Posted on 09/11/2001 9:50:29 PM PDT by egarvue
Attention all FReepers!!! Email, Freep, and otherwise hit these heartless b**tards hard... www.cafepress.com is selling a t-shirt poking fun at the WTC attacks "I flew a plane into the World Trade Center...and all I got was this lousy t-shirt" with a graphic of a 747 hitting the WTC. Find the page here
I'll hold them accountable for allowing it to be posted. Such a thing as corporate ethics. I've already started my chain letter...
I have bought and sold from them in the past, as do many on FR (they print up all of Registered's stuff for purchase)
Cafepress is, except for their new screen-printing services, produces their wares only on demand. Someone orders a shirt, they validate the credit card, print out a thermal transfer, put it on the shirt, and out it goes. The only "inventory" of unsold merchandise is entirely blank.
Cafepress allows people to create "stores" without any human intervention, much as Freerepublic.com allows people to post articles. If someone actually tries to order something, someone at cafepress.com would have to actually look at it (to get the transfer in the right place if nothing else), but otherwise I doubt if any human being at cafepress.com has ever looked at most of the pictures available there.
BTW, how were the prices for the shirt set, compared with cafepress.com's base prices? Did someone set this up to make a profit, or did they just use cafepress.com as a custom printing service (I've done precisely that in the past; if you're curious, click here for my 'store')? I wouldn't be surprised if it was the latter.
Thank you for your email to CafePress.com regarding the merchandise promoting the recent tragedy in NYC and Washington DC.
CafePress.com agrees that the design was in poor taste, and we have removed it from our service. CafePress.com allows users to design and sell their own merchandise. As soon as we learned of the offensive merchandise being sold through our service, we immediately closed the store and removed the member from our service.
We would like to extend our prayers and thoughts to the victims of the recent events in NY and Washington D.C. and their families. Many members of the CafePress.com community have been directly affected by the tragedy - we even have employees that have losses in their own families.
Briefly:
* CafePress.com does not design the merchandise on our site. We host online stores and help people sell their own merchandise. It is impossible for us to monitor everything that gets posted on our service as it gets posted.
* We DO have a high standard for what stays on the site - and remove things that are not up to that standard. In this case - we removed the store within minutes of the first person reaching our offices this morning.
* And in true American spirit, we refuse to chase negativity with more negativity. Thus we've turned the link around into a positive message. Please feel free to take a look:
http://www.cafepress.com/cp/store/productdetail.aspx?prodno=1468594&zoom=yes
Out heart-felt wishes go out to everyone affected. The strength of America, and of freedom world wide, is in banding together in times of need and supporting positive growth, healing, and rebuilding. If you feel the new page helps support a worthy cause, please let others know.
And as always - we at CafePress.com support our community, and always welcome suggestions. If you have any positive ideas on how we might be able to help out more, please let us know.
With Best Wishes,
CafePress.com
I hate to say I told you so, but...
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Product Not FoundIf you are looking for the merchandise related to the recent terrorist events, it is no longer available at CafePress.com. CafePress.com allows users to design and sell their own merchandise. As soon as we learned of the offensive merchandise being sold through our service, we immediately closed the store and removed the member from our service. CafePress.com would like to extend its prayers and thoughts to the victims of the recent events in NY and Washington D.C. and their families. Many members of the CafePress.com community have been directly affected by the tragedy, and we strongly encourage our members to promote the various ways individuals can help.
In addition, a large number of CafePress.com storeowners have contacted us to request ways to sell merchandise that would benefit rescue efforts, victims and their family members. In response, we will be creating a public directory of storefronts offering merchandise where proceeds will be donated directly to the Red Cross (including a portion of CafePress.com's base price). If you would like to submit your store to this directory, please email us at donate@cafepress.com. With Best Wishes, CafePress.com |
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