Cafepress is the largest and easiest web sites to allow you to sell t-shirts. You can start selling for free and receive money if any of your t-shirts or other products sell. With Cafepress you can sell t-shirts as well as mugs, prints, hats, and 100+ other products.
The bad news is that the filed for an IPO and really have gone away from their core mission of personalized products and caring about sellers. As the result of an over success of their t-shirt sellers a few rouge MBA's decided to stop paying so much to their t-shirt designers who made them what they are today. Many of the top sellers decided to stop putting energy into content there and move to Zazzle. Many people who had built an income to pay their car payment, mortgage or more were suddenly having to look for other income sources. Cafepress filed for an IPO and it was clear that they had been taking a loss for a year or two. To boost revenues the company decided to try other measures as they felt Zazzle coming close behind. Their website and email marketing is frequently full of garbage including free cell phone offers and licensed NFL football products.
The other good and bad news is that they do practice some form of favortism in featuring designers like Zazzle does. They will feature certain long-time artists on high volume pages but then never swap it out for other sellers. Personally I think they need to take a step back and see what they have built, what they have destroyed and think about what is important and hopefully it is creating a vibrant community of artists who are rewarded for their efforts for making Cafepress the powerhouse that it is today.
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