what's up guys thanks for joining me for
a new video today i'm going to talk
about
two of the printful integrated
e-commerce marketplaces that i was
selling on in 2020 that i'm gonna have
to say
rip to we're gonna have to put our hands
together and say a prayer for them
because i'm no longer going to be
selling on these marketplaces i'm going
to tell you how many sales i made
in 2020 and those two marketplaces are
bonanza
and wish so if you're interested let's
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all right so as promised i am using the
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printful review for 2021 because
they've changed some things they've got
some new things coming down the pipeline
it's going to be an exciting year i've
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so you don't miss that video but today
i'm going to talk about two
of the printful integrations that i had
used in 2020
i should have put an extra slide in my
presentation because i used
merch titans upload automation to
connect to printful
and upload uh automate uploads to these
stores
so i did bonanza which is no longer
listed
because i i don't know if it's that a
change on bonanza's end or if it's on
printful's end
but i guess that just wasn't working out
too well on somebody's side
and i'll talk about my experience with
both but also i'm going to talk about
wish
so bonanza i personally have never
bought anything from this website but
when i was looking into how to maximize
the value of my merch titans
upload automation software which by the
way i'll put a link in the description
if you guys want to check that out
and i think i have a discount code too
if anybody ends up signing up i'll put
that there too
but with merge titans you can automate
to printful and then anything that
printful
connects to you can use so i was doing
bonanza and wish as like
extra automation um pushes so bonanza's
marketplace it looks kind of similar to
etsy it's a little bit
i don't know when i'm using it it feels
busy to me like
they'll hit you with a bunch of pop-ups
on the side and on the top bar and stuff
like that and a little bit distracting
also the way that they display these
thumbnails of the products they sell
the thumbnails are kind of small which
is weird you know i always like to
preach
to optimize your design for the
thumbnails
and the method that i preach i think is
extra important for a place like bonanza
where the thumbnails are
probably rendered smaller than on any
other website maybe other than like ebay
uh so anyways bonanza as far as like me
shopping on this website i have not
i don't have a lot of experience at all
honestly but um integrating and starting
a seller account probably took me 10
minutes it really wasn't that hard
use the same shop name across the board
on all my other shops so i launched a
shop here
the one thing that was weird was payment
processing so i was only accepting
payments through paypal
i don't know why but bonanza like wants
the sellers to set up their own payment
gateways
and they're trying to push us to use i
think stripe to accept like credit cards
so the whole thing is just kind of weird
that a e-commerce website wants to be
taken seriously but can't process
payments for us they
put a barrier for us sellers so i was
only accepting paypal that probably
resulted in less conversions for me
i thought i had more than one sale but
apparently over the course of the year i
actually looked back in time
on my email inbox on my side monitor and
it said that i signed up
for the integration in december of 2019
so i got a good year in solid year on
bonanza and when it was all said and
done i only made one
sale over the course of the year i
looked back and i think it was a
shirt that was like a quote or some meme
related to that popular netflix show one
of the best things that came out of 2020
if you remember tiger king with joe
exotic it was something related to that
so
that was the only conversion i had that
came through bonanza but as you can see
i collected about 25 bucks
on that transaction the costs with uh
the shirt plus shipping was 1138 so i
got 14.59
of profit that being said one sale on
the year
is not worth our time even if you're
uploading uh using automation so we're
gonna have to
you know just say farewell r.i.p bonanza
and also shout out to shimmy morris he
he actually made this thumbnail and i
messaged him i was like yo i'm going to
steal your graveyard
um video he did like his redbubble dead
video
and i really liked the template so i
told him i'm going to steal his
thumbnail and repurpose it for this
video so shout out to shimmy
i'll put a link to his channel in the
youtube cards here all right next wish
so again i have not done a lot of
shopping on wish wish to me
is basically like every shopify
drop shipping store put together in a
single app
that is what i think of when i think of
wish because almost everything you buy
here is like straight out of china and
you can also just go to ebay
which is my preference i just go to ebay
sort by price plus shipping lowest
and then you can get everything you get
on wish and i don't know to me it's just
easier to use
ebay on my computer my desktop than
using my phone and trying to use wish
so anyways wish i did list a bunch of
actually i didn't even mention how many
listings i had
guys i had a couple thousand listings on
both wish and bonanza
with wish you can use automation and
just keep pushing
and it's very easy it's seamless with
bonanza the one thing i didn't mention
is you actually have to like
bookmark a link to your shop i mean this
is if anybody actually sells on bonanza
it's like
your store name forward slash edit
bookmark that all right that way
you keep uploading products then every
now and then you have to go there and
click publish otherwise the stuff that
you automated
the uploads for will not be buyable so
you have to go in every now and then hit
hit publish on those products
um just weird note there related to
bonanza another weird thing about
bonanza anyways with wish
i thought i sold more than just one
thing but apparently no i did okay two
orders
so i had two orders uh costs 25.96
profit left over afterwards 15 and i was
only listing t-shirts through the
printful integration i'm pretty sure
on wish uh you could not list the full
catalog of products that printful had to
offer it was limited in scope
it might have just been t-shirts if i
remember correctly it's been a while
since i've looked
so wish i mean it's not you know i'm not
mad about an extra 15
profit but even with automation just not
worth the um the hassle also wish is
weird
they up they email you every single
developer
update possible like they'll update
their api for something that you're not
using from like version 2.3 to 2.3.1
and they'll email you about it and i'm
just like stop emailing me i don't care
so that's that's what i have to say
about wish so rip
wish i will not be using you using the
wish printful integration
uh either in 2021 or beyond barring
something changing also which is
publicly traded which is a little bit
interesting they have a 15 billion
dollar market cap
which is absolutely crazy because it's
literally like i said it's unless
something changed
it's just like every possible item that
you can buy
on alibaba or aliexpress or buy from
somebody's
shopify drop shipping store in an app so
i don't understand how
it's you know so i don't even know if i
should say popular or what we all know
stock valuations are inflated right now
maybe that's all it is anyways thanks
for watching guys uh appreciate you
appreciate your time
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