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Hi! I want to start selling some of my aircraft profiles online. First I tried Cafepress but I found that if I want to sell more then one kind of print I need to pay 60 dollars a year. Now it doesn't seem like a giant amount but I have no idea if the prints will sell at all and I dont want to go through the hassle of having to pay through creditcards etc. Does anyone know a free alternative to cafepress that does allow you to sell multiple products? Most of the alternatives I am finding only allow you to sell T-shirts.

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Setup your own website for your products and spam every 2D/3D forum and site with the link? whistle.gif

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  (JdB @ Mar. 04 2006,15:38) said:
Setup your own website for your products and spam every 2D/3D forum and site with the link? whistle.gif

Handling all the printing and shipping myself would cost me a lot of time and money, that's why I am looking for alternatives to Cafepress.

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What kind of aircraft prints are you trying to sell?  What size, what paper, etc.  Do you have the capability to print them yourself?

If you are unsure of the market, and you can print some yourself, I suggest you go on eBay and set up an eBay shop.  I know someone who makes a fortune selling copies of bloody ships model kits plans.  

If you sell through eBay then you set most of the ground rules - cheque, cash, Paypal (so easy to use...). Plus you only sell what you have got or what you are willing to sell.

I also know of someone else selling personalised ship profiles; i.e. a digital image of the kind you make plus the years served by someone below - perhaps that's a road for you?

Picture of a Phantom, beneath, name of pilot, squadron, airbase, years served.

Just my suggestions...

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  (harley 3 1185 @ Mar. 07 2006,17:14) said:
What kind of aircraft prints are you trying to sell?

[This kind]

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I meant as I elaborated after that part you quoted. "What size, what kind of paper." I'd say that most people on these fora are aware of Supah's exceptional drafting skills, I being no exception. However, alot depends on what scale Supah wants to unload his prints...

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  (harley 3 1185 @ Mar. 07 2006,00:56) said:
I meant as I elaborated after that part you quoted. "What size, what kind of paper."  I'd say that most people on these fora are aware of Supah's exceptional drafting skills, I being no exception.  However, alot depends on what scale Supah wants to unload his prints...

Their Fully A3+ printable etc. My main concern is I have a busy day job and I like the cafepress idea but the fact that I immediatly need to pay for something I have no idea about how well it will sell is a bit of a let down. As to numbers I want to sell, well the more the merrier.

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I work in the printing industry and my suggestion is to get a small amount of your product created first.

Find a good printer or copy center and print off about 100 copies. That way you can examine the quality before taking orders. If you just started taking orders, you'd be stressed to find a printer, get them made in time, and ship them. You don't want to find out after taking 50+ orders that your printer sucks or that it will take 3 weeks to get them.

Once you start getting an idea about how much you'll sell in a given period of time, you can start placing more orders. Whether it's eBay or anything else, you'll probably have to deal with shipping. Getting the printiing out of the way will help you out alot in that aspect.

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