what's up guys thanks for joining me for
a new video so i was just joined by mary
j halls my girlfriend and we were
talking about her worst day ever on
merch by amazon and really like the
worst start to a month possible
for merch by amazon we're going to talk
about that in today's video uh we
recorded it on her computer by the way
i'll link to her channel in the
description below like i usually do in
case you want to check out her content
she even shows her shirts and like what
was selling and whatnot and she shows
how she made over 400 profit last month
uh on merch by amazon so you might want
to check that out but anyways this is
going to be a fun video and i'm going to
do my income report tomorrow because i
was a little bit like busy today i
recorded a podcast episode with the
merch minds podcast which shout out to
them that was like the first merch by
amazon podcast that i used to listen to
that really got me motivated uh to push
myself and take this as far as i could
take it so it was like everything was
coming full circle uh with me getting to
be a guest on that podcast but anyways
guys let's get right into the content
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guys and welcome back to mary j's haul
so i am here with reinhog from ryan
hogue's passive income today and we are
going to talk to you guys about the
worst start to the month i think i know
i have ever had in merch but is it one
of the worst months you've ever seen as
well in terms of someone else's account
i think in like real terms this has to
be the worst start of all time
at least that i've seen although i will
reference the like a really bad month in
general but this has to be the worst
start to the month ever well at that
same time guys i think eight sales on
tuesday was my maximum amount of sales
that i've ever made in one day coming in
with 41
royalties which was great but i knew
there was going to be repercussions to
pay and i knew it because the shirts
were halloween shirts and people were
ordering them way too close to halloween
so i figured my return rate was going to
be high this month you called it yeah
that day you literally called it so yeah
you're right
um but yeah so this month i am starting
off with
not only zero sales but negative 15.55
in the whole as you guys can see i had
my previous month was 88 sales which is
usually pretty good for me i think i've
had another month or two where i've made
88 sales and those have been my best
months
um
and so yeah yeah 419 earned on the 88
sales that's good that's a good october
yeah i mean i'm definitely a little bit
um pickier with my pricing i'm a little
hardcore with my pricing greedier
greedier but that results in i guess
bigger returns
you know or just and on the bigger loss
when you get returns yeah well i mean
returns
this is a specific case of like you know
a holiday is coming
people probably see the prime checkbox
and assume that it's going to be here in
two days yeah and don't realize that not
everything works that way
yeah um something cool that they do like
around christmas every year
is they typically will like put in red
letters on amazon products in general
not just merch like will arrive before
before christmas or like arrives after
christmas yeah i've definitely seen that
before too i don't think that happens on
the merch side of things though with
halloween at least right and that's
something that's like worth i think
that's really the takeaway from this
video is it's like man if they could
have just
but like how do they know you know
they'd have to like
add a new database field for each merch
listing that says like halloween holiday
association and we would put halloween
yeah but hey merch developers if you're
listening that would actually work i
mean in theory it would work if they can
do for christmas they can for sure do it
no i think the i think the um
the responsibility actually falls on the
seller like i probably should have taken
them well i don't want to take them down
because they're good selling shirts and
they're already ranked bsr wise but
there's nothing that i could have done
to prevent this no and merch like made
changes to their their content policy
basically to make it so that sellers
can't post messages like that like in
theory you could try and maybe it gets
through but like they really don't want
us saying like ships from the united
states and you know it ships in two days
if you say the word ships it's probably
gonna get rejected you know oh that's
crazy but yeah overall recently got
teared up super excited for that gotta
start filling my slots next niche i am
targeting is this christmas niche guys
um also in addition to that i know i
tell you guys my niches so the
anti-faucia russ fauci those are still
going strong cryptocurrency has made a
tiny bit of a comeback
um but
yeah overall it's a lot of politically
charged
shirts i would say and one pontoon shirt
random pontoon shirt i made like 20 of
them i mean we used to have a pontoon
boat and they don't drive fast so that's
why it says catch me if you can was that
original yeah i made that okay i just
got a graphic from all sunsets which
plugging all sunsets by the way in the
description of course um
but yeah i mean and that's the thing
it's like
nobody gets impressed by one sale 70
cents in a random niche that's not like
necessarily trending but like you can
build a business around that yeah and it
really like as marielle scales up her
account you know tier 1000 now it's like
you can start transitioning away from oh
it's halloween caring costume yeah like
no but i think random pontoon boat
shirts for me like in order to tear up i
had to like follow niches like trending
niches or else the tear-ups weren't
happening for me but yeah i'm excited to
start being able to do some more
evergreen-y stuff that just kind of sits
there like the pontoon boat stuff but
yeah i mean let's let's do a challenge
okay
let's both i'll make like two designs
for you and you do two designs and let's
try to sell like a chihuahua shirt okay
and let's see who can make the sale but
we'll do it in your account okay fine
but based on our separate designs right
yeah okay cool but what does the winner
get
comment below on what you guys think the
winner should get today i think we
already we could just do what we did
today i'll send you flowers and you send
me lunch
all righty perfect do you have anything
else to add no i think i'm going to post
this to my my channel too with your
permission yeah for sure so i want to
make fun of you making negative if you
guys know that's what we really want to
hear is like in the comments if you've
seen a worse day than this negative 15
yes yes that would be interesting to see
there was a month though that's what i
wanted to reference before i forget
there was a january where it was like
legendary returns really and i thought
it was going to be like every january
since then but it wasn't so i'm assuming
it's probably like either it's probably
2019 january i can go back in my data
and try to look yeah but i mean like the
returns were just absurd i mean i have a
my return rate is pretty high overall 42
returns is i feel like pretty high
yeah for have
having only sold 600 products that's
that's a lot that would be cool if they
let us see
what products oh no yeah and also the
trends that you've hit really hard have
been like probably probably the most
commonly returned niche yeah probably
halloween
yeah you know because even the people
who get it in time right they they rent
their teachers yeah exactly because it's
amazon i'm not gonna live done that
before too so yeah whatever all right um
but yeah thank you guys so much for
watching make sure to like subscribe and
comment below on the worst month that
you guys have seen in terms of starting
off with returns and i hope you guys
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but guys thank you for watching i'll see
you soon
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