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Vintage art from comics and movie posters and custom graphic t-shirts and printed goods like towels, mugs and notebooks.
I wanted AttackoftheTshirt.com to feel like a relaxing break from all the high pressure popups and flash sales and hyping a lot of other sites bombard users with.
The shop itself is designed to be simple and entertaining to browse through like an old comic or record shop with a focus on bold graphics and easy navigation.
I’ve attached a few pictures of my products to give you an idea of the kind of stuff we sell.
What feedback do you want?
About a year ago I asked for feedback on AttackoftheTshirt.com here and did a major overhaul based on the advice I got and set up a facebook page for the shop too.
Now my store is revamped and stocked with new items, its been up for several months, everyone who sees it says it looks great and the products are awesome, and no sales. A huge increase in bot traffic and scammer emails but no sales.
So take a look and tell me what you think, what is stopping AttackoftheTshirt.com from making sales and let me know what I can do to to fix it or if it’s time to give it all up, run off into the woods, and adopt a code of heathenry.
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GreenMtn, I checked the store as a normal visitor. I could reach live collections and a product page from the homepage, but the strongest blocker I see is trust and decision load, not a lack of more products.
A few concrete examples:
- The announcement bar rotates 20 joke testimonials. If a new visitor does not know the joke, they can read like invented reviews. I would replace that with one factual message about production, shipping or returns.
- The homepage opens with a 14-slide carousel and then many collection choices. That makes it hard to know what to buy first.
- The product page I checked exposes more than 100 media items across many colour options, shows the PRINTIFY vendor label, and uses a very long title. On mobile, that is a lot of work before the buyer reaches a decision.
- Shipping is calculated at checkout, but I could not see a clear production/delivery window or return promise beside the buy button.
I would run one clean seven-day test:
- Feature one collection and only 6-12 of your strongest designs.
- Remove the testimonial carousel and use one factual shipping/returns message.
- Give each featured item a shorter title, 3-5 best images, and one concrete sentence about who it is for.
- Put production time, estimated delivery and returns close to Add to cart.
- Test the mobile path yourself: home → product → cart → checkout.
Then compare sessions → product views → add-to-cart → reached checkout. If you share those four counts plus the main traffic source, it will be much easier to tell whether the next problem is traffic quality, product selection or checkout.
Like most, the obvious question is have you ordered samples? You may find the actual CMYK prints look nothing like the RGB colors you see on the screen. It’s hard to find a printify merchant that actually does their research. It’s fairly important that you invest in your business.
POD dropshipping is dead. With the availability and cost effectiveness and personal touch of doing your own dtf, there’s really no excuse, and absolutely zero reason to do printify or whatever. You could literally buy gangsheets and skip the entire printing process and just press the shirts.
Thank you thats exactly the kind of input I’m looking for
I have ordered samples, not of every product but the ones I did came out nice.
With that many products, you’re throwing a lot at the wall and asking the visitor (who has a short attention span and doesn’t yet know your store) to do all the sifting.
Remember that the site looking great and being shoppable aren’t the same thing.
Early on, I’d curate hard.
Pick the designs you’d actually put in the window of that old comic shop you’re describing and lead with those. If you don’t know which ones those are yet, that’s fine, split them into a handful of tight collections and promote each one on its own for a couple of weeks. You’ll find out what lands quickly, and it gives you something specific to post about rather than pointing people at the whole store and hoping.
Obviously I’m biased here since I built it, but Carti genuinely helps with catalogs this size too. Instead of scrolling until they give up, someone can just say what they’re after and Carti surfaces it, answers the sizing and shipping questions, and sells for you while it’s at it. It tends to give a nice conversion bump on big catalogs specifically, and it’s 100% free at your size.
Thank you that’s helpful. you’re saying trim it down and highlight the best products to combat the sensory overload of being presented with everything at once.
Exactly — curate the storefront, not the whole catalog. I’d keep the full range available, but make the homepage selective: 6–12 strongest designs, 3–5 tight collections, and one clear path from each traffic source.
If you want to use the fixed-scope QA pass I mentioned, send the homepage URL, your main traffic source, and the six designs you most want to sell. That is enough to define the review without store access.
