Tiny Prints - on the free Thanksgiving cards deal

Last week I posted about a giveaway TinyPrints.com was running on their line of Thanksgiving cards.  There's good news and there's bad news.

The good news: my first order arrived this morning.  These cards are GORGEOUS.  I'm absolutely stunned that they sent these completely free with no strings attached.  The card quality is as good as, if not better than, the cards you buy in the store; better yet, even at regular pricing this is a better deal than Hallmark.  Since the cards can be completely customized with photos, names, and your own words - AND mailed directly to the recipient for the cost of a stamp - with just a few clicks, the value involved blows store-bought out of the water.  A Hallmark is, what, $2 in the store?  You've got a limited choice of images, a limited choice of sentiments, and you have to address and mail the thing yourself.  For the same price or less, TinyPrints.com takes care of the mailing in addition to printing the exact card you want with your images and your words.  Their site is bookmarked and I'll be using them to send birthday and other greeting cards from here on out.

The bad news: people see "FREE" and they go apeshit.  TinyPrints.com posted a blog entry yesterday explaining how their generous offer went horribly wrong.

First, it was disheartening to find out how many customers took advantage of the offer in an abusive way. It wasn’t even close to the majority of our customers, but enough people abused the offer to really sour the spirit of what we were trying to do. In just one of several disappointing examples, we had someone try to order 20,000 free Thanksgiving cards with the intent of reselling them.

 Uggggh.  Twenty thousand cards.  TWENTY THOUSAND.  That's $40,000+ worth of product that some jackwagon expected TinyPrints to eat just so they could turn around and sell the cards to put money in their own pocket.  Being a small business owner myself, I understand the need to get the best deal possible when considering business expenses.  That isn't getting a good deal for your business.  Trying to order 20,000 promotional greeting cards for resale is stealing from another small business' pocket to put money in yours.  It makes me sick.

I trust that you, my dear readers, were human enough to only order a reasonable number of cards last week.  My rant isn't directed at you. 

If you took advantage of TinyPrint's promotion and are pleased with the quality of the cards, consider using them the next time you have a birthday card to send.
If you didn't, I'm giving them a ringing endorsement that these cards are well worth spending actual money on.  Give 'em a shot.

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