Amazon Merch CHANGED... 

It so annoying that amazon makes changes without actually explaining whats happening, we are always left in the dark.

Good news though it would be much better if Amazon could just fully terminate all bought accounts so that serious designers can have at least a change to get accepted into a tier 10 account. Which seems impossible now since a year or so.

I remember being teared up to 500 slots without having anywhere near 500 designs. I questioned Amazon’s decision to do this. While it was a plus, it seemed unnecessary to give me so many slots when I only had about 59 filled. I think they're now scaling back and removing unused slots for those who don’t use them. There's nothing bad about this, in my opinion. I believe they're trying to scale accounts appropriately based on design portfolio size.

Yes, I agree that having ONE category for BSRs will make things easier to understand and manage. Thanks for the video!

Thank you, Philip! Enjoy your time in Holland!

Very disappointed to know that some of the popular POD youtubers were selling accounts illegally. The things people will do for a quick buck. Hope they get caught. You are one of the few POD youtubers I trust.

I just made it to tier 25 in the last month, so I haven’t been tiered down, but if I do at least I don’t have far to go 😅

I'm a graphic designer by trade and got rejected from the program, despite being a seasoned t-shirt designer. After my third rejection I gave up.

Thanks for the video. I was tiered down on my daily uploads. I was tiered up to 100 with 40 daily uploads. Recently Amazon changed my daily uploads down to 20 daily.

I wish I had all those spaces. I recently went from 25 where I had 900 sales to 100. Greetings and thank you very much for your help

Hello sir, Thank you for this video. I have noticed the BSR change and I am happy too. Also, I would like to kindly ask one question. You said in your video "I thought it's people who are buying a high tier account and then they're starting out with zero sales, zero designs on there and then Amazon merch kind of notices after a while well this account is tier 10000 but it's only had like 50 sales for example." so if anyone have 50 sales for example then how they upgraded in tier 10000? How this is possible? Can you please explain?

Good video Philip. That is great news on tier downs. It was good to see Merch staff taking action on the influencer accounts that were being sold. Plain and simple these accounts are being abused. I sent the leaked video to staff of Ryan Hogue instructing people how to "convert" their newly purchased accounts to their name, tax information etc recently purchased from him. It showed how to avoid detection and flags that these purchasers could get terminated for. Obviously knowing what they are doing is against TOS. Ryan's email instructions were sent in. Ryan wants to deny this and ban anyone mentioning the situation but he is at the hub of this controversy. I would go out on a limb and even say a number of people in your poll asking who bought accounts may be off due to people who voted no but really did purchase accounts. For those that may have been tiered down and did not buy an account I ask. Why do you need 10k or 1k if you are not using the slots anyway? Account selling is a cancer to the program currently and this may be a way that it is addressed.

Thanks Philip, good topic to touch on! I have a regular account, and I’ve been staying at tier 500 for a long while now. I maxed out my design slots and I had to delete some of my old designs in order to publish new ones. What do you think is the best way to tier up again from tier 500?

Don't have that problem, still being in tier 10. I hope this downgrading will not evolve in closing tier 10 accounts 😮

Hey Philip, I wanted to know if combining both bullets for my Amazon product description is the right thing to do

This make me so scared. I got started in tier 1000 when they gave me a new account because I was in the amazon influencer program. I had applied and got denied then a few months later I got a email that said congratulation you been accepted and I hadn't reapplied. I have almost all my slots filled 928 total. With no automation. I have been working so hard on uploading the last 6 months. I have had just over 200 sales but just started getting more lately.

So BSR is back to normal as we know it? We look for 100K or less.

can we say that the end of earning and working on Merch by Amazon?

Hi Philips, I was tired down but I didn't buy the account

I was at tier 1000 and now 500😅

j avais un compte amazon merch mais apres une fraude une fuite de mes identifiants de mon compte il a ete fermé sauf que mes designs sont toujours en vente et amazon ne comprends pas ce que je leurs demande si mon compte est fermé pourquoi mes creations sont toujours en ligne? j ai du envoyer 100 emails ils me repondent toujours a coté et ne comprennent pas mon soucis......;

Tried down from 1000 to 500