Hey all, anyone use Zazzle at all?
I signed up a year or 2 back and made a couple of things. Forgot all about it and 2 of my things sold! I have $17 something in my account! Woop!

Nice little extra income if you can design decent things that will sell.
Even pays into a paypal account if you have less than $25 in account, if you have more they can send you a cheque.

It is an american site but still take international orders and payments are just converted. Still not bad for sitting at the computer and better than all them cash back ****** sites

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/

Link to their UK site

There is a lot of this going on ATM. People using amature design to pay peanuts for a job. This seriously undermines the professional industry as other companies expect the same sort of prices.
I certainly wont be signing up to this any time soon although i do use these stock photography sites which run on a similar principle. So i spose its a bit hypocritical.

volxstu said:

There is a lot of this going on ATM. People using amature design to pay peanuts for a job. This seriously undermines the professional industry as other companies expect the same sort of prices.
I certainly wont be signing up to this any time soon although i do use these stock photography sites which run on a similar principle. So i spose its a bit hypocritical.

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That's all true but you get paid instead of professional designers. Professional designers could always still use it but to earn your product has to sell. So only the bets make money

Most of the designs on there look pretty professional to me.

bredsticz said:

That's all true but you get paid instead of professional designers. Professional designers could always still use it but to earn your product has to sell. So only the bets make money

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Yeah but they dont get paid anything like what the Going rate should be. A freelancer shouldnt work more than 20 minutes to earn $17.

Its a go around to not having to vet the ethnicity of the design. How do they know the artwork is produced using legal means? Dont forget that to legally buy the software you are looking in the region of £1000. Then the computer £2000. Have qualifications to prove their worth at £1000's. Do you really think people are going to do this and charge peanuts p/h?

True but these companys are set up based on it being designed by the people. It offers anybody at all the chance to earn. Instead of having to be a pro to do it. Many people may have good designs they want to get out without spending all that money on equipment. If designs are good enough they could be 'scouted' to work for designing company's.

If they had to pay designers the company would have never existed

bredsticz said:

If they had to pay designers the company would have never existed

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This gets my vote Never existing is good.

volxstu said:

This gets my vote Never existing is good.

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I don't because I'm now $17 richer

Have you got a link to what you've done....?

I've not done much and the first one's I made I was just playing around to see how it works but here my link:

http://www.zazzle.co.uk/Bredsticz

Just sold 2 of the misfits t-shirts today actually. Made me $8

So this is your shirt that you 'designed' and are selling:



And here is the original logo:



So I assume you have obtained permission to use the logo as it will almost certainly be copyright protected and therefore I also assume you are sending a percentage of the money earned to the owner of the copyright....?

If not, you are basically creating counterfeit goods and that is pretty serious.

Of course, there are already other people with that logo on it so I'm not the first. I made the back of it which was unique and not copywrited first

bredsticz said:

Of course, there are already other people with that logo on it so I'm not the first. I made the back of it which was unique and not copywrited first

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The logo is copywritten and you are using it without permission. The back makes no difference.

ThisBitterPill said:

The logo is copywritten and you are using it without permission. The back makes no difference.

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Don't know if it is actually copywritten or not. That's the websites problem if it is. I posted a design with apple's logo on it and they rejected that because it was a copywrited logo

bredsticz said:

Don't know if it is actually copywritten or not. That's the websites problem if it is. I posted a design with apple's logo on it and they rejected that because it was a copywrited logo

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Well you made it, so I'd say it was YOUR problem too.

Ahh well. Not like i care

Great attitude.

ThisBitterPill said:

Well you made it, so I'd say it was YOUR problem too.

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irony at its best the apple logo is also copyrighted material.
from some music label

I know I shouldnt have bothered with the apple one but o well.

Just checked the status. Names/titles can't be copywritten, they can be trademarked but misfits isn't so nurr