# Zazzle.com, I pit thee

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zazzle-com-i-pit-thee/304078>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 16, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zazzle-com-i-pit-thee/304078 "2005-05-16T15:56:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![andrewdt85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/71e660/32.png) [@andrewdt85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andrewdt85)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zazzle-com-i-pit-thee/304078/1 "2005-05-16T15:56:39Z")

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Eventually someone might pit the phrase ‘I pit thee,’ won’t they? 😉

Anyways, when you type in ‘make your own t-shirt’ into Google, the first online site that comes up is Zazzle. I’m sure plenty of you have some familiarity with it. I’ll say up front that I want to fend off angry posters who accuse me of all my problems- I agree with you. But there may be some problems with the site, all I’m saying? This is hardly a pit thread.

I tried to make a t-shirt like 2 weeks ago. First off the design process is not that simple. Each time I upload one of my 2 images, front of shirt and back, I had to restart my computer to get it to work ☹ . Then, for the back of the shirt, it is nearly impossible, with their controls, to move my image where I want it and make it the size I want it in the size box I want it.

They have two different pages for this back image- Size and Move. Once I size the box and the image how I want it, when I go to Move, and move it twice, the box changes back to it’s smaller size! I just don’t get it… The thing is, somehow I got it _just about_ right the _first_ time I made my t-shirt, put in my credit card info, mailing address, billing address, and posting the shirt so others could purchase it too. But 2 weeks later it hadn’t arrived, by then they had removed my shirt from the public database (I got the memo on that, that’s okay), I go on the site, and although my account exists, and they have my address and billing address still, there’s no record of any purchase or any original t-shirt made. :eek:

I think Zazzle’s t-shirt maker has some issues to work out, all I’m saying. Use some other program, or don’t, I don’t want to get jumped on by Zazzle users.

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**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2005, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zazzle-com-i-pit-thee/304078/2 "2005-05-16T21:11:12Z")

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slightly off topic but you might try [cafepress.com](http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/) . I’ve made a few items on the site. You won’t have as much control over size and placement which you appear to desire but it might be worth a look.

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**Author:** ![TJdude825](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dec6dc/32.png) [@TJdude825](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TJdude825)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2005, 7:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/zazzle-com-i-pit-thee/304078/3 "2005-05-17T07:43:12Z")

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I’ve also heard good things about cafepress. Although I haven’t used it myself, a friend of mine did, and seemed completely satisfied.

And “I pit thee” and “In which I pit” have both been pitted, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop using it.