Gutted, last September I set up a spring page and spent ages getting designs done and even paid 10 quid to link it to my website. Now my website is almost ready to attach spring to and now this. I have a massive audience that is crying out for merch here in the UK. I've had a nightmare trying to find a drop shipping company that's fast and affordable and easy to use. Looking forward to your videos about this sort of thing. Thank you 😊
that's so annoying! Have you considered moteefe, or even a shopify store. With an audience of that size the £29/m shopify fee shouldn't be such an issue
Go somewhere else with it, save yourself. They are a garbage company with a garbage reputation. They still can't even do the basics right after all these years.
As a photographer I don't do typical graphic design tees. I do all over print clothing from my photos and digital art. And Teespring is the first company I found that has lots of garment choices for all over print cut and sew. Threadless only has a graphic tee and leggings, no sports bras, swimming trunks, joggers, etc. and frankly I don't bandwidth to run a shop my self and connect to printful or printify. So who do you recommend for all over print cut and sew?
When I was first watching TH-cam videos about POD I was excited about Teespring but then they suddenly changed to Spring & did away with their market, and wanted influencer's to do all the work for them and lock out everyone else so I simply never had anything to do with them.
Teespring was the first place where I started POD. I remember them removing my first true vector design that took me hours to make. It was about yoga in space with an astronaut costume, stars, and planets, and it had text like "I need more space" or something. I don't remember exactly. And they removed it because of trademark infringement. The trademark owner was a wardrobe shop/manufacturer. They didn't have any clothing in the trademark, just business. It was the first time I had fought over something like that, I wrote a letter asking how is this possible when they don't have trademarked it for anything else, and they simply said, "We cannot help you. A trademark is a trademark." I left Teespring after that.
Teespring has a lot of nice features for the look of your store. Their clothing products are of good quality. The problem is the base cost, passing it off to your customers which reduces sales. So, I walked from Teespring quite sometime ago.
@@shimmymorris1 I'm on many different platforms. Just started with Esty. Etsy has a stats page. 85 % of the traffic to this page came from my own website. Almost no traffic came from Etsy even with running easy ads. Explains a lot and proves that even though this platform has its own market place, sellers need their own website to drive traffic.
after RB kicked my butt from their platform, l moved to Spreadshop and Threadless, gotta say, way better experience, especially Threadless, they have competitions and their commision is awesome, much better than most platforms.
@@Lucenator69 order one of your own items to see first-hand and also show it to family friends to get unbiased feedback. No use going all out just to find their quality isn't good. truly....
So many PoD sites becoming ridiculous 🙄🤦♀️😵💫 Have you ever looked into/spoken about Cafepress? I know they're not the big dogs now, but i know they've been around for a LONG time! Never hear about the site, but was curious...
Happy to see you thinking on spreadshop because I opened a shop almost a year but whitout having a sale yet😔 Now I’m putting my designs on the shop and on their marketplace let’s see 🤞
my dad bought a shirt with my design to show off and the design that was supposed to be over the pocket badge spot of the front, but came out to be giant and in the middle under the collar, he still wore it out of love, but it definitely turned me off especially after sending multiple lower quality "premium" shirts that were essentially their cheap thin paper feeling classics.
i just started POD 6 weeks ago. all i see is outraged complaints from longtime sellers. so where do you go if you want your designs in the search and not have to rely on your own social media to drive traffic? and make 2 dollars a design ? AND they want you to use an illustrative style and be super witty=yet if you look at what their top sellers are its very basic.any info prior to a month ago seems redundant.longtime sellers who have thousands of designs and in high tiers have a completely different perspective.
I’ve given up with print on demand. The odds are becoming increasingly in favour of the platforms and not the creator. Feels like chasing rainbows now.
I spent countless hours making designs on there website. Just for them to get wiped away the next day. I was so posed off and it wasn’t like the Design for offensive. They were completely original designs made by me. Then I saw how you have to pay Yearly for a domain. I’m currently trying to find a new Merch Site to sell my TH-cam Merch.
I mean the answer as to why was answered in the first 2 minutes. Business model was not sustainable. They can bring as many new features as they like, if they are not making money as a company they are gone.
