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Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Eric — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 10:09:00 -0000

Anybody know where I can get a "nobody reads your crappy blog" t shirt now?

mjolnir_uru@yahoo.com

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Domestic_Goddess — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:16:00 -0000

I just tried to go on there and it forwards me to a Christian chat site now. It really stinks that small companies like this do this sort of thing because it makes me weary of ordering from indie sites like this

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

James — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:06:00 -0000

I would be quite happy for a big company like Threadless or BustedTees to pick up their portfolio, i'd certainly buy "Toast" again, but I'd receive it this time!

James.

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Anonymous — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:00:00 -0000

Gotta say, I'm disappointed that they weren't able to keep the business going. I had a wonderful experience shopping with them and found them greatful for the business and responsive to my complaints.

Does anyonw know who would be bidding for the DM portfolio? I'd love to see it picked up elsewhere, especially by a shop that made quality like DM. Over a year of hard use and none of my Tees show any sign of fading or losing their transfer.

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

James — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 09:59:00 -0000

"Anyone making threats or spreading rumors or lies should be careful. You may be on the internet and feel anonymous, but what you say online can come back to you in the real world where libel, slander and defamation of character exist."

That sounds like a threat in itself to me.

Most of us here aren't out to drag anyones name through the mud, we just want the goods we paid for.

It's all well and good asking for the refund through our credit card companies, but it's still a service we paid for and didn't receive.

I personally received no update on DM's situation, all of my emails were ignored (and I started sending emails at the end of May) and I had to piece together what happened from reports on the Internet, such as this blog and other ones.

Rant over. Again.

James.

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Anonymous — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 16:43:00 -0000

The company is bankrupt, but before going out of business (through no fault of the comapny’s) it shipped as many orders as possible and told as many customers as it could to ask their credit card companies to return the money paid to DM. Check this link that gives a good explaination:

http://www.troundup.com/200...

see the post by Austin.

I’d be unhappy if I were a customer, but if you’re old enough to buy something online you’re old enough to know that things like this can happen and working with your credit card company can resolve your loss.

Anyone making threats or spreading rumors or lies should be careful. You may be on the internet and feel anonymous, but what you say online can come back to you in the real world where libel, slander and defamation of character exist.

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

shatteredshards — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:34:00 -0000

Manny,

I'm sorry for being a skeptic, but if that were the case they needed to be HONEST with their customers instead of ignoring them for the most part and occasionally telling someone "Oh yeah, your order's coming, we promise."

Look at the comments here, people started getting screwed with May orders and it was still happening with orders placed in August. Continuing to charge people's cards and give the runaround for 4 months is just redicuous.

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Erin — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 18:58:00 -0000

Hey this happen to my friend trying to get me a shirt. My question to you all is why you haven't reported it? http://www.ic3.gov/ Report it! And if you paid with a card, report it to your card company as fraud. Blogging is great but it won't get your money back nor will it get that jerk who took it. If he is not going to respond to us make him respond to the authorities.

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

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Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Anonymous — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:55:00 -0000

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Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Anonymous — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 07:18:00 -0000

and another one... T-shirt ordered Augest 6th. Money taken from Bank on 8/7. Email from DirtyMicrobe on 8/6 stating order was to be shipped on 8/18. Delivery to be expected in 3 days. GUESS WHAT??? Went there. Did that. Did NOT get the T-shirt.

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Rangga — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:17:00 -0000

That's really interesting David and I feel sorry that your design left unused -- and probably used without permission! I think it's possible for them to sell your design

Another artist who contacted me via email (she don't want her name to be published) said that she have not yet received any payment from Dirty Microbe -- and still trying to contact them now.

sigh, it's really messed up man

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C. David — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:02:00 -0000

Oh, and the only reason that I even thought about them was that I saw this shirt in an online ad, and it reminded me a LOT of the shirt that they asked me to make.

http://www.bustedtees.com/s...

Same font, a 'hot' object with large, cartoon eyes, and everything. Could they have tried to sell the unused designs to other companies to make back some money?

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C. David — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:58:00 -0000

I'm one of the contracted artists, and while they were very prompt in paying me the initial contracted amount, half of the contract was to be paid in commission based on how many of my shirts sold. They found me, they convinced me to work for them, and they were very professional about the whole thing.

Unfortunately, I'm left with two designs that will now never see print, and a commission that I will never see either. I accepted a relatively small initial payment because of the promise of printing and subsequent pay that I never received.

I'm glad that I found this info so that I won't hold my breath any longer. I'm sorry that they went under.

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Dione — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 07:32:00 -0000

Damn shame. They had some great products, although by the sound of it, not a lot of business sense.

And thanks for the heads up from all the people who have spread the word on this company. As it happened, I went looking for the site, wanting to place an order, only to discover that it was down, and a Google search lead me here. So it's a bit of a 'there but for the grace of god' situation. My sympathies to those who got burned.

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Anonymous — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 03:32:00 -0000

It's so strange to hear complaints about this company after having a pleasant affair with them in late December of 2006. I ordered the Nintendo Player shirt, talked to Christian a bit and he gave me a discount code to use for it. It arrived without delay.

