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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Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:

> 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...

What about using PayPal (I use it, not that I've made enough on Zazzle to even
let me get a pay out, but still...)?

Joost

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On 06/12/2011 11:05 AM, Joost wrote:
> Invisible<voi### [at] devnull>  wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
> What about using PayPal (I use it, not that I've made enough on Zazzle to even
> let me get a pay out, but still...)?

Yeah, I suppose I could try that. (If I can figure out how to make it 
secure...)

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On 06/12/2011 10:14 AM, Invisible wrote:
> Ah, Zazzle. I had forgotten quite how obtuse you are...

...aaaand now the web server seems to have stopped answering my HTTP 
requests. Fabulous!

I suppose it's having trouble handling the load over Christmas or 
something... *shrugs*

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On 06/12/2011 11:14 AM, Invisible wrote:
> On 06/12/2011 10:14 AM, Invisible wrote:
>> Ah, Zazzle. I had forgotten quite how obtuse you are...
>
> ...aaaand now the web server seems to have stopped answering my HTTP
> requests. Fabulous!

Well, the site is responding again. And I just got an email saying my 
updated calendar has been published now. And yet, neither the new 
calendar nor the original one actually show up. *sigh*

That's just because somebody in the office wants to buy it, isn't it? :-P

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On 06/12/2011 03:29 PM, Invisible wrote:

> Well, the site is responding again. And I just got an email saying my
> updated calendar has been published now. And yet, neither the new
> calendar nor the original one actually show up. *sigh*
>
> That's just because somebody in the office wants to buy it, isn't it? :-P

If you key in the product ID directly, the product is there. It just 
doesn't show up in any of the listings.

As of today, it has *finally* appeared on the Zazzle.com version of my 
store. The Zazzle.co.uk version still doesn't list it. Nice consistency 
there...

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