doggenhaus
New Contributor III

Hey folk! 
Living outside of the US and trying to use this shop in a design way is something extremely... whatever. I really often have the problem that clients and people ask for a paper sample or want to discover the sizes and want to see some real products. 
Starting my shirt shops in Germany was easy. I just asked and got the best seller shirts as samples with all kinds of prints, mine and others. Just to have a look and feel sample. It worked well. And of course, I was easy able to buy what I needed to test. 

But I can't buy all paper goods and typical US market products zazzle offers. 
I would love to get some paper and print samples. My idea is to share from each to other some cards, invitations or whatever you own from your own shop and is able to be delivered by postage somehow reasonable (I don't wanna cause to much expensive parcel cost for no one) to Germany. I think all of us sometimes is an own client. The most have cards and stickers from the own shop at home. Let's do an easy postage / real mail swap. You get a personal Great Dane Drawing postage from me, I get whatever "sample" you like from you. And of course, we could organize to list up who ever wants to take part and share different products. And of course, I have some own cards and products from my store too, it's possible to send you this to. 

Of course, Zazzle claims a 100% satisfaction guarantee. But did you ever decided to buy 10000 flyers without knowing what paper this is? Me not. And not alle customers have the time to try out a first buy that will take some weeks for delivery. Not al are able to plan like this. 
And there ist a size issue between US and the rest of the metric / DIN world. I have made some size samples for all the differing sizes. But it's still somehow not the perfect impression. 

2 Comments
Pádraig
Moderator
Moderator

Hi @doggenhaus,

Unfortunately we don't offer samples at this time but I thank you for your suggestions and input. I'll take note of this for our team for review.

Pádraig 🙂

TheDesignerVib1
Contributor II

I feel like samples are really important, also it makes advertising on social media way easier since customers prefer video proof, not just a picture, I have seen with those who make "Things you need from Amazon"

They are mainly Amazon affiliates and drop shippers, but everyone in the comments are all wanting to buy just because of the videos, so samples would be a BIG change for advertising  Zazzle products, Not everyone is going to buy their own products especially beginners .