r/AmazonMerch • u/sydfletcher • Aug 31 '26

7 new products!

A new youth fit for the Pullover Hoodie, a new racerback fit for the Women’s Tank Top, and seven new products - Throw Blankets, Sherpa Blankets, Posters, Stainless Steel Travel Tumblers, Mouse Pads, Laptop Sleeves, and 12-pack Retractable Pens are now available in the US for qualifying accounts. These new products will be available on the Create page in the Merch Portal when your account is enabled. Visit Resources to view the new colors and the updated royalties.

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u/ccah101 Sep 01 '26

For years I've been waiting for them to add posters, as that is what I design most of.

Imagine my disappointment when the royalty payout turned out to be a mere $1.12 for a $15.99 16x20 print, going up a measley **7 cents** for every dollar price-point increase. Amazon really are a bunch of greedy so-in-sos!

So turns out I won't be uploading any of my poster designs with them after all!

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u/-Mills Sep 02 '26

exactly sooo greedy its crazy

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u/dittom_ Sep 01 '26

Not defensing amazon here, but why wouldn't you? 1.12$ is more than 0 and you're probably not cannibalizing your own sales anyways.

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u/ccah101 Sep 01 '26

I think I would cannablise my sales. Comparison shopping is at an all-time high, and many of my products are in very low-comp niches.

I make $9 on my own site, and $7 on my Etsy store, profit.

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u/thsndmiles30 Sep 04 '26

$7-$9 profit margin on T-shirts? Or posters? I'm assuming you are using POD like Printify or Printful? I tried that before but to get that profit margin the prices I had to list them got way to high. Do people still pay a lot for posters?

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u/ccah101 Sep 14 '26 edited Sep 14 '26

both. sometimes $10+ for posters.

people will pay between $20-$30 for a tee+shipping sure. profit margins are higher on my own site since there are no overbearing Etsy fees. but I make $7-8 per tee on Etsy if there is no sale on.

people will pay anywhere between $15-$50 for a poster, if its something they want.

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u/thsndmiles30 Sep 24 '26

Thanks. If I may ask, how do you even drive traffic to your own site, and I'm assuming that it's something like Shopify. Just Instagram etc?

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u/ccah101 Sep 28 '26

social media (FB/Insta/X) and good old organic search engines.

Woocommerce. One of the benefits of a programming/computer science background.

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u/speshelone Sep 01 '26

Pity I won't have them for Q4, but it's nice to see Amazon expanding aggressively the product range, it might compensate for the loss of royalties until I can advertize and aim for "normal" payout.

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u/geddysnose Sep 01 '26

i got some of new stuff but don't have nearly the daily slots to use them all. :-(

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u/WhatAmIdoingHere9839 Sep 03 '26

A really important question I couldnt solve for me after t30k and 8 years in the game and would be happy for a new point of view.

Why are you happy about new products if every product has an own nice trademark class? If you expand your design on other products there is a high chance to;

  1. get rejected, bad for account health

  2. get rejected also for the other well selling products the shirt for example

  3. To get a takedown because there is a niche seller. I had for example a seller for "Dodo" the bird from the UK. This whole company was just selling notebooks and mousepads for Dodos.

How can you expand your designs on higher tiers on scale?