Cafepress.com - Create What is On Your Mind

This website is an online marketplace where users are able to purchase products on customizable merchandise ranging from apparel, home and office accessories to music and data CDs and books, posters and cards. The products offered here are not the common ones because they are all created by members around the globe. It gives customers a sell service with useful tools to help them open an online shop to transform their artwork and ideas into new revenue streams and diverse products. There is also a buy service that empowers people to personalize their own gifts; they can add their own personal touch to the products they are going to buy. Users are able to browse through the products divided in different categories such as food and drink, animal and wildlife, family, graduation, mother’s day, and much more; on each of this categories users will find a vast variety of products created by users with original ideas.

“CafePress.com is an online marketplace that offers sellers complete e-commerce services to independently create and sell a wide variety of products, and offers buyers unique merchandise across virtually every topic. Launched in 1999, CafePress.com has empowered individuals, organizations and businesses to create, buy and sell customized merchandise online using the company's unique print-on-demand and e-commerce services. Today, CafePress.com is a growing network of over 2.5 million members who have unleashed their creativity to transform their artwork and ideas into unique gifts and new revenue streams.”

It is a great idea because it gives users the possibility to design the product they want to purchase, they can add their personal touch on every product just by clicking the mouse. You can make your own t-shirt design in a very easy way!! And if you want you can earn some money selling it.

Will people trust on buying online instead on going to the store? As the products are created by any users, some of them may be really strange; the site let users sell strange products? What happens if a product is too bad and nobody is interested on buying it?