Hey Sarah, I have a lot of ideas for shirts. Some sarcastic , some niche and some more political satire. Should I run them all in one store or should I make desperate stores for each ?
No worry about camera, this video is so valuable. Thanks a lot ! I was just starting a redbubble business, but I bought one of my design and I'm very disappointed, cause it was quite simple design to print... I've been recommanded Spreadshirt and Tostadora. Do you know them, would you recommand ? I'm in Europe (France) I wish as much as I can to buys and sell in Europe and France. Do you know any very good POD website selling in EU ? Thanks again for your work ! Greetings from France
opened up my Redbubble shop in january and now I'm at almost 80 sales! your videos really helped me understand and identify my niche, thanks a ton! ✨🦋✨
WOW, i wanted to start but i thought it wont work anymore. You don`t have to tell me your niche or something specific, but what have you done? finding 1 niche and then created some shirts?
@@johannmuster9726 well at first i had to experiment with different niches, then i noticed one of my designs was doing really well so i decided to continue creating stuff similar to that!
When I started watching you I was just a broke high-schooler. Well I'm not rich now in college, but your RB videos really inspired me to open a shop and earn some pocket money. Thanks, you're amazing!
2:33 Tshirt unboxing 👕 6:45 Mug unboxing ☕ 8:35 Sticker unboxing ⭐ 11:18 Notebook unboxing 📔 13:00 Bathmat unboxing 🛁 Thanks for the product reviews Sarah! I've been curious on the quality. A shower curtain review would be interesting. I see a lot of people use a shower curtain as a more affordable DIY art print for a home. They just frame it! Maybe you can repurpose the bathmat as a dog water bowl mat :)
The print quality is definitely the POD’s fault. There were a couple of designers you mentioned that I know because I am in their circle. They are highly professional and know what they are doing. They have degrees in the design field. Print technology is 101 as soon as you step foot in any design school so I can guarantee you that low quality files were definitely not the issue here. However, it’s worth noting that they’ve built their niches around a style. Like Steven Rhodes’ pulp retro art, that relies heavily on line work and full color solids with halftone shading that makes printing a little more complex relative to a single color design. Most PODs demand RGB files that will never, never, ever in everything that is hell going to translate exactly into CMYK. You’re also not accounting for monitor color calibration that looks extremely different for every individual. Matching colors exactly will never happen with DTG technology because it’s one of the lowest quality technologies in the industry, therefore cheaper. The only way to properly color match is spot coloring and that is only unique to offset printing and very expensive. By its nature, printing will always be dark. CMYK is a subtractive process because you are removing light, opposite to RGB that emits light, therefore it’s additive. And as you know, most e-sellers make their money through multiple channels and accounting a unique print file for every single print provider (that sometimes changes as in Printful!) to compensate for their color process is extremely difficult for any designer. Printful is very big and therefore can afford the better equipment for handling volume + quality. Until there isn’t a fixed standard set by all POD providers and demanded by customer standards, there isn’t going to be any reliability relief in the future.
Thank you. Nice review video. What I learnt from this video, is design mostly for stickers for Redbubble and that your puppy is supper adorable. I noticed the mug was only one sided, it is a shame most artists don’t take the time to upload special mug files that make it double-sided. I do. I love the fact the Redbubble gives you options to do that too. Have a lovely day.
For anyone reading this comment - in case anyone hasn’t told you yet today - you have the potential to be great, successful, and happy! Keep on going! I believe in you 🙌🏻
Surely I've highlighted you in another video. If I haven't that's my bad! But yes, even three years later, I still remember seeing that comment & laughing 😂
I think the print quality will vary depending on your country. RB uses third party printer services available in the location closest to the buyer so they don't really have a consistent set of standards. They might be even using more than one printing company in the bigger countries like the US.
As a designer doing print on demand with random printers, I could stress that using 'dithered' designs to replicate tones etc, somtimes the colour printers don't pop and you have more control using fewer shades by using dithering to simulate tones.
I cannot tell you how picky I am and how badly I want my art to be high quality. I was lasered in on this video the whole time bc I genuinely want to know. So I found this video especially helpful. I will be looking at their reviews for canvas prints next.
Woah! Where did all of those board games come from?!? LOVE them as the backdrop! I think a great metagame would be to identify all the board games on your shelves by merely looking at your blurred out background! Looks like Clank! and Cosmic Encounter to get everyone started. :D (Back on topic, great video as always!)
Great video... Do you think the color wasn't bright on the tshirt because it was created in RGB and they used bright colors outside of CMYK and when it printed the bright RGB color turned muted because it prints in CMYK?
No. Every single product including the basic white text t-shirt that should have printed fine, all printed with off colors. As I say in the video, while there is a possibility that some files aren't optimised for printing colors, the consistency with this issue shows that there is definitely some form of low quality printing going on. I would also expect that if a top seller made that mistake initially, they likely would have fixed up their files at this point.
I received one of my designs today on a standard t-shirt. I love it. I had ordered the same design from Vista print and it was shocking quality. Vista's prices are so expensive too. Thanks for the video I am learning heaps from your vids.
