Comments on: Tour ThinkGeek’s offices

By: mark

mark — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 19:08:16 +0000

i did all my x-mas shopping at thinkgeek. my nephew loves the kaoscillator!

By: Fraize

Fraize — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 04:18:18 +0000

Yeah yeah, I know – my t-shirt is boring. It was a hot day and my extra-cool ironically funny yet uber hipster overshirt was just too warm, so I didn’t want to sweat on camera.

As for overcharging people – not true! We try really really hard to get good deals for everyone. If you find something cheaper somewhere else, chances are we’ve already seen those low prices, and can’t understand why we didn’t get a good enough deal to justify dropping stuff that cheap.

Seriously, if you ever suspect something is too expensive, write me at fraize at thinkgeek dot com and I’ll let you in on the skinny.

By: me

me — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:06:53 +0000

What does it say about John Frazier that he is wearing a plain, grey T-shirt, and complains about how hard it is to work there. Did he expect us to all have geeky Willy Wonka ideas of their offices?

By: nnod

nnod — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:12:41 +0000

skip the expensivity and go to dealextreme.com. free shipping!

By: rasz

rasz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:27:12 +0000

“inexpensive monocular nightvision goggles”
yes, its a cheap mono CCTV camera + oled 128×128 viewfinder, looks like crap
I have to agree, thinkgeeg is a place to buy crap as a joke present for an office party, nothing more

By: mike P

mike P — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:57:08 +0000

this video had completely changed my way of viewing the world! SOURCEFORGE ARE YOU SERIOUS!?!?!? MERCHANT BUYTER ARE YOU SERIOUS?!!?? I just spit all over my crt, hire me im a recent ee grad!

By: Gilliam V

Gilliam V — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:29:48 +0000

did anyone else see the celingcat at 2:37 to 2:46?

By: Trephlocybe

Trephlocybe — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:25:08 +0000

I’m not sure who is creepier looking, the interviewer, or the interviewee

By: epicelite

epicelite — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:08:14 +0000

I f***ing hate thinkgeek, they overcharge for everything and give geeks a bad name.
A simple Google search on half their products will turn up a lower price on the first page.

Just reading their product descriptions makes me feel like a retard for being a geek.

By: marz

marz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:27:16 +0000

Did he just tap Yoda’s balls?

By: frollard

frollard — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:07:05 +0000

@geeks are sexy

there was a hackaday post (actually, 2) about that not …a month ago?

neat vid. I love ThinkGeek’s stuff, but they are disrespectful of their roots; waaay overcharging the very niche market that keeps them alive – I feel they could do more volume sales at lower prices and still be just as financially successful; without sacrificing the ‘1337′ attitude regarding ‘us’, the customer base. Geeks selling to other geeks for profit; seems to lack professional courtesy.

By: Geeks are Sexy

Geeks are Sexy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:50:51 +0000

Hey Guys, Speaking of hacking things, did you know that you can “hack” the youtube embed code to display video in “high quality” mode? :)

http://kottke.org/08/11/high-quality-youtube-video-hack

It makes a huge difference!

Cheers, and thanks!

By: TJHooker

TJHooker — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:50:17 +0000

You use other peoples money to buy products and then do trivial things to them. Sounds challenging…

By: sheep

sheep — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:17:31 +0000

hmmm… sourceforge > slashdot > thinkgeek… never knew that…

inexpensive monocular nightvision goggles… sounds hackworthy to me!

and that is definitely an interesting little glass jar…. you can put your weed in there…