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Update: How The New CP Marketplace Is Affecting Me
On April 22nd Cafepress they were beginning to tweak their marketplace algorithm to, “ensure we’re better delivering the designs and merchandise shoppers are looking for. This includes bringing the best designs to the front, and reducing redundant designs.”
Yesterday Cafepress issued this update: (more…)
All Shirts Are Not Created Equal
Cafepress is plowing ahead with plans to make uniform pricing throughout their market place and make all designs equal. I think this is a bad idea. Cafepress knows that I think this is a bad idea. It is a bad idea because Cafepress will be setting the prices of a t-shirt that has a single word in Arial font across it the same as another that has a complex graphical work. (more…)
Zazzle Jumps To Reassure Partners On Heals Of Cafepress Changes
Zazzle is working hard to pick up the large cookies Cafepress has been dropping in it’s desire to stuff it’s face. Not wanting to let an opportunity to woo existing Cafepress shopkeepers over to their platform, Zazzle has stepped up and provided a lengthy (and often general I admit) post about their future plans. (more…)
Cafepress Refuses to Learn Its Lessons …
Cafepress is at it once again. Here come the major changes designed to screw shopkeepers. No, I will not mince words. Gee, you would think that they would have learned their lessons after the whole Volume Bonus fiasco. But no. They are determined to not learn from history.
Cafrepress announced, in email, several new changes that are designed, if you ask me, to make the marketplace they own and operate more profitable and take money out of the pockets of those that make them successful. With not even so much as a courtesy call to get the opinion of the top shopkeepers it is the same old same old from Cafepress. (more…)