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link to Chinese connect?
Bruhs, we gotta eat!! Ha. Establish connects with alibaba sellers and depending on minimum order, you'll see the prices around what i quoted.
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bruh elaborate on Halloween details please
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Alibaba is hit or miss tho. Was swindled 7 or so years ago but same time got a couple of samples from other sellers. Matter of fact I'm wearing the sample shirt today lol don't remember who I was talkin' to unfortunately
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There are many legit wholesellers that have high quality stuff, just like anything (ie ebay)...go with the high feedback high rating sellers.
- look for kids costume ($$ is better)
- sexy costumes (believe it or not, u can get these skimpy costumes for $3...flip to around $20). These birds dont even care ...$20 is nothing for them to skeez out for 1day and they just throw away and buy new one next year
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U are the man
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I used to browse through alibaba lookin' for lil trinkets. Found a few things but never pulled the trigger.
Could still make a lil penny with some of those lil emoji pillows and other items
Could still make a lil penny with some of those lil emoji pillows and other items
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Always been skeptical about trying to order from Alibaba, but imagine all that $ that could have been made or can still be made off some 10 cent fidget spinners.
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I mean once you find a solid seller I'd assume you're in the money
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How much did they charge you on upwork? This might be my play.
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The bigger deal is getting setup with FBA. I believe you have to ship them x-amount of product, packaging, etc. and then they approve?
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eBay is a bit more trustworthy but you'll be paying retail practically
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better to get on teelaunch or teespring on shopify. amz can take months to get approvals sent.
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Patiently waiting to get approved. So many designs already in my head that I want to do. One design in particular can be altered to 50 different alterations to reach different potential customers. Def gonna go after the new mommy/grandma/aunt market. Nothing sells more than excitement of a new baby coming and the women surrounding it lol. Impulse buys left and right lol
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Its dope, really you can seek out designers at your own price point.
Two options.
1. You can write a basic proposal and post it, and then prospective clients reply. Proposal usually consists of just explaining what you're looking for and how much you're willing to pay. Another dope idea is to narrow it down to like 3 designers and then give them all a design to create and choose the best one.
Or
2. You can browse thru filtered searches of "graphic designers" and message them directly with an individual proposal.
Sometimes have to work thru a couple to find a solid designer.
That said, I've paid between $4-$10 a design, depending on if its just text-based, graphic included or not, and the overall complexity. You can also pay people per hour but that could get murky unless you have a designer cranking out work consistently.
I have seen some people get them for as low as $2 a pop but thats usually in big bulk order purchases.
I'll keep using my designer but Im definitely going to incorporate some self-made designs now too.
Its crazy, this Merch thing has spawned a bunch of new businesses to market, particularly design services that do all of the work for you. You basically pay a monthly fee which gives you access to designs, that you still have to pay for and purchase.
Designcandy is one that comes to mind.
Folks figured out a bunch of gaps and filled them quickly. They're definitely just outsourcing on a major scale and buying hundreds of designs from foreign designers and then flipping them to folks for double/triple the price, its crazy.
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Thanks for the info. The thirst is real to get approved smh. I'm ready.
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In order to setup do you have to have some sort business established? Or, LLC?
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nah
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You don't.
Filling out the form I made up a business name and put a link to one of my IG's for the website.
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I did just in case lol. I didn't provide a website but I have a legit LLC
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Even better! Not required but could potentially separate you from everybody else who doesnt
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I'm hungry ... I'm ready.... I'm waitin'
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One thing I feel like I havent spoken on is trademarks.
Some of yall are probably hip to it, but to be clear: you cant upload any trademark infringing designs.
Because its Amazon, they're not really f'n around and don't allow stuff that you can get away with on redbubble, etc.
Because of this, you will want to run ideas and phrases thru uspto.gov to make sure its not trademarked.
Ill touch on this later when im not on my phone, but the trademark would have to be active and for t-shirts/apparel, to not be able to use.
Few of the homies have come to me with ideas, but its usually like lets do album covers or some retro nintendo thing lol
Ideas have to not be trademarked.
Hopefully that doesn't rain on any of your ideas!
The main thing is - look at this as a way to make some nice bread with essentially zero risk and start up. Don't get too attached to any design, no matter how dope you think it would look - if its trademarked. If you really like an idea do it on redbubble. An infinite amount of ideas out there that are not trademarked.
Figured I should mention that now.
Matter of fact I'll post the TOS here later today too.
Some of yall are probably hip to it, but to be clear: you cant upload any trademark infringing designs.
Because its Amazon, they're not really f'n around and don't allow stuff that you can get away with on redbubble, etc.
Because of this, you will want to run ideas and phrases thru uspto.gov to make sure its not trademarked.
Ill touch on this later when im not on my phone, but the trademark would have to be active and for t-shirts/apparel, to not be able to use.
Few of the homies have come to me with ideas, but its usually like lets do album covers or some retro nintendo thing lol
Ideas have to not be trademarked.
Hopefully that doesn't rain on any of your ideas!
The main thing is - look at this as a way to make some nice bread with essentially zero risk and start up. Don't get too attached to any design, no matter how dope you think it would look - if its trademarked. If you really like an idea do it on redbubble. An infinite amount of ideas out there that are not trademarked.
Figured I should mention that now.
Matter of fact I'll post the TOS here later today too.
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