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bluejester wrote:I wouldn't recommend using red ink to correct the internet. If you do that, then you will end up needing to replace your monitor way too often.

Not as quickly as if you were to use white-out, though.

LarryLars wrote:ha ha! That "no-brianer" was a real no-brainer. This one is mild compared to the mistakes I had made in my late night posts. (:

Great shirt fb!

Wait, you know I was joking, right?

Or should I say, "Weight, ewe no eye was joking, write?"

Homncruse wrote:The truth of this shirt makes me weep for society.

I shall join you.
*hands you a tissue*

margiecakes wrote:Wait, you know I was joking, right?

Or should I say, "Weight, ewe no eye was joking, write?"

I knowed it.

steezysnow wrote:How many of you read your comment multiple times before you posted it? Just to be sure you had your grammar right.

I made sure my grammar was left, not right. ;-)
Or, I might state that I made sure my grammar was correct.

Debut day number (that probably cannot be believed, but I might go crazy if I don't at least post a number somewhere): 1082, on a mix of AA for women and imported Anvil for men and kids.

First sales numbers -
Last Wooter to Woot: runhardxc
Last Purchase Time: 4:57 AM Central Time
Order Pace: 1m 19.552s
Woots Sold: 1082

Second sales numbers -
Last Wooter to Woot: runhardxc
Last Purchase Time: 4:57 AM Central Time
Order Pace: 2m 36.554s
Woots Sold: 550

Third sales numbers -
Last Wooter to Woot: singinsue
Last Purchase Time: 6:05 AM Central Time
Order Pace: 2m 43.663s
Woots Sold: 551

What will happen next?

What time have the next day sales begun? That is the only thing more important than the stats!

Sales back up now 11:11pm pdt
First day sales seem to be 550

WOOT!

dbhnsn wrote:If only Woot shirts were made in women's style...you know, V neck, cap sleeves? Or better yet, tank top and spaghetti strap styles...

Um, since when does "women's style" mean v-neck, cap sleeves, tank tops, or spaghetti straps? I'm a woman, I have a wicked awesome sense of style, and I would never wear any of those features that you mention.

Women can be stylish (and sexy!) without exposing skin, underwear, or cleavage.

neuropsychosocial wrote:Um, since when does "women's style" mean v-neck, cap sleeves, tank tops, or spaghetti straps? I'm a woman, I have a wicked awesome sense of style, and I would never wear any of those features that you mention.

Women can be stylish (and sexy!) without exposing skin, underwear, or cleavage.

Dam straight! And we can be stylish (and sexy!) while playing with numbers!

TheGolux wrote:First sales numbers -
Last Wooter to Woot: runhardxc
Last Purchase Time: 4:57 AM Central Time
Order Pace: 1m 19.552s
Woots Sold: 1082

The Reckoning homepage is listing "Grammar Police" as this week's best seller with 1,082 shirts sold.

TheGolux wrote:Dam straight! And we can be stylish (and sexy!) while playing with numbers!

Awwwwwwwww yeah!

neuropsychosocial wrote:Um, since when does "women's style" mean v-neck, cap sleeves, tank tops, or spaghetti straps? I'm a woman, I have a wicked awesome sense of style, and I would never wear any of those features that you mention.

Women can be stylish (and sexy!) without exposing skin, underwear, or cleavage.

I agree. I wouldn't wear tanks tops or spaghetti strap tops with Woot designs because I almost always wear them under something. Having designs on them would be pointless since they would be covered 90% of the time.

TheGolux wrote:First sales numbers -
Last Wooter to Woot: runhardxc
Last Purchase Time: 4:57 AM Central Time
Order Pace: 1m 19.552s
Woots Sold: 1082

Second sales numbers -
Last Wooter to Woot: runhardxc
Last Purchase Time: 4:57 AM Central Time
Order Pace: 2m 36.554s
Woots Sold: 550

Third sales numbers -
Last Wooter to Woot: singinsue
Last Purchase Time: 6:05 AM Central Time
Order Pace: 2m 43.663s
Woots Sold: 551

What will happen next?

