Thomas Veil

Following up on an idea I saw on Cafepress's forums, I thought it would be interesting to create a poll on how CP's changes have affected you -- have you lost income, how much, are you opted out of the marketplace, are you closing your store, etc.

It might be interesting to see some actual numbers and percentages, instead of just anecdotal stories. Please feel free to add your 2¢ (which is about how much you're probably making off the sale of a t-shirt these days ).

Here's the poll: Cafepress Exodus

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Unik Ink

I have never understood how anyone can make money with these print on demand sites. Here is information pulled from the CafePress site:

Quote: Originally Posted by cafepress.com A quick snapshot of life at CafePress: The CafePress.com web site averages 11 million unique visits per month Approximately 2000 new, independent shops join the CafePress.com network each day Roughly 45,000 new, unique products are added each day Our users have created a catalog of over 150 million unique products

From my experience, the cafepress site is saturated with sub par designs from hundreds of thousands of "virtual store owners". I couldn't imagine trying to compete with 2,000 new competitors each day. For the stores that have good designs, it is nearly impossible for buyers to sift through all of the garbage to actually find the good sites. On top of that, the collective value of each product of the "150 million unique products" is diminished due to the supply. People take one terrible design and slap it on everything from t-shirts, bumper stickers, mouse pads, etc. I don't see it being profitable for anyone except cafepress.

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pshawny

It's a 50-60% drop in commission over the old system. They are just getting greedy like ebay did.

 

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Unik Ink

Was there an agreement that stated that the commission was set during sign up? If so, then they will have a huge class action lawsuit on their hands. If not, then not much you can do but quit using their service.

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