UStrendy – an unfulfilling experience

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So, we’ll start with a fashion site called UStrendy.com – Steve C. a fan of our blog asked us or the heads up on this site – here’s what Steve said to us…

“You guys have really pointed me in the right direction on some of your past reviews of t-shirt fulfilment sites but I can’t make heads or tails of this one.
Thanks, Steve C.“

Well our first criticism is that UST aren’t purely a t-shirt fulfilment site although thinking about it there are plenty of those out there already! What would make the site a far more attractive prospect for designers of all kinds is a clearly laid out categorised theme, some way for both producers and consumers to track down what they want without having to sift through heaps of handbags and shoes and beaded necklaces to find it.

I’m convinced the whole site is actually based on a WordPress blog, I even recognise the theme which funnily enough seems to disappear the moment you hit their store. Looking a little more closely I’d say they’d forgotten to add a background colour or a .png there, I can just about recognise the logo faintly through the glare of an expanse of white, and all in all I’m starting to suspect that the whole site is the work of a desperately underfunded amateur with ambitions beyond their budget. The store seems to be filled with lots of products entitled “Coming Soon” and priced at $0, if they maintain those prices I’m sure there will be a lot of demand :/ read more

Ultimate Top List of T-Shirt Fulfilment Sites

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T-Shirt fulfilment sites offer anyone the chance to buy or create and sell custom t-shirt designs to friends, family or the general public. There only used to be the one, CafePress.com, a behemoth of the t-shirt industry, although it has since expanded into all kinds of promotional merchandise, much of which makes me despair if the truth be told. I took years to hop on to the t-shirt design, partly out of laziness, but mainly due to the expense, inconvenience, mess, endless hours slaving over a silk-screen or screen-printing machine, the mess (I’m repeating this for my partner’s sake, she knows I’d have ink all over the house in a day), plus the now over-inflated rate of GBP means I can’t really compete with all the USA designers, many of whom can be found charging as little as $9.99 out there, I must be the only man in Britain who’s urging the recession on lol. read more