Bountee: Great Shirts, Horrible Website
You might have noticed that r3fresh has a new addition, the store. The store right now has a few shirts I made, and hopefully a bunch more in the near future. After doing some research (and asking a few questions), I decided to use Bountee as my shirt service. I chose Bountee because they offer the best quality prints at a reasonable price. I don’t want someone to buy one of my shirts and then find that it didn’t make it through the wash to wear again.
The only problem I’ve found with Bountee is its website. It sucks. I’ll start it off by saying navigation is near in-existent. Looking for new shirt puts you in an endless link circle; moving from one part of the site to another and back. I’m hoping a redesign is in the works.
The next problem is its homepage. Supposedly, the front page showcases most recent shirts, but that can’t be true. The same shirts have been up since last week. I have a feeling shirts are manually put on ‘most recent’, which seems old with current web practices.
The most fixable problem on Bountee is its speed. Bountee is slow, so slow it reminds me of Myspace (pre-purchase) and Myspace gets 500x more people than Bountee. Hey Bountee, if you want to grow invest in some more robust hosting.
Where the site does shine is the shirt creator. It defies the rest of the site with it’s nimble uploading and easy customization. The creator allows you to scale and position your design as well as pick colors. You can even pick the colors depending on gender and age.
Bountee will stay my shirt vendor until I find a site that offers similar quality at an affordable price. I’m looking for some alternatives. If you have a site that fits the curriculum leave a link in the comments.
February 20th, 2008 at 5:19 am
Guilty on all charges your honour!
You’ll be pleased to know that as a small, part-time team of 3 we’ve proven Bountee good enough to get some of us working on it full-time now. So we’re going to strive to make the site better – Well actually, we want to make it perfect!
For more info see here:
http://www.bountee.com/blog/index.jsp
I really appreciate your kind words about the quality, and I personally value your criticism as well. It’s stuff like this that’ll make us get better. So thankyou,
Steve
p.s. They are the Most recent of the ‘Most Wanted’ shirts in that box… The Most Wanted shirts were a later/bolted-on addition to the site and it shows doesn’t it?
This is ALL getting fixed. Promise.
February 20th, 2008 at 8:03 am
I agree on all points, and thanks for taking my advice into consideration. It’s good that they responded to your feedback. Ive been reading their blog and they assure us that new and better things are just over the horizon. Im holding out to see where they go ONLY because my readers have been happy with the shirt quality.
A few points for Bountee:
-I NEED A REAL STORE
-I NEED TO ORDER IN BULK AT A DISCOUNT
-I NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT WHO IS BUYING MY SHIRTS/WHICH ARE SELLING THE BEST/ HOW MANY THIS MONTH VS. LAST MONTH, ETC
-I WANT AN ALERT WHEN A SHIRT IS SOLD
-ACTUALLY JUST COMPLETELY REDO THE BACKEND FOR SELLERS BECAUSE RIGHT NOW ITS PRETTY USELESS
They seem to have good intentions.
April 12th, 2010 at 12:25 pm
Extremely nice post. Really hit on some of outstanding ideas. Thank you for taking the time to put that together. Putting this website in my RSS feed!
May 12th, 2010 at 12:11 pm
How does this relate to one of the previous posts? Maybe I’m slow… because I could’ve been on a differnet website. lol Nevermind. At any rate, it was a solid post. Cya
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