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- microkorg0
On Threadless a designer can get an Artist Shop (new feature) and set their own prices for things.
This is different to the Threadless community voted tees. You just upload your own designs and they go on sale immediately.The base price for a t-shirt for example is $15. Whatever you charge above that goes into your pocket when someone buys one of your shirts.
That's a pretty decent deal if you ask me. The designer has no overheads of buying stock and doesnt have to deal with manufacture or shipping.
A good design could make hundreds or thousands of pounds easily for a few hours of labour creating a graphic and uploading it coupled with some social media PR.
About 10 years ago I started a t-shirt label after getting some "young enterprise" funding. Went out and got a load of tees printed up with different designs and built a custom web shop (this was in a time when web shops were rare off the shelf).
Promotion was on the likes of MySpace and it was hard to get sales. Sold a fraction of what we got printed up. The rest sat in my loft for years and got donated to charity a couple of years ago.I recently launched a Threadless Artist shop and loving the experience and would recommend it over my previous dealings in tshirt designing and selling.
Unless of course I had my own screen printing machine and access to tees/sweats and hoodies in various sizes n colours without having to buy in multiples of 10 or 20 minimum.
- Finally... an experience comment, not an opinion comment.canoe
- What is the cost of starting up your 'artist shop' - Free?canoe
- Yeah, threadless seems to be a designer's fulfillment house, they're probably making 50%, a base of $7/shirt and their...canoe
- catalog is miles long, for better or worse. I would imagine they have SOME kind of criteria for you to sell your shirt at their site? Some kind of standards?canoe
- I can somewhat sympathize with this as it took a long time for my shirts to move. POD takes all the risk out of the equation. Shopify is ready to go, so...canoe
- it's all about putting capital into returns through marketingcanoe
- Do they ask for exclusive rights to sell such and such design of your collection/shop?canoe