vTee.com - Any Tee Shirt
The vTee story began in 1999 when three former college classmates got the bug to start a business about a year after graduating. Co-founder and President ***** was hard at work in a Wall Street job that he says "didn't have a lot of heart" and was itching to do something entrepreneurial and meaningful. Meanwhile, *****'s former roommate *********** (acting on his mom's suggestion!) had spent the previous summer building the very first version of vTee.com, which let people upload graphics onto t-shirts and buy them... at least in theory. **** was headed back to grad school, had a handful of customers, and talked with ******* about taking over the web site and making a real business of it. The idea of helping people create something online and then receive it as a physical product they could touch and wear fit the bill for ******. He contacted another former classmate (this one a computer whiz) **** and together they set about launching the company.
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**** spent long hours on his green couch (a hand-me-down from his big brother) talking to **** by phone and planning the business. The more they worked at it, the more convinced they became that getting custom t-shirts the traditional way was a pain-in-the-neck and that they could make it fun, easy, and reliable with a "design online" website. They officially founded vTee in *******h of 2000 and had soon assembled the rest of the early team. As the Inker team took shape, the one common denominator was heart: vTee attracted the kind of people who really care – the ones who get a bad feeling in the pit of their stomach if they think they're going to let someone down – and repelled those who didn't.
When we launched our first fully-functional site and began taking orders in late 2000, we lacked the sophisticated behind-the-scenes systems we have today. Our team of 10 Inkers (including ******* and *****) wrote order notes by hand on printed sheets of paper and manually calculated due dates and shipping times. When a customer called the 800#, the phone rang simultaneously on the desk of everyone in the company. Despite our early limitations, we managed to do a great job for our customers, and we've kept our focus on customer satisfaction as we've grown: our order volume has increased by a factor of about 50 since 2001, but our post-order feedback surveys show that customer satisfaction rates are even higher now than they were then!
And we share those surveys with you – in 2002, we decided to stream all customer feedback, completely uncensored and unedited, on our home page for everyone to see. This level of transparency and accountability was unheard of in the business world, and it still raises eyebrows. We love it though. Our customers always have the last word, and that's how it should be.
Our uncensored feedback is yet another way we allow our customers to express their creativity – the reviews are often fun, always honest, and overwhelmingly positive – 99% of our customers would order again! Read more of the 40,000+ uncensored reviews.