Tier 10 Amazon Merch Sellers: Should You Buy Your Own Shirts?

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[jaimelocklear]

Thanks for the course I had thought pretty much about everything you explained but didn't think about dropping the price buying then raising and why it matters with Amazon's percentage 👍

[nitrapalmer]

Love the tips and suggestions! Thank you

[sherzaman]

Whaoooo Ryan!! Incredible tips. The tip you gave about searching your own listing by search bar to direct the algorithm toward our listing is Amazing and the tip about using an MBA for the fulfillment of Etsy orders just blew my mind. I am an established seller on Etsy eBay and Amazon Seller Central. I just recently got approved for MBA I am trying to make my first sale but haven't made it yet. My brother suggests me every other day to purchase it by myself for Teir up but I don't want that success I want to make sales to Teir up and taste the pure success, not the tempered one.

[jagjericho]

Ryan, thanks so much for this video. I have a question - I’m new to Amazon merch and in tier 10 and after designing a shirt and it was live, I searched for it and used the same description in my listing and looked through all the pages of search results and couldn’t even find my shirt. What’s up with that?

[williefilmore]

What if I need shirts for a in person sales and events?? Should I go somewhere else??

[michaelrowlands]

Doesn't matter if you buy them or not, you still seem to have to wait 6 months + to get a tier up! Been eligible since last Oct and still waiting.

[RailinX]

I bought a few shirts to try to get out of T10 (had made Xmas designs for family), but one shirt ended up starting to sell and by the time I finally tiered up I already had 18 sales. I think it's a very good idea to buy a bunch of your own shirts to get out of T10 hell if its not a financial hardship for you, because you will get more slots.

[donnabaron]

I followed all of these tips, bought my own designs and got nowhere. Most of my designs couldn't be found. I don't know what to do anymore.

[bilalmokhtari]

its not about buying your shirts or not it about how many sales y'll made to tiered up and how long it take to tiered up for example i have more than 100 sales and i've been waiting more than 6 months and till now i didn't tired up to tier 25

[Epic-Roblox-Time]

Thanks for your videos! I watch you all the time.
I have been uploading different designs to Amazon for two months now, but there is not a single sale. Tried different strategies. I set the prices to the minimum, but still no sales. What can you advise?

[sirblanka]

In my experience, I had my sisters buy 1 t shirt of the same design, and leave a review. I noticed that specific design is the only tshirt I've sold.

[SolarLingua]

I don't know about Amazon... I kinda lost my motivation. RedBubble and Spreadshirt are super profitable already and while I make 3 digits there after a year of POD, I'm still in T10 on Amazon, although I sold about 40-50 products. Just wanted to know if someone is/was in a similar situation. What did you do?

[thanesbusiness]

i did, although later sold a bunch of designs and i didn't really need to do it

[mkthebrands]

I want to know about etsy or any other option to buy your own shirts.. because i am from PAKISTAN and there is too much shipping cost in my country so what would u suggest.. ??

[JoJo-upzz]

Thank's for the tips Ryan, I have a year old MBA account with 27 sales of which 14 were made organically in the last 4 months. I only ever bought my own shirt once to test the quality. Hope to get tiered up soon.

[handsomecards]

How do you enable the cha-Ching noise?

[arjones]

I have 8 sales since Thanksgiving, all slots filled and have not gotten tiered up. I did however, get an extra upload per day so now I have 2 designs I can upload per day, but still only 10 slots. I thought that was weird.

[UKDaddybear]

I just wish I could get as far as tier 10. 😊 still stuck in application process.

[NabilMoutana]

hello Ryan
I don't know but i think the tire up algorithm is taking more factors than we can think about. I'm on tire 10, have had 76 sales for one t-shirt over the cours of the month of February still stuck in tire 10. Also when i started having those sales i saw some friends getting similar design rejected so i simply removed the listing to keep my account in a healthy state. not sure if that one of the reasons why i didn't tire up to 25 or 100. any thoughts on that ?

[collinvickers]

I think it's possible that one reason tier 500 or 1000 might take longer, as in the case of Ryan's girlfriend, is because that's when you can qualify for their ad platform, and integrating that may take an extra step of approval or processing internally for Amazon. Just a thought.