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Old July 8th, 2008, 11:49 AM
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I thought it would have been art.com that did it, but CafePress stepped up and bought Imagekind. I don't know what CP's plans are, but I strongly suspect they're going to fold IK's assets into the CP brand and kill off the existing IK brand. Where that leaves their affiliate program is anyone's guess... but I suspect they'll try to fold it into their own CJ program or just shut it down. Time will tell.
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Old July 8th, 2008, 12:00 PM
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Bad news for New Yorkers again. Thanks CP.
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Old July 8th, 2008, 12:06 PM
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Yeah, I didn't consider that angle. Whatever happens to the IK affiliate program, New Yorkers will probably be kicked out of it.
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Old July 8th, 2008, 12:42 PM
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I also posted in the other thread wondering if they would kick out NY affiliates. My guess is yes they'll kick us out whether they roll the programs together or not.
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Old July 8th, 2008, 01:25 PM
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If they stay separate they have no reason to kick out NY affiliates. I didn't know this was in the works. I suspect that they will be doing what Hectic speculates. I'll be closing a lot of my IK galleries and I will concentrate on my new projects, which I won't discuss in this thread.

The next couple weeks are going to be even busier than I expected them to be.
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Old July 8th, 2008, 01:34 PM
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If they stay separate they have no reason to kick out NY affiliates.
Maybe on paper they don't have a reason...

I suspect though that a company such as CP would want to make as much of their policy "company wide" as possible, even if it is technically 2 separate entities.

Clearly though, they've done nothing of yet, so it's mere specualtion.
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Old July 8th, 2008, 03:43 PM
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There goes two of my websites. Time to look for new art merchants to promote.
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Old July 8th, 2008, 05:28 PM
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From an affiliate program perspective, CafePress and Imagekind will remain separate and run independently of each other. Plans for integrating the two programs are TBD and frankly I don't expect anything to happen for the remainder of 2008.
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Thanks for the update, Steve. Good to know!
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Old July 8th, 2008, 05:36 PM
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Thank you Steve! People have been asking me about this! I'll add the info to my story and forum at POD....
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