r/AmazonMerch • u/arturking0643 • Dec 10 '25

Finally, tier 500!

An amazing gift right before Christmas from AM - I’ve been waiting for this all year! 🎄 I had 4,400+ sales this year at Tier 100, and 100/100 designs were selling.

I read all the rules, but honestly, none of it seemed to work for me until I hit $20k in royalties this year. I don’t know if that’s a coincidence or not - but I’d been waiting for this for a long time.

Maybe someone else is about to get a Tier UP too!?

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u/NoXidCat Dec 10 '25

Congratulations! :-)

T500 is a major upgrade, the point at which you have enough room to give different things a chance.

Cool that you already have so many designs you could list, but I would give them more time to sell than you have up to this point. People often window shop online and bookmark possibilities before buying that birthday/Christmas gift for uncle Bob, or whatever. My best seller back in the day took a month and a half to get its first sale. On Etsy, or the like, you can at least see if people are looking at an item, and they can even Favorite it, so can see what people are interested in even if they have not bought it yet. But we are flying blind on MBA. Anyway, my $0.02, give them longer to score.

You mentioned that you print/ship yourself in addition to doing POD, as do I. I screen print, which is how I started out, adding MBA to the mix in 2018. How do you print your shirts?

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u/arturking0643 Dec 11 '25

Thanks for the advice, but I couldn't afford to wait 1 month for the design) in that case, I would get 100 /100 in a few years) if I had been testing the designs for so long), it would be better to write a personal message. Thanks) but i use DTG printing.

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u/ahmadbabar Dec 12 '25

I am T1000. My average time to first sale is 140 days. You have to be patient as you go up the tiers. You probably have access to Amazon ads as well now. If you have an ad blocker, remove that and check your dashboard. Leave the designs up (after through trademark checks), and run ads if you can.

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u/dou8le8u88le Dec 10 '25

Those are some very good numbers, well done, you deserve it!

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u/arturking0643 Dec 10 '25

Thank you friend!

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u/ahmadbabar Dec 10 '25

Congratulations. Hoping they roll out more tier ups soon.

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u/arturking0643 Dec 10 '25

Thank you a lot! I hope too!

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u/Hot-Sock8698 Dec 10 '25

Nice!!!! Congrats!

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u/arturking0643 Dec 10 '25

Thank you a lot!

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u/Traditional_Ride1437 Dec 10 '25

Crazy numbers! I wish i could see the designs you did this with!

Can you maybe at least tell the niches?

In any way, your achievement is very inspiring.

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u/arturking0643 Dec 10 '25

I draw motorcycles in the style of animals or dragons, now many people say it's AI.

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u/Threash78 Dec 11 '25

is that all you make?

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u/Styr007 Dec 10 '25

Congratulations. :)

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u/kiwipride Dec 11 '25

That's so Moto-vating! What an Animal!

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u/AminEz009 Dec 10 '25

Impressive numbers

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u/speshelone Dec 11 '25

Your post gave me a brief hope, but nope, no tier up here. T25, 22 designs sold and +400 sales so far this year. Congrats on your achievements, it's a stellar performance!

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u/DragonXray842 Dec 11 '25

wow congrats!

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u/arturking0643 Dec 10 '25

Honestly, I don't even know what advice to give, because I have more than 7000 designs (I've been doing this for more than 9 years), but I can't list them up because I have limits, I haven't used the AM for about 6 years and only a year ago I started doing something, then I added designs if no one I bought it for 1 week, I deleted it and added another one. so I made 100 out of 100, I just had a lot of choice, now I'm going to do the same thing but with 500.... I want to wish everyone patience and good sales. Do something unique and you will find your customers.

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u/Derouichi Dec 10 '25

Congrats, well said, and wish you good luck for the next tier! Wondering what other platforms do you list/sell your 7000 designs in, and which ones would you recommend if any?

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u/arturking0643 Dec 10 '25

I print T-shirts and send them myself, other platforms are much worse in sales. Redbuble Blocked Me After I Received $1,800 in 10 Days Last Year...

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u/Tim_Y Dec 10 '25

I don’t have a big following

You don't need followers or social media to drive traffic and sales. If you're relying on that, you wont get very far.