Comments on: Big Oops at Cafepress

By: tribe.net: pod.ruderetro.com

tribe.net: pod.ruderetro.com — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 21:21:50 +0000

Re: Cafe Press Fails to Understand the First Amendment…

Hmm…I remember having a Cafepress store once til I had to give it up due to……

By: Thomas Veil

Thomas Veil — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:16:06 +0000

Look at the general POD forums, or even the Cafepress forums, and you’ll see all kinds of shopkeepers leaving or threatening to.

Yesterday I started a poll to help us assess how the new Cafepress changes are affecting us. I’m welcoming any and all input. The poll’s at http://www.squidoo.com/cafepress-exodus.

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:06:48 +0000

Tom, I don’t know if you are going to come back here, but I wanted to mention that I’ve been unable to log in to do anything with my E-shirt stores for quite some time. Can’t seem to find an e-mail address to ask someone about that. Would love to be able to upload more designs there–especially since they show up in searches of Amazon.com–but I can’t.

By: E-Shirt.com

E-Shirt.com — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:13:39 +0000

We would like to welcome CafePress refugees. We have been offering POD services for the last eleven years (by the way we were the first t-shirt design online service in 1997), and offering FREE stores for store owners for the last six years. We have many other advantages over both CafePress and Zazzle, but come see for yourself.

Tom Kind
E-Shirt.com Marketing Director

By: Rude Retro

Rude Retro — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:36:31 +0000

I’m not quite sure what list you are referring to but thanks for the link.

By: Sheryl Karas

Sheryl Karas — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:17:45 +0000

I recently wrote a blog post you might want to add to your list. It’s about the importance of SEO when it comes to marketing, how Cafepress enticed us all to build their website and do their SEO for them, and about the money grab they’re doing and the impact it has on shopkeepers now. http://healingcommunication.blogspot.com/2009/06/importance-of-good-seo.html

By: Rude Retro

Rude Retro — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 15:01:30 +0000

I think they will have no shortage of designers. They may not deserve them but they will have them. I think a lot of quality designers will leave for greener pastures though.

I haven’t come across the shop sales issue and I have been watching carefully but if I do I will probably post about it here.

I really think that Cafepress is gearing up to sell rather than buy. If they wanted to buy something the fastest way is to borrow money but at the moment they seem to be trying to raise cash by reducing expenses. High liquidity makes a company more attractive to potential buyers. Just my opinion though.

By: Paul Hood

Paul Hood — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 03:15:15 +0000

I wholeheartedly agree, and when it all sinks in I doubt there will be many designers left on Cafepress at all. The common report right now is a 60-80% drop in real income, even with the same number of sales. Also a supposed software glitch is showing shop sales as marketplace, further ripping commissions out of the pockets of shopkeepers. I don’t believe it’s a glitch. Designers are complaining bitterly and just getting insincere platitudes from customer service. No real explanation given, just corporate greed.

I’d like very much to see somebody keep an eye out if CP is planning to buy yet another POD company like they did last July (Imagekind). Any advance warning, if that’s possible, would be appreciated.