Selling from your site
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- eaglefund
OK, so after numerous ties, I've realized that both MadMerch and Merchline and really bad to deal with. Does anyone have any other companies to recommend? I really don't want to set up a merchant account site, I just want to be able to sell a few t-shirts without it being a giant hassle. MadMerch and Merchline seemed so good since they would handle all the billing, and ship out the orders, but I'm just not having any luck with them. Are these the only 2 businesses like this? Thanks!
- ethios0
are you printing the shirts yourself? what sort of set up you got?
- radar0
why not use Paypal?
- eaglefund0
I would probably do small runs (72-144) of a few designs at first with a local screenprinter. Not trying to compete with Threadless just yet... just want to start slowly.
- eaglefund0
yeah, paypal is an option, but i think it looks kinda ghetto sometimes, and believe it or not, a lot of folks still don't have paypal.
- ethios0
you need to look into setting up a merchant account with paypal and then you can like accept CC numbers on your site and stuff
- ********0
yeah, set up a amerchant account and egt something like http://www.oscommerce.com
pretty easy to get running out of the box, not really that much of a bitch to get cutomized, either..
- UndoUndo0
id look through paypal, i dont think yr site visotrs even need an account with them anymore
- ********0
You can totally customize the paypal order buttons (just finished doing it on a new site I am building) so it completly matches the design of your regular site. And a customer doesn't need a paypal account anymore - just a credit card...
- RFRSH0
I'm also interested in finding a merch place. Accepting payment is not the problem (and Paypal actually has standard credit card service now) it's the order fullfillment that is the pain. I would rather have a place that does dropship so they take care of packing and sending the orders. A place that also does the printing is an added bonus. Everything ive seen so far just charges too much. They pretty much charge you the retial price of the designed shirt and expenct you to sell them for over $20 to make a few bucks on top. I'm not out to make lots of money, really just enough to pay for more supplys and quality shirts.
- BuddhaHat0
Dropship is a value-added service to you, their customer, and they will charge for it. Especially at low volumes. Perhaps for your first smaller runs you may consider doing it yourself? I know it *gasp* means doing some manual work yourself, but hey, more margin for you...
My friend runs marijuanavaporizer.com and does all the shipping for it himself... I've watched him do it, it's not that bad...
- TechVector0
I do screen printing and shipping RFRSH, peep my site.
I mostly do it for local ( Oregon) but I'm down for whatever.