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I set-up an Amazon Merch Account last year....and what a nightmare!
• Signed-up for a Merch account (waited 6 weeks for approval)
• Set-up my store (got little to no support or help with technical issues)
• Uploaded my t-shirts (12-16 shirt designs)
• Zero visits to my Amazon store (after 5 months)
• You can't even search Amazon for my shirt design or store name
• My store got lost in the Amazon maze of fake store and redirects
• A month later I found a Chinese company was stealing my designs
• I reported the Chinese theft to Amazon
• 6 months later Amazon has nothing done
• I receive Amazon Merch related spam at least 2-3 times a days
• Took my store down on Christmas 2019Amazon is clearly a "Pay-2-Play" organized racket with zero concern for stolen intellectual property, they provide NO help for small businesses in the USA succeed. I followed all of the Amazon's rules, used all of their advice on setting up both my account and Amazon Merch store. I priced everything based on Amazon's recommendations and even made it so that Amazon could make a good profit.....and I still got fucked by Amazon.
Fuck you Amazon!
- Can we see one of your T-shirt designs?SlashPeckham
- Here area few of them
https://i.imgur.com/…utopian - Thanks, China!Gnash
- Retail is hard. You need ads, seo and social clout as well as the right product. Then months of testing different scenarios on your store before you see anythinSlashPeckham
- The anti-Amazon rumbling in tech circles is getting louder and louder. It's a cesspool for indies. Curious why you went with them? You figure big pool o'custom?Nairn
- Someone recommended it to me. Thanks for the heads up!scarabin
- Why does the man and woman look so familiar utopian? Is that from some 70s/80s sci fi? I like it.canoe
- It's the Pioneer Plaque
https://upload.wikim…Nairn - Your “designs” look really familiar. Like I’ve seen them before. Maybe on a nasa vehicle, or an old design book.monospaced
- utopian designed the pioneer plaque. NASA just used Chinese to steal it via amazon. Who woulda thought ;)monospaced
- Switch to threadless! Been troublefree for me. And put your effort into promoting (even advertising) on social.microkorg
- My threadless got picked up by a japanese 'zine and I made more in a fortnight than i'd made in the past few years!microkorg
- The Pioneer Plaque wasn't the design that was stolen, I had at least a 16 designs up on Amazon's website. I was asked to share some of my shirt designs.utopian
- cool - I'd love to see some of your other T-shirt designs. It's really interestingSlashPeckham
- Hey Microkorg. Whats your threadless space?, That's cool about the japanese exposure.BH26
- https://undgndtv.thr…microkorg
- Clever stuff microkorgSlashPeckham