The CafePress store is open, with a delightfully cheesy name to honor my blog: Blag Hag Swag. I'm awful, aren't I?
Right now all I have is the I (squid) Cephalopods merch:
It's currently available on shirts, hoodies, baby clothes, coffee mugs, a tote bag, and per Molls's request, a thong:
I have to figure out how much money I'd make in the store before I start putting more designs up. CafePress has a really lame system. Let's say I have design A and design B. I want to print A on coffee mugs, but I also want to print B on coffee mugs. Well, I can't unless I buy a premium account. I can print A on a mug and B on a white shirt, but not both on the same type of object. Premium accounts cost 60 bucks a year, and I make about 2 dollars an item...so I guess I have to figure out if I could actually make a profit selling nerdy atheist stuff. Hmm.What do you guys think?
Most reports of Cafe Press I've heard are that it's not really cost effective to sell your merch through them. It's fine if you just want to get a design on some shirts, but not if you want to make money from them.
ReplyDeleteLol, cool merchandise. I'd get some if I had any money, guaranteed. ='(
ReplyDelete"Blag Hag Swag" ... Best Title Evar, fo shure.
I don't think the thong will fit me.
ReplyDeleteVeritas, I nearly spit out my food reading that. Ahahaha.
ReplyDeleteUWC, I'm a merchandising n00b. Maybe once I learn a thing or two I can find a better site.
If I owe you a new keyboard, you'll have to come pick up one of my spares yourself.
ReplyDeleteMy Mexican Hockey Buddy™ uses a site, I'll see if I can find it. He sells shirts that say things like "I find your lack of faith amusing. - Innocent III" and stuff like that. Misattributed history quotes.
Awesome, awesome, awesome! Totally getting one.
ReplyDeleteBut, yeah, UWC's right about CaféPress. Zazzle seems generally nice, but have a look at this comparison (bonus topicality points: it's at squidoo.com):
http://www.squidoo.com/cafepress_alternative
http://www.spreadshirt.com/us/US/-/Open-a-shop-3483/
ReplyDeleteThat's what Angel uses. I dunno if it's any good.
I got those shirt for friends, anyway. I suck...I just wanted to get them immediately. XD I hope they like them.
ReplyDeleteI can't pretend to love cephalopods, otherwise I'd get one. I can't even pretend to squid them. Primarily because of my allergies to seafood.
ReplyDeleteYou know P.Z. is going to be down for one, at the very least.
ReplyDeleteHmmm, Printfection actually DOES look better. Damnit.
ReplyDeleteRevulo, awesome! Please let me know how the quality turns out.
I am going to post a random thought: PZ doesn't sound nearly as trendy in Canadian as it does in American. I keep thinking of him as "Pee-Zed".
ReplyDeleteVeritas: That's alright. Dawkins calls him Pee-Zed, so you can't be wrong.
ReplyDeleteYeah, but as I spend my day talking to Americans, I can imagine the pleasure one would take in having such rhyming initials. 'sides, Dawkins is cool, but that doesn't always makes him right!
ReplyDeleteLess of a squid fan but if you get an account at some other site and upload the squid vs dinosaur one I'll probably get 2-3 there and then!
ReplyDeleteIn addition to CafePress not being a very good way to earn money off merch, it's generally speaking not very good quality. The shirts and such you get from them don't stand up to actual use for very long before showing their age.
ReplyDeleteIt's a cute design, and I look forward to seeing what else you come up with in the future. :) Don't think I'm likely to buy anything though unless I suddenly come into a large amount of money(in which case I'll buy 5 so I can rotate the shirts and slow their degradation :P)
Well damnit, I don't want to abandon the store now that I have 4 potential dollars sitting there. You need $25 to get a check.
ReplyDeleteDangit Revulo, how dare you actually buy stuff from me =P
Reminds me of the South Park episode about making money online. "Theoretical dollars". Maybe you should just hold out for your first cheque, then piss off, Jen?
ReplyDeleteI think we should see some pictures of you in that thong.
ReplyDeleteStop being creepy, anonymous.
ReplyDeleteAlso, water, I need you to stop being so wet.
So if I buy 30 thongs, you'll be set up for a year? Tempting.
ReplyDeleteIn other news, an Australian would call that a G-string, since a thong is something you wear on your feet. So next time somebody with an Aussie accent says "Yes, I bought a pair of thongs for my two year old daughter today" you don't necessarily need to arrest him.
Do they carry the thongs in a men's xxxlarge?
ReplyDeleteWow, Anon. No, you will have no pictures of me in the thong.
ReplyDeleteTry www.zazzle.com. No store fees.
ReplyDeleteHeh, Fraser, our terminology isn't so different. We use both terms in the US. Sandals are G-strings are both called thongs. It's always a great opportunity for well-intentioned irony.
ReplyDeleteNote the new post: http://blaghag.blogspot.com/2009/08/ok-blag-hag-swag-open-for-realz.html
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