Comments on: Vista Print free business cards reviewed and tested

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:39:37 +0000

Thanks to everyone! Especially Tom! This has been very helpful because Vistaprint offers SO many deals it seems like it must be a scam. But I’m glad to hear that no one has been scammed so far. I still don’t appreciate how deceptive they can, but for the great deals you can get I guess it’s worth going through all the upsales and what not. Thanks again for all the help!

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:06:31 +0000

TeeKay – interesting observation on the per piece price. I don’t think I had noticed that.

But in general, it sounds like my experience. You get good stuff and if you’re disciplined, you get it at good price, but if you give in to all the upsells, it quickly becomes a less attractive deal.

By: TeeKay

TeeKay — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 17:15:37 +0000

I have used Vista Print for tons of things. Lots of freebies including business cards, post it notes, t-shirts, hats.
I have also purchased some premium such as brochures and post cards, banners and car magnets. The quality is very good and I have no complaints on that. Also i always choose the slowest shipping which they claim can take up to 21 days……..I think the longest I ever waited was 14 days, and most of the time it arrives in less than a week.

If you are not careful they will nickel and dime you on upgrades charges, paper, fonts, uploading a photo. Also if you order something once at a promotional price you can not get an exact reorder at that same price it is usually higher. So you end up having to recreat the whole project to order agin. Also As you increase your quantities and the price goes up it seem that the PER PIECE price seems to increase rather than decrease. For example something may be $10 for 100 but then it is $28 for 250. Which usually in any printing business it is the opposite the more you order the lower your per piece cost. If you are doing large quantities of things you will fair much better at a local quick print, commercial printer or even Office Max.

By: j j

j j — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 17:17:59 +0000

I’ve got loads of the free offers of Vistaprint lately.
Personalised giftbooks, photobooks, mugs, t-shirts, & calendars. Great xmas ideas.

As long as you only get 4 free items per order you only pay £4.91 p&p.

This is the uk site.

By: Randy R

Randy R — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:16:05 +0000

Beware of the T-Shirt and other offers. I ordered 4 T-Shirts because the price was supposedly $4.99 and I got what I wanted on them. What the extremely fine print says is that the price is for the first shirt only and after that the price went up significantly. It was still not too bad of a price for the subsequent shirts, but it was sort of deceptive I thought. I am unable to get off of their list too.

By: Mo Bradley

Mo Bradley — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:31:22 +0000

Yes Frank, Tom is right with this one. Indeed, it is an advertising strategy to print their url or contact info at the back of these cards. An inexpensive option would be looking for business cards template online and print them at at home. Saved me a lot!

By: Mo Bradley

Mo Bradley — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:30:35 +0000

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:29:14 +0000

Frank – yes, Vista Print puts their URL on the back. If you pay an extra $2 (or so??) you can have it removed. Vista Print is basically a freemium model – get you in the door with the free product and then try to upsell you. Depending on your needs, though, the freebie is just fine. If you’re a lawyer trying to look super slick, though, you will definitely be paying for some extras.

For me, people think my free cards are awesome and I am not bothered by the Vista Print URL on the back.

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:07:28 +0000

I had heard that the companies offering so called ‘free’ business cards actually print their details on the bottom or on the back, i.e. the cards are paid for by carrying a little bit of advertising for them.
Can anyone confirm or deny this?

By: Kasa

Kasa — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 16:03:26 +0000

The cards are fine. The problem is I can’t get off their email list. Every time I push the unsub button and fill in my email addy, push the button to unsub and it errors out.

I’m going to not recommend them for that reason alone.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:05:49 +0000

I got some stuff off vistaprit today the only problem is they mixed up the mouse pad I will ring them tonight and ask them what they can do about it….

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 06:06:43 +0000

Ha! Funny. I don’t doubt it. But as you say – ultimately you get a good card at the price the say, you just have to wade through a fair bit of marketing mumbo jumbo and pitches to upgrade.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 05:27:26 +0000

I have been a Vista Print customer for almost 10 years now and have been extremely satified. The one problem I do have with the site is that everytime you go back to the site to reorder the prices seem to magically change to higher prices. I’m looking into this! I have a feeling that this may not be proper business practices. I must say that the business cards are of spectacular quality.

Regards,

Stephen L. La.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:35:09 +0000

I can only speak from my one experience (though I’m planning to order some more soon actually), but it seems legit as far as I can see.

An aquaintance actually told me that he did not receive his cards and was also NOT billed for shipping and handling. I’m thinking it was more likely an error on his part where he didn’t follow through to the final confirmation screen. As I say, it’s sort of like when you book a plane ticket through Travelocity, Orbitz or Expeda these days and you have to go past several screens offering you rental cars, hotels, travel insurance and so on. Or if you register a domain at GoDaddy you have to go through many pages asking if you want private registration, web hosting, domain parking, etc etc.

VistaPrint seems to have a similar profit model and you do need to page through all those things to actually get your order submitted.

A bit annoying, but still legit. I must say, of all of them, GoDaddy is the most annoying in my opinion, but that’s just me. I guess they pick up a lot of extra sales that way to make it worth annoying everyone who buys a domain.

By: Akina

Akina — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 23:07:17 +0000

Thanks, this was really helpful to know because I was really tempted to try it out for my music classes that I help teach, but wasn’t sure if it was legit :)