A way to report really bad end-products for Zazzle to check out

[MaggieA]

Wouldn't it be a great if we could have a way for creators to report really bad end-products in the marketplace to Zazzle? 

To clarify - I am not talking about the actual design/uploaded image being bad, what someone designs and what someone else thinks of it is subjective, this is not the issue.

What I am thinking of is those shops that just spews out images on products without even looking at the finished product. The ones who put a picture in the same small size on a mug and a t-shirt, the ones where a a line of words go outside the design so it is not making sense at all, the wrapping paper with just one small image on it, not repeated, so the rest of the roll is white, just giving a few examples I've seen lately.

It is not that I personally go looking for them, they are just show up now and then when doing a marketplace search. Can't help but wonder what potential customers think of the over-all quality of the products sold on Zazzle when something really bad turns up for sale in their own search. I know of other creators also seeing examples of this in the marketplace and those of us who actually take time and pride in trying to create a great end-product for the marketplace just cringe when we come across one of these items.

None of the alternatives on the "Report Violation" feature seems to fit this particular problem. Would it not be a good idea to have an easy way for us to report these kind of products? 

[kills]

haha. So you will create a monster by doing that. Every Karen and ken will complain about even thing. Maybe a small design is how they wanted it. As for me I like it because a buyer see it and moves onto what they want. If you teach these people to do it the right way now you have made more competition against yourself .So be careful what you ask for.

As for marketplace search .It don't work to good at the best of times .

[MaggieA]

"Every Karen and ken will complain about even thing."

That could be solved by not giving every "Karen and Ken" the rights to report - just like there is tiers of pro levels there could be tiers of trust levels. If you report incorrect, ie it is not a bad design, you can make a couple of mistakes but on the third one you are out. Zazzle could ask for volunteers who value quality to try it out and adding the reported product to be checked out by their under-review-team.

[kills]

yes a volunteers who value quality and gets to kick out their competitors. if anything must be a none stop owner then they will do it correct .

[KBMD3signs]

"None of the alternatives on the "Report Violation" feature seems to fit this particular problem. Would it not be a good idea to have an easy way for us to report these kind of products? "

Do you mean with "Report Violation" the link with a flag and "Report this design" just aside "About This Design"?

[SnowOwlMoon]

I'd be more concerned about copyright violations I've seen, than a poorly executed design.  People can have off days, and forget to tile, or resize.  I've done both, because I'm tired, or distracted.  But I have seen designs based on works that I'm pretty sure are not in the public domain (a horse picture by CW Anderson comes to mind).

[MaggieA]

@SnowOwlMoon At least you can report those copyright violations to Zazzle when you see them, using the "Report Violation" I mention above. 

What I talk about most times when I find products like the ones I mention, they are very rarely an isolated item, many of the products in the shop are being badly designed. I think these products show up more and more now because of some overspill from other marketplaces closing down or changing. These shops never use the design tool for anything else than upload an image - no resizing or alteration of any kind at all, no matter what product the image might be suitable for.

[Connie]

Usually, those spam products also have non-relevant tags, so I report them using that option.

@killsThere are a ton of spam products flooding the marketplace on purpose, it's not a matter of someone who just doesn't know what they are doing. It won't encourage customers to buy your presumably well-designed products instead, because they won't even SEE your products; they'll get discouraged by all the garbage cluttering the search results, and go to a "more professional" site.

[LauraLee]

@MaggieA  - Just a thought, remember that sometimes it may take days, weeks, months, for a designer to get back to "said designs", for whatever reason.  They might have a full-time day job or something.

But, if you ever wanted to help out someone, you could do something like this.  Because I think it's really good question.  You could send the designer a chat message, asking them, if they intended the final design on X product to be like this, or did they forget they could XYZ?  Because you might start up a friendship/mentorship thing with them.  You never know.  😊