No, that’s not a typo. One of the Internet’s most popular geeky t-shirt destinations has a T-Shirt that’ll cost you $US300,000 to own. Now that’s what I’d call a limited edition.
It’s not that Threadless’ owners have suddenly become money-grubbing leeches; the $300,000 T-Shirt — and a range of shirts starting at $US18.57 up to $US75,000 — are all designed to raise money for UNICEF’s relief efforts for children. Threadless states it’s sending 100% of the donation to UNICEF.
Each T-Shirt contains the image of the goods that the equivalent amount of money would help buy. So $US36.10 will buy deworming tablets, and you get a deworming T-Shirt. $US500 will buy a water pump, and so on. You can’t actually add the $US75,000 (100 Metric Tons Of Corn) or $US300,000 (Cargo Flight For UNICEF) T-Shirts to a regular checkout basket, but if you’re feeling generous, the $US3064.82 (Motorbike) T-Shirt can be purchased outright.
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Sam
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 9:20 AM…So basically these shirts are for people who are generous enough that they want to donate to charity, but self centred enough that they want a shirt to advertise that they donated to charity?
Josh
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 9:56 AMWhats even funnier is, depending on what country they are purchasing it from, tax laws might denote this not as a donation, but a purchase, meaning it cannot be used as a tax write off.
Stefan
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:12 AMYeah because everyone’s going to know that you wearing a shirt of a food drop means that you gave 300,000 to charity… facepalm.
Sam
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:31 AMNumber of people who recognises someone who gave an anonymous cheque to UNICEF = 0
Number of people who recognises someone wearing a Threadless food drop TV > 0
You were saying?
Scott
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 11:15 PMI would say the one who gives $300,000 to a good cause and wants to wear a shirt that tells people is vastly better than anyone who pokes fun at them but does match their generosity.
Scott
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 11:16 PM“does not”
Fucking useless commenting system without the ability to edit you mistakes.
Jake
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 12:06 PMWho cares? They’re donating $300,000 to charity. Are you donating $300,000 to charity?
A more or less materially worthless t-shirt is more of a consolation gift for the generosity. If not a joke to encourage the people with the kind of money to buy it to consider giving to charity.
Get over yourself.
Jake
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 12:10 PMDoes anyone complain that Bill Gates is running around publicly being a philanthropist and having huge donation amounts published?
Do you think he’s never received a single kickback? Let alone a measly shirt?
NOZ
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 9:52 AMTake the self centreness for 300k thanks…dick.
john
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:04 AMIf it gets self centered wankers donating money to a good cause then it is a win-win. So who cares?
lolwut
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 10:15 AMagreed, unlike a couple of singers who recently in news about accepting money from dictators
as if they still lacks money to earn
Brett Anderson
Wednesday, October 26, 2011 at 4:23 PMi don’t get why we need to donate to Unicef when we have children or families that need just as much aid here domestically as do children in foreign nations…is it so wrong that for once we should think about fixing ourselves before we try to fix everyone else?…broken education system, obesity on the rise, poverty, broken homes, welfare states maybe we should wake up!!!!