If you buy something to day on the net (> 20 $) and you pay with Google Check Out then you'll get a free Google T-Shirt...

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/thanks-for-checking-out-google.html

Why would they do that? :P

money.. of course.. a T-Shirt costs them what? 50 cents? a dollar tops?
so theyve earn 19 dollars and spent 1 dollar (per person).
that how you make revenue!!

a tshirt for 50cents? URL?

no no no!!
it costs Google 50 cents.. to buy the T-Shirt..

Google buys it for a very small amout of money.. and sell it (not on this case though) but they sell it for a large amount of money..
like this one for example:
http://www.googlestore.com/product.asp?catid=5&code=GO0133

<< a T-Shirt costs them what? 50 cents? >>

I doubt even Google can get a T-Shirt for $0.50.

<< so theyve earn 19 dollars and spent 1 dollar (per person). >>

Nope. The store you buy the $20 of goods from make the most money. Google only make around $0.60 – i.e. $0.40 (2%) + $0.20. So it's actually quite a good deal if you really want a Google Checkout T-Shirt. (Google are obviously willing to lose money by bribing people to use Google Checkout because of all the bad reports about it...)

ha ha tony is humourous.....

and google may do so.... whatever they do they earn......

a "free" T-shirt ? ...

and this doesn't work if Google doesn't allow Checkout in your country :-(

A little bird told me that Googlers have 50% off on every item in GShop ;-)

anbody get their google t-shirt yet?? I got mine yesterday. It's pretty cool. But what's not cool is I didn't get my order yet!! :) Actually, its on the way after Google finally "resolved" the glitches.... But I think its funny that the t-shirt comes before the order does..... :D