hey guys happy friday thanks for joining
me for a new video in this one i'm gonna
follow up on my previous video
talking about the newest amazon merch
additions to their catalog
that would be the tote bags and the
throw pillows i'm re-recording this
because last time i said
the throw pillows and i was like wait
throw pillows those don't exist
so we have the tote bag and the throw
pillow uh i'm going to be re-gifting
well not re-gifting i guess but i'm
going to be gifting these to people
after i record this video segment so
hopefully nobody watches this video that
i'm gonna be giving them to but as you
can see here i took some pictures of our
dogs and then i kind of mixed them in
and you know i might do a video on
next week on how i did that if there's
any interest to create these kind of
style of designs
i showed them to my girlfriend and she
loved it so if there's any interest let
me know in the comments below but yeah
i'm gonna
i got the products in it took seven days
from when i placed the order
which was a little bit later in the day
so i might say six days but it took
seven days from like
when the order was placed to when the
products arrived at the house
so yeah if you guys are ready let's get
into the review
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to the reason you came so
i'd mentioned this about a week ago but
since amazon merch rolled out the tote
bags and throw pillows and i don't know
if you don't have access i don't know
when they're going to roll out access to
every account but i got access about
eight days ago
and i did a video sharing all the
information including
essentially what they're going to look
like in the mock-ups so your artwork is
printed on both the front and back i'm
going to show you that in a second
and i gave you the base cost which is 15
54 cents
my recommended price of 15.95 for the
tote this is for the tote bag
and after your first sale what i might
consider increasing my price to which i
recommend 17.95
locking in a two dollar royalty and then
if you get a review probably up the
price from there is what i would do
in addition the throw pillows throw
pillows right yeah throw pillows
it's like tote pillows again uh throw
pillows so these come in two sizes you
got the 16 by 16 inch and the 18 by 18
inch i don't really understand why i
mean i'm not an interior decorator i'm
far from it
if there is a reason why you would offer
such close
in proximity sizes to each other 16 inch
and 18 inch
let me know because it's it's lost on me
i would think that you might go like
maybe
15 inch and 20 inch at least so that
you've got some
of a discernible difference because i'll
show you in the video
it's hard to tell the small one from the
big one apart but anyways
uh artwork is printed on both sides so
we call this all over print
um often the base cost for the throw
throw pillows i said wait no it is it's
a throw pillow yeah the pillows
the base cost is 17.39 and then what
you'll notice is
that is the base cost for the 16 inch
you don't get to change anything for the
18 inch but amazon
adds what was it two dollars i think to
the base cost of the 18 inch of the
larger pillow
so 1739 is the lowest you can list them
for
the recommended price is about 17.95
just because it's a little bit better
from a pricing psychology perspective in
my mind at least and then
after the first sale listed for 19.95
lock in two dollars and six cents
royalty per order
so when your listing is created for the
pillows you will see a uh variation
on the listing so i think it defaults to
like the 16 inch and then you can select
the 18 inch and vice versa
they'll automatically just add two
dollars to whatever base cost you
selected on the previous screen on the
setup screen the wizard they'll just add
two bucks for the
cost of the 18 inch pillow
all right and then also just wanted to
remind you that you can use this
completely free tool
called merch resize to take your like
t-shirt optimized designs
you just drag drop select tote by the
way the dimensions are the same for the
tote bag and the
throw pillow so just select tote hit
download it converts it for you it'll
automatically set the background
as black and then also a reminder if
you're interested in how i did this kind
of
theme design i don't know what to call
it design style it reminds me of like
some internet memes i've seen
if you have any interest in me showing
you how i did that let me know in the
comments below and i can do that next
week
in a separate video all right so if you
guys are ready let me show you the end
result
all right so this is a video recording i
took on my
nicer camera and it's playing back at
1.5 x speed if you're wondering why it's
going so fast but
you can see the design it printed out
very nicely on the tote bag
i have the pillow inside the tote bag so
it looks like there's something in there
and in case you're wondering what uh
this says it is
made of a hundred percent polyester on
the front and the back
and on the inside let me pause it there
you go
pause the video if you want to read what
the tag says on the inside of the tote
bag
essentially all new material consisting
of 100 polyester
fiber of recycled material manufactured
for amazon.com merch by amazon and then
it gives an address
uh pretty much it not to be removed
until delivered to the customer alright
so you know it's legit
none of that stuff means anything else
to me as you can see i put the pillow in
there but the tote bag i mean very
sturdy
um the straps are sewn on i'm sure it
could hold a bunch of heavy things at
the grocery store or whatever
here we've got the smaller throw pillow
throw pillow right yeah throw pillow
16 by 16 inch you can see what the
pillow materials say 100 polyester
so it looks like similar to the tote bag
there maybe that's why they rolled them
out together
looks like maybe they even have the same
manufacturer because doesn't that tag
look similar
says all new material consisting of 100
polyester fiber
of recycled material and again
manufactured for
amazon.com merch by amazon so check that
out
pillows came looking good the small one
had a little like thread hanging off of
it at the bottom there but whatever i'm
not too worried about it
probably the only defect that i noticed
if you want to call it a defect
there's the big pillow next to the small
pillow so
you can see there is a difference in
size but it's not not too noticeable
unless you're really looking for it i
don't know if the extra two dollars is
really warranted as far as price goes
but
anyways print quality i mean i love it
um like i said everybody that's seen it
loves it
uh i mean also i don't know we're a
little biased because you know those are
our dogs but
they're so cute i love chihuahuas
anyways back on track so yeah you can
see let's go back let me see two seconds
go back to that where we showed the uh
the seam there
okay no both pillows actually had a
little like string hanging out of it
that's interesting both pillows had that
um
you see where it's like sewn together
there at the bottom had that string
hanging out so maybe uh
amazon might want to take note of that
but
i mean functionally the pillows work
there isn't like any rips in it or tears
or anything like that and
the print quality again i thought was
awesome so
all right and that's it for my review of
the tote bag in the pillows
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