Cafepress has announced that some changes will be coming to their bulk pricing structure. The BIG change is that dark apparel will FINALLY have bulk discount prices applied to them.

Honestly there is no reason why this did not happen sooner considering that other major POD services like Printfection and Zazzle both offer these discounts on dark apparel.

We will be making changes to the Bulk Pricing Service in the next few weeks. The current Bulk Pricing Service allows Shopkeepers to purchase 15 or more of the same product at a discount from their own shop. With the new Bulk Pricing Service, the changes are:

* All apparel, including Dark Apparel, Value T-Shirts, and InfiniStitch™ apparel will now qualify for bulk discount. This has been a long-standing Shopkeeper request.
* Due to changes in supplier pricing, we are now able to offer better discounts on about half of the items but unfortunately will be raising the bulk prices on some others.
* To offer Shopkeepers more flexibility, we’ve lowered the threshold by beginning the bulk discount at only six apparel products.
* For the first time we will be offering progressively steeper discounts at higher quantities, up to a quantity of 96.

This change will happen in time for Holiday shopping! We’ll let you know once the Bulk Pricing Service changes have been implemented. A new pricing chart will be updated at the time of announcement.

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I know Cafepress might deny this publicly, and I haven’t talked to anyone at CP about this (and I doubt they would comment on the record even if I had) so what follows is my opinion, but I am sure they have finally gotten tired of loosing business to other PODs over their dark product discounts that are offered elsewhere and also different discount structures.

I am glad to see Cafepress making some moves to keep up with the dogs nipping at their heals.

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J.J. Jackson is President of Land of the Free Studios, Inc. and Cafepress “Top Shopkeeper”. He has been selling t-shirts on-line since 2004 and is the owner of the T-Shirt Entrepreneur, a site dedicated to helping people get involved in the T-shirt Economy. He is also the owner of Funny When Wet T-shirts, American Infidel Tshirts, Uber Gamer T-shirts as well as many other online t-shirt and gift stores.