Since they are equally splitting the profits with artists, it's in their interest to keep prices low enough to interest people and to compete with sites like cafepress. The artists are getting a large enough percentage that they should still make more selling things here at a fixed price than on cafepress, where you can set the price but get only a fraction of it.
That's gonna be the tough thing. I think artists are gonna have to sell a lot of prints at a low price in order to get a decent amount of profit. I'll be waiting to see how others do before I participate in the store. Good luck skool and ozone. :3
How versatile will the products we'll be able to offer be? Are we talking just regular sized comics? Will there be a page limit? How about trade sized books? Digest sized novels for the manga folks? Hardcovers?
And what about posters or prints, or other non-book specific print products?
EDIT: Nevermind, after looking at their official site, I see they don't actually do any book binding products, it's only prints and cards and stuff. Which is still cool, but I was hoping they'd actually offer book products. Oh well.
That's what I was wondering as well - I thought it'd be neat if I could do all my merchandising-type stuff through one place, but ah well. Still, glad they're going to implement this, as I'd definitely have no problem creating stuff for prints and such here. :D
That's gonna be the tough thing. I think artists are gonna have to sell a lot of prints at a low price in order to get a decent amount of profit. I'll be waiting to see how others do before I participate in the store. Good luck skool and ozone. :3
Not necessarily. If you look at competing services (cafepress being the main one for much of this merch), the base cost of any item (of which cafepress takes all) is quite high to start with, sometimes seeming like more than the product is worth. The seller then has to raise the price which is their profit- but then numbers start to get pretty high and buyers start getting reluctant. The model they're going with here is more or less the same thing- only with a much lower 'base cost' so there's a greater percentage of profit, enough to split two ways and hopefully have the artist profiting the same amount… without the added bother of having to develop a product range.
I also know that cafepress (used to? maybe they changed) and probably some other merch-on-demand sites will only pay out once a seller accumulates a certain amount of profit, and only once a month. As I say, that may have changed, but that type of thing can be a real inconvenience to people who just don't sell much. Since the DD store will connect to paypal, any profits can be moved over to paypal at any time, no waiting for minimum payments or a monthly check.
Edit: Sorry, that last bit of info has changed. Since the paypal transfers have to be done manually at this point, profits will just be deposited once a month- but there's no minimum amount (unlike cafepress)
I also know that cafepress (used to? maybe they changed) and probably some other merch-on-demand sites will only pay out once a seller accumulates a certain amount of profit, and only once a month. As I say, that may have changed, but that type of thing can be a real inconvenience to people who just don't sell much. Since the DD store will connect to paypal, any profits can be moved over to paypal at any time, no waiting for minimum payments or a monthly check.
Yep, that's right. Bloody cafe press. If you don't sell much you may NEVER get your money from them.
And artists will make 100% profit right away. That's who this works. Consider: you have artwork, just lying around, made especially for comics or whatever, not working for you, not making any money. Now you can- you put it in the store, someone gets it printed on a mug, you get your share of that sale.
Any money you make is 100% profit because you didn't outlay any costs to produce that artwork for sale or market it ;)
It's not all roses though, when the store goes live thousands of others will be trying to sell stuff too. Likely those who make the most will be the most popular comicers or those who try and market themselves so their store GET's popular. That's the way it always is with this stuff.. You MAY also outlay funds to make work especially for the store or whatever, but that's up to you. This store will just offer you a way to make money off of work you have lying around for whatever readers you have who are interested in buying something with your stuff printed on it. :)
Yep… the competition will definitely be fierce, so advertising will be important. Time to figure out how to do that short of buying airtime from the local TV and radio networks… :)
well hello everyone… been gone for a while and stopped by and found this discussion. Sounds very exciting to say the least especially for those webcomic makers who have a huge following like Ozone and others. And the variety of products looks frickin' sweet. Next thing they'll have is a toaster or pogostick or some other "wink" implement with your comics image or logo on it like Hello 'frickin' Kitty! If you can make some extra scratch why the heck not! I hope this frickin' works out!
Next thing they'll have is a toaster or pogostick or some other "wink" implement with your comics image or logo on it like Hello 'frickin' Kitty! If you can make some extra scratch why the heck not! I hope this frickin' works out!
Wait, so does this mean we could put up our own merchandise for sale? Sorry but I didn't want to read that long post. I'll be so pissed if we can't, that would be a great way to get more members on this site.
Wait, so does this mean we could put up our own merchandise for sale? Sorry but I didn't want to read that long post. I'll be so pissed if we can't, that would be a great way to get more members on this site.
I think it's the standard "put your art on a T-Shirt or other item" that the store has in stock.
We wanted to get it out in August last year. :) But we want it working as well as we can make it before it goes live. It's in the very last stages now, we're doing some final user type tests to go through and see if we can find all the bugs… That will take a couple of days. The programmer is working pretty hard on it.
I think the end of this week or next week some time. We want to be really sure that it works first! Then it'll be the turn of you guys to try and break it ^_^
Buttons would be awesome. Well its not like i actually have a webcomic that anyone reads or that matters but it would be cool to have my own merch. Although i do have a cafepress shop. This should be better.
Also some of the things i sell are babys clothes and it would be wrong to try and make a big profit off them. Even the base price is over priced :(.
There are certain products in the store that I'm really excited about, and I'm sure I'll buy several pieces of my own merchandise just to have them.
The one thing I worry about is the shirts. It feels like we're pretty limited in the designs we can do, though it's understandable since a lot of the more complicated T-shirt designs require a silk-screening process.
But I wonder, if you were to print a picture with a lot of white onto a white shirt, would it print the white part? Or would it leave the white stuff blank?
I know that they probably won't be able to ship internationally, but how about if I (a dutchman) try putting some stuff up there. Will I still get money? will the money be sent to european bankaccounts or won't I even be able to sell my stuff?
I know that they probably won't be able to ship internationally, but how about if I (a dutchman) try putting some stuff up there. Will I still get money? will the money be sent to european bankaccounts or won't I even be able to sell my stuff?
You will be able to sell stuff, but whenever anyone buys it the stuff will be sent to me and all the money will go into my pocket. I will then sell your stuff in a big garage sale on the 1st of every month! :)
…. OK, here's a better answer… Anyone who has a paypal account can make money from selling their artwork through the store. That means that YOU, as a Dutchman, can make money ^__^
As for international shipping… I'm not really sure yet. I bloody hope so because I'm in Australia and I'd really like to buy some stuff to see how cool it looks! >:[
Haha, yeah, that is one of the few things we can't test because uh… it's linked to our paypal accounts. So even with the testing, I've never gone very far in a transaction. So I hope there's (affordable) international shipping.
You will be able to sell stuff, but whenever anyone buys it the stuff will be sent to me and all the money will go into my pocket. I will then sell your stuff in a big garage sale on the 1st of every month!
I'm cool with that too! I bet it'd get me featured. :P
As for international shipping… I'm not really sure yet. I bloody hope so because I'm in Australia and I'd really like to buy some stuff to see how cool it looks! >:[
I'm cool with that too! I bet it'd get me featured. :P
keep ging that way and there's a possibility… :)
Can you get your own shirts? Make a design, then use the DrunkDuck store to print it on a shirt?
Nope. Sorry man. The only way to get your own print on your own stuff is to take your art and your shirt to a print shop that does that sort of thing. :(
As for international shipping… I'm not really sure yet. I bloody hope so because I'm in Australia and I'd really like to buy some stuff to see how cool it looks! >:[
Same here, i nee a new zip up hoodie.
No hoodies, only T-shirts. :(
And mugs , boxes, mouse-pads, posters, coasters etc.
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