CafeShops.com Cafepress personalized t-shirts and gifts edit this microsummary

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Create, Buy & Sell Unique Gifts - T-Shirts, Bumper Stickers, Mugs, Hoodies, Jerseys and over 80 Customizable Products

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CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic. Launched in 1999, CafePress.com has empowered individuals, organizations and businesses to create, buy and sell customized merchandise online using the company's unique print-on-demand and e-commerce services. Today, CafePress.com is a growing network of over 2 million members who have unleashed their creativity to transform their artwork and ideas into unique gifts and new revenue streams.

Our members have created over million original designs on more than customizable products ranging from apparel, home and office accessories to music and data CDs and books to prints, posters and cards.

Powering independently-run shops as well as syndicated and corporate stores, we manage every aspect of doing business online, including storefront development, site hosting, order management, fulfillment, secure payment processing, and quality customer service - enabling anyone to open a free shop with no upfront costs and no inventory to manage. CafePress.com is a privately owned, profitable company based in Foster City, California.

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English

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950 Tower Ln Ste, Ste 600

Foster City CA 94404 US

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CafePress.com

+1 650 655 3000, Fax: +1 650 655 3002

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Also know as Cafepress.

Not as good as it could be.

'Unshakable reputation for sending out mediocre merchandise to its faithful customers.'

'Enfuriate clientale even more as they receive the same defective article over and over again. This practice is particularly unnerving to people that live overseas and can't afford the long distance phone calls to their service department, higher than normal shipping fees and duty fees.'

'Lack of quality control.'

'They managed to improve the printing process slightly but it was too little too late and hundreds of costumers left Cafepress to join the growing competition.'

Cafepress is a perfect example of a good idea poorly executed and poorly managed, it has quickly acquired an unshakable reputation for sending out mediocre merchandise to its faithful customers. In the beginning Cafepress became popular by allowing the "average joe" to sell t-shirts online, however they failed to implement a good system of quality control and the end results were disastrous. They offer a 30-day money back guarantee which infuriates the clientele even more as they receive the same defective article over and over again. This practice is particularly unnerving to people that live overseas and can't afford the long distance phone calls to their service department, higher than normal shipping fees and duty fees.

By recently purchasing a series of very expensive printers, they made a failed attempt to print on dark t-shirts, Cafepress was hoping to crush the growing competition but they were defeated again by their lack of quality control. Sadly, the results were very disappointing, whites turned out grey and colors appeared dark and muddy, still they charged a hefty extra fee for this service. After constantly refining the process, they managed to improve the printing process slightly but it was too little too late and hundreds of costumers left Cafepress to join the growing competition.

It has been suggested that Cafepress management is concentrated more in going public than in making good quality products, and there is no evidence pointing to them improving their quality in the near future, quite to the contrary, they seem to have no interest in doing so. According to Alexa, their website has been losing a considerable amount of traffic over the span of at least the last eight months.

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• Alexa: CafeShops.com