Ah, Zazzle. I had forgotten quite how obtuse you are...

I have a fractal calendar. I've wasted about an hour trying to find it 
on my store page or my products page; Zazzle refuses to acknowledge that 
it exists. But using Google, I was able to find it. It still exists, and 
Zazzle will still show it to me. It just doesn't show up in any of the 
product lists that either I or the customers see. WTF?

I managed to update the calendar to next year's dates, and republish it. 
Except that it doesn't show up. Zazzle claims it can take "up to 24 
hours" for the product to appear. Again, WTF?

I recently ordered some stuff from Zazzle. In the past, you used to be 
able to use money you've earned to pay for your purchases. But the 
option no longer appears anywhere in the order process. Which is 
interesting... I figured I obviously don't have any funds available. 
However, I just looked, and it seems that in the 4 years (!) since I 
last touched the site, I've somehow earned $150. That's quite a lot of 
money for doing nothing, eh?

So why can't I use that to pay for my purchase? Oh, I see... I earned 
all of that money through zazzle.com, and I was trying to purchase 
through zazzle.co.uk, so the funds are inapplicable. Yet again, WTF?

It seems if I want to /use/ all this money that's rightfully mine, I 
have to ask Zazzle to send me a cheque in the mail, pay that into my 
bank, and then pay it back out of my bank to buy stuff from Zazzle. How 
absurd...

On the other hand, having my fractal calendar on my office wall has 
apparently just earned me a sale. ;-)

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