The best way to review the print quality on any or all products is to use your own high-quality design & use the same design & quality on all other items, this way you have a standard to go by. By buying different designs from others you do not have this control. ( I have purchased my own designs many times on both mugs, t-shirts, hoodies, notebook & lots of stickers, each time the print is awesome, no blurred edges, super crisp, plus the colour difference is often people design in RGB colour which looks brighter & bolder on a screen, The actual print is created with CMYK profiles which have a colour limitation. My advice is always to design using a CMYK colour profile this way what you see is what you get. | Much Love, Peace & Respect | Stay Safe Ya'll
I've made some money on Redbubble. No outrageous amount, but it's definitely welcome! I will say I personally avoid Redbubble t-shirts. The last one I got faded so quickly that it was ridiculous. Now it's just a plain grey t-shirt, as the original print is long gone lol
Hey Sarah, I'm a new member of the Wholesale Ted family. Your videos are awesome. I have a question for you. What are the processes after a customer cancel the order or want to return the product that ordered on Redbubble/Teespring/Printful(Shopify)? What are the actions they(Redbubble/Teespring/Printful) will take? Can you please explain when a customer can cancel the order? where they want to reship the product? Do returns affect the seller or customer? *should only the seller takes the loss caused by the return? Please explain the whole return policies of these companies. Please Stay home stay strong Thank you for your effort.
Thank you for reviewing the products! I've already started with redbubble about 2 weeks ago still creating designs it's nice to know that it's a popular place for stickers going to focus on those more.
apparently quality varies depending on where you live, as redbubble seems to not print themselves they "hire" printing companies all over the globe, some are good some bad some inbetween
You are the greatest! I am working my way thru your P.O.D. lessons. I should have had my store up and running already but I'm lazy! I bought the program and the $67 a month is well worth it! I am ashamed to say that I'm only at 7%, but I'm getting off my lazy butt and I'm going to get it finished in the next 6 weeks. I will start with other people's artwork for t-shirts and mugs, etc. But after that I'll be painting my own artwork of the specialty niche. I am a commercial artist and I know that I can create some beautiful niche paintings. I want to make at least 2K a month so I can go yo Florida in the winter! I don't think that's too big of a dream! Thanks again Sarah. Kathy W.
I'm wondering if the color difference has to do with the CRT resolution compared to in-person. Also true that consumers will not likely examine products as closely as you do, but I'm grateful for that. Often one is so excited to get their purchase, only later to become disappointed, discovering the flaws.
I can tell you that I have made many orders from RedBubble where I have ordered the same product twice and each time its printed the colors look very different on each. This is not the fault of the artist uploading the wrong file type. This is absolutely RedBubble outsourcing to inconsistent print shops 🙏
Thank you so much for this. It's my first time to your channel and I'm already subscribing. You're giving great detailed reviews of the Redbubble products and that's exactly what I'm looking for. I'm working on figuring out which site I want to choose for my streaming merch store and this information has let me know that I don't want to sell on RedBubble, especially since my designs use very bright and bold colors which I would want on shirts. However, unless another site has better stickers, I might simply use them for stickers. I'll be looking through your other videos for information on the other dropshipping sites I'm thinking about!
Hi! I am a graphic designer working in a printing company. Color issues like the ones you highlight are usually caused by the designer not optimizing the design for print. In fact, Redbubble asks their designers to design their products in RGB so that they will look good on their website, but when printing this is going to be a lottery. In the case of Printful they use a better algorithm than redbubble therefore the result of their impressions are better
@@Stephie_L The only way to find out is to try and buy the product in its RGB and CMYK version. But honestly I would not recommend it, I would leave it as is. Redbubble is interested in making their product look good on the web, so they recommend uploading it in RGB.
It would have been nice for you to do close ups of the items in order for us to get a better idea of the quality for ourselves. Other than that great video
Thanks for the video! Really good to know the strengths and weaknesses of redbubbles items. I got my first sale on there recently:) I was motivated to give it a try thanks to you. My first sale was a framed print for 120 usd which is pretty crazy, I was hardly expecting even a sticker to sell! Anyways thanks for all of the insight you provide, fellow kiwi 🥝🤗
I purchased several mugs from Redbubble as Christmas gifts. Not only did they come late (not sure if that would be on Redbubble or FedEx but they did say it would be arriving on the 21st) but I wasn't really pleased with the print. Similar to your review, I thought the print was a bit blurry.
It's not RedBubble's fault it arrived late. Once a package is shipped, it's entirely out of their hands. It's now in the hands of the postal service. A merchant can only give you an estimate provided to them by the postal service. It's not fair to blame them for the postal service delivering your package late. With the extreme weather conditions currently and winter illnesses, there will be transport delays & a lack of staff. However, the print is definitely something you can take issue with. It's them that prints it - not the postal service ;)
@@WholesaleTed Well yes, I agree the responsibility is more on the delivering company and not so much on the printing company but I have been reading a LOT of reviews on Redbubble and it seems that delivery is a top complaint. With that said, if a company says this will be delivered days before Christmas and the item doesn't show, whether it's fair or not, I'm afraid it still becomes a reflection on the Redbubble Brand. So again, with that said, I have a simple solution for RB- just be super honest with your customers so they have realistic expectations when it comes to deliveries, especially around a holiday. That might mean lower sales around the days closer to Christmas ,but it would also mean less disappointed customers as well.
Thank you so much for doing this Sarah - I haven’t started POD yet & wasn’t planning on using Red Bubble but it’s nice to still have this info - quality is more important to me than anything - I cater to an older Boomer generation who will pay more but the quality has to be there. I appreciate all the research you do & info you share here - I’m such a fan girl for you!!(I hope I’m saying that right) I adore you!!
