My sales are totally dead. I am curious if it is just me or is it something more significant?
Many years ago I had relatively reasonable sales, but with all the “improvements” they were steadily declining. Also, few months ago I received rejections of few of my designs (never happened before like that) which were pretty run of the mill things that I regularly publish on other online PODs.
In explanation it said that similar wording already exist on the internet. Duh! Yes, mine! Is Spreadshirt now exclusive and you can publish only with them?
Anybody knows anything or cares to chime in?
Yap you are not alone on that one by a long shot, I had 3,000 designs ripped out on migration and 9 shops. from the US Side and went from 40-80 dollars a month to zippo … so I am slowly rebuilding … I have also noticed community standards taking out best sellers due to new policies and had 100 designs taken out due to rights unaccounted for even when they were already cleared and approved in the marketplace. and were clearly my own… I have had a lot of other designers say the same thing. So it really does get extremely frustrating and a lot of working hours are completely wasted.
To avoid future declains, we should eread the new policy.Agree that it’s frustrating.
I don’t know how is Spreadshirt doing in general and whether this slowdown is part of it. It is ironic that their algorithm didn’t allow few of my designs to be published, but when I checked one of my designs their algorithm allowed that design that is infringing mine to be published. I hate to write DMCA notices and am wandering if it is even worth doing it if we are in such low volume and traffic environment.