Limited edition coolness

April 30, 2007 2:50 AM

20ltd.comis a new and unique online shop. They have 20 limited edition items for sale at any time, and each item is a limited edition made exclusively for 20ltd.com. And they have a jukebox with some great tunes on to shop by.
posted by allkindsoftime (49 comments total)

I wish them success ... so they can afford a new webmaster.
posted by RavinDave at 3:11 AM on April 30, 2007

Jeez. I lasted about 15 seconds. Anyone else get further in?
posted by Leon at 3:14 AM on April 30, 2007

Pre. Ten. Tious.

Ow.
posted by bwerdmuller at 3:18 AM on April 30, 2007

Pepsi Bl...ing filter?
posted by BrotherCaine at 3:36 AM on April 30, 2007

RavinDave, you don't understand, it's a limited edition website.
posted by BrotherCaine at 3:36 AM on April 30, 2007

isn't this just free advertising on MetaFilter?
posted by Funmonkey1 at 3:36 AM on April 30, 2007

I'll stick with Woot! as my esoteric online shopping experience.
posted by johnjreiser at 3:41 AM on April 30, 2007

Know what else was released as a limited edition? Pepsi Blue!
posted by needs more cowbell at 3:48 AM on April 30, 2007

Don't care about you haters - I'm gettin' me one o' them sweeeet fox-fur hammocks...
posted by popkinson at 3:51 AM on April 30, 2007

The sheer chutzpah of conceiving, let alone making and selling a cashmere-lined fox-fur hammock for £9,000. Dear God, somebody think of the kits!

On the other hand, I'd blow my own dead granny for one of the "Klingon" silver teasets by Zaha Hadid, a steal at £20,000. Simultaneously gorgeous, deadly and tasty.
posted by rob511 at 3:53 AM on April 30, 2007

Since I am waiting for the site to l o a d,
I will ask how does one blow a dead granny?

Curious in Connecticut
posted by fluffycreature at 3:57 AM on April 30, 2007

foxfurinsane
posted by pruner at 4:14 AM on April 30, 2007

Simultaneously gorgeous, deadly and tasty.

Your dead granny or the teaset?
posted by Hal Mumkin at 4:32 AM on April 30, 2007

This is what is wrong with humanity.
posted by Saydur at 4:39 AM on April 30, 2007 [2 favorites has favorites]

This is an ad, right? Kinda interesting from a marketing perspective, but an ad.
posted by MarshallPoe at 4:43 AM on April 30, 2007

i perused , decided that we live in such decadant times and despaired slightly - though im looking fabulous despairing in my cashmere tshirt..

come on, £2700 for a set of 2 dumbbells ?. depairing even more.
posted by burr1545 at 5:06 AM on April 30, 2007

I must confess that I like the fact that the Devil Damask wallpaper is priced at £666.
posted by soundofsuburbia at 5:06 AM on April 30, 2007

I dug the music.
posted by empath at 5:20 AM on April 30, 2007

Oh good, it's a website for the worst people in the world.
posted by nola at 5:22 AM on April 30, 2007 [2 favorites has favorites]

Oh My God. Oh My God. Oh My God.

I neeeeed one of those...things...with the .....stuff.
posted by chillmost at 5:47 AM on April 30, 2007

I don't see anything but a language selector and "20 ltd" on a black screen, and nothing happens after I select a language. How can I be expected to hate these people when I can't even see their products?
posted by pracowity at 5:56 AM on April 30, 2007

MarshallPoe is right; I thought I was on the wrong site for a minute, there. This seems less like a post and more like viral marketing.
posted by chuckdarwin at 5:57 AM on April 30, 2007

"How can I be expected to hate these people when I can't even see their products?"

I have refused to click on the link as this reads to me like AdvertFilter, and yet I can find it in myself to hate these people. Try again PracoWity. Look deep inside yourself to find the hateness. =) It's actually easier to hate their elite affluent snobbish aura if you don't bother to click on the link. Why let your faith be overshadowed by facts?
posted by ZachsMind at 6:13 AM on April 30, 2007

Jesus H. Fucking Christ on a pogo stick...there are still lame-ass wannabes who open new maximized browser windows to launch their oh-so-important sites? Nothing says "I'm a hugely pretentious twat" like that does.
posted by maxwelton at 6:24 AM on April 30, 2007 [1 favorite has favorites]

Here are all the LTDs you can stomach.
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:26 AM on April 30, 2007

Really come on that motorcycle is BAD. ASS. The site is a piece of shit. I'd pay 666 pounds to beat the shit out of the designer, maybe.
posted by spicynuts at 6:41 AM on April 30, 2007

Ooh, I want that sexy black motorcycle (#1) the Hellcat Combat Mororcycle, (only 40 thousand pounds British sterling) serious eye candy and the yummy sounding perfume (#17), "herbaceous and earthy, Fleur de Sels (just a thousand pounds and wonder why it's not spelled du Sels, not de Sels, anyone know? It sounds like an interesting salt.). wow, They actually make cashmere T shirts (#8). The cashmere and fox fur lined hammock is mind-boggling (#12), only 5 made. Bet that's amazing to snuggle in.

