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ychty · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 3:56 am

Wohoo!
For the last 3 days I had 4 sales of iPhone cases on my Zazzle store (well, a joint store with my mommy). Really didn't expect that, coz it like for 3 or so years I sold only 2 or 3 cards..
This might be because of the 25% sales on cases? But this made me really really happy now:)

How are your sales guys?
Show them off in here! :)

algol · Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 677

Nice! I've had a few sales of business cards there recently. I really need to get more stuff on there.

apotterdd · Posted: Sat Oct 15, 2011 1:40 pm

Haven't sold anything there since March 2010.

*sigh*

Same here I need to put up more stuff just can't find the time to do so :/

chevsy · Joined: 19 Feb 2010 Posts: 39 Location: Bedfordshire , UK

I had my very first t-shirt sale yesterday!! It was a total surprise as I've been lazy with my store since I created it a month ago. This sale does spur me on to get my butt moving and create more though. :)

flamingolady · Joined: 12 Jul 2011 Posts: 44 Location: Maryland, USA

congrats on the sale! Nothing better to lift the spirits than a sale!

Actually, I'm considering opening a shop on there, but wanted to see how well things sell. I was looking at the shop from a buyer's aspect, and I think the prices are WAY too high. For ex. a ball cap is about $15 (US), when people can get them for between $5 - $10. I'm just worried that in this economy things won't sell well at high prices.

Wondering what experience others have had there.

toots7777 · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 3:13 pm

Yeah oh yeah oh yay, I've just made my first sale on Zazzle too. This one:

chevsy · Joined: 19 Feb 2010 Posts: 39 Location: Bedfordshire , UK

[quote="toots7777"]Yeah oh yeah oh yay, I've just made my first sale on Zazzle too. This one:

Hey toots, That's fantastic!! Congrats!! Can we now boast that we have both lost our Zazzle virginities? :)

How long have you had your store? If you don't mind.

Hey Flamingo :) Agreed the custom keds hi top pumps I thought were very overpriced compared to what you can find especially over here in the UK. Recently I went Shopping in London,Camden I could get similar style 'Converse' for cheaper. Oh well.

I think you should give your own store a go.
If you have the spare time you have nothing to lose! "Apart from the spare time If nothing ends up selling of course!!!!" But Im SURE!! it will :)

Best of Luck if you do.

toots7777 · Posted: Wed Oct 26, 2011 6:28 pm

@ chevsy - yep I reckon we can now say we've both lost our Zazzle virginity, that's for sure!!!

I started my store in July this year. Having said that, I worked on it for a few weeks then got busy with other things, so haven't really had the time to upload more designs for a while now. Wish there were more hours in a day to get everything done that I'd like to do.

Congratulations on your t-shirt sale too. Didn't take you long to make your first sale.

mmanderson · Joined: 10 Jul 2010 Posts: 527

I sold a case too - to my sister. She customized it with a hot pink background which I didn't think looked great with the orange flowers but she like it.

Colorful Floral Pailey Blackberry Curve Case

And this is my only non-family sale so far.

Purple Rose on Silver Save the Date Postcard

I've been working extremely hard on my store both adding designs and promoting. I don't have many options. It looks like I'm going to make my usual $6-$7 this month on SS. I'm hopeful that my Zazzle store will do better. I've won several TBAs.

For any fellow Zazzlers who have holiday or pet related items. Feel free to visit my Squidoo lenses and add your stores to my plexo, comment and "like" my lens.
http://www.squidoo.com/happy-hallowgivingmas
http://www.squidoo.com/chance-my-diabetic-cat

baz777 · Joined: 03 Dec 2008 Posts: 3506 Location: No idea, I'm old!

How strange, just sold a T-shirt, that is now a grand total of 3 sales now, all T-shirts

toots7777 · Posted: Thu Oct 27, 2011 7:32 am

Hehe, we're all probably getting sales due to christmas being round the corner. Might be a good time to get some more products up there.

helix7 · Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 1802 Location: New Jersey

Zazzle is horrendous for me. At this point I'm hoping to get a couple more sales within the next year so there's enough money in my account to maybe buy a t-shirt. I think that's the best I can hope for from a zazzle payout.

suwanneeredhead · Joined: 28 Jul 2005 Posts: 1183 Location: Dante's Peak

Sorry to hear that Helix... I clear between $60 and $180 a month there and haven't been adding any new products for at least a month (sick, found out I can't eat wheat products and it took me some time to recover!). I love Zazzle and know that it will soon be more of a substantial part of my "stock art" income in the near future!

Stacey

yarijik · Joined: 20 Nov 2008 Posts: 1

it was pretty nice lately, there was a sale almost everyday - but I guess it's because of the holidays season. Now it's quiet...

these are the latests items sold:

http://www.zazzle.com/coffee_cup_with_a_steam_mousepad-144474197383390768

http://www.zazzle.com/staring_owl_postcard-239528955977857686

http://www.zazzle.com/eiffel_tower_paris_magnet-147239919099511167

mmanderson · Joined: 10 Jul 2010 Posts: 527

I've only had one sale since the Friday before Christmas. But I'm still going to invest my time there because my microstock images just don't do anything. I've also made some contacts through my Zazzle work that have brought me some freelance work. I only made 4.50 here last month.