You know, the weird thing is I figured the stickers would be the best quality since they are the most popular. I ordered a bunch of them for my sister, and the images on all of them were printed very dotty and not smooth opaque colors. of course from afar it looked okay, but when you got up close you could really see spots that were missing color and pixelated or dotty colors. I still like redbubble, but its weird to me how the sticker pictures dont look like the photos
I loved your video and honesty about the quality. Would you perharps do a comparison between printfull and printfy? I am trying to start a ecommerce store with one of them and i am really divided over the opnions found over the internet.
Although the PNG format provides high-resolution transparency for design uploads, it doesn't support the CMYK colour space. As a result, printing in CMYK will have a minuscule amount of colour tint. No Biggie
That doesn't explain the massive differences in colors and that is proven by the big discrepancy in the printing of the white. This is a printing issue, it is not a file issue.
The shirts are purposefully on the thinner material side. Some people don't like it, but most people love it! But if you don't I absolutely understand.
So don't most POD services use the same DTG technology? Do you have a list of the best POD services in terms of print quality? Thanks for the review! Is there a way to know which tech the POD providers use before we choose one? I hear so many reviews that there are just as any many positive reviews as negative reviews of just about every service!
The problem is that not all RGB colors reproduce correctly when they're printed on merch. I find this incredibly frustrating and I wish RedBubble, Printful would create a list of acceptable CMYK numbers to use. Printful did have a swatch shirt you could order -- but they recently got rid of it. WHY?? Anyway, a simple list would do fine.
Redbubble says they print in CMYK but a lot of artists design in RBG (which is a better range of bright colors). They don't really make it well known and I believe some products are actually printed with a wider range of colors. But this is one reason you see a big difference between the website and products. This was great thanks!
Thank you! I did take that into account when filming this video. I noted throughout that since every single product had color issues, that it is far more likely that Reddit’s printers are lower quality as a result of their low prices, to cause every product to be printed washed out, versus every single designer making this mistake and uploading a poorly optimized file 🙏
A reason for fuzzy edges is, most people just do a screen grab and upload a low-resolution image. You have to upload a 300dpi image you created then the printing should not at all have fuzzy edges unless they have a different way of printing.
These images come from talented, experienced artists that uploaded the correct files in the correct formats, I specifically chose artists that are experienced for this video so that this would not be an issue 🙏
I enjoyed the video but, I'm surprised by the obvious oversight.... images displayed online are backlit. They will always appear bighter and more vibrant.
I wonder if the difference in color is due to the difference in website visual and real world print. If you've ever come across a ghastly website and wondered why they used the colors they did; chances are it looks excellent in print. A design that looks awesome in print however, does not always look as good when it it is applied to website design.
That's why I say in the video there is a possibility the files may not be optimised for print (as they may be using colors that can't be printed, rgb vs cmyk) but considering these are their top selling products that surely have modified their files to be optimised by now, and literally every product, including the white text t-shirt printed with off colors, this is almost certainly a printing issue. The white for example doesn't show on camera, but it wasn't a true white, it was an off white. That should have printed fine. But honestly, the products are so cheap - you can't expect Printful levels of products at RedBubble, it just isn't realistic.
The print quality on a order I recently places was not good. Color was muted and it was blurry. In addition the size of the sticker I ordered was not anywhere near the stated size. I won't be going back to this site.
Aww! Your puppy is adorable. My green cheek conure’s name is Starbuck! 🥰 By the way, I have thoroughly enjoyed your videos and course materials. I’m an artist and have started working with my husband in creating our own e-commerce business. Thank you so much for providing all this information.
I was co fused for a while whether or n out to go with red bubble or printful. Thanks Sara, great content as always. Question: have you ever used gooten (or goten) for pod? What do you think of that app and can you do a review on that maybe in the future???
Wow I recently opened a shop on redbubble as recent as a few days ago and everytime I'd researched the quality of the clothing and products I heard nothing but good things and now youtube wants to recommend me the videos talking about all of the terrible quality products so now I feel stunted to either close the first ever shop I've opened online because I don't have the money to print on better clothing or just leave it there and work on something else :((
As an artist and being familiar with other artists work I have to say I am really surprised on all the copyright infringement and flat out plagiarism on the Redbubble platform, I would never upload any of my original art, just saying
Hey , thinking of starting a PoD service using my designs, however when I create products on the PoD market place there is a large number of tshirts to select from. Should I offer all of them or just a select view? I worried that if I offer all of them, people won't be able to choose which one as most of them look the same when going off appearance alone and this may result in the customer not getting any. Analysis paralysis as you say.
Some of my designs were also stolen, but I reported it to redbubble and they took them down. It's just a pain to have to keep searching for thieves all the time.
HOLA BONITA,I'M NOT REALLY INTERESTED IN SELLING THOSE THINGS,I'M INTERESTED IN YOUR STORIES AND LOVE THE WAY YOU SPEAK AND GESTURES YOU MAKE!!😊😊😊😊😊💐💐💐💐
I got a bathbat off printify and I do love it but the cost was insane. They didn't show me the cost to New Zealand before I clicked buy and the process fo buying was....I was expecting it to be like Amazon where it would show shipping cost and I would probably have not bought it when I saw that and translated to it being over nearly $60 NZ dollars for.....a bathmat. :-( It didn't give you time to think you just pressed buy and it was bought without telling you the shipping cost from my memory. But all that being said it is a very very beautiful bathmat.
Hi Sarah, So many PODprinters to choose from. I have not ordered anything yet. I want sublimation printing, not direct to garment printing . which POD printer would do this?
