{"id":553,"date":"2011-04-04T21:45:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T02:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/04\/04\/110404-cafepress\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T23:21:11","slug":"110404-cafepress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/04\/04\/110404-cafepress\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire (Ant) Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still haven&#8217;t figured out what happened with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/03\/110330-fireanttshirts.html\">the vanishing fire ants<\/a>, nor have I contacted CafePress to remedy the situation, but this snafu along with a special request from a friend for some new products caused me to revisit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/03\/110330-fireanttshirts.html\">the Gazette&#8217;s store<\/a> and my business model related to said store.<\/p>\n<p>My goal has never been to make money with the Gazette merchandise, and it occurred to me that there was no reason even for the measly markup (averaging about $2 per item) in the store, so I used CafePress&#8217;s management tools to reduce the markup to a big fat zero. In other words, if you have the questionable judgment to actually want, for example, a Fire Ant ball cap or hoodie, you&#8217;ll pay the minimum price CafePress charges. It&#8217;s like getting wholesale prices with a retail shopping experience! Whatever that means!<\/p>\n<p>Plus, if the shirts are going to be missing the logo, you probably should get a price break. But that&#8217;s a whole other issue.<\/p>\n<p>On a more seriouser note (it&#8217;s really, really hard to be serious about merchandise sporting a Fire Ant logo), I also tweaked most of the t-shirt designs a bit, deleted some of the lamer products, and added a few new ones.<\/p>\n<p>What hasn&#8217;t changed is that anyone who sends me a photo of a Fire Ant product in an exotic locale, like Kermit or perhaps Enid, Oklahoma, will be featured in the virtual pages of the Gazette. No need to thank me; it&#8217;s how I roll.<\/p>\n<p><i>[cue obligatory stock product photos]<\/i><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/gazetteshirts.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still haven&#8217;t figured out what happened with the vanishing fire ants, nor have I contacted CafePress to remedy the situation, but this snafu along with a special request from a friend for some new products caused me to revisit the Gazette&#8217;s store and my business model related to said store. My goal has never&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/04\/04\/110404-cafepress\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fire (Ant) Sale<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14145,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions\/14145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}