Comments on: Zazzle Launches Custom Embroidered Clothing: Who Knew Stitching Could Be This Cool?

By: Allan Tan

Allan Tan — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:20:10 +0000

I think it is a great idea to do it the Zazzle way, but isn’t it a novelty?

By: Marco

Marco — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:32:12 +0000

Hi,

I would like to talk to you about those costs of embroidering. Please contact me.

Regards,

By: Mike Curry

Mike Curry — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 20:31:40 +0000

I think cafepress and zazzle both have great software and designs. I wish that our custom t shirt software at http://www.inkimprints.com, would be capable of having their system.

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By: Mayank

Mayank — Tue, 19 May 2009 04:50:50 +0000

Hey,

I run an embroidery unit in India. We could work out a way to get the cost benefits that India has to offer your way. Please get in touch with me if this is of interest.

Regards,

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By: DEckoff

DEckoff — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:49:58 +0000

Danny, while I haven’t met the management at Cafe Press, I have gotten to know the management at Zazzle and I am very impressed with them. They are smart from a technical & business perspective, hard working, and focused. I work with numerous early stage companies, and Zazzle not only has high quality people across their organization, they are my favorite business model. In my experience, your characterization is off the mark.

>> Danny wrote: “zazzle is a bunch of rich kids with dad’s friend’s money, spending it like a bunch of rich kids.”

By: Sketchee

Sketchee — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 07:49:48 +0000

None of the examples on threadsmith are as impressive as the Zazzle examples which look pretty complicated. If they are capable of it, they aren’t doing a very good job of showing it off. The pages I saw were very simple logos

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:22:45 +0000

oh and…it appears they just bought this from Melco. why else would there be “Melco Block” as a text option

By: andrew

andrew — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 23:20:25 +0000

and we did it years before either of you….with patent pending.
corporatecasuals.com

By: Brad Svrluga

Brad Svrluga — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 21:23:17 +0000

You should really check out the real market leader here, Jason. Threadsmith, now in beta at http://www.threadsmith.com , has automated 100% of the logo conversion process, not a mere 50-70%. By taking all of the people out of the process, rather than Zazzle and other’s manual, 24-48 hr image process turnaround, Threadsmith does it in real time, at zero cost, and enables producing finished products on the same day. In the time it takes Zazzle to complete your image processing, Threadsmith can have a finished product at your doorstep! And where a one-off, custom polo shirt at Zazzle will cost $50-$100 depending on the artwork, Threadsmith uses its technology advantage to offer the same shirt for less than $20. This is groundbreaking stuff, and thoroughly patented. Check it out!

By: Brad

Brad — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 19:51:17 +0000

Or better yet, http://www.bluecotton.com has been doing for a long time and they are name people actually know in the “custom shirts” business.

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By: Danny

Danny — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:21:56 +0000

If anything, this seems to point to Zazzle’s continued LACK OF FOCUS. Were people really beating down the doors at their website saying: if you add embroidery, we’ll spend 20% more on your site? no they were not.

zazzle is ten gasping start ups in one rather than one successful, cohesive company like cafepress.com. it’s all about the management and the focus.

zazzle is a bunch of rich kids with dad’s friend’s money, spending it like a bunch of rich kids.

anyone who has met the CP management team AND the zazzle management “team” knows this.

By: Ross

Ross — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:04:46 +0000

Although it’s cool to see Zazzle doing this (I buy tons of t-shirts from Zazzle for personal use, events, employee gifts etc.) – I think Threadsmith has a better offering. By “one-off” I really need “ONE-off”, so paying a per-stitch fee to convert a design is a deal breaker. You’re looking at $38 for a shirt vs. $20. Plus Threadsmith has button-down shirts… I’m too fat for a polo.

By: josh

josh — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:45:11 +0000

Steve – I think the difference is that if you just want one hat with text or using any of the available items in their marketplace it also will cost you ~$20 and arrive in the same week. While I agree that bulk embroidery has been around and has been cost-effective for a long time, doing this on a pure one-off basis is normally cost-prohibitive. Ask any silk-screener or embroiderer. What Zazzle has done is take those processes to a point where you can get one item, completely customized, at a retail-level cost. That’s much harder than you may think, and meets a different market than the bulk “500 hat” order you reference. And sure, the whiz-bang preview doesn’t hurt either.

By: Steve Daly

Steve Daly — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 15:05:21 +0000

Josh,

I guess I’m missing the “tremendous technical achievement.” Please explain. Having 30-40 engineers build technology to create a video of embroidery stitching is VERY cool, but it doesn’t have anything to do with the core service offering.

I also question Zazzle’s capability to scale. I priced 500 hats with a simple text embroidery on Zazzle. They came out to ~$17/hat. On Wearport a complex logo on 500 hats came out to $8/hat.

Again, I don’t question Zazzle’s engineering prowess. The problem is that many web sites are (once again) showing really cool engineering over providing customers with a strong product offering.

Steve

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