Can’t you at least confirm this? Is this question specific enough?

And are all product prices going up across the board? All we’re asking for is some transparency and not gloss over the real issue — which is we have to charge a lot more to make the same commission.

Can you confirm this?

And the fact they aren’t really directly answering your questions about the price hikes makes it clear they want to minimize this. It just makes them look worse by not addressing it.

The blog team were probably instructed not to. Well it looks bad because we are not dumb and can see what’s really going on.

They are going to lose a lot of affiliates, but apparently their affiliates aren’t a big part of their income…must be the marketplace… otherwise why do this if you know this will probably lower our sales?

However, that’s not all Spreadshirt is doing. Spreadshirt is also increasing its share of the price by 10% to 20%, according to the calculator. This is not required by the new model. This is a hidden price hike.

**** PROOF THAT THE ILLUSTRATION IS WRONG ****

(((PART 1))) The illustration above shows that Spreadshirt is LOWERING the base price of the product by 5.7%. Here’s why:

Old Spreadshirt share = (print price) + (product type price) = $14.00.

New Spreadshirt share = 80% * (print price) + (new product type price) = 80% * $16.50 = $13.20, as shown. The remaining 20% commission = $3.30, as shown.

The example shows Spreadshirt losing 80 cents ($13.20 – $14.00) in new model relative to the old model. That is, the illustration shows that the new model has LOWERED the base price by 5.7% (0.80/14.00).

We can confirm this more intuitively. The original product commission of $2.50 was only 2.50/(4+2.50+10) = 15% of the “net” price. In order to increase the commission to 20% and yet leave the final price ($18.50) unchanged, Spreadshirt would have to eat the ~5% difference.

On the contrary, the calculator is showing that Spreadshirt is INCREASING the base price by varying amounts (9.3% to 19.2% in my examples).

(((PART 2))) If we choose a base price increase at the low end of calculator results (most favorable to customers), say 10%, we get the most favorable correction for the above illustration.

The old spreadshirt share is $14.00. A base price increase of 10% makes this $15.40 under the new model.

The new net price gives 20% to the shop owner and 80% to Spreadshirt. 80% of $19.25 is $15.40, so $19.25 is the new “net” price of the product.

The new 20% commission is therefore 20% of $19.25 = $3.85.

If we add the design commission, the new price is $21.25 and the new total commission is $5.85. And this is the lowest price scenario!

For kicks, a calculation at a 20% base price increase yields a new “net” price of $21.00 with a 20% commission of $4.20. Add in the $2 design commission and the new numbers are $23.00 product price and $6.20 commission.

The final price in the corrected model is $2.75 to $4.50 higher, and the final commission is 50 to 90 cents higher.