How to raise money for sick friend by selling a shirt online?

[David H]

What's a good website to sell a product (t-shirt) so people can buy and I can have all proceeds go to friend with cancer? A site that doesn't take a percentage. Not Etsy. And eBay is only auctions.

[Jake]

The businesses need to take a percentage to stay in operation.

One unique T selling site that may be ideal for your situation is TeeSpring.com you setup a sort of crown funding deal where no money changes hands until a buying quota is reached, typically you might setup an offering that runs for 10 days, so it hits 2 weekends.

You can earn about 50% of the sale price, there is a mechanism for giving proceeds or a percentage to a registered non-profit, people will just ave to take your word that the proceeds would go to a friend. You an test their design submission process without making any commitment or even giving an email address, note the costs depend on the size of your projected sales. If you can't make the quota you can lower the goal, which cuts down the per shirt revenue, you can also extend a campaign if it's going well, but all of your buyers will have to wait longer, since the are all printed and delivered after completion.

You can buy some yourself to make the quote, you would be effectively getting them at cost, something under $10 ea, the "Pickup at your location" option might lower the shipping cost of a stack sent to you for face to face sales.

Unlike the many other sites that allow you to setup a 'store' TeeSpring doesn't really help you market, you have to do your own advertising, right now there are several training courses one can but, most typically they target specific interest groups identified with Facebook paid ads demographics.

"Teespring Crash Course" by Tanner Larsson was a good video training course.

This site collects sales stats for TeeSpring campaigns, note all the large sellers are for big organizations with powerful publicity capabilities.
http://teeview.phatograph.com/