What time have the next day sales begun? That is the only thing more important than the stats!

Sales back up now 11:11pm pdt
First day sales seem to be 550

WOOT!

My tracker says 1082. What it doesn't tell me is out of how many total possible sales. I'm starting to wonder if the sellout number was raised. I also have no idea how many I've sold beyond the first day.

fishbiscuit5 wrote:My tracker says 1082. What it doesn't tell me is out of how many total possible sales. I'm starting to wonder if the sellout number was raised. I also have no idea how many I've sold beyond the first day.

As long as "Grammar Police" is this week's top seller, you can track your sales figure from the Reckoning homepage. (Edit: you sold three shirts in the time that it took me to write this post!)

I understand that restoring the sales stats for the numbers-watchers isn't a high priority for woot, but it seems far more important that the artists are able to track their own sales; after all, isn't that how the artists double-check that their commissions are correct? If woot raised the first-day sales limit, I certainly hope they would inform the artists; I thought Robbie said that he was informed in advance that the first-day limit had been raised to 6,000, but I'm not sufficiently motivated to search for the post.

Oh wait, I'm still a little shaken from reading the thread for today's shirt and thus absolutely motivated to distract myself. Turns out my memory is incorrect: tjost was not informed that the sellout limit had been raised to 6,000. I found the threads when the limit was raised to 5,000 and again to 6,000. That strikes me as strange: wouldn't a "detail" that has a major influence on commission be included in your contract with woot?

neuropsychosocial wrote:As long as "Grammar Police" is this week's top seller, you can track your sales figure from the Reckoning homepage. (Edit: you sold three shirts in the time that it took me to write this post!)

I understand that restoring the sales stats for the numbers-watchers isn't a high priority for woot, but it seems far more important that the artists are able to track their own sales; after all, isn't that how the artists double-check that their commissions are correct? If woot raised the first-day sales limit, I certainly hope they would inform the artists; I thought Robbie said that he was informed in advance that the first-day limit had been raised to 6,000, but I'm not sufficiently motivated to search for the post.

Oh wait, I'm still a little shaken from reading the thread for today's shirt and thus absolutely motivated to distract myself. Turns out my memory is incorrect: tjost was not informed that the sellout limit had been raised to 6,000. I found the threads when the limit was raised to 5,000 and again to 6,000. That strikes me as strange: wouldn't a "detail" that has a major influence on commission be included in your contract with woot?

Thanks for the reckoning chart tip! I guess they are just working out the bugs. I'm sure it's a big ol' complicated undertaking to change over all of woot like this.

margiecakes wrote:As a high school English teacher who happily wears woot shirts to work almost every day, this is a know-brianer.

However, I must confess that I do not use red pen. I opt to mark papers with colored pencils, preferably green or purple, as red is damaging to the fragile egos* of my young scholars.




*Right. Like anything could damage their egos other than being de-friended on facebook.

I hope, as an English teacher, that "know-brainer" was a joke.

mc5no4stp wrote:I hope, as an English teacher, that "know-brainer" was a joke.

*Ahem* It was 'know-brianer' thank you very much!

I hope that answers your question. ;)

neuropsychosocial wrote:As long as "Grammar Police" is this week's top seller, you can track your sales figure from the Reckoning homepage. (Edit: you sold three shirts in the time that it took me to write this post!)

I understand that restoring the sales stats for the numbers-watchers isn't a high priority for woot, but it seems far more important that the artists are able to track their own sales; after all, isn't that how the artists double-check that their commissions are correct? If woot raised the first-day sales limit, I certainly hope they would inform the artists; I thought Robbie said that he was informed in advance that the first-day limit had been raised to 6,000, but I'm not sufficiently motivated to search for the post.

Oh wait, I'm still a little shaken from reading the thread for today's shirt and thus absolutely motivated to distract myself. Turns out my memory is incorrect: tjost was not informed that the sellout limit had been raised to 6,000. I found the threads when the limit was raised to 5,000 and again to 6,000. That strikes me as strange: wouldn't a "detail" that has a major influence on commission be included in your contract with woot?

