The three greatest eBay feedbacks ever

If you have ever bought or sold at eBay, you will be familiar with their feedback system.

Feedback comments can be a wonderful source of entertainment. If you have several days to spare, you should read this long-running thread from the eBay Feedback discussion board.


For me there are three stand-out classics. Here they are in no particular order:



Neg left by Buyer: Very Bad, Sick Seller! No credit and raise S/H after the end of bidding!

Reply by Seller: TotalPsycho!EmailedMePicturesOfDeadBabiesinSoup!Reported2AmnestyIntl SO SCARY!


This one was left for a seller who sells teeth-whitening trays and gel:

Neg left by Buyer: how do you expect me to endure the pain of trimming my own gumlines!!

Reply by Seller: HHEELLLLOO!! Trim the TRAYS to the gumline... NOT YOUR OWN GUMS!!! WOW!!!!!!!!

This third one I'm paraphrasing from memory, since I can find no trace of the original feedback:

Pos left by buyer: Great service, fast shipping, cool item. Very pleased, highly recommended!

Reply by seller: Yes, but don't plug it in or KA-PHUCKING-BOOM!!!

And finally, here's the infamous eBay kettle photo. Look closely. Eeeeewwwwwww!

GMtee Babe of the Month

October's GMtee Babe of the Month is a Virginian!

A few weeks ago, we invited you to send us your photographs wearing your GMtee shirt. We were thinking of starting a gallery. We'd love it if you sent us your pics.

Scott Murray of Harrisonburg, Virginia ("The Friendly City"), who recently bought our Red Tiger T-shirt and Tao T-shirt, overcame his shyness to send us this:

Scott says "Here's a picture of me in my GMtee getting ready to perform an evening of acoustic music in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia!"

I replied to ask permission to use the image here and assured Scott that we would protect his privacy. But happily it turns out that Scott is not seeking a life of anonymity.

"Babe of the month!!! I am truly honored!! You can certainly use my name if you'd like. (Scott Christopher Murray) I received a grammy nomination back in 2000 for "contemporary folk album of the year" and they can find my music just by doing a search on my name.

I'm just tickled pink to be GMtee Babe of the Month!!"

Thanks Scott :)

Writer's block, here's a pic instead

Who would have thought it would be so difficult to knock out a new post once a week?

But when all else fails, I can always give you a picture...

SAMURAI TEDDY bear blue V-neck T-shirt tee new M Medium

Aaaawwwwww! Isn't he just the cutest thing you ever saw? Samurai Teddy - when an ordinary teddy just isn't enough.

It's official...

This blog is not just a place to communicate with our buyers. We believe that "Genuine GMtee" can be useful in improving our search engine results. In particular we think it's useful to create links to our site, with relevant anchor text.

Here's an example: Cool Asian dragon design T-shirts

In a few days the search engines will find that link and register that http://www.gmtee.com/ is a place to find cool asian dragon design T-shirts.

In idle moments I sometimes make searches at Google, Yahoo and MSN to see how we're performing. Here are some results today:

Search term "Asian T-shirts"

Google: results 1 and 2 (of 12.1m) GMtee website
Yahoo: result 8 (of 5.02m) GMtee ebay store
MSN: results 4 and 5 (of 2.57m) GMtee website and eBay store

Search term: "designer T-shirts"

Google: result 1 (of 2.52m) GMtee website
Yahoo: result 4 (of 14.3m) GMtee eBay store
MSN: not on first page (22.45m)

Isn't it interesting that Google prefers the GMtee website and Yahoo likes the GMtee eBay store? And MSN seems to rate the two equally. It goes to show that the major search engines do offer distinct results. It's another great reason to maintain an eBay store in addition to the website.

So there it is, it's official. For designer Asian T-shirts, according to a scientifically proven mathematical algorithm devised by leading internet boffins at Google, GMtee is number one in the known world. True.