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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
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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
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Last summer I sold t-shirts for my mp3.com band on cafepress. I made $50.
Nathan Heagy
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Blow Your Beef Away
Cow Comics!
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Good to see you checking in Nathan.
David
That looks really cool. What do you have to send them to reproduce from? I would think they would need more than 96 dpi to get the best reproduction. How many items can you sell?
Gary
Gary Priester
Moderator Person
Be It Early So Humble...
[This message was edited by Gary W. Priester on June 26, 2001 at 13:47.]
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So can they do hurtling airplane GIFs too? [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif[/img] [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Peter</p>
Peat Stack or Pete's Tack?</p>
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This looks pretty neat...I'm wondering if anyone has read the member's agreement? Any lawyers out there... ----Joel
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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 ;-).
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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] ...
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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
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Wow, that's really sweet! Everybody sure there are no "catches"? and Joel, how'd you get a sale on the mousepad, or is that something the site did. Nice site
Steve Newport
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Hello Steve,
That's Cafepress's promotion for the week...
Regards, Joel
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We had a "shop" there for a while, the main problem was that their shopping cart isn't capable of handling more than 1 item at a time. This meant that every item bought had the full admin & shipping cost even if they bought more than one item from the same store. Improvements never went beyond the promisses stage, so when they raised their baseprices by 30-40% we quit. Sales outside the US were never an option as their p&p outside the US went even beyond UPS's worldwide same day delivery bill.
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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
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It looks like overseas is ridiculously expensive unless buying in bulk (for instance 20$ for P+P to the UK for the first t-shirt and 5$ for each subsequent one - the shirt itself has a base price of $13)
We could, however, club together and get a whole shipment to Europe somewhere and redistribute for less money ourselves, if that would be practical...
James
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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.
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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
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I've seen the site before it rather bothered me that you can only have one image per product otherwise you have to open another store..... dumb!
So I doubt that these people have a patent on the idea? So how about several locations for a similar store, Europe, UK, Canada and the US, etc. etc. but only one website. The product would be made and shipped from the location nearest to you.
As far as a contest goes, I think it would be a great idea. And I think it would also be a great idea if the proceeds went to purchase XaraX for a school (the candidates choosen from a drawing) or a nominated deserving young artist.
In the mean time we could all wear our winning Xara design and everyone will ask us ?XaraX? what is that? tee hee [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif[/img]