I figured something was wrong with them. I couldn't get them to communicate with me. I got locked out my account due to lost password, I tried setting up password reset and their system was not even working for password reset. Bad business and communication with them
I been wanting to find marketing tools like teespring had like the preorder and all else you discussed here. Would love a follow up video on that! Preferably a shopify or wordpress theme or plugin.
Teespring deserves every bit of the hate they are getting since they got rid of their free marketing channels, SEO, marketplace, boosted network and google ads. They screwed over so many sellers who relied 100% on passive income such as myself and all the sudden sales became minimal and completely stopped. Back in 2014-2017 it was an outstanding platform until the terrible changes they made. Let them go bankrupt. They made their own bed and deserve every bit of it.
Gutted, last September I set up a spring page and spent ages getting designs done and even paid 10 quid to link it to my website. Now my website is almost ready to attach spring to and now this. I have a massive audience that is crying out for merch here in the UK. I've had a nightmare trying to find a drop shipping company that's fast and affordable and easy to use. Looking forward to your videos about this sort of thing. Thank you 😊
that's so annoying! Have you considered moteefe, or even a shopify store. With an audience of that size the £29/m shopify fee shouldn't be such an issue
Go somewhere else with it, save yourself. They are a garbage company with a garbage reputation. They still can't even do the basics right after all these years.
Thanks for the heads up. I was just about to give them a try.
ye i wouldn't at this point
As a photographer I don't do typical graphic design tees. I do all over print clothing from my photos and digital art. And Teespring is the first company I found that has lots of garment choices for all over print cut and sew.
Threadless only has a graphic tee and leggings, no sports bras, swimming trunks, joggers, etc. and frankly I don't bandwidth to run a shop my self and connect to printful or printify. So who do you recommend for all over print cut and sew?
When I was first watching TH-cam videos about POD I was excited about Teespring but then they suddenly changed to Spring & did away with their market, and wanted influencer's to do all the work for them and lock out everyone else so I simply never had anything to do with them.
ye i don't know why they went down that route! makes no sense
I really do like most of your videos and what it seems to be a genuine effort to help us out here, especially us beginners; thank you.
thank you so much!
Teespring was the first place where I started POD. I remember them removing my first true vector design that took me hours to make. It was about yoga in space with an astronaut costume, stars, and planets, and it had text like "I need more space" or something. I don't remember exactly. And they removed it because of trademark infringement. The trademark owner was a wardrobe shop/manufacturer. They didn't have any clothing in the trademark, just business. It was the first time I had fought over something like that, I wrote a letter asking how is this possible when they don't have trademarked it for anything else, and they simply said, "We cannot help you. A trademark is a trademark." I left Teespring after that.
you left at a good time... they only went down hill!
I remember they are the pod for youtubers who manage to reach 10k subscribers? But their shiping fee is ridiculous
ye they used to be sooo good!
Teespring has a lot of nice features for the look of your store. Their clothing products are of good quality. The problem is the base cost, passing it off to your customers which reduces sales. So, I walked from Teespring quite sometime ago.
that makes sense... the clothing quality became worse too
@@shimmymorris1 I'm on many different platforms. Just started with Esty. Etsy has a stats page. 85 % of the traffic to this page came from my own website. Almost no traffic came from Etsy even with running easy ads. Explains a lot and proves that even though this platform has its own market place, sellers need their own website to drive traffic.
after RB kicked my butt from their platform, l moved to Spreadshop and Threadless, gotta say, way better experience, especially Threadless, they have competitions and their commision is awesome, much better than most platforms.
What can you say about the quality of the shirts and the print? Is it okay, I'm also looking for alternatives ughh
@@applepi5100 can't really say anything about the quality, as l just joined them 2 weeks ago, can't be worse than Redbubble tho LOL
What make you not want to use printify
@@Lucenator69 order one of your own items to see first-hand and also show it to family friends to get unbiased feedback. No use going all out just to find their quality isn't good. truly....