But if we're going into I Want I Want Swoons, then I'll make another wishlist: Masai Barefoot Technology shoes, size 8 in black or a day spa with lots of massage, *sigh*.
posted by nickyskye at 6:46 AM on April 30, 2007

More like (thankfully) limited edition tackyness

#9 reminds me of the Seinfeld puffy shirt episode.

why is this marketing post still here?
posted by caddis at 6:56 AM on April 30, 2007

caddis - Do you think they'll delete it? Cool.

Since this is shortly due to be deleted, let me just take this opportunity to tell you all what a bunch of ...

Oh, forget it.
posted by chuckdarwin at 7:03 AM on April 30, 2007

Hitler foosball. Why didn't I think of that?
posted by chundo at 7:13 AM on April 30, 2007

Limited edition washing machine.
Limited edition lawn mower.
Limited edition pencil.
Limited edition brass knuckles.

oh god i want it ALL!!
posted by Terminal Verbosity at 7:22 AM on April 30, 2007

the team (img)
posted by acro at 7:31 AM on April 30, 2007

Noveau Riche Pastiche
posted by Burhanistan at 7:37 AM on April 30, 2007

Ugh, does it really have to open me another browser window when I had a perfectly usable one going in there in the first place? Right behind maxwelton and spicynuts on this one :)

It all looks like expensive pretentions junk anyways!
posted by jon4009 at 7:52 AM on April 30, 2007

♥ Fuck This Shit ♥
posted by doublesix at 8:15 AM on April 30, 2007 [1 favorite has favorites]

Yeah, the motorcycle is bad ass, as is the "good vs. evil" fooseball set.

On the other hand, people with this much money make me sick. :P
posted by delmoi at 8:16 AM on April 30, 2007

Nothing reminds one more strongly of one's abject poverty than the knowledge that there are people who can and will buy this shit. I just spent the morning on salary.com; realized I'm way underpaid; and that the median for my current job is crap, anyway. I pop on over to mefi to cheer myself up and get my face rubbed in the fact that I will never string a fox fur hammock between two evergreens and luxuriate in the crisp, clear calm of a winter morning in a Norse fantasy.
posted by Grod at 8:19 AM on April 30, 2007

...Thorvald [Grod,] a young man brought up in the Orkneys, embarks on a sea voyage in search of his father Somerlad, exiled for murder before Thorvald [Grod] was born. He is accompanied by his friend Sam and Creidhe, daughter of the Viking warrior Eyvind and the Pictish Princess Nessa. The three are wrecked in the Lost Isles and encounter the Long Knife people, a tribe with a [fox fur string hammock] disquieting secret.
Buy It Now: US$3.49.
posted by acro at 9:07 AM on April 30, 2007 [2 favorites has favorites]

Worst navigation model ever.
posted by jeffamaphone at 9:29 AM on April 30, 2007

porn.
posted by bru at 9:30 AM on April 30, 2007

Yah the 300 dollars for a t-shirt makes me cringe. But the music is pretty cool though. Ol`Dirty rapping over Mark Ronson's cover of Toxic is interesting.
posted by daHIFI at 10:18 AM on April 30, 2007

They began to lose me with the flash and I couldn't close the window fast enough when they saw fit to hijack my browser for unfettered viewing.

Nope. Not gonna play that.
posted by fenriq at 10:48 AM on April 30, 2007

You know, if we took away the distraction that these overpriced gewgaws and gimcracks provide the super-wealthy, they'd spend all thier time hunting men for pleasure. Is that really what you want?
posted by maryh at 12:28 PM on April 30, 2007

Is this what Boo.com was like in its "heyday"?
posted by porn in the woods at 12:43 PM on April 30, 2007 [1 favorite has favorites]

Yes, it's kinda jerky behavior, but I hafta admit I was impressed by a website totally pwning my second monitor--never seen that before.

Never seen a fur hammock neither. Sorta the definition of evil lust n laziness. The part of me that wants one concerns the other part. But it would go so well with my fur sink.
posted by flotson at 3:17 PM on April 30, 2007

Boo? The folks of Boo.com *wish* they could have done a web site like this. Still, I don't care for it.

I dig the foosball table, though. ;)
posted by deCadmus at 7:19 PM on April 30, 2007

The foosball table irks me because the "evil" side is suspiciously dark-skinned while the "good" side has a white "God" and, with the exception of Ghandi, is mostly light-skinned. The whites/goods even have Santa Claus on their side.

So damn dumb.
posted by mistersquid at 8:20 PM on April 30, 2007

impenetrable.
posted by blue_beetle at 8:25 PM on April 30, 2007

You know, if we took away the distraction that these overpriced gewgaws and gimcracks provide the super-wealthy, they'd spend all thier time hunting men for pleasure. Is that really what you want?

Bring 'em on.

Or is this one of the hunts where I get hit on the head, then drugged and left in a cemetary, then the rich guy gets an ATV and a rifle, and all I get is no shoes and a sore, foggy head?

'Cos if it's the latter, I want to change my vote.
posted by The Monkey at 3:47 AM on May 1, 2007