This is Getting Old

[Jadendreamer13]

So here I am again—in the exact same unfair scenario that I complained about last week.

Once again, today I sold 50 pens at a sale price of $245.00. Once again, it was a third-party sale (that’s all I get now). So, instead of receiving my 10% royalty of $24.00, I received $13.00 and some change. That’s nearly 50% of my royalty given to a third-party, leaving me with a ridiculous 5% royalty.

This has got to stop. 🛑 Something is drastically wrong and out of balance with this scenario.

If I set my royalty at 10%, I want 10%, not 5%. So, in order to receive a 10% royalty, do I have to raise my royalty to 15%? And will the third-party receive half of that, leaving me with 7% instead of 10%?

What will it take for me to earn the 10% royalty that I want and deserve?

[NigelSutherland]

Time for Zazzle to hold up their hands and admit they've got this wrong. Revert to the old ways and try to quell the dissent that they have engineered amongst their creators, the very people that they depend on the most.

[Mariholly]

Well, that would be great, but I don't think that's the case.
It's their company and their rules — if someone doesn't agree, I guess they're free to leave. In fact, I've always thought that this would eventually lead to a sort of "natural selection" among designers, and maybe at some point this was even considered.
Who knows? I don't think they are overly worried about us leaving, unfortunately.

[Jadendreamer13]

There is no other way out of this mess.