We waited long enoughIt was only a matter of time. As the incoming commissions sank lower and lower to the pit of my stomach these 4 months, so did my loyalty factor to Cafepress.com.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, this person gives clarification regarding Cafepress.com's recent company restructure. Further reading will have you learn even more at this link entitled, "Cafepress Virtually Lays Off Thousands of Shopkeepers by Wolfstad.com.
Ok but I'm a consumer, not a storeowner.
What does this mean to you, the customer? Nothing. Except that you'll be paying lower prices for the same exact merchandise. That, and I feel that KaptainMyke, the owner and designer of the screenprints, deserves the same markup and cost that we've maintained for almost 5 years, and not accept a 30%, sometimes even 40% loss of incoming hardearned commissions.
Furthermore, we at KaptainMyke feel that it's "not fair" that affiliate driven websites that sell our products make more money than we do being that they make 15% and we make 10%. God Bless America and it's Capitalism!
"You mess with the bull, you get the horns. "
So in retaliation we have finally decided to sell all Cafepress related merchandise from our own websites, and not allow them to be marketed or pushed via the Cafepress Marketplace. The main difference is lower prices to the consumer, and retained earnings to the KaptainMyke Brand. We don't need Cafepress working to advertise our products for us anymore if it means we compete against ourselves. We just need Cafepress to continue distributing and filling orders, and nothing more.
"Oh yeah? Well take that!"
In essence, we have decided to cut you off, Cafepress - not the other way around. Remember who's the boss, Cafepress. Remember who's the boss....
As of the date of this post, it will take 2-3 months for search engines and the existing KaptainMyke Cafepress Marketplace links to organically disappear.
One more example...
Besides, would you pay $22 for a white graphic logo t-shirt in the Cafepress Marketplace, or the same exact product for $19.95 at KaptainMyke Brand directly? Yeah, we thought so. Also, value priced white shirts are just $10 at KaptainMyke Brand. You can't even buy a value priced white t-shirt at Cafepress. They discontinued them through their marketplace sometime a year or two ago...we kept them in inventory ever since.
We are in a Great Depression.
Their answer to recession? Most likely. I don't know much, but I do know the US Government is full of crap and so is Cafepress's executive department. 
I also know my reports don't add up, sales income from Cafepress is down, and my Google Adwords Campaigns suddenly were costing 3 times as much to keep up. Either way, someone is making serious profits at Cafepress.
KaptainMyke Brand Expanding
Eventually, when enough ticked off Cafepress storeowners walk away and move all of their art and merchandise to: 
Combotique
MySoti
NinjaZoo
Printfection
RedBubble
ShirtMagic
Skreened
SonicShack
SpreadShirt
ThatTShirtSite
Wordans
and our favorite, Zazzle
...then Cafepress will end up firing a bunch of staff, removing product lines and skyrocketing prices. Oh well! We have to do what we have to do to keep saving customers money and having us keep our jobs, too!
Because waiting stinks.
Any questions can be emailed to me directly or talk to us via Social sites, too.
-KaptainMyke
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