[Eg-oversight-board] Amazon and Zazzle

[Rogan Hamby]

Sounds great.  I'm going to go ahead and get together a list of items we
could highlight and try to have some mechanism for folks to submit their
own ideas.  Probably a google form.

I do have answers to some of the Zazzle questions the community had.

1) Are their products ethically sourced?  This isn't a yes/no answer.  They
solicit goods from a variety of ethical and non-ethical sources but when
you are setting up your store you can select that items only be used that
are Made in the USA and therefore ethically sourced.  It means you give up
some of the cheapest price options but I think we would want to use that.
 I don't want a US centric focus here but they don't have a "ethically
sourced" option without a geographic bias.

2) Do they provide volume discounts?  Yes.  For example, screen printing
apparel discounts are as follows (they vary for item type):

1-12 shirts 0%
13-25 shirts 20% off
26-50 shirts 30% off
51-100 shirts 40% off
101+ shirts 50% off

3) Do they allow multiple designs of the same item type (for example,
multiple shirt designs) and the answer is yes.


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 8:21 AM, Galen Charlton <gmc at esilibrary.com>wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 5:19 AM, Rogan Hamby <rogan.hamby at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Did we ever find out if it was acceptable to setup an Amazon referrer
>>> link that was open or if we would be restricted to only linking to specific
>>> Evergreen relevant items?  If it turns out to be the later I will start an
>>> effort to gather input about items we can list.  And maybe we should do
>>> that anyway to list items of special interest even if we can do the open
>>> link.
>>>
>>
>> I've asked the question again.  Even if a generic link would acceptable,
>> I do think that identifying specific books would be useful regardless.
>>
>
> I've heard back.  A generic link is acceptable, using wording like 'Please
> consider following this link when making purchases at Amazon.com'.  The
> language would have to be clear to not ask or encourage folks to shop at
> Amazon, however.
>
> Regards,
>
> Galen
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