Teesprings facebook page

[tonypep]

Says it all. Ginormous support issues

[AAMike]

http://www.ripoffreport.com/r/TeeSpring/internet/TeeSpring-Crowdfunding-t-shirt-and-apparel-Providence-Rhode-Island-Internet-1189292

[tonypep]

There is a lot of that on their page

[Sbrem]

I went to their page and couldn't find any complaints (of course I wanted to). Their site is impressive though, I can see them hauling in the "entrepreneurs"...

Steve

[UltraSeps]

Their site gets an enormous amount of traffic.  Checked their Alexa rankings and they surpass Customink by a substantial margin.  Ranked 1,203 in the USA....that's up there boys.  They also have 8 UltraSeps licenses so they're good to go with that.  LOL!  Sorry...couldn't resist.

[Rockers]

Never heard of Teespring until yesterday as I was looking through the gigs on Fiverr.com.  Shed loads of folks offering designs for Teespring. What`s the quality of the prints and garments like they offer? Hopefully not nearly as bad as some of the stuff Threadless sells.

[abchung]

Their site gets an enormous amount of traffic.  Checked their Alexa rankings and they surpass Customink by a substantial margin.  Ranked 1,203 in the USA....that's up there boys.  They also have 8 UltraSeps licenses so they're good to go with that.  LOL!  Sorry...couldn't resist.

Amazon is getting into the tshirt business as well. I believe it is going to be huge.

https://merch.amazon.com/landing

[Rockers]

Their site gets an enormous amount of traffic.  Checked their Alexa rankings and they surpass Customink by a substantial margin.  Ranked 1,203 in the USA....that's up there boys.  They also have 8 UltraSeps licenses so they're good to go with that.  LOL!  Sorry...couldn't resist.

Amazon is getting into the tshirt business as well. I believe it is going to be huge.

https://merch.amazon.com/landing

Yes, they bought something like 14 big Kornit DTG units for that purpose.

[GraphicDisorder]

Amazon will struggle for a bit then I bet they get it figured out. I wouldn't be shocked if that gets to be a big thing. Ive been saying for awhile big money is going to start looking at screen printing as investment or ways to expand.

[abchung]

14 Kornit? I had to checked and found this article.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-tech-aids-amazon-with-its-new-target-the-t-shirt-business/

Did I read it wrongly? Read the last paragraph. One company selling 9 million shirts per year just for the US market alone.?

Several years ago, I heard Amazon's plan for books were to set up several plate-less print shops around the world and print on demand..... It seems they are using that model to it with garments.

[Ross_S]

They will probably take off but I don't think it is going to be that simple.  Customers want different things (Poly 50/50 tri-blend) and each presents it's own problem.  Even though the Kornit is a fast machine with great quality I still see bottle necks all over the place with this model.  They still won't be able to keep up with demand and will have a lot of the same issues as Teespring.  Plus they're going to need a hefty rate to make it worth their wild and I just can't see the average person dropping $50+ on a custom shirt and I think for it to be profitable they would have to charge even more.  Just my thoughts.

[GraphicDisorder]

Why would they have to charge $50 for a shirt? Is the ink cost crazy on them?

[Dottonedan]

Because many of the customers will want just one shirt..or 5 shirts. When the quantity is that low, I can see $50.00 for 1, and 2-5 being in the $35.00 range and so on. That's retail end user price.

There is a lot left over on the table from the screen print world to the retail world.

A custom Ink or a Tee Spring will have to cover overall cost to handle that one shirt order (and profit well) with that kind of overhead so I can easily see a $50.00 cost for one shirt.

[GraphicDisorder]

Maybe I should raise my DTG prices haha.

[abchung]

I just went through the merch by Amazon.

They use Anvil and have a sample pricing in a section when you log in with your customer ID.

The cost for a tshirt is $19.99, and the artist/seller keeps about $7.68 per tshirt for a one sided print.

I don't see printing 1 shirt cost more than 10 shirts. It is a computerised production line.....
A guy could be looking after 10 machines. Labelled Boxes would arrive with the right tshirt (may be loaded by a robot). He would load it up and move to the next printer. Once the shirt is printed, he would return it back into the box and send it off to packaging on a conveyor belt, where they have automatic folding machine with auto labeling. Then they would send it off to shipping.

He would put it into a folding machine and the the auto system would send it off.

If Amazon is not losing money, they have the resources to increase the amount of machines.
They already have the bargaining power in shipping, they might also already have the bargaining power of buying tshirts.