I Stopped Selling On RedBubble & Here’s Why
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- Опубликовано: 1 фев 2024
- Is it the end of RedBubble? Is RedBubble worth it anymore?
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So for the past few years, I have been quite involved with RedBubble, and not just as a seller of the platform, but also as someone who has in some ways promoted them through the content I’ve posted here on my channel.
And in no way have I ever been affiliated with RedBubble or paid by them to talk about their website. So everything I have ever said about them has always been from my own personal opinion and experience. And for the most part, I have always had good things to say about the platform, and generally recommend it for people to try and sell their own designs through RedBubble.
But gradually over the past year or so, they’ve been making it harder and harder for me to continue supporting them, especially when it comes to me talking about them here on my channel and essentially promoting them to the people who watch my videos.
And the reason it’s becoming harder, is that they seem to have lost track of what made their business successful in the first place. Which is of course the sellers and artists who have contributed millions of designs and pieces of artwork to the website, in order for RedBubble to profit from.
And to me, it seems as if they no longer care for these sellers and artists who actually make their business function and thrive. As every couple of months or at least every year, they've been introducing some sort of new policy or making some sudden changes that go against sellers of the platform. 
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I agree 100%. I was making $700 a month. My check last month was $32. Unbelievable. Their greed is going to kill their company.
Where do you get new niches and what site do you use to make your designs?
Ah that's why they literally suspeded my account and I had just created it, with my own art! What a filth.
Rather than deleting all that hard work, I just configured all my items to have a 200% mark-up. Should RB ever (re)discover their brains, I can reconfigure it all back again. If not, so what - strangely enough, I still get sales at 200% - I don't know why.
I also have a markup of 250%
Did redbubble put your stuff on sale?
Even though i have a mark up of 250%, you'll be expecting that the items will be expensive but no. Redbubble put my items on sale. So its not expensive when the buyers buy my stuff.
They have fallen from 24 million to 20 million in just ten months, and this trend is continuing. 4-5 years ago you could still make decent money with them. But then the founder announced that he was retiring and leaving the business to his partner. And that was the beginning of the RB decline and it seems it will not stop until they hit bottom!
Thanks for leading me away from a dark hole ☺
I didn't even need to close mine, it got suspended for no reason
You violated copyrights?
Same here. Really no clue why. Not violating copyrights BTW. I made sure of that. The most awful thing about this is that there is no appeal possible nor do they give you the reason.
Thank you for this eye opening video Julian. In fact I signed up with RedBubble a few days ago and uploaded a design yesterday but regrettably neither do I see my shop nor my product (I uploaded only one for trial). I think this is it then, for RedBubble and me.
You have to upload 5 designs before the shop actually goes live on their website. I was confused about this too and then I found out on their FAQs.
for new seller,
After you complete all dash board
you will wait for 5 day
for show you design.
This was very helpful. Thanks.
No problem, glad it helped!
thank you. I was about to open an account.
Can you please recommend other places to look?
So its better to do tee springs since people wont be recommended your products when purchasing other peoples clothing? Your sales will come from promoting. If theres issues with people copying your designs amazon wont be good either then? Cause your items will be promoted when people buy other peoples clothing?
What about Shopify
Just closed my account. Good-bye Redbubble and good riddance. :-)
I had started Redbubble a while ago with very few designs and found the percentage they were taking too high already (before 2023) and also realised that many of their products are very low quality. I started learning more about sustainability and realised that I don’t want to support them anymore and then, what what was the final straw for me, was when I participated in a thing that was a collab with an animated series I was not only excluded but also got a warning when I forgot to put the logo of the series on one of the designs I uploaded. I contacted them and tried to correct that (mistakes happen!) but they didn’t even answer and just stated that if I try uploading for that project again my whole account will be closed down. That made me realise they don’t care about the designers at all!
What a wonderful video. Hi, I want to start a print on demand as a side hustle. Please, which platforms would you recommend
Personally, I think Etsy is the best place to start for POD. Then maybe think about Amazon once you’ve got the hang of Etsy or even a Shopify website and sell directly to your own customers
i ve the same view on redbubble , i also will be off soon, greets from GER😎
I think I'm gonna stop uploading too. Their search engine in the website no longer works properly. I relied on it to look for unsaturated niches by searching what I'm inspired to create, but since AI has been intergrated to the search engine it has gotten tough to see which niches are saturated and which aren't.
They closed my most profitable account.. . It was set as standard but was making me around 200 profit each month. Not anymore after that policy. Anyways, they banned me anyways.
you violated Copyrights?
