CafePress Sucks Ass
Friday, March 31st, 2006 at 11:11 amI’ve been toying with the idea of putting my art (the stuff I show no one) online for people to purchase as large prints and whatnot. Well, CafePress seems to be the most chosen store, and apparently, they suck ass.
As noted by this trio of flickrs, CafePress t-shirts suck ass: they severely fade after one wash; however, also noted apparently Zazzle is worth using. I’ll have to check them as a possible printing company to do my art via.
We couldn’t agree more with teeking. Dead on the money.
Cafepress is actually stealing from it’s premium shopkeepers.
We closed shop as of today(after 5 years.
However, they hold on to images, on a different server for MARKETPLACE. A great recipee for a LAW SUIT/class action law suit.
We hope it shall not come down to that, so long as CPress wakes the F UP.
I made a little with Cafepress until the economy collapsed. I spent way too much time for the amount of money I made. It was definitely not worth it. And of course my earnings were cut in half with the new marketplace changes. Cafepress works against it’s premium shopkeepers by not linking products directly to a designer’s shop. Instead, they link to a marketplace version of the shop where they only have to pay low marketplace commissions. If you design 100,000 plus good tshirts, you may make about 30,000 per year. That is way too much labor for the money you get back. Think about it, 100,000 shirts! And in this down market, you’ll get 15,000 instead. Go get a part time job at Taco Bell and skip the tee business!