'Conversations with Dead People'
A thread to discuss naming threads, board policy, new thread suggestions, and anything else that has to do with board administration and maintenance. Guaranteed to include lively debate and polls. Natter discouraged, but not deleted.
Current Stompy Feet: ita, Jon B, DXMachina, P.M. Marcontell, Liese S., amych
Isn't commission earned unpredictably? Or do they not still have volume discounts?
I can look up their definition of "volume" on the site, but we never earned any commission during the busiest F2F ordering period, so I'm not worried.
[edit: Volume pricing starts at 20 items/month. So far, we've never been close to that.]
We have gotten money back from them. Not a lot, but some.
Volume pricing starts at 20 items/month
It has to be the same item/same pattern, I'm guessing, right? Then we should be good.
I'm far more worried about the copyright issue than the commissions, where Cafepress is concerned.
Looks like the copyright issue has always existed, though. And now it's a bit better.
Swag is being bought -- do we have an alternative provider.
Admittedly, I'm not the biggest TOS reader except when it comes to domain registrars.
That non-exclusive license clause seems pretty common on web services. I know the Atlantic Forums have a similar kind of clause, and I think Worldcrossing do too. I don't think they stipulate an end date however. I think it's a clause that just allows them to publish trademarked or copyrigthed things -- they don't claim any ownership or exclusivity to the license.
It has to be the same item/same pattern, I'm guessing, right?
Exactly. We've sold 20 items in a month before, but never 20 of the exact same style/pattern.
AFA our intellectual property rights are concerned, the Member Agreement states unequivocally that we own everything. That said, in exchange for using CafePress, we grant them a license to use our product designs to advertise themselves [while we have accounts with them, and up to 90 days after an account is closed]. (Their mailing list will occasionally send out "hey, this is really cool stuff, and you should buy it!" emails -- I just recently got one with a whole bunch of Martha-Stewart-in-jail-wear. Or one of our logo shirts might show up in a graphic on their front page.)
Good. I misread or dismembered the IP issue, in that case. I'm happy to have done so.
With all the talk about cafepress and board funding issues, I was wondering why we don't have affiliate links for places like Amazon and Buy.com. With all the Buffy-related DVD purchases made by Buffistas (not to mention Farscape, Harry Potter, upcoming Firefly DVD etc.), it could probably raise a few bucks. Has this been discussed already?
The links to Amazon merch in the FAQ currently use my personal affiliate id. If the commissions ever amount to anything significant (I think they've totalled 5 or 10 bucks thus far), I planned on shooting the money over to Jesse.