What do you think about CafePress.com?

Altec · 05-08-06, 10:06 PM

I'm considering launching a shop on CafePress.com and was wondering if anyone here has any real experience with the service?

Also, looking at some of the top 10 cafepress shops, how much would you speculate they are making per month? I would have thought the top 10 shops would have been a little more spectacular. Some of the shops are ok, but some are not that great. So It makes me wonder if these are the best, then nobody must be making money on Cafepress.com. What do you think?

Babylon 5 Scripts
My Arts Desire
Chronological Crue
Oval Stickers
609 Design
America's Tees
Law School tees
Marine Parents Online Store
BERNEcessities
Peon Productions

I've seen a number of great shops on CafePress that I think have a lot better stuff, so I'm a little surprised by the Top shop list. It just seems odd how these are the best they got on the entire site..in regards to the votes being cast by customer spending.

Any thoughts on any of this?

Thank you for any feedback on this.

Super Mod · 05-09-06, 09:21 AM

I've used CafePress once to buy a mug. I do think that it does get a lot of use, though. I know quite a few websites run it and they wouldn't run it if it wasn't worthwhile to them. I'd imagine that it would be quite difficult to get into the same sort of business as they are in as they're really established. However, there probably wouldn't be much overhead as you don't need to get the item created until it's already been purchased.

GlobalWebDan · 05-09-06, 09:39 AM

Hi altec,

I do not know about the store side of things, but as far as the quality of the products, they are definitely good. We have ordered the white golf shirts from them, and I was pleasantly surprised with the quality. Granted, your logo is not stitched in, which I would prefer, but it's good just the same.

05-09-06, 10:55 AM

The t-shirts I have recieved from them are, in my opinion, fairly poor quality. I have undershirts thicker than the shirts. But they do make good workout shirts

st@rsky · 05-09-06, 04:31 PM

I've bought a t-shirt from them. Low quality, sizing was incorrect, postage was long and expensive.

Needless to say I won't be using them again and can't really say a good word about them.

Altec · 05-09-06, 04:36 PM

Thank you for the quick responses. Ed and Starsky, when you say poor quality, what do you mean? The shirt was too thin, it was coming unstitched, the print was offcentered or unreadable?

Thank you.

05-09-06, 04:39 PM

Cheap screen printing methods and the shirt was very thin.

GlobalWebDan · 05-09-06, 07:18 PM

I don't know if I already specified this, but the shirts we purchased were the golf shirts, and not the T-shirts, so perhaps there is a difference in quality depending on the item.

mxer210 · 05-09-06, 08:40 PM

I have heard some lousy things about cafepress's quality of tshirt printing as well. I heard all of their other products are solid though.

evanmit · 05-10-06, 02:34 AM

I have got pretty lousy gear from cafepress
spreadshirt.com products are ALOT better (professional quality) however their online shops are not as feature packed as cafe press