorite and most noticed shirts!)

Shirts per year
2012: 3
2011: 8
2010: 11
2009: 14
2008: 6
2007: 0

Average is a little higher than I would have thought, but I've got 5 or 6 over 10k and ICOONW is a big one of course..

Shirts not from random or side deals (or gifts)
39, 38 if you are only counting those not in reckoning any more.

On average 3043 other people bought the same shirt I did. Many of the ones I thought would be under 1000 surprised me at being the average.

578- I think that is the one with the lowest count that I have bought but I'm not going back and checking all, since I just used a calculator and not pen.

This was actually kind of fun to work on. I have so many shirts packed away, so my total shirts count doesn't include randoms and trades. I honestly don't know how many shirts I have.

Total (excluding randoms/trades): 34

Average Sales: 2436

Top Sellers:
To the Top in the Style of Da Vinci (7189 or 7434 after recent side sale)
Ugly Holiday Sweater 2011 (7429)

Bottom Seller: Tie-Dyed Too purchased specifically for Spring Rebirth (748)

Shirts per year
2012: 8 + 2 randoms
2011: 8 + 6 randoms
2010: 2 + 2 randoms
2009: 5 + 4 randoms
2008: 10 + 4 randoms
2007: 1 (not including the woot screaming monkey shirt sold on woot.com during a woot-off)

Shirt Breakdown
Derby: 15
Daily: 8
EC: 3
Side or Special Sales: 8
Randoms: 18

That total number of 34 is very low compared to how many shirts I really have. I would estimate my collection to be closer to 60 or 70. My shirts also range in size from XL to 3XL due to weight loss. The majority of my shirts are 3XL, but I can't seem to part with them even though they are way too big.

I've only bought five shirts that weren't random, it seems, and I've never actually worn one of them since I hated the print quality... I haven't bought anything since then, either.

1. Nature's Harmony (4661)
2. F5 Refreshes You (3758)
3. Flying (1809)
4. Autobiography (907)
5. How the Deer Gets His Antlers (564)

Avg: 2339.8

Shirts per year
2010: 4
2008: 1

(for the curious, I bought 15 randoms in 2009.)

Shirt Breakdown
Dailies: 3
Derbies: 1
Editor's Choice: 1

Incidentally, 3-5 are my most favorite shirts ever, and in the case of the last 2, I don't even like yellow that much. :P

Total shirt designs bought: 79

Average sales: 1682

Most sold: The Cake is a Liar with 10486

Lowest sold: Tummy Ache with 180

Shirt designs bought per year:
2007: 11
2008: 33
2009: 14
2010: 13
2011: 7
2012: 1

(special sales and non-shirt items not included in totals)

Too many shirts for me to want to do the math officially so I'll give you first, most recent (for me not as a gift) and a randomly generated selection (I liked cmillard1's list and went from there -- we all organize ourselves differently, this is mine. Statistics don't tell me what I might want to know about a shirt buyer):

First: Geometry Blows -- 1791
Recent: Apocalyptus 141
Recent (not side sale): ProCATStination 3310

A Random Selection of approximately 10% (random number generated)

#37 Live Not On Evil (love this shirt) 1931
#4 Breakdance (see above) 1676
#93 Coffee Break 586
#128 Haunted Scarecrow 5152
#83 They're Watching 5371
#64 "Buzz Aldrin" Always Sounded Like A Sports Name 3424
#62 Squeeze 8556
#59 Sakura Samurai 4157
#106 License and Registration 1759
#89 Night School 811
#18 Big On The Inside 2548
#108 Two Queens 1525
#27 (ok, this is actually #28, but it's my favorite shirt.woot) Zombie Vampire Robots from Space 3773
#27 (actual) Neo Australia 1555
#117 You Can't Catch Me 2597

I have happily purchased both Housewarming Gifts 114 and Crowd Control 179

On the upper end of the spectrum (full disclosure), one of my first purchases was Imposter 25610 which amused my target audience greatly. The only other one of the "big" number shirts I've acquired was Fresh Cake 12705

Draw your own conclusions about my level of "mainstream."

I left out my designs.

Total shirts: 20 (8 were gifts for others)

Average Sales: 1892

Top Seller: Death Served Till Noon (3945 - also gets the most compliments)

Bottom Seller:: Modern Elephants (701)

Shirts per year
2012: 2
2011: 14
2010: 4

Shirt Breakdown
Dailies: 10
Derbies: 9
Editor's Choice: 1
Side Sales: 0