Fail Whale T-Shirt

Posted by Lester Chan at 16:20 in Blog

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The Fail Whale is designed by Lu Yiying and made popular by Twitter. As you all may know Twitter website will show the Fail Whale picture when the server is overloaded or failed.

Zazzle and Spread Shirt are the two official websites where you can get the official Fail Whale T-Shirt. I ordered mine from Zazzle.

I have a very bad experience buying from Zazzle. The first time I ordered was on the 10th April 2009, my order failed because I fail to verify my credit card number. That email asking me to verify my credit card number was in my Gmail spam and hence if I fail to reply within 1 week, my order will be cancel automatically. I was quite pissed off about it and wrote them an email. I am paying USING PayPal and there is no need to involve my credit card number at all as I have ENOUGH funds in my account. Up till today, they are still unable to explain to me why do they need my credit card number. I did not enter my credit card number when paying over at Zazzle and hence I have no idea how are they going to verify it.

I place the 2nd order on the 19th April 2009 and wrote them an email to “confirm” that I am a human placing the order and not some scam and this time, within 2 days on the 21st April 2009, my order got shipped and arrive on the 8th May 2009. Took about 17 days for me to get my items after it is being shipped.

I am very disappointed with the t-shirt quality by Zazzle. The quality of the t-shirt is bad and the quality of the ladies t-shirt print is bad as well. The WordPress t-shirt that I bought 2 months ago was way better in every aspect and it is even cheaper.

So summary, think twice before getting any t-shirts from Zazzle.

Price Breakdown

Ladies T-Shirt: USD$$21.55
Men T-Shirt: USD$20.50
Shipping: USD$11.97
Discount of USD$5
Total: USD$49.02

2 T-Shirts Inside This Package

Ladies T-Shirt (USD$21.55)

Men T-Shirt (USD$20.50)

Closeup Of The Fail Whale

Links

Tags: Fail Whale, t-shirt, Twitter, whale, Zazzle

Daniel

Comment #1

16:04
Tuesday, 19th May 2009

Hey Lester, have you tried Comboutique? http://www.comboutique.asia

I’ve ordered a tee from there and I’m happy with it. Came with a money back guarantee as well.

Lester Chan

Comment #2

16:39
Tuesday, 19th May 2009

Nope, I shall take a look at the URL. Thanks for the link

lucky

Comment #3

10:11
Wednesday, 20th May 2009

I sympathize with you lester! like daniel i’ve tried Comboutique and very satisfied with the shirt. good quality, fast shipping, actually free ship in singapore.

Toukarin

Comment #4

22:38
Thursday, 21st May 2009

Seems that this guy going by the name of ‘lucky’ is from Comboutique and going around posting positive comments about it and putting other people down.
http://blog.dk.sg/2009/05/05/shut-up-and-sit-down-t-shirt/#comment-18069