Massive fan of your content your have been making super useful videos for ages now and its fantastic. Question: how can I print a logo onto an item from Aliexpress to use in a shopify store?
Maybe try to make some video's about challenging people's creativity with print on demands. Because while I find a ton of content about print on demand, I lack the idea-making process and end up using placeit, while good it eventually will be watered down.
Where would you recommend opening a store to create or dropshipping stickers, notepads, planners etc? Seems RedBubble for these and then use Printiful for tees. Thoughts?
With regard to colours not being as vibrant as expected, artists need to remember which colour space they are working in. RGB is great for on-screen viewing but when converting for print, they need to check how it looks in CMYK.
As I said in the video, I don't think this is a file issue, I think it is a RedBubble printing issue, given that it has happened to every singe product I have purchased from RedBubble, it is clearly a print issue, not every artist will be making this mistake, yet every single product has it - so it is RedBubble 🙏
I was doing some comparisons of the top sellers on redbubble. I noticed that because of the bad print quality there seems to be an abundance of "vintage" and "Vintage Distressed" t-shirt designs. Funny thing is that is all the rage for some reason in games like GTA 5 online. It's a clever way around the bad print. Just upload your normal artwork and sell it as Vintage and distressed lol >.< Customers won't be disappointed when they get the product, they will actually be enthused. Here's hoping the trend lasts long enough for me to make enough cash to transition to printify with a shopify store.
hi sarah. i have a gaming pc and it has different settings to make it look better for games, movies, and websites (has preset contrasts etc). any chance that the reason the colours are not as bright is because of your computer setting? just a thought. ps - love the videos.
Spent a week uploading on what feels like 1000 designs and just got my first sample shirt from Redbubble and the quality is HORRRIBLE. The shirt itself is whitish/grey and there is a huge faint yellow stain around the logo that extends to the sleeves to several inches below the logo, the black ink on the text is 4 different shades of black and fades in some areas and there are shadows on some of the text. Is this typical!?! Im so aggravated. Have you had this issue or was this a fluke?? If this isnt a good place what other POD has high quality? I spent so much time on my site so im so dissapointed right now
I love everything about the video expect how she stares at the camara that is the only thing that made me very uncomfortable, BUT APART FROM THAT, GREAT VIDEO
Hi Sarah, does the mug packaging have any warning signs on them to show delivery drivers to handle carefully? Would of been interesting if you did a drop test. What happens if the mug breaks.... does redbubble replace it or take the money back from you? What about returns too? FEES & PROFITS 🤔
Thank you so much! I now know what item should I go for redbubble because I believe in quality first. But I do want you to review their face masks too, but, yeah, it is what it is. Surprisingly, my first sell was a sticker. Guess that a big Aha for me, but I waited for confirmation and your video pops up!
Why not turn this video into a fun game: count how many times the camera goes out of focus 🙃 (I am sorry!)
I thought it was just me...I've always had trouble focusing.
I have strong feelings to you. I guess this is love(((( but im girl too😢😢
Hey Sarah, I have a lot of ideas for shirts. Some sarcastic , some niche and some more political satire. Should I run them all in one store or should I make desperate stores for each ?
No worry about camera, this video is so valuable. Thanks a lot ! I was just starting a redbubble business, but I bought one of my design and I'm very disappointed, cause it was quite simple design to print... I've been recommanded Spreadshirt and Tostadora. Do you know them, would you recommand ? I'm in Europe (France) I wish as much as I can to buys and sell in Europe and France. Do you know any very good POD website selling in EU ? Thanks again for your work ! Greetings from France
@@DearApolloZ something I discuss in my ebook is that for RedBubble it is best to open a general store, not a niche store 🌞
opened up my Redbubble shop in january and now I'm at almost 80 sales! your videos really helped me understand and identify my niche, thanks a ton! ✨🦋✨
WOW, i wanted to start but i thought it wont work anymore. You don`t have to tell me your niche or something specific, but what have you done? finding 1 niche and then created some shirts?
@@johannmuster9726 well at first i had to experiment with different niches, then i noticed one of my designs was doing really well so i decided to continue creating stuff similar to that!
Iam sure you are lying
@@bhargavigodgeri8697 What kind of marketing do you use to get your products in front of customers?
@@AnnVanhuysse Instagram marketing
When I started watching you I was just a broke high-schooler. Well I'm not rich now in college, but your RB videos really inspired me to open a shop and earn some pocket money. Thanks, you're amazing!
2:33 Tshirt unboxing 👕
6:45 Mug unboxing ☕
8:35 Sticker unboxing ⭐
11:18 Notebook unboxing 📔
13:00 Bathmat unboxing 🛁
Thanks for the product reviews Sarah! I've been curious on the quality.
