Custom T-Shirts Horror Stories: Why You Should Avoid GoodStorm.Com

It all seemed almost too good to be true: Great bargains on quality products and an attractive, easily accessible website. Goodstorm, based in California, offered (and supposedly still does) a variety of clothing that could be customized with user-created designs. Design your own t-shirts slogans and images, upload them to your free Goodstorm store, add them to different types of apparel, and either purchase them yourself or sell them to your friends-all offered by Goodstorm! They even sold American Apparel t-shirts, unlike CafePress, and at a much more affordable price than other website which offered printing on the same type of shirts. Awesome! However, for me at least, this became too good to be true.

The inklings of trouble occurred when I placed my first order with Goodstorm, for two custom t-shirt designs. They took around three weeks to be delivered, much longer than Goodstorm's website stated delivery should take. However, I did eventually get the tees, and was happy with the quality of the printing. They emailed me in reply to my inquiry about this slow shipping with an apology, but not much else. Still, despite my chagrin over the shipping time, I assumed it was just a 'lemon' incident, and not the routine. After all, shipping times can be rather odd, especially when ordering from smaller online distributors and such.

The layout of Goodstorm's website was rather nice, especially after using Cafepress' setup (which I really didn't like). Plus, being able to create a decent-looking online store through Goodstorm without having to pay a 'premium' or 'upgrade' fee was fantastic, and really helped set them apart from other custom apparel websites. For these reasons, and because they had great pricing on their AA tees, I stayed with them.