VistaPrint, a blessing or a curse?

So I ordered a couple of free magnets from VistaPrint a week or so ago and they came in last friday, and I am rather happy with them. Although the magnets feel sort of flimsy, they stick to things just fine and considering they were my free trial sample, I have to say I think I did well. I intend to slip these babies in with my etsy orders once I get the shop up and running. Now, for these sample magnets, I just used a design that was already on the site and complimentary to my own style, but you do have the option of uploading your own images to use (sometimes this cost money, sometimes its free, depending on the promotions going on at the moment.) So I got myself 25 magnets for the cost of $6.50 for shipping.

Now, VistaPrint is an amazing site and you can get a lot of quality products for relatively low prices, but you kind of have to be careful because they will throw things at you and all of a sudden you'll have a check out price much higher than what you were aiming for because you didn't read all the print. This happened to me today when I returned to check out their other free products. I discovered that sometimes when you just try something out, it'll actually add itself onto your product list in the checkout area in one way or another, so you have to really look at what youre agreeing to carefully. Anyway, I walked away with:

Free

• One small car magnet


• One rubber stamp


• One Pen with logo and contact information

Paid

• 10 large magnets for $9.74


• 2 notebooks for $23.99

Now, im not too thrilled I got had on the two notebooks, but that was my fault as I kept going back and forth between quantities. I had intended to just settle on one but, I guess that got lost in translation. I got the slow shipping for $6.60, which says 21 days, but i'll keep track of how long it actually takes to get it. I'm hoping it comes out well...these could be great promotional items to use =)

Christi Thomas-Fealy