A shower curtain review would be interesting. I see a lot of people use a shower curtain as a more affordable DIY art print for a home. They just frame it! Maybe you can repurpose the bathmat as a dog water bowl mat :)
The print quality is definitely the POD’s fault. There were a couple of designers you mentioned that I know because I am in their circle. They are highly professional and know what they are doing. They have degrees in the design field. Print technology is 101 as soon as you step foot in any design school so I can guarantee you that low quality files were definitely not the issue here. However, it’s worth noting that they’ve built their niches around a style. Like Steven Rhodes’ pulp retro art, that relies heavily on line work and full color solids with halftone shading that makes printing a little more complex relative to a single color design. Most PODs demand RGB files that will never, never, ever in everything that is hell going to translate exactly into CMYK. You’re also not accounting for monitor color calibration that looks extremely different for every individual. Matching colors exactly will never happen with DTG technology because it’s one of the lowest quality technologies in the industry, therefore cheaper. The only way to properly color match is spot coloring and that is only unique to offset printing and very expensive. By its nature, printing will always be dark. CMYK is a subtractive process because you are removing light, opposite to RGB that emits light, therefore it’s additive. And as you know, most e-sellers make their money through multiple channels and accounting a unique print file for every single print provider (that sometimes changes as in Printful!) to compensate for their color process is extremely difficult for any designer. Printful is very big and therefore can afford the better equipment for handling volume + quality. Until there isn’t a fixed standard set by all POD providers and demanded by customer standards, there isn’t going to be any reliability relief in the future.
Thank you. Nice review video. What I learnt from this video, is design mostly for stickers for Redbubble and that your puppy is supper adorable. I noticed the mug was only one sided, it is a shame most artists don’t take the time to upload special mug files that make it double-sided. I do. I love the fact the Redbubble gives you options to do that too. Have a lovely day.
For anyone reading this comment - in case anyone hasn’t told you yet today - you have the potential to be great, successful, and happy! Keep on going! I believe in you 🙌🏻
everybody has it, Einstein even said that, we just need to find a correct path what is hard
Thank you, kind stranger.
I love this community. Because I really needed this. Life's been tough lately. Thank you!
Thank you. I needed this
Cool I made it into a video. Finally some recognition😁
Surely I've highlighted you in another video. If I haven't that's my bad! But yes, even three years later, I still remember seeing that comment & laughing 😂
@@WholesaleTed no worries😁
I think the print quality will vary depending on your country. RB uses third party printer services available in the location closest to the buyer so they don't really have a consistent set of standards. They might be even using more than one printing company in the bigger countries like the US.
*There's only one secret to succeed: NEVER GIVE UP!*
When does one fail at a task? When they give up! (I think I'll put that on a t-shirt.)
As a designer doing print on demand with random printers, I could stress that using 'dithered' designs to replicate tones etc, somtimes the colour printers don't pop and you have more control using fewer shades by using dithering to simulate tones.
Oh thats a really interesting tip! I wouldn't have thought of that.
I'm also curious about how well the print holds after washing 10x
I cannot tell you how picky I am and how badly I want my art to be high quality. I was lasered in on this video the whole time bc I genuinely want to know. So I found this video especially helpful. I will be looking at their reviews for canvas prints next.
*Thank you Sarah for all the valuable information you give us* 👍
Woah! Where did all of those board games come from?!? LOVE them as the backdrop! I think a great metagame would be to identify all the board games on your shelves by merely looking at your blurred out background! Looks like Clank! and Cosmic Encounter to get everyone started. :D (Back on topic, great video as always!)
First thumbs up!
Thanks, Sarah! Your videos are always helpful, informative and inspiring!
I love dogs, too! I didn't know about Swedish Vallhunds. They're so cute!
Yess!! Starbuck is so adorable🥺 also yay MHA and Japanese art fan club! 🤩👌🏼
i have japanese art style in redbubble my shop is CarmelThabita
Great video... Do you think the color wasn't bright on the tshirt because it was created in RGB and they used bright colors outside of CMYK and when it printed the bright RGB color turned muted because it prints in CMYK?
No. Every single product including the basic white text t-shirt that should have printed fine, all printed with off colors. As I say in the video, while there is a possibility that some files aren't optimised for printing colors, the consistency with this issue shows that there is definitely some form of low quality printing going on.
I would also expect that if a top seller made that mistake initially, they likely would have fixed up their files at this point.
most print on demand suppliers want the files in RGB! I am not clear though if RB does too...
I received one of my designs today on a standard t-shirt. I love it. I had ordered the same design from Vista print and it was shocking quality. Vista's prices are so expensive too. Thanks for the video I am learning heaps from your vids.
shocking good or shocking bad?
The best way to review the print quality on any or all products is to use your own high-quality design & use the same design & quality on all other items, this way you have a standard to go by. By buying different designs from others you do not have this control. ( I have purchased my own designs many times on both mugs, t-shirts, hoodies, notebook & lots of stickers, each time the print is awesome, no blurred edges, super crisp, plus the colour difference is often people design in RGB colour which looks brighter & bolder on a screen, The actual print is created with CMYK profiles which have a colour limitation. My advice is always to design using a CMYK colour profile this way what you see is what you get. | Much Love, Peace & Respect | Stay Safe Ya'll
I've made some money on Redbubble. No outrageous amount, but it's definitely welcome! I will say I personally avoid Redbubble t-shirts. The last one I got faded so quickly that it was ridiculous. Now it's just a plain grey t-shirt, as the original print is long gone lol
Hey Sarah,
I'm a new member of the Wholesale Ted family. Your videos are awesome. I have a question for you. What are the processes after a customer cancel the order or want to return the product that ordered on Redbubble/Teespring/Printful(Shopify)? What are the actions they(Redbubble/Teespring/Printful) will take? Can you please explain when a customer can cancel the order? where they want to reship the product? Do returns affect the seller or customer? *should only the seller takes the loss caused by the return? Please explain the whole return policies of these companies.
Please
Stay home stay strong
Thank you for your effort.
Thank you for reviewing the products! I've already started with redbubble about 2 weeks ago still creating designs it's nice to know that it's a popular place for stickers going to focus on those more.
So? Any success yet?
Hi Sarah, could you please review couple of the A-line dresses and maybe a ladies tank top. THANKS
apparently quality varies depending on where you live, as redbubble seems to not print themselves they "hire" printing companies all over the globe, some are good some bad some inbetween
I can see Pret A Porter in the background, the perfect game for this video!
Most people buying a cheap shirt don't look that hard at it. They usual just except it for what it is. As they would not sell otherwise.
You are the greatest! I am working my way thru your P.O.D. lessons. I should have had my store up and running already but I'm lazy! I bought the program and the $67 a month is well worth it! I am ashamed to say that I'm only at 7%, but I'm getting off my lazy butt and I'm going to get it finished in the next 6 weeks. I will start with other people's artwork for t-shirts and mugs, etc. But after that I'll be painting my own artwork of the specialty niche. I am a commercial artist and I know that I can create some beautiful niche paintings. I want to make at least 2K a month so I can go yo Florida in the winter! I don't think that's too big of a dream! Thanks again Sarah. Kathy W.
I wonder if you lightened you design before upload. Will it compensate for the dark print.
I'm wondering if the color difference has to do with the CRT resolution compared to in-person. Also true that consumers will not likely examine products as closely as you do, but I'm grateful for that. Often one is so excited to get their purchase, only later to become disappointed, discovering the flaws.
I can tell you that I have made many orders from RedBubble where I have ordered the same product twice and each time its printed the colors look very different on each. This is not the fault of the artist uploading the wrong file type. This is absolutely RedBubble outsourcing to inconsistent print shops 🙏
Would you say unboxing videos help you get sales I’m thinking to make one?
You should do a week or month long series of you starting a brand new store and scaling it to 100-1k/mo
Thank you so much for this. It's my first time to your channel and I'm already subscribing. You're giving great detailed reviews of the Redbubble products and that's exactly what I'm looking for. I'm working on figuring out which site I want to choose for my streaming merch store and this information has let me know that I don't want to sell on RedBubble, especially since my designs use very bright and bold colors which I would want on shirts. However, unless another site has better stickers, I might simply use them for stickers. I'll be looking through your other videos for information on the other dropshipping sites I'm thinking about!
Thanks for this review! BTW, the colors in a print will never look exactly like what we see on a screen or digital device, in general 😅
Hi! I am a graphic designer working in a printing company. Color issues like the ones you highlight are usually caused by the designer not optimizing the design for print. In fact, Redbubble asks their designers to design their products in RGB so that they will look good on their website, but when printing this is going to be a lottery. In the case of Printful they use a better algorithm than redbubble therefore the result of their impressions are better
Hi, so we should be uploading designs as cmky?
@@Stephie_L The only way to find out is to try and buy the product in its RGB and CMYK version. But honestly I would not recommend it, I would leave it as is. Redbubble is interested in making their product look good on the web, so they recommend uploading it in RGB.
@@cfuj Ah ok fair enough thanks for the tip :)
I put some stuff on red bubble a year ago and just made a sale on a face mask two weeks ago lol 😂
How many products do you have? And do you post about the products on social media? I'm curious because I was thinking of starting
It would have been nice for you to do close ups of the items in order for us to get a better idea of the quality for ourselves. Other than that great video
Hey, can you do a video on how you manage any returns? or any customer service enquiries? Thanks :)
Thanks for the video! Really good to know the strengths and weaknesses of redbubbles items. I got my first sale on there recently:) I was motivated to give it a try thanks to you. My first sale was a framed print for 120 usd which is pretty crazy, I was hardly expecting even a sticker to sell!
Anyways thanks for all of the insight you provide, fellow kiwi 🥝🤗
I've been OBSESSED with your videos since I found you a few days ago :) subscribed straight away! Just wanted to say you're awesome!
I purchased several mugs from Redbubble as Christmas gifts. Not only did they come late (not sure if that would be on Redbubble or FedEx but they did say it would be arriving on the 21st) but I wasn't really pleased with the print. Similar to your review, I thought the print was a bit blurry.
It's not RedBubble's fault it arrived late. Once a package is shipped, it's entirely out of their hands. It's now in the hands of the postal service. A merchant can only give you an estimate provided to them by the postal service. It's not fair to blame them for the postal service delivering your package late. With the extreme weather conditions currently and winter illnesses, there will be transport delays & a lack of staff. However, the print is definitely something you can take issue with. It's them that prints it - not the postal service ;)
@@WholesaleTed Well yes, I agree the responsibility is more on the delivering company and not so much on the printing company but I have been reading a LOT of reviews on Redbubble and it seems that delivery is a top complaint. With that said, if a company says this will be delivered days before Christmas and the item doesn't show, whether it's fair or not, I'm afraid it still becomes a reflection on the Redbubble Brand. So again, with that said, I have a simple solution for RB- just be super honest with your customers so they have realistic expectations when it comes to deliveries, especially around a holiday. That might mean lower sales around the days closer to Christmas ,but it would also mean less disappointed customers as well.
So u are saying that PRINTFUL is the very BEST quality of printing for ARTISTS that make designs full of colors? Specially for TSHIRTS?
Thank you so much for doing this Sarah - I haven’t started POD yet & wasn’t planning on using Red Bubble but it’s nice to still have this info - quality is more important to me than anything - I cater to an older Boomer generation who will pay more but the quality has to be there.
