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Customer Comments Gone Wild

Tim Parry May 22nd, 2009

Does this shirt make me look fat, or just plain dorky? Yeah, not a lot of people are in the market for a t-shirt with three wolves howling at the moon silk screened on it. But they’re selling like crazy at Amazon.com, thanks to some creative customer comments.

According to the BBC, sales of this shirt are up a ridiculous 2,300% because the comments went viral. So is it hip to be square? Maybe not, but maybe it really, “Fits my girthy frame, has wolves on it, attracts women,” as one comment says.

Amazon’s not completely thrilled with the comments, but is happy for the seller.