Update on March 09, 2009: WTF! pricing is now in the hands of outspoken customers has ended.

There is no guarantee Shufflesome designs will ever be produced again. My inventory of stickers is depleting. To keep things a bit entertaining, WTF! pricing will set a contrast to the general price hike introduced last week. First let me explain the name. What are you supposed to think when you face a retailer trying hard to woo you with discounts or free shipping? WTF! I buy. Hence the name. Now, here is what I do with the prices:

There are a total of 6 designs (3 for each iPod model: iPod shuffle and iPod nano) that are priced at only 3,33 EUR (3,55 USD). I am not telling you which ones, but you can find out by browsing the collection. The discounted designs are identified with the WTF! label. Each week, on Mondays, 6 new designs will be choosen and marked down.

People who live in Twitterville have an additional option: Send a tweet listing the names of the 6 designs. The first person to retweet your tweet can contact me to claim any design at 3,00 EUR (3,55 USD).

Your tweet should look like this: name1, name2, name3, name4, name5, name6 #shflsm. Don't forget #shflsm at the end.

Use the hashtag #shflsmprice in one of your tweets, and you'll get one Shufflesome sticker of your choice for free. The following conditions have to be met:

• Tweet contains #shflsmprice
• Tweet is sent to a person who follows you
• Follower uses/owns an iPod
• You're one of the first 5 people (besides me) to use #shflsmprice in a tweet

What should the tweet be about? At the least, it should make sense to the person you're sending it to. At the most, you'll enourage somebody to check out shufflesome.com, because that somebody could be interested in sticker designs.

So, your tweet could look something like this:

@follower your message here #shflsmprice

I'd like to see if such promo tweets could help to engender a tweet-to-visits-to-price pattern. For background, read this post: #shflsmprice: a keyword coupon to move prices.

#shflsmprice is a keyword i use in some of my Twitter messages. You can follow #shflsmprice tweets to learn about price movements. You can use #shflsmprice in your own tweets to move the price yourself. Think of it as a coupon.

The prices for Shufflesome stickers are linked to the amount of daily visitors. I invented this "game" a couple of weeks ago to encourage more visits to shufflesome.com. Setting prices is no longer a bastion of corporate guesswork. Participatory pricing i believe is more in tune with the way of the Web. Read here how #shflsmprice tweets enable you to invoke price discounts:

I have improved the description at /play, where you find daily updates about the price movements. The timer indicates the time left until the next price check. When that time arrives, the page reloads to give you updated information. You can manually refresh the page to make sure you haven't missed anything.

Next to my Alexome tweets, i'll sign up Shufflesome with Twitter. I'll connect my Shufflesome-related tweets to this website. Then you can hook up to whatever happens here (price movements, changes on the website, addition of new designs) and nudge any of your 3000 contacts (perhaps 5000?) to swarm over here and participate in setting prices.