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05.10.06
we love our competition
we love our competition. when you have a good service and provide good products and compete with spreadshirt: we still like to be your friends. we even wear your shirts in our office.
in the end all is about execution anyway. I alreqady met the people at cafepress (there I went without having an appointment, I just showed up and they saw me) and zazzle. threadless is on the list. in germany I knew the people from epresso and equisto as well as one of the shirtcity guys for a long time. most of the competitors are very open as well. that's how opportunities arise (for example we got to know patrice from lafraise this way end he ended up selling us his business - now we will do more projects together). also a very frindly competitor: matthias from cajong (competes with thederby/ lafraise).
Cafepress seems not as open... they declined to admit our US COO to one of their events. what do they fear?
Here the mail carsten just forwarded me:
From: Community Team [mailto:communityteam@cafepress.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2006 5:28 PM
To: cpe@spreadshirt.com; carsten.petzold@hhl.de
Subject: CafePress Connect Registration Cancellation
October 5, 2006
Carsten Petzold
Spreadshirt Inc.
911 South Main Street
Greensburg, PA 15601-4140
Dear Mr. Petzold:
Thank you for your interest in attending CafePress Connect. Respectfully, we have declined your request for registration, and have refunded your order (#26679121). You should see a credit to your credit card on your next statement.
As I am sure you can understand, your attendance creates a competitive conflict, and takes away from the undivided attention we reserve for our customers.
Our conference disclaimer (http://www.cafepress.com/cpconnect.58695052) clearly states our right to “withdraw any invitation to attend the conference.†We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Sincerely,
CafePress Connect Team
Posted by Lukasz at 05.10.06 18:27
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Comments
A similar thing happened to me a couple of days ago. I was disinvited to an affiliate event that ist actually happening today because the sponsoring merchants wanted to have "exclusivity" regarding contact to the affiliates attending the event. As far as I know one of your affiliate guys wanted to go to another event by the same organizers. As spreadshirt aren't sponsors as well I assume he also will be disinvited.
Posted by: Andre at 06.10.06 03:32
LOL
Posted by: Tino at 08.10.06 18:31