Check out cafepress.com (OT?)

[dk_art]

Hey check out this place ...

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/st...toreid=dk_art1

I just made a "store" with items for sale (shirts, mugs, mouse pad) using a ship picture I made in XaraX. You don't pay a thing but get money monthly if your items sell. All handled by the company [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] I need to add elements to this store (banner and description etc...) but I'll do that tomorrow ... I'll see how it goes [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

David K
www.dkingdesign.com

David K
www.dkingdesign.com

[joel]

This looks pretty neat...I'm wondering if anyone has read the member's agreement? Any lawyers out there... ----Joel

[ajreed]

For our UK & european readers only...

whats the point of getting a bulk shipment from the US? Why not the UK? Its got to be cheaper. Its not as though the US has a monopoly on printing t-shirts.

Here in Brighton our Yellow Pages lists many companies offerring t-shirt printing services, and I could collect for *nothing*.

Like the idea of a contest to design a Xarian shirt. I think - given an agreed design it may be cheaper just to let each country fend for themselves and save extortionate shipping charges.

[joel]

Hello Steve,

That's Cafepress's promotion for the week...

Regards, Joel

[dk_art]

Gary -

Well you just upload a jpg, gif or whatever for your shirts and it shows a preview after you specify the size of the image (since it's a shirt or small mug image, I think 200 to 300 dpi should give enough resolution). If people order one of your items from them, they print it up and ship it and send you the amount above their base price every month. Unfortunately each "store" only has the same number of items, so what I'm doing is making a bunch of stores with the same image on all the items in a store. It can't hurt, but I'll have to get people looking at them so I guess I'll be including the URL on the bottum of all my emails now ;-).

Peter -

At present they don't allow hurtling airplane gifs on the shirts although that would be cool ... I'll ask them in an email [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] (hmmm they'd need a shirt with a flexible lcd screen on the front and a small memory chip and graphics card ... wow , the shirt could be costly!)..... ok ....ok ....I owe you a hurtling airplane gif I know [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img] ...

Joel -

From what I read if you decide to remove your image it's gone ...they don't use the images or at least that's what they said :-)

Anyway, it's an interesting thing and there's no expense but whether anyone will buy anything of mine is another issue.

David K
www.dkingdesign.com

[dk_art]

Hey check out this place ...

http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/st...toreid=dk_art1

I just made a "store" with items for sale (shirts, mugs, mouse pad) using a ship picture I made in XaraX. You don't pay a thing but get money monthly if your items sell. All handled by the company [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img] I need to add elements to this store (banner and description etc...) but I'll do that tomorrow ... I'll see how it goes [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

David K
www.dkingdesign.com

David K
www.dkingdesign.com

[wfcentral]

Might be neat to have a contest for a Xarian T-shirt design... we could all create a t-shirt, vote on it and then post it at cafepress.com - not sure about the profits though... maybe the person hosting the store would sell the shirts at cost OR maybe that should be the reward for being voted #1 design... you get to keep the profit... oops, that brings up another issue... guess we would have to agree on a price ahead of time so the winner doesn't gouge us?

Not sure about the Xarians overseas...someone mentioned that cafepress doesn't ship overseas?

Robert

[joel]

Will they knock down my doors?

http://www.cafepress.com/jbsgraphics

[wfcentral]

After reading and giving more thought I've come up with this...

Yes, if we all really wanted Xarian T-Shirts it would be cheaper to have some company mass produce 100 @ $6 each...

If we wanted quick, easy, one at a time printing it would actually be easier to use www.clubphoto.com or www.ofoto.com - you can post as many images as you want, share them with a community and each person can order a shirt, coffee mug or whatever with their favorite Xarian art...

Later,
Robert

[Nathan Heagy]

Last summer I sold t-shirts for my mp3.com band on cafepress. I made $50.

Nathan Heagy
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