Dragaera

SKJB / Dream Cafe' swag ideas

Thu Dec 9 10:37:23 PST 2004

> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Dyer-Bennet [mailto:dd-b at dd-b.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 09, 2004 1:15 PM
> To: dragaera at dragaera.info
> Subject: Re: SKJB / Dream Cafe' swag ideas
> 
> Because of the limitations of free shops, we can't have like zillions
> of t-shirt designs.  It does look like you can have *multiple* free
> shops -- so there could be a Jhereg shop, and a Tiassa shop, and a
> Dzur shop, and a Dragon shop, say, and thus there could be 4 different
> t-shirt designs, one per shop.  I haven't tried this, the limitation
> reads as per-shop, and the "premium" status is per-shop, but it seems
> like creating infinitely many free shops is such an obvious way to get
> around the premium charge that they'd have some way to block it.
> 

According to what I'm seeing on the website, you can open as many free
stores as you like (http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/shops.aspx).
Presumably they're hoping that the administrative hassle of having dozens of
"shops" will force their customers into opening a single premium shop before
it gets that far out of hand.

That isn't necessarily too far off base, seeing that in most cases a
successful line of branding could pay for the subscription price before you
really needed to have two coffee mug styles, while a not-successful line
probably wouldn't need two designs in any given category anyway.