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I have a Q about cafepress.com. I want to sell stuff off it, but ... it seems too good to be true! What's the catch? Should I sell stuff off of it?
I sell stuff through cafepress.com. It's a legit operation. You can open a free store (even several free stores) and sell your own designs. The nice things about it are that you don't have to keep a lot of inventory around (you don't have to have a basement full of t-shirts or whatever), you don't have to worry about handling money and credit cards, and you don't have to worry about getting your designs printed up. The drawbacks are that their base prices for some items are fairly high (although their buttons are a good deal) and that their graphics don't tend to display as well as one would like.
As Draak says, getting people to see your items is the tricky part. However, there are a few things you can do, like choosing good search terms and making a good description. That will help your stuff show up when people use the cafepress search engine. Also, cafepress items rank at the top in a google search. Another thing you can do is make a personal website to display your designs, with a link to your store in cafepress. Another thing - cafepress sends out newsletters with marketing ideas.
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That was really nice, but I still don't like to give info out on the internet. Do they deduct money from your 'paycheck' or do they hope you'll upgrade?
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