Discuss the various t-shirt fulfillment services in this general fulfillment forum. Newer companies like RedBubble, etc can be discussed in this main forum.
Companies that have been around 2+ years (CafePress.com, Zazzle.com, Spreadshirt.com, PrintMojo.com, PrintFection, etc), may have their own separate subforums below (as demand permits).
Has anyone used them? Anyone know anything about them? There prices are alot cheaper and shipping is free to like anywhere in the world. They are located in Australia but go through a factory in hongkong.
If you look carefully, they seem to be the same company as Arts Cafe - Custom T-Shirt & Other Popular Products, just under different names.
I'm awaiting a wait-and-see attitude to this, but if these guys can pull it off, they'll make a huge revolution in the POD industry.
It's better to wait and observe now.
If you look carefully, they seem to be the same company as Arts Cafe - Custom T-Shirt & Other Popular Products, just under different names.
I'm awaiting a wait-and-see attitude to this, but if these guys can pull it off, they'll make a huge revolution in the POD industry.
It's better to wait and observe now.
To answer your question, I have ordered products (clock, t-shirts, etc...) from them and am very pleased with the quality. My customers have no complaints and the 8-14 day production/shipping time frame has not been a problem.
I received my shipments in 8 days without any problems.
I am a Super VIP owner and recommend that if you decide to try it, start with the free store first. This way you can learn how to setup your store and start marketing your store. Eventually you may wish to go to the VIP program where base prices are a lot less and the 'Make Your Own' is included..
I do not recommend the Super VIP program until you start generating some income and learn how to take care of your own store(s) before tackling your member stores.
There is an online How To manual which shows how to build your store and it is free . I suggest reading it prior to starting your store.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly.
I visited your shops and it's totally awesome.
I've just left Printfection and is considering either CP or Customdropship.
I dunno whether you have tried CP before, but how is Customdropship's print quality compared to CP's?
My concern with CP is that I'm afraid of the many complaints about their printing quality (colors running off, images stamped off-side on shirts etc.)
In terms of product variety, CDS owns every POD company I've seen till now, even CP.
But urmm....er-hem...as their products are printed in China (many recent health issues in products worldwide) and they've some spelling mistakes on their site, I need to consider this carefully.
More details from CDS's shopkeepers would be great, though.
I dont think you should go with CustomDropship, i would go straight to the source. Go to ArtsCafe. Xeon since they support your country maybe you could do us all the favour of telling us the quality? They are a damn load cheaper than Cafepress and the shipping is free and we can set a fee on it to make extra profit!!
LOL, Kon pal....I regret to say that I'm gonna choose CP for now.
CDS really rocks, but it seems that they're using shady marketing methods which I'm not too comfortable with (for e.g: ArtsCafe = Customdropship = Fun-Tees = You-Print-Online.com etc.).
Maybe in future when it has been proven, yeah.
Like I said before, if CDS do it right, they're really going to revolutionized the POD industry.
To avoid any confusion, ArtsCafe is the BASE source. They do the printing, packaging, shipping, etc...
AC offers (for a $100 a month fee) the opportunity for anyone to become a Super VIP storeowners (like me). A Super VIP owner's (like me) responsibility is to take care of all of their VIP, Reseller, Premium and Free storeowners. We provide help, tutoring, design, etc... for all of our own storeowners.
ALL storeowners - from Super VIP down to the Free store owner, do their own marketing for their own store(s). As a Super VIP owner, I provide my own 'How To' manual, T-shirt Mall (to help advertise all storeowners designs), forum, etc..
Super VIP owners also set their own base pricing for VIP, Premium, reseller and Free stores.
I, like other Super VIP owners, started with either a basic (free) store or VIP store, order sample products to check delivery, quality, etc.. and decided to pursue setting up others in their own POD service.
All storeowners who join any Super VIP storeowner, do not know that AC is the base. One of the few requirements that AC has for each Super VIP storeowner is to have the Super VIP responsible for all of the stores under them. And I agree.
All my storeowners come to me for help, questions to be answered, etc... I let AC work on improving their processes and product developement. AC's goal is to offer 400+ product by the year 2010.
Sorry to be so long on this but I thought this should be cleared up.
Thanks,
Fred
Melbourne FL USA
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Originally Posted by Konstruktive
Hey
How is it shady though? Its ArtsCafe (im pretty sure there the base) and there allowing others to open there own PoD and promote them?
ArtsCafe is my base supplier, just like cafepress is to others. AC prints, ships, just like CP. The big difference is, AC allows others to become Super VIP storeowners. These Super VIP storeowners can allow others to create their own stores, under that Super VIP owner.
As an example: I am a Super VIP owner. My Super VIP site is fun-tees.com. I own my own VIP store at you-print-online.com. I also own a few free stores at fun-tees.com/palmbay for one. This store is for school fundraising.
Fun-Tees, You-Print-Online ( that's me ) and all stores under me (includes Free, Premium, Reseller and VIP), are serviced by Artscafe. AC fills both my own orders and orders from my own storeowners who come under my Super VIP program. Yes, there are other Super VIP owners but I don't know how many there are, nor do I care. My only concerns are my own storeowners to help them get setup, advertising and help them make sales.
The difference between AC, CP, PF, etc.. is, AC is the only POD service that allows others to setup their own POD service to new storeowners.
I've been printing t-shirts and such since 1987 (sublimation and pigmented in '01) and have both seen and had customer comments to give me enough confidence in product quality, pricing, delivery, etc... that I print nothing (semi-retired) and let AC do it for me.
Hope this helps.
Fred
Melbourne FL USA
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Originally Posted by Xeon
LOL, Kon pal....I regret to say that I'm gonna choose CP for now.
CDS really rocks, but it seems that they're using shady marketing methods which I'm not too comfortable with (for e.g: ArtsCafe = Customdropship = Fun-Tees = You-Print-Online.com etc.).
Maybe in future when it has been proven, yeah.
Like I said before, if CDS do it right, they're really going to revolutionized the POD industry.
CustomDropship? 
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