hey what's up guys today i'm joined by
the lovely
marielle of mary jay's hauls on youtube
and we're going to talk about when the
next amazon merch tier up may happen i
know you've been waiting for it
yes long time yeah she's still in tier
100 but she's got a lot of sales we'll
show you we'll give you a quick update
on her account
and kind of give a theory as to why
maybe you've gotten skipped over a
couple tear-ups because i know you've
been eligible for months
and i'm gonna give a guess on when well
we can both guess when the next tear up
will be
okay i don't know if we should guess if
you'll be included in this one because i
know you've missed like probably four in
a row but um
the nice thing about being in tier 200
000 is that i don't really need to be
teared up anymore although i wouldn't be
mad about it
anyways what we're going to talk about
in this video is basically predictions
on the next one
talk about maybe a little history of the
tear up system and its current state
and uh i guess that sounds good to me
yeah okay let's do it
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all right let's start by looking at your
account so how has your month been going
marielle
i do have to say this is probably my
best month so far
even though i'm within like one niche
yeah you're in one primary niche yeah
i mean you make sales in a couple yeah
but other niches
yeah i agree but one primary driving the
sales yeah for sure okay good you guys
can check out her channel where she's
very transparent about her merch journey
since like tier 25 which was basically
tier 10 when we
basically resurrected your account and
if you guys want a really funny story
tell them about what happened
when you made what like 500 or 600 bucks
and then realized you weren't seeing it
in your bank account
guys yes so big tip always check to make
sure that the bank account information
that you have
in merch is correct i didn't check for
months and then one day i was like i
don't think i've ever gotten a payout
from amazon
went in and checked was like whose bank
account is this i was so
weird but i remember i let someone have
my account for a while as they were
struggling to find means for
money so i gave them my account they
stopped using it and i when i took my
account back i
never changed the bank account
information i am happy the money went to
this person
but it stung a little yeah so anyways
guys yeah check your bank account in
case you ever shared your merch account
with somebody else but we got it back we
switched the banking info now
and um it looks like you're gonna be
okay i mean just this month
in tier 100 you've got about 350 of
profit and still 10 days left to go in
the month and i mean i pre i filled my
slots
probably like three months ago and
haven't really changed many of the
products in it and
have barely touched merch so i mean that
is for me
truly passive yeah i mean look you have
a 34
of your live products have sales that's
like crazy high
oh that's good and i didn't even realize
that that illustrates so like when you
guys um have products that aren't
selling like don't be afraid to delete
them
and submit a new design or if you have
something that's selling really well
go in and edit it and enable other
products yeah and he calls me as greedy
as the chihuahuas because i definitely
upped some of my prices
a little absurd but guess what it didn't
hinder any of my sales or maybe it did
but i was still making way more sales
than i had been in the previous months
that it didn't even seem like it was
mattering and my bsr was so good once
again it didn't affect it
yeah so she's got some premium premium
shirts
yeah we she's making healthy royalties
on a lot of her stuff although i just
saw the screenshot and i saw the hoodie
only making 3.57 cents and i was like oh
you got to increase that price
i made like eight bucks off of a hoodie
in the japanese market today but anyways
i guess
as far as the tear-ups go uh marielle
has been eligible for a tear-up
since probably february and it's now may
20th
right like probably february yeah
because you only need
like the rules are not written in stone
but based on my like four years
experience in the merch program
you really only seem to need like 80 of
your current tier
in sales so if you're in tier 100 let's
say you need like
80 sales yeah but the reason i'm like
hesitant is i'm like well didn't you get
teared up out of tier 10 with like four
sales
so it's definitely variable and i know
that you need to fill up most your
slots also to be eligible yeah i've kept
them pretty full now like i said i
haven't really touched them in a long
time just because i
i like the niche that i'm in um it's
been working out for me even though it's
mainly two products
but another full-time job too
and several other projects so it's been
a super passive
income for me yeah and we're working on
her etsy shop too she's been talking
about etsy on her channel and doing more
like real-time updates but we
as far as passive goes yeah like getting
using a lot of upload automation trying
to like
fill up etsy etsy shop but anyways as
far as tiers go
you haven't been teared up you're still
in tier 100 the new upload slots are
certainly going to help
it sucks that they are not available on
your account and the theory that you had
was
the return rate so it looks like i had
