cafepress.com for T-shirts

Let me start by saying I'm in no way associated with cafepress.com. I saw another monk suggest it as a good ideas for the Apparel design entries, but i can't find that node now :(

Anyway...I went there and it's pretty cool, but what I want to suggest for us is that we could simply use it to generate any number of T-Shirts with any designs. Basically, all you do is upload a picture to them, they press it onto a shirt (and coffee mug and mouse pad if you want), and then you set how much above what their cost of operations is you want to charge. You keep the difference! So if vroom went ahead and had a section for the top five designs perlmonks.org could make money off of the purchase of any of them and we could all get the t-shirt of our choice.

The one major drawback seems to be they only offer white t-shirts, but maybe we could get around that with them...

All I know is if we decide to not offer the shirt i like i may do it anyway and donate the proceeds to perlmonks so i can have the shirt i like ;)

-- I'm a solipsist, and so is everyone else. (think about it)

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RE: cafepress.com for T-shirts by OzzyOsbourne (Chaplain) on Oct 02, 2000 at 15:54 UTC
It looks like a pretty simple idea, but the base price on a t-shirt is 10.99? Then you add on your cut? That means a $5 T is going for $15. That seems like rock concert prices. I know a ton of people in the small-time music scene who are constantly making t-shirt runs of high-quality T's for around $5 each (I think). That means that cafepress is making a killing marketing your design. Not that this is in some way wrong (they do put up the cash to press and market them), but personally, $5 is $5. I would rather have it in my pocket than give it away... -OzzyOzbourne	[reply]
RE: RE: cafepress.com for T-shirts by Anonymous Monk on Oct 10, 2000 at 01:38 UTC
Yah, but cafepress offers full color printing at that price. Plus you don't have to invest in a certian number to be printed then have them not being sold. ::shrug::	[reply]
RE: cafepress.com for T-shirts by jptxs (Curate) on Oct 01, 2000 at 06:11 UTC
found the other node about cafepress here -- I'm a solipsist, and so is everyone else. (think about it)	[reply]