There is a new Tshirt company called 200 Nipples. They sell short run, original design, numbered tshirts. For each design 100 shirts are available. After those 100 are sold the design is retired. The kicker is that the shirt #1 is sold for $1 incrementing in price until shirt #100 is sold for $100.
Assuming every shirt is sold, they have essentially built a business on selling tshirts for $50.50. Not a bad business when you can get it.
I will be really interested to see how this plays out on ebay. Buying one of these shirts for less than $50 is a “good deal”. So the first 40 or so people should be able to profit from re-selling the shirt on ebay. However, if all 100 shirts sold then we know the market will bear $100 for one of these shirts. Since no more will be made we may see these shirts selling for more than $100 on ebay.
It could be that everyone who buys these shirts wants to keep them. I did a quick search on ebay for “200 nipples” and it came up with nothing.
As an experiment in economics, I went ahead and purchased the current design. I am going to list it for sale on ebay to see if there is an edge market for this kind of thing. Part of me thinks that because I bought the current design below the “average market value” of $50.50, I should list the minimum bid for $50.50. However, I don’t think that would be really fair to 200 Nipples; I don’t want to mess with them, I just want to do an experiment. I think it would be more fair to list the starting bid at $101 since that would be the theoretical next available price once they are sold out of this design. Because ebay will sell the shirt for what the market will bear it could actually sell for much higher.
Or it may not sell at all and I would have a really cool shirt condemning the RIAA that I paid a price I was willing to pay. Just in case I went ahead and ordered it in my size (male large).
UPDATE: Wade from 200Nipples.com has offered you (the readers of this post) 10% your first purchase from 200nipples.com. All you have to do is enter BEGINNERS-LUCK-10 as the coupon code during checkout. He also encouraged my little ebay experiment which is cool. Thanks Wade!
My wife insisted we buy Rock Band for the Wii. I had never played it prior to setting it up in my living room.
Well, it is a really fun game. It isn’t really much like actually being in a rock band though.
One of the main differences is the instant feedback. I think that one of the biggest character building aspects of playing music comes from making decisions about what note to play and learning to live with those decisions in the moment. A beginner can’t get through a song because they stop and start with every mistake (often accompanied by a “wait, no, I mean…”).
On a related note, check out this incredible video from Ira Glass about the “taste gap” (via Rex)
Out of the blue it seems that I am getting items from WebMonkey in my RSS reader. WebMonkey is one of the sites that I first used to learn about web design / development. That was what, 9 years ago?
It seems that Wired bought WebMonkey since the WebMonkey articles are appearing in my Wired feed. The thing is, the WebMonkey articles suck.
It seems like they are re-publishing the same old articles that were posted years ago. I just had one come across titled “Get Started with Movable Type”. Really?!?! Movable Type?!?
I am more interested in other items in the Wired feed like Ride the World’s Best Motorcycle Roads (I have ridden The Dragon) and Check Yourself for Genetic Abnormalities.
Note: Jon Wage has looked at this before and says it is not a very good comparison.
I am testing out the Intense Debate comment system. You can help by leaving a comment here. (Heck, leave two and tell me about the experience leaving the first one).
Note: Jon Wage has looked at this before and says it is not a very good comparison.
