RB has a tendency to auto-suspend accounts, and then completely ignore support emails claims about a 4-hour response time notwithstanding. Then suddenly! An email from RB, that my account has been reinstated. I logged on — but my store staff was gone. I emailed them out of curiosity, but never got a reply.
At some point I checked, and I think the products reappeared — but not my store controls. Would you work with a company that deals with its users like that, and might disappear on you from one day to the next? Zazzle was my next stop, their name notwithstanding sounds like a cross between the Hebrew name for Hell and vajazzle. Registering, setting up shop, putting up the first designs were all easy enough.
The interface to set up the images and layout of designs on products is pretty good, and allows you flexibility in creating your products. And therein start the problems.
We all know how that works, without advertising. But then, adding a single product at a time gets annoying — there is no easy way to add the same design across multiple products in one go.
To be fair, unless you restrict it, customers can change the basic product — e. The back-end shop interface feels tacked on. The next problem is that items take up to 24 hours to appear in your shop. And collections take even longer. On the plus side, they do have an in-built affiliate program. I have to give Zazzle a big gold star for that one. They also offer a huuuuuge array of items you can sell, which is awesome. The thought of customizing item after item made my eyes glaze over.
The website itself has a very nice veneer, but my admittedly knee-jerk impression was that it could do a better job of simplifying a truly dizzying number of options. The thrill of being able to use vector images thoroughly eclipsed by the complexity of setting up a store, I moved on to Cafe Press. I would estimate I spent no more than three minutes looking at Cafe Press.
But while looking at their site all I thought about was how sharply it contrasted with the clean, minimal, streamlined experience at RedBubble. It gives you a free shop on the site, and you can list an unlimited number of products there. CafePress also allows you to set your own percentages, but these percentages are only applied if the purchase is done through your own personal storefront.
You can link any product using your referral ID. Contrary to the way the percentages work, CafePress only allows you to earn additional commissions when referring people directly to the marketplace a. Both Zazzle and CafePress provide quite a lot of products of various types. They have a large collection of apparel items, accessories, gift and hobby items, cases, covers, etc. However, there are some that are offered by Zazzle but not by CafePress, such as pacifiers, playing cards, and cake toppers.
The product pricing are actually quite comparable. However, Zazzle seems to have more positive reviews regarding the product quality. Zazzle is a family-run tech company that began in the garage of the Beaver family home in Over the last 14 years, however, it has grown into an international company with head offices in Cork, Ireland, and Silicon Valley.
The company received two tranches of support from Google investors John Doerr and Ram Shriram in and again in Zazzle promises to connect the designer, manufacturer, and client to create a custom-designed item without the middlemen of the retailer and the warehouse. The company now operates out of Kentucky, where it is famous for its super soft tees. CafePress is also an award-winning company.
Danish customer review website TrustPilot has aggregated reviews of CafePress and 3 of Zazzle. Other issues included out of stock items and poor printing on badges. In one instance, when the reviewer had received a damaged parcel, Zazzle promised to credit her account so that she could reorder her product which arrived in perfect condition a week later. Some of the issues included a product that did not match the original design.
0コメント