Crockpot

"Mr. Frog's Belch" Design Rejected by Zazzle...

...then given an award for Today’s Best.

How friggin funny is THAT?!

We submitted the design for a stamp, thinking it would be a funny thing to see on mail. Pure and simple unadulterated fun, right? Apparently not so!

Here’s an excerpt of the rejection notice we received:

The following Zazzle Custom Stamp could not be approved:
Product Title: Mr. Frog’s Belch
Product Type: Stamp
Product ID: 172719026690854964
Contributor: crockpot
Result: Not Approved
Policy Violations:
Includes material that Zazzle believes would hurt its reputation.
May be considered violent, profane, deceptive, abusive, menacing, harmful, or threatening.

My guess is that Zazzle thought the design might offend people. (Whatever.) But to give the standard, impersonal rejection that they did is a bit much. It’s an f’ing cartoon of a frog, for crying out loud!!

“Includes material that Zazzle believes would hurt its reputation.”
Are you kidding me???
They need NO help with hurting their rep. They already do a damn fine job of that on their own. Poorly printed products, printing products where the design is upside-down or inverted, sending out the WRONG products to customers, HORRIBLE customer service when it comes to resolving issues and “24-hour shipping” that takes 2 weeks (for a magnet!) are just a few of the things in Zazzle’s hallmark of reputation.

And they’re worried about Mr. Frog burping.

Mike and I have been laughing our asses off. This is just so hilarious and all too typical of Zazzle.

OMG… I laugh so hard every time I read that.

At any rate, I just HAD to share this with you all. I know that a lot of you fellow Zazzlers (and ex-Zazzlers) will get a huge kick out of this. >:)

Catherine Crim..., 5 months ago

how would that hurt any reputation…omg that is too unreal
yanmos, 5 months ago

:) what can i say…...
hahpistuff, 5 months ago

hurt ZAZZLES reputation? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! wow, what a laugh…..you would think their millions of copyright violations would do that!
Crockpot in reply to Catherine Crimmins’s comment, 5 months ago

Ah yes, it is. Alas that is the Zazzle way. ;)
Crockpot in reply to hahpistuff’s comment, 5 months ago

OH – I forgot about THAT!!
rdwnggrl, 5 months ago

Well, I definitely find Mr. Frogs Belch violent, profane, deceptive, abusive, menacing, harmful, and threatening. I would reject it too…NOT! Hahaha! That is funny, ridiculous, but funny. ; )
hahpistuff, 5 months ago

dont feel bad, the rejected my bleeding bride bc they said it seemed to be an approval of wife beating…lol, go figure!
Crockpot in reply to hahpistuff’s comment, 5 months ago

WHAT?!?
ROFLMAO!!

I swear to god… they’re smoking crack over there or something.

That is TOOOO much!!

You should write a journal entry about it. >:)
Jocelyn Hyers, 5 months ago

sounds like they have forgotten the golden rule … it is “puff, puff, PASS”
Crockpot in reply to Jocelyn Hyers’s comment, 5 months ago

YUP!!!
Joe Beasley IPA, 5 months ago

A stamp would hurt zazzle’s reputation – not the US Post Offices, but a mug would not!

SOP-SNAFU
Randy Monteith, 5 months ago

Crockpot I love you design and sense of humour but on a more seious note is it the word ” Hell ” that your using in one of the flys’s talk bubble that causes them to reject it?
Crockpot in reply to Randy Monteith’s comment, 5 months ago

It very well could be – I just thought it was hilarious that they rejected the design for a stamp then turned around and gave it an award for the mousepad version. I know the USPS has standards… blah blah blah… but if that’s the reason, the reason Zazzle provided just doesn’t jive.
Randy Monteith, 5 months ago

I agree they could have been a little clearer what kind of problem they had with it!
pinkyjain, 5 months ago

zazzle sucks big time on many things
kseriphyn, 5 months ago

What is Zazzle? Either way, they missed out big time. Top tee.
Crockpot in reply to kseriphyn’s comment, 5 months ago

Thank you!
Zazzle is another print-on-demand site. It’s extremely popular because of it’s interface and user-friendly tools; however, the people that run the company seem to have no idea at all what they’re doing. A couple months ago there was a mass exodus from Zazzle and a lot of people came here to RB to set up shop instead. I still put some things up at Zazzle simply because people there buy from us more often than people here – but I’ve only been here since November so I’m not expecting much. Of all the sites we have shops on (5) Red Bubble is my favorite. :)