rickstef said:
currently it is only a one man operation, I have not had time to really delve into the site and at the same time educate myself on the operations of that site.
Rick
To sum it up... they have a base price for items ... you then set a mark-up (which you get to keep) ... They cover the manufacturing, promoting, and sales transactions for your product with no cost to you. I have done this with several other sites and it works just fine.
Payment is sent to you when you reach a minimum of sales... $25 or so, or you can set it up to wait till $100, $150, $200 etc, so you don't get a bunch of checks if sales are good.
The downside is that if sales are slow, waiting to get to $25 can be daunting. It really depends on the size of the community and how much the products are marked up. (ie. a $10 t-shirt is now $15.00 with the $5 going to Cardmodels.net) Cafepress is great for small communities who don't need to fork out $1,000 to purchase printed shirts with the "hope" that they'll sell anything. On a sale-by-sale basis it makes it a lot more comfortable.
Though you'll have to get people to submit design ideas for t-shirts, buttons, coffee mugs, callendars, books, and underwear :rofl: