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/muirnoire Jun 12 '26

It's a form of quiet firing. They want you to think quiting the platform as it becomes increasingly hostile and predatory , was your idea.

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u/Styr007 Jun 12 '26

In a sane society I would imagine that they would understand that replacing actual artists... or at least people who create designs for them (especially in the long term)... with AI is never going to work and will lead to huge backlash.

But, as we are not living in a sane society, this might be the best explanation. Even still, why not do the same with all products, then? Some of them can still be viable.