I appreciate all the research you do & info you share here - I’m such a fan girl for you!!(I hope I’m saying that right) I adore you!!
Ever find a good option?
You know, the weird thing is I figured the stickers would be the best quality since they are the most popular. I ordered a bunch of them for my sister, and the images on all of them were printed very dotty and not smooth opaque colors. of course from afar it looked okay, but when you got up close you could really see spots that were missing color and pixelated or dotty colors. I still like redbubble, but its weird to me how the sticker pictures dont look like the photos
The designer may have made the designs in lower quality 🤷♀️
I loved your video and honesty about the quality. Would you perharps do a comparison between printfull and printfy? I am trying to start a ecommerce store with one of them and i am really divided over the opnions found over the internet.
I believe she already made it!
Although the PNG format provides high-resolution transparency for design uploads, it doesn't support the CMYK colour space.
As a result, printing in CMYK will have a minuscule amount of colour tint.
No Biggie
That doesn't explain the massive differences in colors and that is proven by the big discrepancy in the printing of the white. This is a printing issue, it is not a file issue.
Has red bubble improved their printing since this video?
I love your videos sooo much but my mom doesn’t let me start up a tshirt business since it asks for your credit card with a hundred dollars 😢😭😢
Wish I would have watched this before I watched your other Redbubble videos....lol
Ordered a shirt with bronze-coloured print, got a red-brown print. Also the shirt was of ultra thin quality (bella & canvas).
The shirts are purposefully on the thinner material side. Some people don't like it, but most people love it! But if you don't I absolutely understand.
Wow, the dog plot twist made me smile :)
Redbubble has closed me three stores so far, even designed all my designs myself. 🤨👕
I'm hopefully opening up my Redbubble store end May beginning of June. You're videos have been so informative thank you.
I just started a redbubble to sell art prints and buttons :-)
how is it going?
So don't most POD services use the same DTG technology? Do you have a list of the best POD services in terms of print quality? Thanks for the review! Is there a way to know which tech the POD providers use before we choose one? I hear so many reviews that there are just as any many positive reviews as negative reviews of just about every service!
The problem is that not all RGB colors reproduce correctly when they're printed on merch. I find this incredibly frustrating and I wish RedBubble, Printful would create a list of acceptable CMYK numbers to use. Printful did have a swatch shirt you could order -- but they recently got rid of it. WHY?? Anyway, a simple list would do fine.
Redbubble says they print in CMYK but a lot of artists design in RBG (which is a better range of bright colors). They don't really make it well known and I believe some products are actually printed with a wider range of colors. But this is one reason you see a big difference between the website and products. This was great thanks!
Thank you! I did take that into account when filming this video. I noted throughout that since every single product had color issues, that it is far more likely that Reddit’s printers are lower quality as a result of their low prices, to cause every product to be printed washed out, versus every single designer making this mistake and uploading a poorly optimized file 🙏
A reason for fuzzy edges is, most people just do a screen grab and upload a low-resolution image. You have to upload a 300dpi image you created then the printing should not at all have fuzzy edges unless they have a different way of printing.
These images come from talented, experienced artists that uploaded the correct files in the correct formats, I specifically chose artists that are experienced for this video so that this would not be an issue 🙏
I enjoyed the video but, I'm surprised by the obvious oversight.... images displayed online are backlit. They will always appear bighter and more vibrant.
I wonder if the difference in color is due to the difference in website visual and real world print.
If you've ever come across a ghastly website and wondered why they used the colors they did; chances are it looks excellent in print. A design that looks awesome in print however, does not always look as good when it it is applied to website design.
That's why I say in the video there is a possibility the files may not be optimised for print (as they may be using colors that can't be printed, rgb vs cmyk) but considering these are their top selling products that surely have modified their files to be optimised by now, and literally every product, including the white text t-shirt printed with off colors, this is almost certainly a printing issue. The white for example doesn't show on camera, but it wasn't a true white, it was an off white. That should have printed fine.
But honestly, the products are so cheap - you can't expect Printful levels of products at RedBubble, it just isn't realistic.
Does anyone know what merch shops big TH-camrs like PewDiePie, Mr beast, Jake and Logan Paul and Danny Duncan use?
The print quality on a order I recently places was not good. Color was muted and it was blurry. In addition the size of the sticker I ordered was not anywhere near the stated size. I won't be going back to this site.
Aww! Your puppy is adorable. My green cheek conure’s name is Starbuck! 🥰 By the way, I have thoroughly enjoyed your videos and course materials. I’m an artist and have started working with my husband in creating our own e-commerce business. Thank you so much for providing all this information.
What is best Printful or Printify ?
I love your videos SO much, you're awesome, name twin!!
Has anyone here bought a poster from redbubble? How's the print quality?
I was co fused for a while whether or n out to go with red bubble or printful. Thanks Sara, great content as always.
Question: have you ever used gooten (or goten) for pod? What do you think of that app and can you do a review on that maybe in the future???
I haven't used Gooten but should check them out 🌞
@@WholesaleTed let us know what you think once you do then! 😁
Wow I recently opened a shop on redbubble as recent as a few days ago and everytime I'd researched the quality of the clothing and products I heard nothing but good things and now youtube wants to recommend me the videos talking about all of the terrible quality products so now I feel stunted to either close the first ever shop I've opened online because I don't have the money to print on better clothing or just leave it there and work on something else :((
As an artist and being familiar with other artists work I have to say I am really surprised on all the copyright infringement and flat out plagiarism on the Redbubble platform, I would never upload any of my original art, just saying
Thanks Sarah, very informative. Keep doing what you are doing. You are giving us great informations-specialy for beginners. Thanks again!
