OK first and foremost I must say I was very, VERY impress with the quality of the Print-On-Demand (POD) cards I got from http://www.thegamecrafter.com/. If they can keep this level of quality all the time I would be very interested in using their service more often in the near future to sell to customers. I think this could be a great source of additional income from another print source. I am in love with everything about these cards…
…EXCEPT the shipping and costs of shipping. My god, they SUCK on this part. It took weeks to get my cards via USPS and the cost of shipping a deck of cards cost only $1 less than the actual cost to create the cards. So if the cards cost me $5 to make, shipping was $4. WTF!?!?!?!?! $9 production cost for a pack of 48 cards??!?!?!?!? That makes NO SENSE. I don’t understand why this is but this is a HUGE drawback to me. How am I going to sell POD cards to people with such a high price point? Like I said this, this is the only drawback, but it is a HUGE drawback. I hope they get this fixed because I would to make some money with them. Here is a great review about TheGameCrafter.com you can read. Talk to you later…
I am working on this myself with The Rite Npc deck, but i am not surprised by the cost of the shipping even media mail is around $4 shipping, I mean compare it to your LULU.com shipping is really that much more?
ReplyDeleteThe shipping should be $1. I know I am crazy but it is only a deck of cards. A deck of cards should be easy to ship at a reasonable cost.
ReplyDeletePostage alone for a deck of cards (assuming an average weight of 3.3oz) is $1.73.
ReplyDeleteIf shipping's a dollar less than cost, then obviously the answer is to make a deck for $1.
ReplyDelete-Ben.