If you think SomethingStore is a fun idea, please take a minute to vote for us at the IdeaBlob. Thanks!
Site Update: Reviews, New Homepage April 12, 2008
We have just updated our website with a slight redesign of our homepage and by adding three new sections. Check them out, let us know if you have any question or if you find any errors:
Customer Reviews:
Actual customer reviews collected by Google Checkout from SomethingStore customers.
Web & Media:
Highlights from SomethingStore mentions on the web; review videos, something photos, blog posts, forum discussions, etc.
Testimonials:
Highlights of praise for SomethingStore.
Just before the dawn of our first month since the launch, we have reached another milestone: Over 1,000 “somethings” have been ordered! Thank you very much, to all those who have ordered, told their friends/family/colleagues about SomethingStore, and mentioned about us on their websites.
As we're getting off the ground, we are very carefully listening to your feedback and taking steps to improve our service, every day. While almost everybody liked our idea, some reviews on our execution were mixed: Some people loved their something, while others did not care about theirs so much, which is understandable. Mainly, some buyers have suggested that we could improve on shipping times, variety of the merchandise as well as quality of the items. We acknowledge that we have a lot of room for improvements on every aspect of our business and we are trying our best to accomplish them. We also know that we won't be able to make everyone happy (two people received the same item, one called it "fugly", the other one said "very pretty, thanks" :) ), but we will continue to try.
As we're getting ready to expand (into Canada) and improve (custom branded packaging, new and fun merchandise, etc.) our service, we're excited for the future and, once again, thankful for your continued interest and support.
We would like to wish you and your family a very happy Thanksgiving. As SomethingStore we are thankful to all of those who have ordered (as much as 13 at once!), have told about or recommended us to their friends, and bloggers and webmasters how have written about us and link to our website. As we are nearing to the 1,000th something being sold, we're excited for what the future has in store for us and thankful for all of you who have believed in our whacky idea. Thanks!
It's Friday and a little humor is in order. Selling something is not easy as the title says and as demonstrated here by this gentleman. An old video of a shopping channel blooper that's just too funny:
Thankfully, in our case, selling something is not this difficult; we don't (and can't) over promise and we never have demonstrate how your something is used because it's mystery!
We now added the multiple something order option to our check our page, per your requests. You can order up to 3 somethings at once and all items will be different. They will be packed separately and shipped together.
PayPal is added as a payment method
Also upon your requests, we have added a PayPal order page for those of you who prefer it. It's located here and also available from the main order page.
We're making some changes and adding new features that we wanted to inform our blog readers of:
Ordering Multiple "Somethings"
We have received orders as high as 10 somethings per person (Thank you, David). So it means you guys want more! We will be adding multiple somethings option to our order page soon. You will be able select 1, 2 or 3 somethings per order.
Surprise A Friend
Our idea was to for our visitors to surprise themselves. But, some of you have asked to be able to send "something" someone else. We're contemplating to how to do this the best and working on it. If you have any suggestions please let us know. For example, would you like to give the "something" itself or would you like to give them a gift certificate number so they canget it themselves?
Removing city name from Something Tracker Something Tracker page proved to be a popular one, not surprisingly. We're selecting a few highlights from daily shipments and featuring them along with their destinations. But, when we give out the city name recipients are guessing, correctly in most cases, what their something will be. Since we want to surprise you that isn't helping much, so we will only mention the name of the state starting from tomorrow.
We'd love to hear your suggestions, questions and feedback. Please drop us a line here. Thanks!
SomethingStore is selected as the "Cool Site of the Day", by none other than coolsiteoftheday.com, for November 10th. We're very excited. We thank the editors of the site for the honor and we hope you will come and vote for us tomorrow.
It's our first week online and people are talking, which is a good thing even though some are, understandably, skeptical. Our aim is to deliver fun and value with each and every order and as time passes the word goes around we believe there will be less of skepticism and more of optimism.
Here is small compilation of websites mentioning SomethingStore and members are weighing with their opinions and votes, good or bad. Feel free to join in and support us ;).
Digg.com: StartupBooster's article about us gets Dugg.
