I like Cafepress best.
Reasons:
More control over changes
Ability to delete items
Ability to make multiple changes all at once
You can add in your own html to customise pages with your logo and so on
More site traffic
You can set your own markup and order cost price items for yourself (as many as you want!).
Zazzle really annoyed me because I needed some of my items to be deleted but you can't delete your own items. You have to make a request for the items to be deleted and when I did, they just didn't get round to it, even though I emailed them a couple of times and they replied apologising.
Zazzle is nice for photos though. Apparently the quality of the prints on their T-shirts suits photos better (haven't tested it though). Plus, they have nice frames.
They have a rather nice flash slideshow that you can put onto your own website. However, I think I'd rather have gifs on webpages that people can scroll through. I find I'm getting hits to my website from google.images. If I used the flash slideshow it wouldn't help people find my site in the first place.
I just found a very useful article comparing the two and suggesting Printfection.com as a very good alternative. www.squidoo.com/cafepress_alternative/
and this, where you can vote on an Ebay matchup!
Made me remember that these sites are not just for artists wanting to sell their designs, they're also for people wanting to knock up their own personal one-off stuff like 'happy 101st birthday gran'. Maybe Zazzle is better for this.Labels: cafepress, ebay, functionality, matchup, print, print-on-demad, printfection, zazzle
