CafePress now offers custom SIGG bottles

– May 5, 2009Posted in: Art

From time to time I like to be artistic, and CafePress fuels that obsession by offering the ability to include my design on various different products that they sell. Now they have added one more product to their pool, SIGG water bottles.

The best part about this for me is I prefer SIGG compared to all the other brands, including the solid stainless steel versions. SIGG has a special liner that is baked onto the aluminum bottle that prevents bacterial growth. Since I am out running around the woods looking for a geocache or simply trying to get some exercise quite often, or try to anyway, I carry them everywhere.

Now I can finally stand out from the crowd with my own custom design. They start at $24.99 each which is a little steep, since I spend about $18 in REI for them. But that’s the price of standing out from the rest. The bottle to the left I created in under a minute and you can buy it at cost here. They only allow you to print on the front half and not wrap around like a coffee cup which is also a bummer. Maybe later this week I will get around to creating a graphic that better fits and then use that for this months contest which I have lazily not yet started.

Help save the planet while you rehydrate in style with an eye-catching BPA-free water bottle from SIGG. Made from a single piece of aluminum, it’s ultra-lightweight yet rugged and crack-resistant. To minimize unwanted tastes and scents, the inside is lined with a water-based, non-toxic epoxy resign that exceeds FDA leaching requirements.

Holds 1.0 liter

Recyclable & reusable

BPA-free

Lifetime warranty

Do not freeze

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brian

Cafepress sucks! Poor quality printing and way OVERPRICED. Kleen Kanteen is the better product anyways.
brian

Cafepress sucks! Poor quality printing and way OVERPRICED. Kleen Kanteen is the better product anyways.
http://www.LinkinMall.net Linkin Mall

Recently Cafe Press began competing with its artists.

CP rents shops to its artists. The artist creates a website page and manually loads the desired blank products. The artist imports his image onto each product, arranges the products on the page, describes the products, titles the products and tags the images.

Initially, the artist set a markup and received the markup when a product sold.

However, recently Cafe Press began competing with its artists, using the artists’ own images. Cafe Press created a marketplace where a customer can search a keyword. That search brings up artist products. When the customer buys from the marketplace Cafe Press pays the artist 10% of the price Cafe Press set. Both the customer and the artist lose money. If the artist’s shop sells a t-shirt for $21, the artist makes $3.01. If the marketplace sells the same shirt for $25, the artist gets $2.50. The customer pays $4 more, and the artist gets $0.51 less. CafePress justifies this bait and switch by telling artists they can opt out if they don’t like the new terms; however, many have spent as much as 7 or 8 years creating as much as 88000 images.

Cafe Press tells artists to ‘promote your own shop,’ but Cafe Press buys Google adwords using the very image tags the artist provided.

Would you franchise an AMOCO station if AMOCO built a company store across the street from you?
http://www.LinkinMall.net Linkin Mall

Recently Cafe Press began competing with its artists.

CP rents shops to its artists. The artist creates a website page and manually loads the desired blank products. The artist imports his image onto each product, arranges the products on the page, describes the products, titles the products and tags the images.

Initially, the artist set a markup and received the markup when a product sold.

However, recently Cafe Press began competing with its artists, using the artists’ own images. Cafe Press created a marketplace where a customer can search a keyword. That search brings up artist products. When the customer buys from the marketplace Cafe Press pays the artist 10% of the price Cafe Press set. Both the customer and the artist lose money. If the artist’s shop sells a t-shirt for $21, the artist makes $3.01. If the marketplace sells the same shirt for $25, the artist gets $2.50. The customer pays $4 more, and the artist gets $0.51 less. CafePress justifies this bait and switch by telling artists they can opt out if they don’t like the new terms; however, many have spent as much as 7 or 8 years creating as much as 88000 images.

Cafe Press tells artists to ‘promote your own shop,’ but Cafe Press buys Google adwords using the very image tags the artist provided.

Would you franchise an AMOCO station if AMOCO built a company store across the street from you?

CafePress now offers custom SIGG bottles

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