How badly we are affected by the Marketing fees

OakAndPine
New Contributor III

Earnings are drastically reduced by the new changes by Zazzle , but our efforts as designers are the same if not more. Shouldn't more efforts result in better results?? How does this work? I put in greater effort but make way less ??? Inspite of promoting my products on social media I never make any referral sale. I just don't understand how this can be....Are the management at Zazzle listening to our pain. How are they justifying taking away almost 50% of our royalties. If affiliates are working hard to promote Zazzle products, we designers are also working equally hard to make quality unique designs. Why are we designers being penalized ? Here's an example of how my Zazzle earnings look nowadays 😞 

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NicheNest
New Contributor III

I really hope these changes are reversed so we can just get back to designing. Under the new agreement it would appear as though the overwhelming majority of designers will earn less (unless they are great promoters).. it appears that external affiliates will still earn the same 15% as they have previously and that Zazzle itself will benefit the most (effectively taking the shortfall of designers royalties earned via marketing fees / excess royalty fees etc).. if I’m interpreting correctly