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Selling on the Web
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?
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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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There is no catch. The only problem is getting people over to see the stuff you are selling and actually selling it. The way it works is everything has a set price (set by cafepress) and you have to tack on the amount of money you want to make off of each item.
Actually, this site sells its merchandise through Cafepress. You just need to make sure you read their terms of service and make sure it's the right place for you. If it's not, there's a few other places that do the same thing, i.e. 99dogs.com.
Hope this helps.
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