The guys at ShirtSeek.com told me about their site about a week ago but I didn’t want to post about it too quickly as some people might think that this is a blog mainly about t-shirt search engines after having just made posts about Teenormous and PleaseDressMe. Actually this is my favorite of the three search engines partly because it doesn’t discriminate against PODs such as Cafepress and Zazzle. Whats more though, is that not only can you submit your shirts or other people’s shirts you can also share in the affiliate profits generated by this site. Can it get any better than that? Well. Yes. You can also rate and comment on the designs.
The design is very simple but I like it. The only criticism I have is that I don’t like the way the designs look on the little pencilled shirts. I think showing the actual t-shirt would look much better and also help us choose our shirts faster.
I don’t know how many shirts they have in their database but hopefully the guys will step up and let us know.
Well my litmus test is once again Obama.
Shirtseek: 24
Teenormous: 32
PleaseDressMe: 16
Thanks very much for the review! These types of kind words and useful critiques are exactly what we are looking for right now. We are committed to creating a site that its users want, so we carefully listen to every piece of feedback we get.
Since you asked, we have about 12k shirts featured currently, but I don’t think that number is particularly meaningful because we are adding more every day, as are our users.
Know any shirts we seem to be missing?
We just wanted to say thanks for your fair coverage of all three of us. You’re the first site we have seen that looked at each site and compared and contrasted them in a non-biased way.
Teenormous doesn’t exactly discriminate against Cafepress and Zazzle, we just aren’t adding every tee we find from them or every shop that asks. There are a LOT of really poorly designed tees on Cafepress, so rather than pollute our search results with a bunch of crappy Cafepress tees, we chose not to add them by default. Individual shop owners with their own site/domain will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.
We’ve also heard from a number of people that the quality of CP tees is very poor though we have yet to try one for ourselves. Do you have a Cafepress (quality) review here? We’d be interested in hearing your thoughts.
Brian
I don’t have a Cafepress review here simply because haven’t purchased one since I started this blog but if the half dozen or so shirts that we have from Cafepress are anything to go by the quality is as good and better than some of the t-shirts I received from non-pod stores.
I did a Zazzle review a shirt time ago too and their quality was also pretty good.