30-40% pay cut

[NicheNest]

I have asked similar question before, but no response….

Was the plan for the Ambassador program for Designers to generally take a 30-40% pay cut?

There have been changes to the treatment of ‘none’ and third party sales and increases in marketing fees which reduced royalty income by 30-40% overnight. 

Was this Zazzle’s underlying plan? 
Was the plan to shift royalty income from designers back to zazzle?

Can we expect our share to increase if things get better?

[Deb1]

Shame on Zazzle

[Deb1]

Shame on Zazzle for taking so much profit the percent is too much no fair to us. They already profit from us just adding more to their pocket.

[Deb1]

Shame, shame, shame

[Connie]

You could increase your royalties to make up for what you are losing. I doubt advertising costs will ever DECREASE, so I think the changes are here to stay.

[NicheNest]

That’s probably true about the marketing fees staying the same... Think I’ll probably just keep royalties the same for the moment as don’t want to lower store rank and/or position in the marketplace as that may have the opposite effect long term. Would like to know if anyone has raised their royalty over 15% to make up the difference without it impacting sales volumes?

Use to be able to an earn a full-time income on Zazzle, so was able to put my full-time focus on zazzle, but that’s not possible anymore. Had a good run though so can’t complain 

I’m sure many designers are in the same position. They will have no choice but to turn their attention to other sources of income, whether it be employment, other businesses etc. This will lower the volume (and quality) of designs posted on zazzle as designers are forced to go divide their attention.

[NicheNest]

I’m luckily in a position to be able take on other work etc if/when require so I don’t feel worried about speaking up.

However many others are not in a position to be able to find other sources of income and essentially are at the mercy of Zazzle, so we need to speak up for those people.

 Zazzle may have have needed to cut designers income’s to survive…. It’s obvious their intention was to reduce designers royalty income.

[Zizzago]

We did increase our royalties to 25% to make up for the marketing fees and all the other fees, and our zazzle rank went down instantly, and our earnings are tanked we are making as much as in 2009 as we started in 2008 in zazzle, and if we put our % at 10% we will be making much less that what we are making now, but I suppose everyone is different in their approach, we did try 10% and it was awful, now it is still awful but we make more that with 10% 😊