Plaidophile

Just got this message from them.

From: "CafePress.com" 
To: [xxx]
Subject: Notice regarding your CafePress.com account
Date: 29 May 2003 12:06:07 PDT
Reply-To: "CafePress.com" 

Hi!

You currently have commissions due to you from your CafePress.com
account, but we are unable to pay them as you have earned under
the minimum payment threshold of $25 or have not provided us with
your payment information.  Your account has held a positive balance
for over 150 days.

According to our Member Agreement, we will only hold balances for
180 days before a monthly account maintenance fee of $25 is imposed
on an account.  This email is to notify you that your account will
be charged the $25 monthly maintenance fee beginning July 1, 2003.
If you have less than $25 credit in your account, your account
balance will be made $0.

Please note that if you have earned under the $25 minimum payment
threshold, you can spend your earnings by using CafeCash to purchase
products on CafePress.com.  For more information on CafeCash, please
visit: http://whatcounts.com/t?ctl=[xxx]

If you have any questions, please call us toll-free at 1-877-809-1659 x 2
or visit http://whatcounts.com/t?ctl=[xxx] to email
us a message.

Thanks!

CafePress.com

Lovely. Good thing they're only about to bilk me out of $1.50 (like it costs them anything to maintain the positive balance or something); I wonder how many people have repeatedly lost $24.50 because of this.

Oh well. I've been wanting to get an "i can see you" hat and a recursive shirt for a while, and so I'd might as well use that $1.50 to make it not cost quite so stupidly much. And, on the other hand, CafePress' prices are way too freaking high anyway (especially for their products' quality), so I think I'll just kill my account with them anyway.

Also, the way it's worded, it sounds like starting in July, they'll start to skim off $25 of my commissions every month. So, I'll look elsewhere to handle my merchandise needs or lack thereof.