Shirt.Woot

Legend: (Baseline rank) Shirt Name - baseline sales numbers.
(1) Unstealthiest Ninja 3 4 - 5579
(2) Cats Resume - 5267
(3) Thanks For All The Fish - 5210
(4) Settler Cats - 2850
(5) Star Powered - 4826
(6) The Formula For Success - 12067
(7) I Love Science - 4310
(8) F This - 3144
(9) Swept Away - 2651
(10) A Most Civilized Game - 2359
(11) Family Breakfast - 16531
(12) The Binge - 59286
(13) Artichokey - 4716
(14) Nevermore - 49339
(15) 1971-Floppy Diskette - 10190
(16) Shhhhhhh - 13420
(17) Rebel Attack - 1662
(18) Leonardo - 7709
(19) Inconceivable - 2508
(20) Star Fishing - 1454
(21) World Domination for Cats - 1569
(22) The Keepers of the Word - 3180
(23) Escape from the Cold - 1447
(24) Your Ideas - 1699
(25) Keyboard Cat - 1023
(26) Surfer Who? - 846
(27) Liar's Paradox - 426
(91) Back in My Day - 1674

No DSR numbers as of yet ... we're well in the wreckoning period this week, and it's going to take me some time to see what's salvageable this week.

Narfcake wrote: [snip] we're well in the wreckoning period this week, and it's going to take me some time to see what's salvageable this week.

And it appears that we may be in the midst of The Wreckoning II: The ReWreckoning; the DSRs that include sales from the day of the Great EC2 Crash may not be particularly accurate, either. Yikes!

At least Artichokey looks happily ensconced in the middle of the Reckoning. (If you're reading this and wonder why I love this shirt so much, you should buy one and find out for yourself!)

Great. Woot's response to everyone complaining about cat shirts is to reprint old cat shirts for the woot plus deal this week.

I didn't really know where to leave this comment since the woot plus deals don't have individual threads. This seemed as good a place as any.

eholling wrote:Great. Woot's response to everyone complaining about cat shirts is to reprint old cat shirts for the woot plus deal this week.

I didn't really know where to leave this comment since the woot plus deals don't have individual threads. This seemed as good a place as any.

Found one!

Escape from the Cold must be selling pretty well to climb out of the Danger Zone so quickly. I was a little surprised to see it so high given its middling debut day numbers (especially compared to Your Ideas). Then again, that's post-debut popularity in action, I suppose.

neuropsychosocial wrote:And it appears that we may be in the midst of The Wreckoning II: The ReWreckoning; the DSRs that include sales from the day of the Great EC2 Crash may not be particularly accurate, either. Yikes!

At least Artichokey looks happily ensconced in the middle of the Reckoning. (If you're reading this and wonder why I love this shirt so much, you should buy one and find out for yourself!)

Great EC2 Crash - was that the day of the derecho from hell?

inkycatz wrote:Found one!

Thanks!

grahamcrackercoyote wrote:Great EC2 Crash - was that the day of the derecho from hell?

Yup!

Escape from the Cold: a) Can I escape from this heat? b) I wonder if its greater-than-typical-post-first-day-sales-for-Derby2 is a combination of Ramy and server crash: it sold fewer than expected because sales were unavailable for a large portion of the day, but maybe Ramy shirts are more likely to result in people returning to purchase when "frustrated" by a sale/unable to purchase on the first day.

neuropsychosocial wrote:Yup!

Escape from the Cold: a) Can I escape from this heat? b) I wonder if its greater-than-typical-post-first-day-sales-for-Derby2 is a combination of Ramy and server crash: it sold fewer than expected because sales were unavailable for a large portion of the day, but maybe Ramy shirts are more likely to result in people returning to purchase when "frustrated" by a sale/unable to purchase on the first day.

I can't fathom a thing about Ramy's fans. I like some of his designs, but this new one with the spiky Cooler Than You penguin is too silly for me. Ramy clearly has the pulse of the tee shirt buying public or the stuff wouldn't sell.

On another note, World Dom for Cats is going to require me to buy an extra copy earlier than I though it would.

grahamcrackercoyote wrote:I like some of his designs, but this new one with the spiky Cooler Than You penguin is too silly for me.

