@TU This is great guys – I love the discussions we get going with you guys cause this site is about YOU

The site redesign is taking time because we have just moved to outsourcing our development to get things on track quicker. It’s taking them time to get up to speed and our site is a bit on the serious side with with over 11 000 pages.

All I can say is that it’s going to be AWESOME – new functionality, better process flow, easier ability to purchase, more robust artist modules – It’s going to be MASSIVE.

I also truly believe that this new method of having 1 super happy winner every two weeks ( and soon even more!!!) is the right way since everyone wins in a real sense – but hey, we are always open to suggestion – so please feel free to shoot away.

@mikdog – pinch us poke us pull us whichwhatever way – we want the good with the bad – it helps us get to the next level constantly and not rest on our laurels. We have a LONG road ahead of us. Hope we can keep everyone delightened ;)

Just a point on the side, Threadless says they keep the rights for 90 days after the voting closes, so if they decide still to print the shirt within the 90 days after your design “was not printed”, they will win out in the rights battle cos they did stipulate so in their terms and conditions…

Read the fineprints guys…

About the model – I think it’s a simple matter of supply demand and accessibility. Sure there are things to iron out, but the fact is if it works, people will return to it. If it doesn’t, well, then Springleap won’t get the amount of traffic it does. Again, sure there are things to improve, but I’m giving them a chance… Well, that’s not to say Springleap should stay as it is. Let’s see some of those improvement guys, the shirts being caught up goes a long way towards the over impression. The site redesign and reimplementation will be great.

What’s the hold up, by the way? Monetary?

@mikdog – hey there – At the end of the day we are trying our best to be unique and offer the best service for artists that we can – and this is only the beginning – In the future we want to be offering the largest prizes on the net and more competitions regularly.

We recently changed our winner model so that more people would be happy and that we could be more fair to what the community were asking for.

Regarding royalties – we are building a module that will help you track your royalties and request a payout at certain minimum levels eg R250 upwards. Please drop Eric a mail on royalty payment requests.

Considering that Springleap gets about 1 000 000 page impresions a month or more – having the spot on our homepage as the winner is worth a MASSIVE amount of exposure – we also constantly push the artists with media mags and eSimpowenis is one of the most celebrated designs thus far – it even adorns the outside of the Springleap shop in Cape Town.

Superkeen to see what mikdog and Wolfox have up their sleeves – you guys are AWESOME!

R35 000?

Woah. I’d like to see a breakdown of how that adds up.

PS – we’d like the royalties from our e Sempowenis shirts…and the 16 shirts we are still owed from August last year…

Look, I think you guys are doing something very bold and its great. BUT teefury and shirtfight for example have different models where the artist keeps the rights to their creation. The trade-off, clearly, is that you don’t make as much money from getting printed there. Threadless owns the rights to their creation like you guys do. Its different models…I was going to say Threadless gave you more money but its not all that different. They offer $500.00 and you guys are offering R3,7k as well as R3,7k worth of your shirts, so in actual fact, you’re probably offering a little more than Threadless. I’d like to know if Threadless give you a bunch of shirts too.

So, after some thought you’re right, for what you offer its worth letting go of all rights to the creation. Point taken, for sure.

(Still though…I’d like the royalties for e Sempowenis and our shirts! And I’m pretty curious to see how you got the R35 000.00 figure! I got printed here recently. I got nothing, man. I think I’m getting 2 shirts of my design? Hmm…this was just before you guys changed your model though. Still, can’t but feel kind of like…hmm…Anyway, I look forward to receiving the shirts. These are separate from the shirts owed to us from last August.)

Trabe> apologies man. Kind of hijacked your glory here. Great shirt, glad its staying. I still like it. The unusual placement and balance is also cool.

Keep LEAP-ing.

@mikdog – sorry, but you are completely off base there. The fact is that all the sites tie you up in exclusivity restricting you from enetering in more than one site simultaneously.

The artist gets a very substantial reward from us and it more than pays for the time invested in the design, not to mention there are royalties moving forward and exposure on our homepage for a month is wrth about R35 000.

That’s pretty huge… I think that tying ones hopes to a single design is perposterous and counter-productive to any designer.

If one is a designer, then one is a well of creativity which has no beginning and no end. The only deterant is the blockages that one places in one’s own path.

Allowing someone else to print the same design as us is ludicrous – it’s like saying Guess can recreate an Ed Hardy t-shirt under lisence and distribute it at the same time – wtf???

That line of logic really needs some thinking through.

Having said that – that is why we have only one winner per competition currently. One winner takes a big prize that is definitely recompeciation for the use of the design.

Do you know that when Threadless started all the artist got was a few t-shirts? That’s it. Not a sausage more.

aw cool. is this tee available. I want more designs from this guy!

think a lot DaRKo ! Well, you can create ?