On Amazon, nobody ever asked me who prints my products. I opened the account, listed, and that was the end of it. Etsy asks. It asks before you sell anything, and it asks again on every listing you put up. If you're moving print on demand onto Etsy,
I raised the price on my own product, and Amazon took the listing down for it. No complaint, no trademark problem, nothing wrong with the product. The listing went inactive with a flag called a potential high pricing error, and the "error" was a price I had planned
Etsy closed my shop twice. I got it back both times, and the same shop has now run for 2 years straight without another suspension. If you sell on Etsy, or you're about to, there's a real chance this happens to you at some point: the
If you want products selling this Christmas, they need to be live in August. Not because August is special. Because a new listing takes time to get found, and Amazon will not push something it only just met. The products that sell in December are the ones that have been
Amazon raises your listing limit when you start selling. That is the whole mechanism, and no number anywhere tells you how many sales it takes. There is a second route, and it is the one that actually worked on my account. I asked them to lift it. My catalog is
Every word and every picture you put on a product belongs to somebody. Most of the time that somebody is you. Sometimes it isn't, and the only way to find out is to look it up before you print it, not after. That's the whole job.
Nobody gets into print on demand planning to sit in it forever. You do it on the side of a job, or you do it as the business itself. Either way, the point was never to buy yourself another shift. If the money stops the moment you stop, you didn&
I opened Seller Central one morning and the account was gone. Not a listing. Not a category. The whole thing, deactivated. It took nearly 6 months and more appeals than I can count to get it back. So if you are building anything on Amazon right now, understand what the
Amazon Merch on Demand hands you 10 product slots. Ten. Sell nothing with those ten and that is where you stay, because the only thing that unlocks more slots is sales. So the way out is not a trick. It is one product that people actually want to buy. That
Getting your first print on demand sale is a real milestone. Not for the money, because the money is a few dollars. For the proof. Something you made went in front of a stranger and they pulled out their card for it. If you're already there, congratulations. That
Who pays for a print on demand return? On Amazon, you do. Not by taking the product back onto a shelf, because there is no shelf. Most of the time, you pay by losing the sale. If you sell POD on Amazon, sooner or later a return is coming, and
Quick note before anything else: I'm not a lawyer, and none of this is legal advice. It's what I've personally run into selling print on demand on Amazon, and how I dealt with it. Amazon also changes its policies over time, so treat this