Howl at the Moon

September was the final super moon for 2014 and we bet it made the wolves howl! 

Our wolf t-shirts by The Mountain® will have you howling at the moon too! There's over 70 designs available in adult & children's sizes. 

Interesting Fact: Did you know wolves were hunted to extinction in Great Britain? Apart from seeing them in a zoo, on a t-shirt or in a book you have to go to mainland Europe or North America to see one in the wild. 

Hoodies are here!

Hoodies by The Mountain®

It was difficult to blog about warm heavy hoodies in the middle of summer, but in typical British fashion that looks to be over!  So here we are announcing the new collection of hooded sweatshirts by The Mountain®. 

If you love the great quality of their t-shirts, you won't be disappointed with their hoodies. These are the same great quality you've come to expect from The Mountain®.

There are over 50 designs to choose from ranging from Big Face animal designs to fantasy so there's something for everyone.  The hoodies are made from 80% ring spun cotton and 20% polyester. These are pull over sweatshirts with front hand pockets to keep your hands warm.

These epic sweatshirts will make amazing Christmas presents this year and you'll look not only stylish but you'll stay warm wearing one. So check out our website for the complete range! 

Prices include UK postage.

Adult Dinosaur T-shirts

Adult Dinosaur T-shirts by The Mountain®

Kids love wearing dinosaur t-shirts, but we've found adults love them just as much!  We have a collection of dinosaur t-shirts for adults by The Mountain® that will have you roaring like a T-Rex!

The colours are bright and bold and the screen printed images are hyper-realistic. The 100% cotton t-shirts have a mottle tie-dyed background and the screen printed dinosaur graphics are dyed within the fabric. These aren't your typical dinosaur t-shirts that will crack and fade after a few washes, these will look great for years to come.

There are presently 15 prehistoric designs to choose from ranging from the might T-Rex to the largest dinosaur to walk the earth, the Brachiosaurus.  You'll also find the Triceratops, the Ultrasaurus and even the Sabertooth Tiger and Woolly Mammoth.

Our latest give-away couldn't be simpler! Simply share our website link www.TamsTreasuresOnline.co.uk on a social media site and ask people to take a look at our site. You can place the link on facebook, twitter, a blog, pinterest or any social media page or website that will get viewed by other people.

Once you've shared our website link, just let us know in the entry below where you shared it and a link to where you shared it. Your name will then be added to the drawing. If adding our link to multiple sites, please enter each separately (you'll have more chances to win).

The winner will be selected at random on the 4th of July at midnight. We will announce the winner here, on our website news page, newsletter, facebook and twitter. So plenty of places for you to check if you've won!

• There will be no cash alternative for the prize offered.
• Only 1 winner will be selected at random by the Rafflecopter system.
• If we do not hear from the winner within 1 week, we will select a new winner.
• We reserve the right to close or cancel the competition at any time.
• WE WILL verify that all participants have shared our site and anyone not complying with the rules of the competition will be disqualified. Example: if you say you've shared it on your facebook page, we want to be able to see that you have.

a Rafflecopter giveaway

What will you wear on your summer holiday?

Summer is just around the corner! That means holidays! or vacations, if you're on the opposite of the pond. What ever kind of holiday you take, you'll most likely have some casual time where a t-shirt and a pair of shorts are the fashion must have for the day. Having a beach holiday? how about an aquatic design featuring dolphins or sea turtles? if you're not afraid to go into the ocean why not get a shark t-shirt?

Shark Attack T-shirt

We have over 800 t-shirt designs you can order through our site by The Mountain®.  Most designs are available in adult and children's sizes so the whole family can look great and feel comfortable.  The 100% cotton means you'll stay comfortable even on the warmest of days.

Wear a design for it's hyper realistic appearance or something that matches your personality. With designs ranging from wildlife to fantasy there is no doubt a design for everyone. 

Cat & Kitten T-shirts by The Mountain®

We carry over 50 adorable cat & kitten designs available in both adult and children's sizes. These designs range from the popular "Big Face™ designs to adorable kittens posing in various scenes. You don't need to be a cat lover to wear these t-shirts either. 

Tyler The Creator American Rapper

Believe it or not men including American rapper Tyler the Creator have made Kittens t-shirt popular. Who would think big strong men would be wearing a t-shirt covered in sweet kittens and flowers?

Kittens T-shirt 10-1172

Copyright Infringement Can Cost You Money

I wasn't going to blog about someone stealing our content and starting up their own website, but while investigating this thief, I came across someone far worse. Someone who can financially hurt people who aren't internet savy.

We have tracking programmes within our site that allows us to see where customers go on our website, as well as what keywords or other online site brought them to ours. It's a valuable tool that allows us to fine tune our site so customers can find products easier and gives us an idea what other products we can carry.

One evening while checking this programme, I came across a strange link.  It showed someone coming to our website from another website's shipping page. Odd I thought, why is someone's website linked to ours from that page? On closer inspection I found a website that strangely looked similar to ours. Infact, most of the pages had been copied directly from ours (including the coding) which had links to our website.

I couldn't help but be outraged. I have spent a lot of time and money on our website.  Money paying a professional to design a website unique to us. Time, many hours, weeks, months listing products, writing content and descriptions about the products. Working to get the site, and products to move higher up the google searches.  Someone came in and within a likely 5 minutes copied everything and took it as their own. It's Copyright Infringement, it's stealing! and it's illegal.

Imagine you work for a company for many years. You are assigned a special job. You spend weeks on it. It's taken up most of your time, and you've put all your blood, sweat and tears into it.  Then one day while you're out to lunch, a new employee joins the firm.  They walk past your desk and see the folder containing all your work.  They change the name on the folder to their own, and hand it to your boss and tell them it's their own.  How would you feel?   That's exactly the situation I found myself in.

Well I decided to take the legal route. Have their site taken down and if they don't comply, sue the heck out of them.

I took a phrase off their site which was on mine as well (obviously, because they had stolen it) and put it in a google search. I wanted to see where this thieving site ranked on google.  Much to my horror I found another website with the same blurb stolen from my site.  This other site, was more sinister though. Not only did they steal our content and try to pass it off as their own. But they took the products and marked them down to below wholesale prices. Why? Not because they have the product to sell. Because it's bait. They are running a scam that steals credit card information.  See the only way people can purchase from this website, is by setting up an account. And setting up an account with them requires a credit card.

Unsuspecting victims may think they are getting a great deal on t-shirts for £4.99 (we pay nearly 3 x that for wholesale) but they're actually getting their credit card information stolen.

The website shows a UK address, but the whois name shows a registered name of someone who would appear to be from an Eastern block country.

I'm working now to get this second site taken down. But I wonder how many people have already been a victim?

The point of this blog? To warn people. Be very careful. If a deal looks too good to be true, it most likely is. Know who you are purchasing from. Look for websites with a long standing history, and customer interaction and reviews.  Legitimate websites will have contact phone numbers and addresses.  Both of these websites that stole our content do not. They have contact us pages which only have a contact form. Nothing that allows the website user to contact them directly.

Be smart, and be careful. You work hard for your money and some of these scam websites can steal your money in the time it took them to set up these bogus websites.