CafePress rents web shops to its artists. The artist creates a website page and manually loads the desired blank products. The artist imports his image onto each product, arranges the products on the page, describes the products, titles the products and tags the images.

Initially, the artist would set a markup and received the markup for each product sold.

However, recently CafePress began competing with its artists, using the artists’ own images. CafePress created a marketplace where a customer can search a keyword. That search brings up artist products. When the customer buys from the marketplace CafePress pays the artist 10% of the price CafePress set. Both the customer and the artist lose money. If the artist’s shop sells a t-shirt for $21, the artist makes $3.01. If the marketplace sells the same shirt for $25, the artist gets $2.50. The customer pays $4 more, and the artist gets $0.51 less.

CafePress tells artists to “promote your own shop,” but CafePress buys Google adwords using the very image tags the artist provided.

CafePress justifies this bait and switch of service terms by telling artists they can opt out if they don’t like the new terms; however, many have spent as much as 7 or 8 years creating as much as 88000 images.

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Is that how you request these documents?

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Forgive me for being cynical, but it seems that many of your posts since you came on board at TC seem to be based on either conjecture or statements that you claim are fact, but you don’t post any of the details. These posts seem to be “negative” spin as well…

Do you have a chip on your shoulder? If not, then please “just the facts ma’n”

appreciated,
Evan

Seriously, CafePress did not raise any venture capital, nor have we received funding from Sequoia Capital since our series B funding in 2005.

But thanks for all the kind words! Gotta go back to work stitching shirts for those that have lost theirs recently.

-Fred, CEO CafePress

Focus, danielson. focus.

most of us in on-demand expect to see a gutted zazzle in the next six months. sloppy and overfunded.

And why not add a few new products to the stream? Perhaps new American made cars with custom paint jobs?