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If you are running CPShop to sell your wares off site from Cafepress, and honestly who wouldn’t be, and maintain your commissions you should be aware that the recent changes at CP have broken your install and sales through your CPShop will be at the new Marketplace prices AND commission!

There is however a fix to this which appears to be working and was posted by oph3lia on the marty.net message boards. The thread is found here.

Basically append this code:

*||||<input type=hidden name=fromsearch value="yes">||||<input type=hidden name=fromsearch value="no">

to your cpshop.cgi.images file then clear your cache.

Everything should work fine until Marty gets around to releasing an update.

So here I am, tracking the effect of the so-called great changes being made over at Cafepress. You know, where they are going to set the commissions we can make off marketplace sales, ostensively lowering shopkeeper profits and raising their own BUT where they are (they promise) going to make great changes to their market place search algorithms to help out their valued and (previously) successful shopkeepers like myself? (more…)

Cafepress has dropped the ball again. Had I not been logging into my account differently and viewing a different page than normally, I would never have even noticed that they have thrown a small bone to Cafepress shopkeepers by finally moving their own logo and branding to the bottom of the page! (more…)

I thought that I would just take some time to update everyone on how I have been reacting to Cafepress’ latest changes. Since the changes took place where they announced the 10% commission for marketplace sales, I have created 32 new designs. Of those 32, Cafepress has received five of them or 16%. (more…)

… or how Cafepress has turned me from a top shopkeeper into nothing.

Another update as to how things are going at Cafepress for my stores. Well, as everyone knows when marketplace sales no longer counted towards the volume bonus my income from that site took a big hit. It dropped from a healthy four figures a month down to barely reaching $1,000. Now, since the newest market place changes, something CP promoted as going to help its quality shopkeepers, I will be very lucky to make even half that this month. (more…)