Looks like the site's down now, but that isn't surprising, given that it was only 2 university guys working from home with it.

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 20:32:00 -0000

Darn it! Same deal here...but really, the money isn't the issue, I want the shirts! They were really cool. Any idea if they can sell their designs to another company?

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Manny — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:34:00 -0000

Although I was never officially affiliated with or worked at Dirty Microbe, I'm a personal friend of the founders.

After receiving a MySpace message from someone trying to track down Christian about an order, I did a Google search and found lists of complaints on blogs and forums, including this one.

Dirty Microbe has been going though severe financial trouble for a few months and has recently gone out of business and filed for bankruptcy. The founders are scrambling to liquidate the company's assets to repay creditors, including outstanding orders. I'd advise anyone who is missing an order to do a chargeback as soon as possible.

Dirty Microbe was a very small company and unique in that they printed all shirts in house, by hand. I mean, so small that it was rare that more than two people were working at any given time in there. You can imagine the workload. Lack of manpower was one major reason they went under and I suspect the main reason for the silence now. It's hard to imagine how much time it takes to go through the legalese for bankruptcy plus all the other stuff that has arisen from the situation. The owners have pretty much been slammed doing that, and they were already way backed up on orders and support requests.

Tens of thousands of dollars were invested in printing equipment, web store design, signing artists, affiliates, advertising, etc... and subsequently lost. There was no scam -- believe it or not, order volume was relatively low and the value of all unshipped orders tiny compared to the investment. Many recall that Dirty Microbe shipped a lot of shirts before they went down.

I feel for anyone been burned by this, I've been shafted by buying stuff online before and I know it sucks. I've tried to advise the owners to make some sort of announcement so those looking for answers have some idea what happened, but they've been tough to get a hold of. I'm sure they're just trying to get past what has been the most difficult time of their lives.

I'm going to cross-post this on a few of the other blogs in hopes of getting some word out to do a chargeback ASAP, as there is a time limit on those.

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

James — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 05:32:00 -0000

If someone does, can they pick up a "toast" T shirt for me! lol

I think one of the T shirt companies should re-make the DM t-shirts - I STILL want that Toast t-shirt!

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Rangga — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 18:38:00 -0000

oh my god, I hope nobody break their house...

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:44:00 -0000

I can't make heads or tails out of the phone number in this whois record.

Registrant:

N/A

9999 SW 13th St.

Gainesville, Florida 32608

United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)

Domain Name: ZYBX.COM

Created on: 10-Feb-02

Expires on: 10-Feb-08

Last Updated on: 19-Mar-07

Administrative Contact:

vonKleist, Christian contact-domain@zybx.com

N/A

9999 SW 13th St.

Gainesville, Florida 32608

United States

+1.34958322972 Fax -- +1.34958322972

Technical Contact:

vonKleist, Christian contact-domain@zybx.com

N/A

9999 SW 13th St.

Gainesville, Florida 32608

United States

+1.34958322972 Fax -- +1.34958322972

Domain servers in listed order:

NS1.THEPLANET.COM

NS2.THEPLANET.COM

Registry Status: clientRenewProhibited

Registry Status: clientTransferProhibited

Registry Status: clientUpdateProhibited

Registry Status: clientDeleteProhibited

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:31:00 -0000

Let's try that again. http://theultimates.whitepages.com/search?l=von%20kleist&f;=christian&c;=gainesville&s;=fl&fid;=n&ft;=b<=b

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:30:00 -0000

It appears I have found a working fax machine number.

http://theultimates.whitepa...

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:24:00 -0000

The website is down right now, so maybe they've finally given up.

I ordered a couple shirts from them back in May, and although they charged my credit card, I never got my shirts. E-mails and even faxed letters from my law office were ignored. I finally contacted my credit card company, who gave me a refund. I also wrote a complaint to the BBB. Hopefully they'll get the message that the "head in the sand" strategy isn't working and will either refund outstanding orders or fill them. Wish I had known how crappy their service was BEFORE I ordered online. Oh well....

Re: Dirty Microbe Needs to get it Clean

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 15:21:00 -0000

Have fun!

Registrant:

Dirty Microbe, Inc.

329 NW 17th St K

Gainesville, Florida 32603

United States

Registered through: GoDaddy.com, Inc. (http://www.godaddy.com)

Domain Name: DIRTYMICROBE.COM

Created on: 21-Jan-06

Expires on: 21-Jan-08

Last Updated on:

Administrative Contact:

Christian von Kleist, - cvk@zybx.com

Dirty Microbe, Inc.

329 NW 17th St K

Gainesville, Florida 32603

United States

3522145092 Fax -- 3522145092

Technical Contact:

Christian von Kleist, - cvk@zybx.com

Dirty Microbe, Inc.

329 NW 17th St K

Gainesville, Florida 32603

United States

3522145092 Fax -- 3522145092

Domain servers in listed order:

NS14.ZONEEDIT.COM

NS12.ZONEEDIT.COM

NS1.ZONEEDIT.COM