CafePress Fix Checkout with Amazon, or Remove It!

WWPW 2001
WWPW 2001

For the last week I have been trying to buy a t-shirt from CafePress for the Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk, and CafePress have three options to pay.

Payment Options
Payment Options

Sweet, ‘Checkout with Amazon’ I say, I love Amazon. So press that, then log into Amazon, press ‘Submit my order’ and get an error saying:

You must specify a state of the corrosponding country
You must specify a state of the corrosponding country

Really, it states my state quite clearly to me, in fact, I didn’t enter any values. It even knows the magic long zip code, which means blanking out my house is almost pointless.

CafePress Shipping
CafePress Shipping

So I called the CafePress phone support, and the guy on the other end siad: “Oh yeah that got broken a few weeks ago with an update from Amazon, our IT guys are looking into it. I can complete your order over the phone if you like”

Um, how about if it’s been broken for two weeks, and your IT guys are too clueless to fix it in that time, you edit the page to not show the Amazon option. Then I would have seen your online payment option or Pay Pal, and chosen yours.

But instead you gave me a known broken option, and expected me to chase you as to how to work around the problem.

So now I have a dilemma, I want to have the t-shirt, but I don’t want to support such a useless merchant.

[Update 11 Sep] Still broken 2 ½ weeks later, so it’s been broken for a whole month. Cafe Press need some new coders.

Comments:

Myra 2011-09-05 19:53:00

the same thing happened to me, just to be certain, my order isn’t completed and I won’t recieve like 2 of the same shirt just because I went back and tried to submit the same info again right?


Simeon 2011-09-05 21:15:29

Well I’ve unsuccessfully tried 7+ times, and the shirt is still showing as in my “cart” each time I go to the site.


Myra 2011-09-05 21:24:06

good to know, I was afraid I spent an extra $60 for nothing… anyway if I really wanted the shirt so much I’d probly get it despite the rotten customer service, since its cafe press you’re likely purchasing the shirt from some random seller that had nothing to do with the technical problems.