I'm not really surprised that people can tell when a piece has more more or less work put into it, and the final score reflects that.
Here's some info: my last submission, 'The Third Light' was adapted from my thesis to try to fit a tee. And you guys could spot immediately that this wasn't designed for a tee!
Naturally.
I'm very busy with a lot of personal projects right now, and while I want to keep submitting to threadless frequently, I don't think it's worth it to adapt old work for tees- the score isn't worth the work! I'll stick to original designs from now on.

I totally don't understand why I can't get my flash files to a reasonable size. 459kb?! For two slides? Yikes. That's just too much!
I don't even remember how I made it work with a 3 slide file, but I gave up on this last piece. Maybe orange is just too unstable.

I think I may have screwed that up despite numerous tests. What the craaaap....