Vista Print Is Okay In My Book
Written: Jul 10 '05 (Updated Jul 11 '05)
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I was recently looking for an online store that I could get some business cards printed up for my new candle business. I kept getting email from www.mypoints.com, which I have been a member of for over 6 years to Vista Print and so I finally decided to try them out. With having to pay just the shipping fee for the first order I thought I would give them a try. I loved the business cards I got from them and decided to order some more since I was going to be needing them. The cost was not terribly bad and so far I have been happy with them.
The Online Store
www.vistaprint.com is a great online store for getting business cards of any kind. The site is laid out well and easy to follow. The home page is full of all the offers the site has. Across the top you will always find links: home, account, sign out, shopping cart, help, business cards, business and identity stationary, marketing and promotions, consumer products, business services, and international sites. Each will take you to a different page with information to help you out.
Along the left hand side of the home page you will find links for the following: free design services, free business cards, brochures, holiday cards, note cards, return address labels and many more. Again, each link taking you to a different page that offers your layout and pricing. You can have both the front and back of your business cards printed on. Of course, you will pay more for backside printing.
The first time I order I paid 5.25 shipping and that was all. It took my cards about 2 weeks to come and I was contact via email when the order was made and when the cards were mailed out.
The 2nd time I ordered I paid 9.99 plus s/h of 5.25 for slow mailing. This was for 250 business cards.
There are 6 designs to choose from when ordering the free 250 business cards and you will find those under the Free Business Card link on the homepage. I chose the one with the tree scenery. But there is an American Flag and some others.
I was able to put in just what I wanted the cards to say, preview it, customize it and then order. All major credits accepted and check out was so easy.
I did have to open an account, which you have to do this with any online store. I had no problems checking out at all.
www.vistaprint.com offers the lowest price guaranteed for all their products.
Shipping
Slow 5.25 21 days
Standard 8.95 14 days
Priority 12.95 7 days
Rush 24.00 3 business days.
Contact
You can even call them via telephone at: 1-800-721-6214 or fill out an online form for email. This does make contacting them a lot easier I think.
Other Stuff
www.vistaprint.com does offer sales all the time. You can usually labels for any purpose for various prices. However, if they run a sale on these items that is usually around 4.99 for 140 or so. Different designs are different prices.
You can even order magnets if you had the need to do so. These are great for schools to order for sport events. They even offer some of these for free, just s/h charges. I ordered some for my business and they turned out great! I got 10 free so I thought why not?
You do have to go back to the homepage each time you want to order something else.
You can also talk with their design experts at any time for free. This is handy when you need something more than what they have showing. The expert will help you with all your needs. However, you can upload your own design if you would like to do so.
They also offer free E-Cards. This is always a good thing for me. I can send an E-card for free to cheer someone up!
I was also able to order 10 free note cards. This allowed me to try the product out before buying and that was a plus in my book. I also ordered 10 free announcement cards. I used these with my business information and they turned out really well.
They also offer printer cartridges, but I have not ordered these from them.
With an order the free things listed above will ship for around 5.25 and without an order they will ship for 9.99.
How I Feel
There are so many choices to make and you really should just go to www.vistaprint.com and look around. Ask questions before ordering is highly recommended.
Whenever I impute the information that I want on my cards and proofread it, I then click the next button and all my information is saved as I go. You will actually see this happening. A small narrow box pops up indicating that your information is being saved. This template is always there for you to come back to when you reorder. I really like this because I don’t have to write it down or try to remember. www.vistaprint.com does it for me!
Over all I have been happy so far with www.vistaprint.com.
I hope this has helped in some kind of way.
God Bless
Copy right LKD 2005
Recommended:
Yes
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