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Selling Pidgin tshirts
by Mark Doliner
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Hey, so I've been meaning to look into various merchandise at various
online shops for a while and send out a nicely organized email. Sorry for procrastinating for like 2 years. The three web sites I've played with are http://www.spreadshirt.com/, http://www.zazzle.com/, http://www.cafepress.com/. They offer similar services and similar prices. There's a lot of info here, skip to the bottom for my recommendation. * Can design various products like t-shirts, sweatshirts, hats, mousepads, mugs, etc * Can create a "store" that lives on their website. You create products that people can buy and they show up in your store. * You get a commission when someone buys a product. Zazzle: I've gotten stuff printed from them before and been mostly happy. We can optionally allow buyers to edit their product before they buy it, they could change the size of the logo, move stuff around, change the shirt type (t shirt, mens, womens, tank top, etc.). I think they always ship from the US, which means non-US citizens might have to duty when the product is shipped to them. They have a minimum commission of 10% (which is added on to the price the end user pays for the shirt). On top of that, if we refer people from our site (likely) we get an additional 15% (which is NOT added on to the price the end user pays for the shirt). And we would get a larger commission if we sell over $100 in a month. Zazzle can pay us by PayPal or by check. You can see an example of a store at Zazzle here: http://www.zazzle.com/markdoliner Spreadshirt: This is where I got the shirts me Richard and Gary and I for the Summer of Code mentor summit in 2007. I've been pretty happy with mine. Richard and Gary, have your shirts held up ok? Their shirts are generally a little bit more expensive. Their web site is a little less in-your-face than zazzle.com. I think they can ship from the US or from somewhere in the EU, whichever is closer. Their commissions are totally configurable. And I think they also have an affiliate program where we would get an additional 20% if we refer people from our site (likely). Spreadshirt can pay us by PayPal or by direct deposit. CafePress: I have the least experience with CafePress. Their prices look pretty good, maybe better than Zazzle and Spreadshirt. The commission is totally configurable, and they also have a commission program where you get an additional 15% for anyone you refer. They can pay us by check. It's kind of a pain to do the math, but if you make the same design on the same type of shirt at all three places, and set it up to give us the same commission, I think CafePress comes out about $2 cheaper than Zazzle, and Zazzle is maybe $4 cheaper than Spreadshirt. And people would probably be paying between $23 and $30 for a shirt, including shipping, depending on the type of shirt and depending on the design we come up with. MY RECOMMENDATION: All three web sites are pretty good and it's hard to give them a good comparison. But this isn't a decision that's going to cause us great pain--if we chose one and don't like it then we can switch to another. The switching cost is pretty low. I feel like we could debate about the best way to do this forever, but I'd rather just get something up, and I feel like this would be super low maintenance. How about I set up a shop on our behalf at CafePress and Zazzle (the cheaper two) and send out the links and we can see how people feel? If shipping to non-US countries really is a pain point then we can try Spreadshirt or look into other options. One thing we'll want to do is get a bigger version of the pigeon logo. I made an svg of the "Pidgin" text a while ago that looks pretty good, but the bird is a lot more difficult. I can also send an email to the devel mailing list and solicit design ideas. -Mark _______________________________________________ Board mailing list Board@... http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/board |
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Re: Fwd: Selling Pidgin tshirts
by Luke Schierer-2
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On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 06:48:52AM -0800, Mark Doliner wrote:
> Forwarding Gary's response. It didn't make it to the board list > because the list was set to reject non-member emails (probably my > doing). I think I changed it to hold non-member emails. > > -Mark I told it to reject non-member when I set it up. I also configured all board emails to go to the discussion list, which accepts more. Luke _______________________________________________ Board mailing list Board@... http://pidgin.im/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/board |
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