Comments on: CafePress Announces Big Price Hikes for Buyers, Big Commission Cuts for Sellers

By: Hack

Hack — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:33:14 +0000

So basically, if you opt in to the CP marketplace you’re listed in searches, etc., but you make 10% commission. If you opt out of CP marketplace you can still set you’re own prices but then you aren’t listed in any searches and you have to handle getting your name/store/products out there (I.E. advertising your website) by yourself.

Is this the gist?

By: jessica

jessica — Mon, 17 May 2010 17:56:01 +0000

thanks for telling us about skreened. i have been looking for an enviro-friendly, responsible alternative for cafepress. great tip!

By: Janissa

Janissa — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 00:53:16 +0000

We’re a small operation and only get holiday sales at our CafePress shop. I manage the shop but the account is in the name of an officer of our shop, so I wasn’t even aware of the changes until I started scrutinizing our sales report this month. It seems an unfair business practice to have search engines go to their marketplace and not have a link there to our store.

I noticed an “odd” pattern in our sales, i.e. they stopped completely at a time when they had been increasing dramatically. When I complained to CafePress, low and behold, the sales suddenly started to appear again that same day.

There is no way to check the accuracy of their sales reports unless there is a completely independent audit. So I’m all for joining a class action lawsuit. This behavior needs to be investigated and punished.

I have begun to shut down our shop and will start selling on Zazzle.

By: kickCP

kickCP — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 05:31:50 +0000

I switched to zazzle a long time ago.they offer a premium store for FREE and don’t take away our commissions.

By: TshirtManiacs

TshirtManiacs — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 01:54:32 +0000

I agree that CafePress is robbing us. We are now having to compete with Cafepress, to sell our own designs. I have had a monthy income reduction of about 60-70% since their new policies took affect. I say sue their gready butts.

By: Don Herbert

Don Herbert — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:57:23 +0000

Hello Cafepress Shop Holders… I am also a Shop Holder who got my store making an average of $250.00 – $450.00 a month, Last 3 Christmas’s I made over $1,000.00 each time. Now I get maybe $70.00 a month I am soooooo FURIOUS about this. I say, if there is a way to sue these THIEVES, then lets go after them. I’m serious about this. If you are to, lets get together to pursue this and take these guys down!!! Email me if you are serious at nwdesignsandmore@aol(dot)com

Thanks,
Don

By: Another Very Angry Top Shopkeeper

Another Very Angry Top Shopkeeper — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:21:09 +0000

I believe there is good cause for a class action lawsuit. It would make them go back in their records and prove that they have paid everyone what they were supposed to. And I really doubt they have. It would take them years to do it and create negative publicity for them in the meantime. A company shouldn’t be allowed to ask a person for their time in a partnership and then take everything back after all of the work has been done. I’m sure there is a lawsuit here, not only in their change of commission but as far back as the beginning when they made mistakes in commissions testing their algorithms. Their obvious breach of trust and lack of common sense should give us the right to have them investigated at the very least. They have probably been ripping us all off for years. These website TOS are muddy at best, and there are real things called easment laws. If anyone wants to sue, I’m in.

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:53:06 +0000

I deleted my images, then closed my shop.

By: Howard

Howard — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:51:14 +0000

I closed my Cafepress shop in protest of their new pricing policy.

By: lucy dog design

lucy dog design — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:02:49 +0000

If there is a class action lawsuit against Cafe Press, count me in! I’ve had a premium shop there for 4 years and have gotten screwed over like everybody else effective 6/09.

I closed my shop, deleted all 657 images in my media basket, wrote 3 nasty emails to C.P. voicing my discontent and the removal of my shop. BUT MY IMAGES ARE STILL ROLLING AROUND FOR SALE ON THEIR MARKETPLACE!!! I AM FURIOUS!

How can I get C.P. to remove my images?!