I’m hoping this doesn’t turn into a bit of a rant but I was kinda annoyed when I woke up this morning, checked my email and found one from Zazzle announcing now that my Book Club (you do not talk about Book Club) design was not allowed to be sold in the marketplace because they have rules about parody.

Ok I get rules, I love rules, but only when they make sense and are consistent.

What annoys me most is that when I do a search for book club, other designs in other zazzle galleries come up!  When I do a search for Fight Club, I get 12 pages of results!  TWELVE PAGES!!!  Some of the designs are blatantly ripping off the soapdish image from the movie dvd/posters yet – hell there’s even a design on there called FART CLUB – these are allowed but somehow mine isn’t?

FFS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I run a freaking Book Club for crying out loud.  The designs have been up for over 2 weeks but now there’s a problem with them?

Well Cafepress don’t have a problem with them, they love them.  Quite honestly I wasn’t even going to bother uploading them to zazzle in the first place as it’s such a chore to get anything done over there but then I thought, sure why not.  We’ll there’s an hour+ of my life I’ll never get back and I love so much wasting time like that when I have so much on my plate right now. So if anyone wants one, you can find them in the Cafepress shop.  I’m not sure I will continue with my zazzle experiment.  I’m wasting too much time uploading designs, manually creating products, editing them, changing them, removing them, uploading new designs, being told days/weeks later that they’re getting removed for whatever reason meanwhile similar products continue to sell in other galleries.

Consistency people consistency is everything!

Needless to say I did fire off a reply to their email this morning highlighting all of the above and more.

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