I figured he did it on purpose: the Derby was announced the day after (or thereabouts) the Grammar Fight Thread was resurrected and I figured this was his response. It's such a caricature of a particular style of animation. Even back in the penguin days, Ramy didn't slap a belly on his penguins as a separate layer-like thing. (Actually, it reminds me of the early days of Pixar, circa "Knick Knack.")

Anyone read wootbot's opening post this week? I'm on my phone, so I can't quote, but he promises that not only will he update on a particular schedule, but also that the updates will be linked below! Me, I'm not counting any wootbot-posts before they're posted.

Itsa gonna be one of those mornings - when you click on the direct link to Shirt.Woot, you get sent to Sellout.Woot, and when you do get in, it sends you to the Reckoning! You awake out there in Wootland - what gives?!?

A day and a half in, and here's where they're at ...

Legend: Current rank (Baseline rank) Shirt Name - total quantity as of this posting. DSR are for informational purposes only and not 100% accurate.
1 (1) Unstealthiest Ninja 3 4 - (+91) to 5670. Approx. 67.07 real time DSR; 54.8 Woot-based DSR
2 (2) Cats Resume - (+33) to 5300. Approx. 43.6 real time DSR; 35.32 Woot-based DSR
3 (4) Settler Cats - (+40) to 2890. Approx. 35.16 real time DSR; 26.93 Woot-based DSR
4 (5) Star Powered - (+33) to 4859. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
5 (3) Thanks For All The Fish - (+12) to 5222. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
6 (6) The Formula For Success - (+44) to 12111. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
7 (7) I Love Science - (+50) to 4360. Approx. 33.89 real time DSR; 21.26 Woot-based DSR
8 (8) F This - (+29) to 3173. Approx. 22.47 real time DSR; 18.04 Woot-based DSR
9 (17) Rebel Attack - (+74) to 1736. Approx. -268.98 real time DSR; -126.53 Woot-based DSR
10 (9) Swept Away - (+20) to 2671. Approx. 25.55 real time DSR; 17.76 Woot-based DSR
11 (10) A Most Civilized Game - (+24) to 2383. Approx. 21.23 real time DSR; 16.68 Woot-based DSR
12 (11) Family Breakfast - (+11) to 16542. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
13 (12) The Binge - (+30) to 59316. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
14 (13) Artichokey - (+14) to 4730. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
15 (23) Escape from the Cold - (+53) to 1500. Approx. 36.9 real time DSR; 15.06 Woot-based DSR
16 (14) Nevermore - (+25) to 49364. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
17 (16) Shhhhhhh - (+30) to 13450. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
18 (15) 1971-Floppy Diskette - (+15) to 10205. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
19 (18) Leonardo - (+21) to 7730. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
20 (19) Inconceivable - (+19) to 2527. Approx. 16.1 real time DSR; 12.15 Woot-based DSR
21 (21) World Domination for Cats - (+20) to 1589. Approx. 17 real time DSR; 11.48 Woot-based DSR
22 (20) Star Fishing - (+15) to 1469. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
23 (22) The Keepers of the Word - (+15) to 3195. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
24 (24) Your Ideas - (+17) to 1716. Approx. 18.09 real time DSR; 10.17 Woot-based DSR
25 (26) Surfer Who? - (+38) to 884. Approx. 27.95 real time DSR; 9.2 Woot-based DSR
26 (25) Keyboard Cat - (+10) to 1033. Approx. 11.65 real time DSR; 6.96 Woot-based DSR
27 (27) Liar's Paradox - (+8) to 434. Approx. 5.12 real time DSR; 2.67 Woot-based DSR
91 (91) Back in My Day - (+43) to 1717. Approx. 29.28 real time DSR; n/a Woot-based DSR
92 (92) Kawaii Puft - (+15) to 1115. Approx. 32 real time DSR; n/a Woot-based DSR

YEA!!! Back to normal

The Hamper of Fame and Weekly Bragging Rights are missing. One of these days the bugs will work themselves out. Or not. I don't know, I'm not a tech guy.

rockymike wrote:The Hamper of Fame and Weekly Bragging Rights are missing. One of these days the bugs will work themselves out. Or not. I don't know, I'm not a tech guy.

That's better than getting sent to Sellout.Woot no matter which button you hit :S

Wait... where did all the Best Seller/Worst Seller/etc. buttons go?!