Hey , thinking of starting a PoD service using my designs, however when I create products on the PoD market place there is a large number of tshirts to select from. Should I offer all of them or just a select view? I worried that if I offer all of them, people won't be able to choose which one as most of them look the same when going off appearance alone and this may result in the customer not getting any. Analysis paralysis as you say.
Less is more.
Thanks for doing such a detailed review!
Just got dozens of designs stolen and being sold on RB . Beware if you starting an account
Some of my designs were also stolen, but I reported it to redbubble and they took them down. It's just a pain to have to keep searching for thieves all the time.
HOLA BONITA,I'M NOT REALLY INTERESTED IN SELLING THOSE THINGS,I'M INTERESTED IN YOUR STORIES AND LOVE THE WAY YOU SPEAK AND GESTURES YOU MAKE!!😊😊😊😊😊💐💐💐💐
One thing I love your smile ☺️so charming ☺️❤️
I love the new look Sarah. You should wear more red bubble shirts in your videos :)
I got a bathbat off printify and I do love it but the cost was insane. They didn't show me the cost to New Zealand before I clicked buy and the process fo buying was....I was expecting it to be like Amazon where it would show shipping cost and I would probably have not bought it when I saw that and translated to it being over nearly $60 NZ dollars for.....a bathmat. :-( It didn't give you time to think you just pressed buy and it was bought without telling you the shipping cost from my memory. But all that being said it is a very very beautiful bathmat.
What is your take on Amazon KDP vs the notebooks on red bubble?
Interested in this too!!
Always excited to watch you dish out quality information.
Thanks for this.. I have a Redbubble store buy sales not going well so checking to see what I can do to improve it..
Need a niche...
Hi Sarah, So many PODprinters to choose from. I have not ordered anything yet. I want sublimation printing, not direct to garment printing . which POD printer would do this?
Which printer company would you recommend? (printify, printful, ETC)
I feel like Redbubble is like dollar general stores you get what you pay for most of the time
Massive fan of your content your have been making super useful videos for ages now and its fantastic. Question: how can I print a logo onto an item from Aliexpress to use in a shopify store?
Maybe try to make some video's about challenging people's creativity with print on demands. Because while I find a ton of content about print on demand, I lack the idea-making process and end up using placeit, while good it eventually will be watered down.
Where would you recommend opening a store to create or dropshipping stickers, notepads, planners etc?
Seems RedBubble for these and then use Printiful for tees.
Thoughts?
Hi thank you so much for sharing this with us i have a question do you know a valable strategy to get a trend topics
You inspire me alot❤️❤️
Is printful prints smaller on the mugs or was that a choice
With regard to colours not being as vibrant as expected, artists need to remember which colour space they are working in. RGB is great for on-screen viewing but when converting for print, they need to check how it looks in CMYK.
As I said in the video, I don't think this is a file issue, I think it is a RedBubble printing issue, given that it has happened to every singe product I have purchased from RedBubble, it is clearly a print issue, not every artist will be making this mistake, yet every single product has it - so it is RedBubble 🙏
@@WholesaleTed Sorry Sarah, I wasn't suggesting there wasn't a RedBubble printing issue, just that it's an important thing to remember. Big fan BTW ;)
I was doing some comparisons of the top sellers on redbubble. I noticed that because of the bad print quality there seems to be an abundance of "vintage" and "Vintage Distressed" t-shirt designs. Funny thing is that is all the rage for some reason in games like GTA 5 online. It's a clever way around the bad print. Just upload your normal artwork and sell it as Vintage and distressed lol >.< Customers won't be disappointed when they get the product, they will actually be enthused. Here's hoping the trend lasts long enough for me to make enough cash to transition to printify with a shopify store.
I honestly love all your videos. This video helped me to go with printful instead. Thank you!! :)
hi sarah. i have a gaming pc and it has different settings to make it look better for games, movies, and websites (has preset contrasts etc). any chance that the reason the colours are not as bright is because of your computer setting? just a thought. ps - love the videos.
Thanks for the great info and amazing content i had to sub
Spent a week uploading on what feels like 1000 designs and just got my first sample shirt from Redbubble and the quality is HORRRIBLE. The shirt itself is whitish/grey and there is a huge faint yellow stain around the logo that extends to the sleeves to several inches below the logo, the black ink on the text is 4 different shades of black and fades in some areas and there are shadows on some of the text. Is this typical!?! Im so aggravated. Have you had this issue or was this a fluke?? If this isnt a good place what other POD has high quality? I spent so much time on my site so im so dissapointed right now
I love everything about the video expect how she stares at the camara that is the only thing that made me very uncomfortable, BUT APART FROM THAT, GREAT VIDEO
Hi Sarah, does the mug packaging have any warning signs on them to show delivery drivers to handle carefully? Would of been interesting if you did a drop test. What happens if the mug breaks.... does redbubble replace it or take the money back from you? What about returns too? FEES & PROFITS 🤔
Thank you so much! I now know what item should I go for redbubble because I believe in quality first.
But I do want you to review their face masks too, but, yeah, it is what it is.
Surprisingly, my first sell was a sticker. Guess that a big Aha for me, but I waited for confirmation and your video pops up!
Does Redbubble do their own printing? Is it possible that they subcontract it via a global network of printers to minimize distribution costs?