Well it’s here. What you have all been waiting for. The TBP STORE OF DOOM. You can now buy your very own Burning Platform shirt, hat, mug, or bumper sticker. If Zero Hedge can do it, why can’t we. The link to the store in on the right side of the page. It is really just Zazzle merchandise with Burning Platform logos. My master plan is to sell enough mugs that I can buy a place at Doug Casey’s Argentina hideaway for when the shit hits the fan.
For someone who purchases most of his clothes from the 80% off clearance rack at Kohl’s when I have a 20% coupon, the prices seem a little steep, but it was the easiest way to set up a store. If someone can point me to a Chinese vendor that uses child slave labor, I’d appreciate it, as long as you don’t mind a lead based coating on your coffee mug and asbestos fibers in your t-shirts.
If you have suggestions for other products and maybe witty sayings on the merchandise, feel free to let me know. Zero Hedge sells women’s thongs with the phrase – Warning: Contains Zero Hedge
I was thinking we could add a few interesting products like a line of Smokey Underwear with the words – Objects Appear Larger than they Are in Your Mind
How about posting a Zazzle coupon code?
Use Code: 2011NEWYEARS
20.11% off all orders until midnight tonight
Order 5,000 and you get a nice volume discount.
Free shipping code is: FREESHIPFORU (on $50 purchase or more)
OK, I just ordered a mug. Happy?
newsjunkie
I can’t believe you bought something after the 9/11 battle earlier in the week. You’ve got thick skin. Now if that cheapskate Smokey would crack open that wallet of his and let the moths fly away, I’d really be impressed.
You will be welcome at my Argentina hideaway when TSHTF.
Have Avalon give one to my beatutiful wife – I’ll get you the loot at a later date. Swear.
Robmu1
One mug is usually $14.80, but for you, since you are a good friend and original founding member of TBP, I’ll let you have two for $30.
Smokey underwear warning: Danger! Giant Shrimp!
I owe you a beer for saving me tens of thousands of dollars in 2008. Of course, I have forfeited my share of TBP profits over these past few years as well. If only we could data mine those old email exchanges – they were like the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Admin
I was getting ready to drop an order for 20,000 coffee mugs, which may be enough for you, Avalon, and the boys to fly first class to Buenos Aires. But after I saw the picture you posted of Buckhed kicking me in the balls, I’m going to have to dial the order back to 2. That might cover the cost of a bus ticket for your next trip to the grocery store.
FYI, after Don Adams died in 2005, I bought the patent rights to the shoe phone. I get a 50% cut on every phone sold. Keep posting those pictures. I love free advertising.
Take that! And that!
PHILADELPHIA — Firing off a few curse words can’t be charged as a crime anymore in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania — at least when state police are involved.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40921110/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/
Great news, eh Jim?
KB
Fuck yeah!!!
How ’bout if I send you a real silver dollar and you send me a couple of mugs?
ragman
Maybe that should be my hook. I’ll only accept payment in gold or silver. That would generate a sensation across the internet.
Rags, now THAT is “putting your money where his mouth is.”
(I know, it’s bad…) 🙂
…buy some shit and make me rich. -admin
Perhaps TBP could mold some chocolate in the shape/size of a turd to sell.
Admin – I hope this doesn’t mean you are becoming a paid analyst for TBP. You know how I feel about paid analysts. You don’t want to become the next Fox channel? Or do you? Damn. Corrupted by money and power. First Stuck with his gazillion thumbs up went to the dark side , and now you may be tempted.
LLPOH
I started on the dark side, so I can’t go over to it.
Actually the credit goes to you [and smokey] for that idea Admin. =]
A tee-shirt that says this:
من آزادیخواه و من در آزادی بیان اعتقاد دارند.
It means I’m a Libertarian and I believe in free speech, in Farci.
It should be great airport attire.
i thought i was the only one that bought most of his clothes on the 70/80 racks at Kohl’s. The rest I get at Costco.
i just might have to take a look at that junk your trying to peddle.
YOU ARE = YOU’RE
i’m screwed. I don’t see any way to edit.
I have to get this write the first time?
Damn. Did again. I’ll have to find some other site.
knot on this sight
The more shit people buy on this site, the further they prolong China’s crash.
Are the mugs microwaveable for my tea? And Jim, don’t ask if I’m queer because I drink tea. Some mug handles get real hot when you put them in the microwave.
Dave
Avalon just destroyed my first month of profits by ordering $50 worth of TBP shit, including a mug. I will microwave the mug with some tea and report back to you on whether I experience horrific hand burns.
Admin
Dave asks, “Are the mugs microwaveable for my tea? Some mug handles get real hot when you put them in the microwave.”
Dave’s a good guy who’s looking out for you. I smell a looming lawsuit with a photo of a blistered forefinger as the lead evidence. Night. Sleep tight.
Admin – you cheap bastard – making Avalon pay retail aren’t you? Give it to her at cost for goodness sake.
Paying retail with my credit card.
Smokey
No comment on your line of underwear?
Administrator——You think you can use me like some cheap K Street DC whore? Playgirl magazine has been after me for years to endorse a high fashion men’s clothing line. I’ve turned down millions $ from them repeatedly. What makes you think me and my 11 1/2 ” package will front a cheap line of Asian rags for TBP ? ESPECIALLY after the way you dissed me on the war-for-oil issue ?
