From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of geni
On 1/9/06, Steve Bennett stevage@gmail.com wrote:
Totally unrelated question: Where can I find out what portion of cafepress.com merchandise goes back to Wikipedia?
Steve
Sod all. Someone needs to find a better suplier.
We had this same problem with BookCrossing.com. CafePress had a great range and good service, but we didn't get much back. Now we have a small staff who handle book labels, bookmarks, clothing, backpacks, all sorts of stuff.
The benefits are that "the supply store" generates most of the revenue for the site and we can tailor our merchandise precisely to what we want, rather than what is convenient for CafePress. The downside is that we have to have a staff and a storeroom and an infrastructure to handle the orders from a userbase of hundreds of thousands, even if only a few of them are active at any one time.
Peter (Skyring)