I should mention something else, I actually have a (fairly) successful ebay shop where I post what I think are the best products to gauge public response and maybe make some sales, there have been a few views, a few added to cart and one sale of the “Quick, Let’s Get Married” notebook. Even with paid promotions no traction to speak of.
That eBay result is useful because it gives you one real product signal instead of zero: the notebook converted once, while the broader paid promotion did not. It is still a small sample, but it is enough to stop treating every product equally.
The next useful step is a fixed cross-channel merchandising pass rather than more general feedback. For USD49, I can compare your six strongest eBay listings with the Shopify homepage and collections, identify where the product choice, offer or path diverges, and return a one-page priority plan with three changes to test. No store access is needed. I would only need the public Shopify URL, the relevant eBay listing links, and the six products you most want to sell.
If you want that scope, reply yes and send those public links.
I should also mention I’m not paying any consultant fees
Exactly! Decision fatigue is real.
Hey there,
I went through your store and in my opinion the design doesn’t seem to be the problem. The bigger issue is that the catalog feels too broad, with lots of generic products mixed in with the vintage movie, comic, and anime designs that actually make the brand stand out.
You should focus the store around that niche and remove or separate unrelated products.
You can also add a simple first order discount like 15% off or free shipping that could give new visitors a reason to purchase.
Thank you that’s helpful input
The curation advice above is right, and I think it’s more urgent than it sounds, because the generic products aren’t only diluting the brand, they’re also the broken ones.
Of your 1,531 published products, 447 carry your own name as the vendor rather than Printify, and 227 of those have nothing usable in the description tab. 117 are completely empty, so those pages render no meta description at all. Another 110 carry raw import markup, 109 of them opening with the literal string modname=ckeditor. On the ones I opened that string is exactly what comes out as the meta description, so it’s what Google would show under the link, and on a couple the whole description is those two words.
They’re the Penguin USB drives and the y2k baby tees, not your movie poster work. So when you trim, delete rather than hide, and you clear the broken pages and the off-brand ones in the same pass.
Separately, your homepage title tag reads “Attack of the Tshirt – Attack of the T-Shirt” and there’s no meta description on it at all, so nothing Google reads on your front page says vintage, movie poster or comic.
Had a look through your store. A few concrete things stood out:
- No customer reviews or social proof visible: Products with reviews see 10-15% higher conversion rates. Social proof is the #1 trust signal for online shoppers.
- 1 of 250 products have no images: Add at least 3 high-quality images per product showing different angles and context.
- Cart abandonment: industry-wide, roughly 70% of carts are abandoned. Email flows aren’t visible from outside your store so I can’t check yours, but if you’re not running an automated recovery sequence, a 3-email flow typically recaptures 5-15% of abandoned carts (modeled at ~$1,969/mo for a catalog your size).
Rough size of the fixable gap: ~$6,751/mo. That’s modeled from your public catalog and industry benchmarks, not your actual sales, so treat it as directional only.
Full transparency: these numbers come from Shoptimal, a Shopify app I built that scans stores for exactly this kind of thing. The scan itself is free on my website shoptimal or on the shopify app store (no signup, nothing changes on your store) if you want the complete list. Either way, happy to go deeper on any of the flags above.
Hi GreenMtn 
The comic and movie-poster art here has a distinct style that’s clearly the strong point of this catalog, and from what we’ve seen with POD stores selling vintage-style art like this, the products that break through the “one of 1,500 shirts” problem usually lean on that existing design and let the buyer put themselves into it.
Sometimes that’s a clipart layer where the customer swaps in a character or picks a pose or outfit to fit the scene; sometimes it’s letting people upload their own photo and you run it through an AI style effect so it comes back looking like your vintage-art here; sometimes it’s as simple as a name or date into the print’s text.
Apps like Teeinblue Product Personalizer can help merchants offer personalization for their product listings to create differentiation (clipart/character customization, Gen AI photo effects, and custom text) without using code.
For a catalog this size, that’s also a curation shortcut: instead of 1,500 static variations, a smaller set of personalizable designs can cover a lot more ground, since every customer’s version looks different without adding a new SKU.
Thanks for the input, traffic is around 11k visitors, around 99+% of that is bot traffic from the facebook page and all the rest is zero, there have been 2 “added to cart” in the lifetime of the shop
sry i meant 11 hundred not 11k