@@HelmetVanga I was selling designs from memes that were allowed in the platform, then they said I didnt do the designs. They clearly allow other people to sell tha dame stuff there but they punished only me... after I made them a lot of money for a year.
They really need to be sued for many millions of dollars in a successful class action lawsuit.
same happened to me. my most profitable account suspended...and people still sell the same stuff on RB. They even advertised similar art, then why my art is ilegal if you advertise it in your own RD social media? lol
Wait. I get walking away from a store and leaving it open. Did you really CLOSE your account and cut off any money that would have come from leaving it open? If the designs are up why not just take whatever money comes from it.
I have kept the stores created from my Redbubble challenge videos open for viewers to checkout, but besides that, my personal stores have been closed. For me, keeping them open isn’t even worth the headspace anymore. Sure I could have kept them open, but then that’s one more thing/platform I feel the need to post on to keep it from declining when I could be spending that time elsewhere and seeing 10-20x better results. But I do agree, in most cases people should just keep them open and receive payouts here and there.
Now they have increased their gee to even higher than half, I close my store , I feel pain like I am being robbed and hate that feeling, those few dollars are not worth it
Plus redbubble is getting money off a seller who goes against their morals. They suck.
Can you make a video on printful and eBay
Please suggest this type of any other app
All valid points. So many unhappy creators out there walking away from RB.
A lot of big sellers are in standard, I am, i use to earn $500 a month, and i'm in standard, i don't upload to RB anymore...alot of my work is stolen anyway.... its utter rubbish..
Any good alternatives?
How to avoid trademark ?😂
any alternative?
Etsy + Amazon + shopify
Small clarification - If you're making high quality designs and followed their guidelines, your account WILL NOT be in a Standard tier, and you can request a review to change your tier too
Can you point me in the direction of an article or announcement from Redbubble stating this?
@@Julian_Adams RUclips doesn't like links, but you can easily google "redbubble tiers" and read their blog posts. Personally I received an email with a form to request a review and in a few days get an account upgrade
@@Julian_Adams let me know if you received a reply, because it looks like the Glorious Gods of RUclips hid it
From what i have heard they just dont respond to your review request.
@@thewebheadgt I got my account tiered up in a few days after submitting the form. Can't say for other people
What about Teespring? Should I work as a t-shirt designer on Teespring?
I can't comment on Teespring I'm afraid, I haven't tried it
Spring got rid of their marketplace hence, have zero traffic. You'll have to drive 100% of the traffic to ur shop yourself.
Teespring is just a thing like hosting and website which you can upload your designs in a way to sell.. They have no organic traffic and you have to bring traffic like with advertisings and more
I also closed my account. Glad to be rid of them
Amen!
I also closed my account as i thought they look more like a scam than anything else. Thanks to inform people.
Please Julian can you GIve me a alternative platform without application process with Good result i'm a Good designer using Illustrator and i want to make some INCOME ( My etsy account was suspendend within 3 day so i don't want to use etsy another time )
how can i make money
Hey, why Etsy closed your store? Sometimes is automatic, you can contact them and they will review the case to seenif was a mistake.
Etsy is all about pleasing the customers, not the sellers, but their fees are reasonable. I've been selling (not POD) for 5 yrs.
They don't have any respect for artists, I was with them around 5 years, built up around 400 followers and had just started getting some decent sales when they suspended me, I never copied or made any copywrited artwork, I believe the suspension was because of a purge where thousands of artists were just thrown away to save on server costs.
Wow! They need to be held accountable. Think of the massive amount of money that they make off of sellers and then they turn around and abuse some of us like this. It truly is unconscionable.
I can't even get ahold of support. I submitted a few more works of art, mostly political since it's a hot topic and they banned my account over them. I believe they claimed someone had copyright when I created all the designs myself out of thin air. Awful company.
Awful company! So true! They can go out of business in this capitalist system. Survival of the fittest applies, you know.
I just started a store, I didn't know about the tier thing. Sooo lame. Like why bother. It is such a HUGE a cut it is insane. They are being stupid.
I had nine thousand designs, then I was blocked. I made a silly mistake ,then I was gone.I can only think that someone is enjoying my nine thousand designs
I closed my account. Said screw it.
What about tee public
I'm afraid I can't comment on them as I've never used that site
As soon as you start selling hard, they will eventually find some ways to suspend your account.
They suck!! Worst quality ever!!!
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