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CafePress Announces Price Increases

On the heels of Printfection’s announcement about price increases, CafePress is following suit with a flurry of price increases of their own.
According to the CafePress News and Announcements section, the similar issue of rising costs of goods and labor have forced the increase. Unfortunately, the end may not be in site. According to their [...]

Printfection Announces Price Increases

Citing increasing business costs, Printfection has announced an estimated 10% site-wide garmet price increase beginning July 2, 2008. In addition to the 10% increase, double sided printing will move from $2 to $3 and there will be an increase to the dark garment surcharge.
All price changes will go live automatically on that date, [...]

CafePress Terminates New York Affiliates

CafePress Terminates New York Affiliates

In a stunning move today, CafePress abruptly announced that it would be terminating New York affiliates effective July 1, 2008.
The problem stems from newly enacted legislation in New York that requires companies who have affiliates that reside in New York to collect taxes if their revenue passes a certain threshold. A memo from [...]

Squidoo

Squidoo

Squidoo is a website that was launched by Seth Godin in October 2005. The idea is simple: everyone is an expert at something. Squidoo allows you to build pages (called lenses) for free. Lenses can be about anything that you are interested in: politics, religion, sports, etc.
Anyone who creates a Squidoo lens is called [...]

Marketplace URL Update

CafePress URLs are getting a facelift! This was just posted in the announcement area:
We made a few updates to the structure of the Marketplace URLs for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) reasons. This update will not affect Shopkeepers. If you are linking to the Marketplace, the “old” URL will simply redirect to the new URL structure.
Examples [...]