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   however Zazzle

   

   nonuser, Jul 21st, 2005 @ 5:29am

   
   

   is a much better name than CafePress, especially when you're going for Silicon Valley venture money

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   Re: however Zazzle

   

   Mike (profile), Jul 21st, 2005 @ 8:51am

   
   

   Well, CafePress raised plenty of money from Doerr's biggest competitor in the Valley, Sequoia, just a few months ago... so apparently that wasn't a problem anyway. In fact, it certainly has the feel of a copycat investment.

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   What about Printfection?

   

   Casey, Aug 29th, 2006 @ 2:49pm

   
   

   What about Printfection.com, a much more direct competitor to CafePress than Zazzle.
   
   Many of the same designs are showing up on CafePress and Printfection, indicating store owners are using both services. Not as much repetition on Cafepress/Zazzle.
   
   Based out of Denver, might be a competitive advantage with a lower manufacturing cost structure. I think Zazzle is actually manufacturing products in the valley. This can't be cheap!

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   What about Printfection?

   

   Casey, Aug 29th, 2006 @ 2:57pm

   
   

   What about Printfection.com, a much more direct competitor to CafePress than Zazzle.
   
   Many of the same designs are showing up on CafePress and Printfection, indicating store owners are using both services. Not as much repetition on Cafepress/Zazzle.
   
   Based out of Denver, might be a competitive advantage with a lower manufacturing cost structure. I think Zazzle is actually manufacturing products in the valley. This can't be cheap!

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   Matt, Oct 9th, 2006 @ 12:07am

   
   

   Zazzle's real weakness compared to CP is their weak commission structure and terms of service about licensing/using the images on their site. Printfection has opportunity to be a player over time but really is the same concept except they have more products. It will be interesting to see what happens with the t-shirt and print on demand market in the next few years. Will there still be a place for Joe-Schmo entrepreurs to sell t-shirts or will it become oversaturated.

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   Dave, Oct 11th, 2007 @ 10:08am

   
   

   In response to Casey, I think the only reason you see more cross selling between Cafepress and Printfection is because Printfection decided to duplicate the Cafepress service. People tend flock to what they are familiar with. Zazzle chose to go a different route, they didn't allow users to markup their products. Who would add a design to a site that they can only get 10% of the retail when they can add it to a site and earn $4.00 - $10.00 on it.

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   Problem with both Zazzle and Cafe Press is that...

   

   Anthony, Oct 18th, 2007 @ 7:19pm

   
   

   ....they take away your exclusive rights and if you sign their agreement, you let them keep and use your design even if you quit their store or get shut down by them. CafePress has also been guilty of shutting down shops of people selling political designs they don't like. They are decidedly pro-liberal and pro communist designs and their money goes to liberal causes, which is fine if you support that... but they have a strong double standard. Google it and you'll see a lot of ex-cafe press shopowners who give testimony. The reason you are seeing cafepress designs show up on printfection is because people are in the process of moving over to PF after being dissatisfied with products and service from CP.

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