So many PoD sites becoming ridiculous 🙄🤦♀️😵💫
Have you ever looked into/spoken about Cafepress? I know they're not the big dogs now, but i know they've been around for a LONG time! Never hear about the site, but was curious...
i've looked into cafepress but i was put off by some of their practices. I need to do an updated review of them though
Happy to see you thinking on spreadshop because I opened a shop almost a year but whitout having a sale yet😔
Now I’m putting my designs on the shop and on their marketplace let’s see 🤞
nice! good luck
my dad bought a shirt with my design to show off and the design that was supposed to be over the pocket badge spot of the front, but came out to be giant and in the middle under the collar, he still wore it out of love, but it definitely turned me off especially after sending multiple lower quality "premium" shirts that were essentially their cheap thin paper feeling classics.
aw i'm so sorry! their quality really is unacceptable
ok, spring is de_ad, but what about the spreadshop?
that video is coming soon! a full review
i just started POD 6 weeks ago. all i see is outraged complaints from longtime sellers. so where do you go if you want your designs in the search and not have to rely on your own social media to drive traffic? and make 2 dollars a design ? AND they want you to use an illustrative style and be super witty=yet if you look at what their top sellers are its very basic.any info prior to a month ago seems redundant.longtime sellers who have thousands of designs and in high tiers have a completely different perspective.
I’ve given up with print on demand. The odds are becoming increasingly in favour of the platforms and not the creator. Feels like chasing rainbows now.
it is certainly getting harder and harder, that's for sure!
I spent countless hours making designs on there website. Just for them to get wiped away the next day. I was so posed off and it wasn’t like the Design for offensive. They were completely original designs made by me. Then I saw how you have to pay Yearly for a domain. I’m currently trying to find a new Merch Site to sell my TH-cam Merch.
its shocking! Look into spreadshop
Hey how long will it take for you to make this video on spread shop
probably a few weeks. maybe a month... depends when the stuff arrives for testing
I mean the answer as to why was answered in the first 2 minutes.
Business model was not sustainable. They can bring as many new features as they like, if they are not making money as a company they are gone.
for sure
Its crazy because we made a put $50,000 last year 👍
Redbubble is next
Brought it on themselves if they do :-/
for sure!
Why do you say that?
Ineed to start POD what is the best site for hight quality
that's a super hard question as so many sites are terrible! but i'd say try, printful, gelato, akward styles, printify...
@@shimmymorris1 tnx thats so helpful
please what are the best platform to work with now
@neonwavves has a pretty good list
I didn't sold anything there 😅
sorry to hear :(
My experience with Spring has been awful. The shirts shrink two sizes! I’m changing companies
yup it really has
Well, I can't access Teespring website today June 9th 2023. And my payout haven't been paid since requested it in end of May.
damn! that's not good. have you contacted support
@@shimmymorris1 Just emailed them an hour ago..so, we'll see..
@@videoeventjakartahow is it going now
I sold 649 items on redbubble in one year. and i sold 0 item on teespring in one year.
That's right. ZERO.
Not sure what i did wrong.
well redbubble has organic traffic and teespring doesn't... that could be the issue
Thanks for sharing this
you're welcome
I figured something was wrong with them. I couldn't get them to communicate with me. I got locked out my account due to lost password, I tried setting up password reset and their system was not even working for password reset. Bad business and communication with them
ye the communication is terrible!
LOL ok i guess i wont be uploading there!
probably not the best idea
I been wanting to find marketing tools like teespring had like the preorder and all else you discussed here. Would love a follow up video on that! Preferably a shopify or wordpress theme or plugin.
ye i really want someone else to offer those elements. They were awesome!
I hope Redbubble is paying very close attention... They're next.
100%
Actually, cracking down on people stealing designs is a good thing. I wish Redbubble all the best
Teespring deserves every bit of the hate they are getting since they got rid of their free marketing channels, SEO, marketplace, boosted network and google ads. They screwed over so many sellers who relied 100% on passive income such as myself and all the sudden sales became minimal and completely stopped. Back in 2014-2017 it was an outstanding platform until the terrible changes they made. Let them go bankrupt. They made their own bed and deserve every bit of it.
yup it's such a shame, they used to be so good!
Spreadshop is OG. Been using for ages. TH-camr, Roberto Blake, has some really good info on them as well.
yeeeaa! they're awesome! i'm going to make some content on them too
@@shimmymorris1 Looking forward to it.