This is an existing Zippo I published a long time ago. According to the back-end details, it was at 15.5% royalty making a list price of $39.30 which did correctly match up to the $39.30 list price shown on the product page.
I just went in and changed the “retail price” to a nice even $39.95 which upped the royalty % to 16.9
and much to my surprise the new list price of $39.95 is already being shown on the product page. I am assuming from that then that this existing product is correctly figured - $39.95 = 16.9%, 16.9% = $39.95.
So OK, the problem is I am wanting to publish a brand new Zippo at the same $39.95 list price.
But if I type that same 16.9% in the “Royalty Percentage” field on the post-for-sale of the new product, it gives me a list price of $52.55 instead of $39.95.
If I instead type $39.95 in the “Retail price” field, it results in a royalty of 5% and a list price of $45.95. Huh?
I don’t know what to make of this. I am fine with figuring “royalty you will make” and all other breakdowns on my own, but all calculations are entirely dependent on trusting the two main figures Zazzle calculates first - the “Royalty Percentage” and corresponding “Retail price”, and vice versa.
After a long dry spell of doing anything new I am finally in the right ‘place’ and eager to publish some new design lines but am stymied by this step of setting the royalty on the post-for-sale page as I don’t know what to trust.
For this particular example, what do I need to enter where to ensure a list/retail price $39.95, and is 16.9% the actual correct corresponding royalty % for that?? A definitive answer here will hopefully help me (and everyone else) navigate this step in the publishing process until this glitch is fixed.
Thank you.
