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Easy Come, Easy Go
By Dakim | November 6, 2008
Sometime last month I told you that I had come into an unexpected sum of money from my Zazzle gallery over at www.zazzle.com/Dak325. The money was unexpected because I put so little effort into creating the pieces you see there and zero effort into promoting the gallery. So I was pleasantly suprised when I got the email telling me someone brought 50 of my “Kool Aid Drinker” buttons (and later I got another email stating an additional 10 had been brought). Well, Grandmama Duncan always warned me not to spend my money before I got it. Here’s what I got today:
Dear Zazzler,
Thank you for your interest in Zazzle.com, and thank you for publishing products on Zazzle. Unfortunately, it appears that your product, “Kool Aid Drinker”, is in violation of Zazzle’s Copyright policies. Specifically, your product has violated in the intellectual property rights of Kool-Aid.
We will be removing this product from the Zazzle galleries shortly.
A detailed description of Zazzle’s content policies is available at http://zazzle.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/zazzle.cfg/php/enduser/std_adp.php?p_faqid=143
We are always trying to improve our process. If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact us at content_review@zazzle.com
Best regards,
Content Management Team
Zazzle.com, Inc.
Apparently I was a naughty boy! I guess the makers of Kool-Aid don’t want people walking around advertising that they use their product. What was I thinking?!?
Asleep at the Wheel
This is a minor thing and I’m not at all upset that I’m losing my 10% commission on a 10 dollar button that I spent minimal effort designing. The one thing that does bother me however is the fact that I created that button in May and it wasn’t until someone brought it in October that I find out it’s a no-no. That seems like a really long time for something to sit on Zazzle’s site and no one noticing it. I think that with all the technological sophistication we have today, there should be way to determine if something isn’t appropriate for the site a lot sooner. Imagine how whoever brought those 60 buttons feels about not getting something that they ordered off of the site.
Back to the Drawing Board
So the grande latte I was going to splurge on will have to wait but the new items I’m designing for the gallery won’t. I still stand by my opinion that Zazzle is a good home business to express your inner designer. You’re likely not to get rich but you might have fun making your imprint on very small part of the universe (mainly the part you, your family, and your friends inhabit). Just please don’t give companies the chance to advertise for free… learn from my horrible and morally bankrupted mistakes.
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