How will I ever know which shirts are popular and which aren't?

rockymike wrote:The Hamper of Fame and Weekly Bragging Rights are missing. One of these days the bugs will work themselves out. Or not. I don't know, I'm not a tech guy.

AS I understand it they got it all worked out, put it in the cloud, and the cloud crashed.

bounty42 wrote:AS I understand it they got it all worked out, put it in the cloud, and the cloud crashed.

Clouds are puffy things and often have trouble containing things, which is why rain exists.

rockymike wrote:The Hamper of Fame and Weekly Bragging Rights are missing. One of these days the bugs will work themselves out. Or not. I don't know, I'm not a tech guy.

Neither am I, but we'll report it so it can get checked out.

inkycatz wrote:Clouds are puffy things and often have trouble containing things, which is why rain exists.

Booze to bots = good.
Booze to clouds = not good.

inkycatz wrote:Clouds are puffy things and often have trouble containing things, which is why rain exists.

See, this is exactly my problem. Clouds are puffy and cause rain. Rain is made fo water. Water shorts out computers. So why in the name of all that's holy do we keep putting computers in the cloud?

Whete are the funny shirts....you know, the puns and other sacriligious, yet suitable for public wear shirts?

noreene wrote:Whete are the funny shirts....you know, the puns and other sacriligious, yet suitable for public wear shirts?

Right here.

grahamcrackercoyote wrote:YEA!!! Back to normal

So glad!

Yeah! It seems that we are actually going back to normal. The hamper of fame and the week bragging rights are back, my "Rebel Attack" has now the real numbers and it seems like everything is going OK!

BOOORING! Com'n Reckoning, do something exciting!

Just got home, and numbers will be posted tonight.

I won't be around tomorrow afternoon or evening to grab the #256 closing and #257 opening numbers; it would be great if someone else can do so and post them instead.

Perhaps "The Binge" and "Nevermore" should be moved to some kind of Hall of Fame list where they can be purchased indefinitely. It seems that there is potential for there to eventually be a day where the variety of available shirts is limited due to the massive success of a few shirts that will never leave the list.

But . . . maybe that's the point.

As promised, numbers! These are as of 22:06 PDT.

EDIT: Corrected elapsed-time as noted by CMillard and Neuro.

Legend: Current rank (Baseline rank) Shirt Name - total quantity as of this posting. DSR are for informational purposes only and not 100% accurate.
1 (1) Unstealthiest Ninja 3 4 - (+255) to 5834. Approx. 61.88 real time DSR; 60.76 Woot-based DSR
2 (2) Cats Resume - (+109) to 5376. Approx. 38.92 real time DSR; 38.19 Woot-based DSR
3 (4) Settler Cats - (+122) to 2972. Approx. 31.47 real time DSR; 30.74 Woot-based DSR
4 (7) I Love Science - (+161) to 4471. Approx. 30.61 real time DSR; 29.48 Woot-based DSR
5 (17) Rebel Attack - (+1553) to 3215. Approx. 30.77 real time DSR; 29.16 Woot-based DSR
6 (5) Star Powered - (+109) to 4935. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
7 (6) The Formula For Success - (+113) to 12180. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
8 (3) Thanks For All The Fish - (+57) to 5267. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
9 (23) Escape from the Cold - (+124) to 1571. Approx. 24.86 real time DSR; 23.41 Woot-based DSR
10 (9) Swept Away - (+76) to 2727. Approx. 21.81 real time DSR; 21.15 Woot-based DSR
11 (8) F This - (+80) to 3224. Approx. 20.44 real time DSR; 20.04 Woot-based DSR
12 (10) A Most Civilized Game - (+92) to 2451. Approx. 20 real time DSR; 19.57 Woot-based DSR
13 (11) Family Breakfast - (+56) to 16587. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
14 (12) The Binge - (+98) to 59384. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
15 (14) Nevermore - (+94) to 49433. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
16 (13) Artichokey - (+62) to 4778. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
17 (16) Shhhhhhh - (+91) to 13511. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
18 (18) Leonardo - (+91) to 7800. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
19 (15) 1971-Floppy Diskette - (+65) to 10255. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
20 (19) Inconceivable - (+68) to 2576. Approx. 14.9 real time DSR; 14.54 Woot-based DSR
21 (21) World Domination for Cats - (+64) to 1633. Approx. 14.8 real time DSR; 14.32 Woot-based DSR
22 (20) Star Fishing - (+55) to 1509. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
23 (26) Surfer Who? - (+76) to 922. Approx. 15.28 real time DSR; 14.27 Woot-based DSR
24 (24) Your Ideas - (+49) to 1748. Approx. 13.54 real time DSR; 12.96 Woot-based DSR
25 (22) The Keepers of the Word - (+53) to 3233. No DSR is available due to the Wreckoning.
26 (25) Keyboard Cat - (+36) to 1059. Approx. 9.41 real time DSR; 9.04 Woot-based DSR
27 (27) Liar's Paradox - (+15) to 441. Approx. 3.5 real time DSR; 3.33 Woot-based DSR
91 (91) Back in My Day - (+75) to 1749. Approx. 12.49 real time DSR; n/a Woot-based DSR
92 (92) Kawaii Puft - (+70) to 1170. Approx. 13.99 real time DSR; n/a Woot-based DSR
93 (93) Household Uses - (+90) to 1689. Approx. 22.48 real time DSR; n/a Woot-based DSR
94 (94) The Great Whodini - (+65) to 1481. Approx. 21.64 real time DSR; n/a Woot-based DSR
95 (95) Free Your Heart - (+65) to 1586. Approx. 32.44 real time DSR; n/a Woot-based DSR
96 (96) Released - (+43) to 1094. Approx. 42.85 real time DSR; n/a Woot-based DSR
97 (97) Just this once - 687.

