Just another update about how Cafepress is doing with increasing marketplace sales for their shopkeepers. So far, not so good. So far this month Marketplace sales are tracking to be only 97.6% of last month. I’ll call that essentially a “push” for now. But remember, we were promised that these changes would make us money … which is not conceivable if we are now making less per sale and not making more sales.

Just how much is Cafepress costing me per sale while not increasing sales? With my old price structure I was averaging just under $3.00 per marketplace sale ($2.985). Right now I am nearly half that at $1.637 per sale mostly because I am getting a paultry $0.50 per bumper sticker. I told Cafepress when they called me to discuss this change and told me how it would drive more traffic and increase marketplace sales that I would believe it when I see it and that they would have to double my MP sales to make their service worth my while in terms of vast future updates and new products. Well, I am still waiting…

Oh, and they still would then need to double my sales on top of that too to make up for marketplace commission losses as well.

So far I am right (in that they would not do what they said they could) and CP is wrong.