Free t-shirts from failed dot coms

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Free t-shirts from failed dot coms

How many do you have?

AAnnAArchy

2:17 am on Dec 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

The weather is finally cool enough out for me to wear one of my long-sleeved freebies. It's a nice looking shirt, so I thought I'd see if the company (Infomarco.com) was still in business. Nope. I'll need to go through my shirts and write them down, but I also have:
Pets.com (I even have one of the puppets)
Akoo.com
Tomeo.com
PogoPet.com
Petstore.com
PlanetRx.com

Some of these companies have been swallowed up by other related companies. I have more, but I'll have to go through the closet.

robho

7:30 am on Dec 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

Teeshirts from X.com and iServer.com - both more in the "wildly successful because they sold out before the crash" category rather than true failures. Plus a nice cap from Prevue.com, who did the same.

AAnnAArchy

7:34 am on Dec 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

Oh yeah, I have an X.com shirt too.

mfishy

1:07 pm on Dec 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

i want that pets.com t :)

sem4u

3:57 pm on Dec 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

Now how much can you sell them for on ebay? :)

elklabone

6:39 pm on Dec 8, 2003 (gmt 0)

I used to get free t-shirts form APC and Compaq. I'm an educator and for awhile these guys would send me freebies for filling our surveys.

Those have dried up... I guess they're not technically failed .com's but they still went away with with 20th century.

AAnnAArchy

12:50 am on Dec 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

<<Now how much can you sell them for on ebay? :) >>

Not much for Pets.com alone, but maybe a whole failed dot com package set would work.

I also have various unopened things in cupboards from when Vitamins.com, MotherNature.com, et al, had $25 off $25. I hung out with the freebie hunters for a while. It was very lucrative...and fun! A free dvd player, free pairs of tennis shoes, hundreds of dollars in gift certificates, etc. Ah, the good ol' days.

sem4u

8:23 am on Dec 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

They could be a good investment, e.g. a Boo.com one.

edit_g

10:58 am on Dec 9, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm holding on to my lastminute.com ones... ;)

aroach

8:48 pm on Dec 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

I have a Zeal T-shirt. That may count soon.

AAnnAArchy

10:24 pm on Dec 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

I'm hoping to soon add my Google t-shirt to the mix. ;)

edit_g

10:52 pm on Dec 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

Oh for a DMOZ t-shirt... ;)

synergy

11:23 pm on Dec 10, 2003 (gmt 0)

DMOZ is a .com? (Being owned by Netscape doesn't count here!)

sem4u

8:31 am on Dec 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

I tried to win a Dogpile one, but I wasn't lucky enough :(