Narfcake wrote:
97 (97) Just this once - 687.

(neuro blinks) Um, "just this once" a Ramy shirt might lose money? Yikes...

UnNinjaIII and Kittehs Restart were neck-and-neck for a while, but it looks like UnNinja is pulling away from the skilled cat. Now that he's firmly in first place, will my little squishy ever learn how to swim?!?

Thanks for posting the numbers, Narf.

Hey Narf, looks like there is a glitch in the DSR for the shirts. It appears you based it off roughly noon (presumably 12:06 pm CT/10:06 am PT) on Sunday.

cmillard1 wrote:Hey Narf, looks like there is a glitch in the DSR for the shirts. It appears you based it off roughly noon (presumably 12:06 pm CT/10:06 am PT) on Sunday.

Yup, the Wreckoning was one big glitch! (Although it looks like the denominator for the most recent set of DSRs might be off by 12 hours - Narf last pulled DSRs around noon on July 4th, I think, instead of midnight as he typically does, and the formula may not have been adjusted back.) Eh, when I squint really hard at the Reckoning numbers and readjust the math in my head, Artichokey is still safe - and really, what else matters?

Thanks for the numbers Narf It seems like there have been some problems to buy the shirts for the last few hours. This seems to be a quiet Monday reckoning, but I wonder what would happen if we had a noisy reckoning+problems with the ordering! Madness!

neuropsychosocial wrote:(neuro blinks) Um, "just this once" a Ramy shirt might lose money? Yikes...

No kidding. It's barely broken 700 as of this post. Pretty sure at least one Ramy shirt has done worse in the past, but this is an outlier to his recent designs. I would blame it on cat hate/overindulgence, but other cat designs are doing fine.

citizencoyote wrote:No kidding. It's barely broken 700 as of this post. Pretty sure at least one Ramy shirt has done worse in the past, but this is an outlier to his recent designs. I would blame it on cat hate/overindulgence, but other cat designs are doing fine.

TOOOOO cute! I get most of the cat shirts, but not this one.

So, did the new WOOT do away with the Random days too? Unless I missed it, the last one was May 15th or nearly two months.

Perhaps they have gone to print to order...

Random day is about the only way Woot is going to get me to try one of their non-AA shirts.

'Course, the change has saved me a bundle of money.

tnode192 wrote:So, did the new WOOT do away with the Random days too? Unless I missed it, the last one was May 15th or nearly two months.

Perhaps they have gone to print to order...

Random day is about the only way Woot is going to get me to try one of their non-AA shirts.

'Course, the change has saved me a bundle of money.

I think that's the biggest part of the issue: With the issues they've had on QC and Sizing Returns, they don't have enough left for a random sale, and if they do one they're going to loose money doing reprints for errors.