Admin – so let me get this straight. In actuality you are paying full retail personally as it is your card, PLUS you will be paying the credit card usage fee (what is it, 2 or 3 per cent?).
Bwahahahahaha. Avalon has punked you good. Jesus – you have a lot to learn about small business. You need to write off the mugs as office supplies, etc.
Never EVER pay for something your own company makes or sells. There a great many ways to do this legally.
Adin – I have to go thru this again as it is so funny – she used your card and paid full retail?!!!
Hahahahahahaha! Never ever trust a woman with a credit card. There is something in the plastic that reacts with estrogen and caues their IQ to drop precipitously. Sorry Avalon, no offense. It is just a scientific fact.
LLPOH
We don’t pay the 2% to 3% fee to Visa or MC. Zazzle does.
Every dollar I spend on my CC has 1% go to my son’s Upromise 529 college fund. I pay off the balance every month, so the CC company at best breaks even on me.
llpoh,
+1
LLPOH – are you lookin’ for trouble mister? 😉 I’ll have you know I did NOT pay full retail, I used the 20% off code and I used the free shipping code right after. I got a ton of stuff for 50 bucks. I actually SAVED Jim money. Lol. I always tell him that……
Smokey
Did it grow another 1/2 inch in the last month?
Avalon is always SAVING ME MONEY.
Smokey
Open that wallet, let the moths out, wipe away the cobwebs and support the Administrator before I thrash you again on war for oil.
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Don’t worry. I’m going to hook your fat ass up. But not yet.
I will buy lots as soon as your product line is certified green, union, made in America, PCB free, And has been certified to NOT cause cancer by the state of California.
Till then….
JIMSKI
The t-shirts are made out of hemp, so you can smoke them when TSHTF and you won’t care.
SSS insisted they be made out of hemp.
Admin
Hemp = marijuana is a myth. Hemp is indeed a member of the Cannabis plant family. But ….
“The major difference between the two types of plants is the appearance and the amount of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) secreted in a resinous mixture by epidermal hairs called glandular trichomes, although they can also be distinguished genetically. Oilseed and fibre varieties of Cannabis approved for industrial hemp production produce only minute amounts of this psychoactive drug, not enough for any physical or psychological effects. Typically, hemp contains below 0.3% THC, while cultivars of Cannabis grown for marijuana can contain anywhere from 6 to over 20%.”
Learn something every day, don’t you? Your hemp shirts have my approval.
SSS
I forgot to mention. My Afghanistan supplier adds 20% THC to every shirt.
Admin
I copied that reply about your T shirts and forwarded it to DEA. I’ll be more than happy to be a character witness at your trial.
Is that synthetic THC [like the K-2 ‘incense’ sold in head shops] or natural THC?
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Jim do you have any beef jerky that can stay edible for like twenty years that would be some good doomin gloomin munchies to go with my Afghan THC rope dope shirts.
SSS
That’s funny because I just shipped 50 shirts to your house and also called the DEA.
Well, crap. I didnt even get a chance to order any shirts before sending both of your names to the DEA.
I never buy anything off website advertisements. Monetizing this medium play into the hands of the Illuminati. By taking out all the profit from the web, tech stocks will crash faster, thus helping to accelerate the crash of the monetary system. Its a form of Starving the Beast. Really, you should avoid all commerce with money except what is absolutely necessary. Barter is OK though.
I’ll trade you an Authentic Alaskan Moosechip for one of your Coffee Mugs 🙂
RE
RE
Now I’m going to have to pull your line of doomwear.
I’ll accept a silver dollar for a mug.
Your guilt trip got to me. I sprang for a long sleeve t shirt and I/m looking forward to it’s arrival. I’m getting the word out.
Milw05
I’m glad it worked on you, because the other cheap bastards on this site are tighter than a skeeter’s ass in a nose dive.
Mug for RE:
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Milw05—-He’s working you.
Your probably correct Smokey, but since I enjoy this site and respect the job Jim does I really don’t mind it all that much.
Admin
Thanks a bunch for your tipoff to DEA. That’ll be the second time in a month they’ll be at my house (the first was to check out a suspicious purchase of baby aspirin). They’re going to start to get really suspicious.
And if you shipped those T shirts C.O.D., I’m going to make a couple of calls to some “business associates” in South Philly. Setting up an accident on the Schuylkill Expressway and spotting a Honda Insight transiting the 30 Blocks of Squalor should be a piece of cake.
Admin – you are also gonna love paying income tax on the stuff Avalon buys.
LLPOH
The IRS didn’t need to know anything, until your post. Thanks!!!
This is off topic but a very interesting presentation by Florida AG office of Pam Bondi that explains some of the fraudulent and deceptive activities banks have been engaging in Florida
http://www.businessinsider.com/presentation-florida-attorney-general-foreclosure-2011-1?slop=1#slideshow-start
I came here to vent and commiserate with fellow doomsayers, and all I got was a lousy (babydoll) tshirt.
Story of my fucking life.
Be careful or Jim’ll send you one made of fishnet!