nine items canceled and 30 items
returned and apparently
or from what i've heard through the
grapevine usually if you have a high
return rate that can
prohibit your tear up got you i'm gonna
check mine real quick
um i'm super zoomed in so yeah maybe
that's it guys i mean let us know your
thoughts
in the comments below so mine says
basically 23 400 sales
and the parentheses you said was returns
yeah i don't even look honestly 820 oh
that's
okay yeah it says sold canceled return
yeah okay got it so
i've had 787 cancelled and 829
returned um i guess that maybe could
play a factor
like i don't think they explicitly state
anything about tear ups as far as the
merch team goes in their policy i don't
i've never seen that if they do
um and so i've never really dealt with
that issue but it is interesting
to think about and as far as like
predicting the next tier up
the one thing i wanted to mention was
that like they have been rolling out
that change that
hit my account but not yours and the
change is what i talked about two weeks
ago guys i'll link to it in the youtube
cards right here
where i talked about like instead of one
upload to one
one designed to one product counting as
one of your upload slots it's going to
be
you know one design to any number of
products on basically what's recommended
all products on all marketplaces
is going to count as one upload slot so
that's like pretty huge for merch i'm
like really excited about the potential
there and i've been cranking out so many
daily uploads and overnight basically
just non-stop
hitting all the international
marketplaces i want to get to the 10 000
a month on merch as soon as possible
because now it's like
absolutely like it's reasonable and
probable almost so um it's just a
question of how long it takes to get
there but
uh i don't think they're gonna do
another wave of tear-ups until
the like most of the accounts including
low tiers
uh get that get that upgrade okay
that's my guess so i
like i know you don't have it in tier
100 i got it like immediately in tier
200 but to know if you guys have it
my suggestion is go to the dashboard
link on pretty merch so up there at the
top
click the dashboard so you don't see the
pretty merch dashboard and then you'll
see like the altered uh
they're like blue bars basically so like
amazon merch
official dashboard pulls in a bunch of
what looks like the pretty merch one
with the little sliders showing you your
current progress except they're blue
yeah
so that's my guess and my guess is that
this will i always like to be positive
so i'm going to say next thursday i
always pick a thursday too
so what are you doing thursday i've been
i've hit something may 20th
i'm gonna go with may 28th i don't know
what day of the week that is i'm just
sticking that's like next friday i think
so we're basically within friday all
right well hey that would be good news
for everybody i think because then all
you guys would get access to the
more uploads i hope so i did leave um
the person that was getting the funds
from my account
on two of the foreign because you could
add multiple bank accounts
so i let him have i think like italy and
something else
because i love him don't get me wrong
okay well he's gonna be like why is
there
uh euros being deposited into my bank
account no they'll convert it but um
anyways guys yeah i think that's what we
said we would cover i guess history of
the tear up system i guess
if it's worth knowing i'll summarize it
like they've made a lot of changes to
this
um you can actually like google because
i was making the thumbnail and you can
google like amazon merch tiers and you
can see like the old pretty merch tiers
that used to include like tier 12 000
which doesn't exist now and uh tier 6
000 which
i think 6 000 still exists if you sell
internationally
because in the facebook group i've seen
people posting like tiers that i don't
think you i think you just skipped
straight over in
in the us so um i'd be pretending to be
an expert here i'm just kind of like
going off of what i see in my
by the way join the facebook group link
in the description it's free
great community there and helps you
figure out kind of what's going on
um and when there's tear-ups you know
massive celebrations go down
in the group lots of congratulations get
thrown around so
yeah but um the tear up system is going
to continue to evolve like i got teared
up to 200k with
like i guess like 20 000 sales you know
it's like 10 percent of the
actual tier but i had a lot of upload
slots full i was at like 95 000 out of
100 000. yeah that makes sense
so i don't know anyways i guess um
that's pretty much it
i just needed something to talk about
today guys and i figured a lot of people
were asking about
amazon merch tears so why not bring
marielle on she's been
if you guys think you have it bad what
is it four months ago almost
going on like four months of being
eligible and getting skipped over so let
us know if you need to rant in the
comments below how long you've been
waiting for a tear up when you think the
next one will be
and um subscribe check out her channel
too because she's got a lot more
transparent uh starting from the ground
up and scaling type
content designs niches etc
yeah and more transparent about like the
niches that are working and whatnot so
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