Stirr'dup: SomethingStore is stirring. (Thanks Mr. Collins)
Squidoo: A nice write up unique shopping concepts. (Thanks Samantha)
Today we achieved a small but significant milestone: Over 100 somethings have been sold! Many thanks to those who have ordered. Hopefully, this will be a start to many more milestones to come. Missed the first 100? You can join the first 1000 because the best is yet to come :)
As many of you know well, Wikipedia is the mega encyclopedia of the Internet that's free to use by anyone. Millions of people around world visit the site everyday and billions of page views are served monthly. Since it's a non-profit organization, most of their expenses are covered by public donations. Currently, they are running their annual fundraiser to support their effort to spread free knowledge. Over 10,000 people have donated and you can help, too:
UPDATE (November 2nd) : Published by PR.com and PR Leap
A New York-based Online Startup Gives a New Meaning to “Something”: A Mysterious, Random Item You Can Buy Which Can Be Anything.
Brooklyn, NY - October 31, 2007 -- A new website rolled out this week called SomethingStore.com, based in New York, sells 'something' a randomly selected, mysterious product which can be anything and the recipients only find out what it is when they receive it.
With a simple and suiting tag line "Surprise Yourself" the site promises nothing but 'something' and explains "Your something may be a cool gadget, rare book, table game, handmade necklace, reverse clock, box of gourmet chocolates, set of shiny shower curtains, a popular video game, a big-box retailer gift card, the latest version of a software, or even a set of kitchen knives..."
The founder, Sami Bay, 30, says he is big believer in the power of the web in enabling what may seem like bizarre or obscure ideas to turn into real success stories. After watching interesting ideas such as Woot, MillionDollarHomepage, and One Red Paperclip flourish on the Net, he came up with his own.
He says when he mentioned his idea to friends and colleagues, not surprisingly, some of them were skeptical: “People will think you will just send them some unwanted, useless stuff; it won't work". He says he answered them "SomethingStore will always deliver value to the customers, because that's the only way it will get people buy again and tell their friends which is lifeblood of our business. So it serves our interest to deliver value to the customers and to send them desirable, cool and fun ‘somethings’ ".
While it's a complete mystery what the something will be, the site has a Something Tracker feature which shows highlights from recent shipments as well as a Something Counter update showing how many 'somethings' have been sold.
SomethingStore is off to a decent start; thanks to 23 'early adopters' and many more to come. Thanks guys and gals! We've started sending your somethings and you should receive them soon. We are updating Something Tracker page with highlights from recent shipments. If you haven't done so, get yours now, because the initial quantities are limited.
An idea: Offer the good people of World Wide Web something. Let them not know what it is until they get it. After all, if anything can be sold on the Internet, why not something? Is it dumb? Or is it brilliant? Something in between? We couldn't decide. Here is SomethingStore.com so you can decide.
We registered our name, somethingstore.com over a year ago. Since then we fine-tuned our strategy, filled our little warehouse with many different somethings, and spent some quality procrastination periods. Now, we're here, on an open road... not seeing what's ahead, but anxiously hopeful. Poetic too, as it seems.
October 28th of 2007, Sunday. It is clear, sunny day in Brooklyn, NY, so we decided to launch. We hope you will join us to enjoy the lightness of unpredictability for us, and for you as well.
We would like to wish you and your family a very happy Thanksgiving. As SomethingStore we are thankful to all of those who have ordered (as much as 13 at once!), have told about or recommended us to their friends, and bloggers and webmasters how have written about us and link to our website. As we are nearing to the 1,000th something being sold, we're excited for what the future has in store for us and thankful for all of you who have believed in our whacky idea. Thanks!
We now added the multiple something order option to our check our page, per your requests. You can order up to 3 somethings at once and all items will be different. They will be packed separately and shipped together.
Today we achieved a small but significant milestone: Over 100 somethings have been sold! Many thanks to those who have ordered. Hopefully, this will be a start to many more milestones to come. Missed the first 100? You can 
An idea: Offer the good people of World Wide Web something. Let them not know what it is until they get it. After all, if 
