CafePress is a RIP-OFF for both the customer and shop owner
Written: Oct 30 '10
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CafePress is a RIP-OFF for both the customer and shop owner because CafePress sets the price of the product in the market place and shop owner only receives 10% of that set price. In addition the market place set price could be higher than the price at the owner’s shop.
For example a mug has a base price (item, imaging processing and CafePress commission) of $10.00 and the shop owner markups it up by $5.00 making the price of the mug $15.00. When the customer buys the mug at the owner’s shop they will pay $15.00 however, when they buy the same mug at CafePress’s market place they will pay the market set price of $18.90 which is $3.90 higher.
In my daughter case she put over 60 hours creating the images and setting up her shop and thus far she received $2.40 for four products and CafePress received $56.00 for those products.
So, in the end my daughter was paid $.04 per hour for her work.
The thing to keep in mind is that my daughter’s mug is competing with over 2,000 other shop owner’s mug and CafePress is not.
So, in the end it is in the best interest for CafePress to make their market place the default place to buy a product, give the customer not indication that the price could be lower at the shop owners place so that they can make a larger profit at the expense of both the customer and shop owner.
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