Hey, at least they're being honest, right?

I will take a "it's your own damn fault". Or if that's sold out, then a "everyone knows comcast sucks".

If OMG! Ponies! starts commenting. LOL

I like it.

If you're serving up Consumerist ones I'll take a "I don't want to blame the OP but..."

I'd like a disemvoweled Facebooker comment t-shirt, please.

Something along the lines of "FRST! BLM TH P! CMCST/BST BY/T&T/ SCKS!!!!! [a]"

@Benguin: You win.

I think it's a good idea for companies that have a subjective component. Someone's "pizza is too greasy" can very likely be someone else's "just like mom used to make". I just can't see less subjective businesses adopting their 1 * reviews with pride. Like, I don't know, the car mechanic that gets a 1* review for overcharging and then misdiagnosing an obvious transmission problem.

T-shirt idea:

"Why do you shop/eat/go to place XYZ when (my local) ABC place is so much better and they aren't rude."

How about: 'Slow news day, huh?'

How is this actually helpful? I dont know why i dont get it

Sign me up for a "Why the hell do you still shop at Sears!" shirt.

"You know, you should make your own dinner instead."

I'll pay $50 for one.

I can imagine Best Buy employees wearing "It's your own fault for shopping at Best Buy" t-shirts.

Heh. Great idea anyway. Wear the shirt, serve pizza, let customer decide if it is right or wrong. Then customer will write a better review if that comment is indeed wrong.

This is pretty funny till they make ones like "This place gave me food poisoning" "I've never seen so many roaches and rat feces in my entire life."

@The Gigante: It's not helpful, per se - it's making a humorous and snarky use of the particularly idiotic 1-star reviews present on Yelp to use as positive publicity; I do believe it's working quite well ;)

@hadees: No, no, those are still funny.

OK, how long until Yelp sues for copyright infringement? Anyone?

("But if you buy advertising on our site, I bet we can make that lawsuit go away right quick.")

@ThinkerTDM: How about a "STOP BLAMING THE VICTIM!"? I alone have said that about 65,000 times, so factor in all the other commenters who scream it and you've got a popular quote.

@DarkKnightShyamalan: Consider the paperwork in the mail.

@ZekeSulastin: I've always been of the opinion that people who log onto Yelp and gripe about every damn thing at a restaurant are the kind of people who can't be pleased anyway. Yeah, some of them have legit complaints, but most are just whiners. I mean, the pizza's "greasy...due to the pig fat"?! What the hell? Pizza is ALWAYS greasy!

@ZekeSulastin: I think you used "per se" wrong, though if I read that wrong, you might have used it correctly.

If the all of the above are sold out, I'd like a "just go to a credit union" shirt please.

@hadees:

I saw a completely bogus Yelp review on a local Japanese restaurant. They had the audacity to claim that a cockroach crawled out from under the pile of ginger slices on their sushi platter.

1) I've been to this restaurant multiple times a year for nearly a decade and have never seen evidence of poor sanitation, let alone cockroaches in the dining area.
2) How the frak would a live insect that size make it under the ginger when the sushi chef plates the food at the counter, using a thumb-sized pile of ginger?

In other words, Yelp is infested with human cockroaches.

@SybilDisobedience: Or, how about, "Why would anybody buy a t-shirt when you can make your own?"

Sounds like a cute way to troll for good posts on forums.

Why is this on Consumerist?

jk

@SybilDisobedience: Not "Stop....", but "Blame the victim".

Think about it. However popular "Stop blaming the victim" is, "Blame the victim" is even more so.

@DarkKnightShyamalan: Wait, does Yelp own the reviews? That doesn't seem likely, since they sure as hell aren't about to be liable for them.

@ThinkerTDM: "Why is there a photo of a cat on this post?"

I guess you could sell a lot of "I pay cash" shirts to the self-righteous.

unfortunately you won't sell many of the over teh intarweb.

How long before this leads to fake 1-star reviews of people trying to get their ultra-nega-review made into a T-Shirt?

@Rachacha: hey! thats where I go once every 10 years to get my Band Saw blades!

I commented on a story at The Consumerist and all I got was this lousy t-shirt!

Maybe the receipt-checking door people at WalMart and Fry's can get "Receipt-Checking Fascist" shirts?

Maybe a great tagline like "Violating your civil rights - because we can."

"Starbucks Coffee tastes burnt" FTW!

@Con Seannery is apparently an ADMIN...: I think I wrote it badly. I was writing that the t-shirts by themselves weren't helpful until all the publicity garnered from it came into effect.

I'll be sure to use the phrase more exactly next time :)

@Rachacha: I would take two!

I would like to buy a "I CAN DO IT AT HOME FOR MUCH CHEAPER AND IT TASTES BETTER"

As if somehow adding in fixed costs, labor, and ingredients would somehow make something cheaper... and as if you would make something you thought tasted bad....

@dorianh49: Win!

@ludwigk: Which would reveal one of the flaws of Yelp!

Gods, I love San Francisco.

@Yoko Broke Up The Beatles: And, on the back, "The CEO of the company that made this t-shirt creeps me the frick out"

I want a shirt that says "EECB" on the front in big ass letters, and then on the back, it has ALL the contact info for the companies that have been collected by consumerist so far.

That's great. There is a chinese place by me where you pick the stuff you want raw and then they make it into a dish on a grill. Anyways word of mouth got around about how great it was. I looked on yelp and seen a review that was something like "the buffet food was cold" and thought umm did you not go up to get it cooked.
And another review was talking about how they went there last year and the food was nasty but decided to decided to try it again and it nothing changed. Thing was last year it was a Pizza Hut and they moved and it was only up for about 5 months.

I think for the Consumerist tees we need "You really should be using a credit union."

"Only an idiot would buy [item] from [company]"

@dorianh49: I think this one is my favourite so far.