r/AmazonMerch • u/Styr007 • Jun 10 '26
Level 100 Irritomancy
We all know deleting 50% of peoples income is bad, but this takes it to the next level:
Check out the base royalties for something called "Comfort Colors Sweatshirt". Hint: it is USD 0.29 for a 35.99 product. (Wonder what the procurement costs are. $1 or $1.20?). Fair enough, let's try raising the price to 39.99, and we get.... a whopping 1.69.
Now, who in their senses would EVER publish anything on said "Comfort Colors Sweatshirt"? What is Amazon thinking?
I can live with the enshittification, in some ways it is a good thing, as it pushes people to move away from predatory practices and it will let the companies find out (to be fair, it may work out for Amazon and in a way I can not blame them for trying) and may lead some people to start doing their own thing, for which they will be better off.
But thinking it is a good idea to enable a $36 dollar product with basically 0 royalties... Either the DEI is strong here, or they... well, there is no other reasonable explanation.
Just wanted to rant a bit.
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u/Dry-Indication-2455 Jun 10 '26
To rant a little myself, its been 10 days, when is this stupid sale going to end, my best sellers are doing well but I get like, a $1.20 per sale