Wait, does that mean the artist doesn't receive the 2$ per shirt commission until they surpass 6k?

I certainly hope I am misunderstanding, as sometimes I intentionally hold off just to make sure the artist gets a little push later. Not to mention it makes this a far less lucrative venture for our beloved artists.

I love this shirt! I'm a professional writing major and I love to edit anything I can get my hands on! I love any chance to get out my "Strunk and White" book and a red pen or pencil.

margiecakes wrote:Wait, does that mean the artist doesn't receive the 2$ per shirt commission until they surpass 6k?

I certainly hope I am misunderstanding, as sometimes I intentionally hold off just to make sure the artist gets a little push later. Not to mention it makes this a far less lucrative venture for our beloved artists.

The sellout cap is only for first day sales. No worries!

My professional t-shirt model (teenage son) is sporting "Grammar Police" for us. Ignore the wrinkles, this shirt is straight out of the bag! I'm very happy with the print. Thanks so much, woot! Can't wait to wear mine to school next week. :D

margiecakes wrote:Wait, does that mean the artist doesn't receive the 2$ per shirt commission until they surpass 6k?

I certainly hope I am misunderstanding, as sometimes I intentionally hold off just to make sure the artist gets a little push later. Not to mention it makes this a far less lucrative venture for our beloved artists.

Sorry, I just saw this. The complete explanation is this:
Day 1: Artists get paid $1,000 for the first day sales. There's a cap on how many shirts can be sold the first day: it used to be 3,000, then it was raised to 5,000, then 6,000 (and now there's some speculation that it's been raised again, but woot has not clarified this with the artists). So up to 6,000 sales on Day 1, the artist gets paid $1,000. (If a shirt hits 6,000 sales, the "sold out" sign goes up until Day 2.) No matter how many shirts are sold on Day 1, none of those sales count towards a shirt's position on the Reckoning.
Day 2+: regardless of how many shirts were sold on Day 1, the artist earns $2 per shirt sold except during the one-hour woot-off sales. Every shirt sold, except during the one-hour woot-off sales, will count towards the shirt's position in the Reckoning for the next four weeks. (Essentially: three weeks plus however many days are left in that week; it's basically "how many shirts have you sold since four Tuesdays ago?")
One-hour woot-off sales: during the one-hour sales, when shirts are sold for $12, the artists are paid $1 per shirt instead of $2 per shirt. In addition, all sales during the woot-off hour are excluded from the Reckoning standings, so they don't help a shirt survive.

Summary: First day sales and woot-off sales are $12, which saves the customer some money compared to the regular $15 price. However, I see the $3 difference as $2 to the artist and $1 to vote for the shirt to survive longer in the Reckoning. What you're doing, buying a little later to support a shirt and an artist, is doing exactly that!

If any of that doesn't make sense, please tell me. And if any of it is wrong, I'm sure Narfcake will be around any minute to tell us what I got wrong.

neuropsychosocial wrote:And if any of it is wrong, I'm sure Narfcake will be around any minute to tell us what I got wrong.

And if all of it is right, I'll come and post 12 hours later that it's all correct.

Narfcake wrote:And if all of it is right, I'll come and post 12 hours later that it's all correct.

Thank you, Professor Cake!

If I were still being helpful to woot (as opposed to being helpful to nice wooters and/or being helpful when it comes to bleating about issues that affect the artists), I'd suggest that we start an FAQ thread where we could store posts like "How do the artists get paid?" or "In how many different ways can wootbot fail to do his job correctly?" or "I NEEDZ THIS SHIRT. HOW CAN i FINDZ IT?"; then we could just link posters to the appropriate post that answered a given question.

(I don't recall seeing Margiecake's specific question before, but the general information about how artists get paid should be circulated more widely; it's not obvious. I'm not sure when I learned it, although it was almost certainly from something you posted, but I wish I'd known earlier.)

got mine today. turned out great.