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madelaide:
After having good results with Zazzle, I wonder if it is a good move to resume working on Cafepress as well.  I see it is still that complicate thing of having one type of merchandise in each store, so it's like each design would become a new store with several products.  I don't remember how complicate (or easy) it is to create products there.

Anyone there with some feedback?

Fotonaut:
On thing worth noting is that Cafepress is the Istock of the T-shirt business. A year or two ago Cafepress slashed their marketplace pricing from a selectable model to a 10 percent take it or leave it for all model. Thus more than cutting some peoples income in half or more. Read more on that by a web search.

That said, I make the same at Cafepress with fewer designs than on Zazzle and Spreadshirt combined.

I am thinking of dropping them, though, out of principle. Just the same as with Istock.

Clivia:
I just took a look. They give only 10% and also charge you for having a shop! I think I will give them a miss for now.

Danicek:

--- Quote from: Clivia on November 08, 2010, 03:30 ---I just took a look. They give only 10% and also charge you for having a shop! I think I will give them a miss for now.

--- End quote ---

I thought they are selling actual products as opposed to stream of data. Is the 10% from the price of the final product?

You can't just compare it with micros, right? Someone has to buy the t-shirt, store it, print on it, ship it. Who pays this all? Cafepress?

Clivia:
Yes, cafepress pay for it, but other sites offering the same service give the artists 20% or more, and don't have a monthly charge for selling on the site. They are like istock, wanting to keep all the cash for themselves.

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