Next week (starting Nov. 19th), our product prices will be increasing by 5%. As you might know from our previous posts, we were largely able to protect you from supplier price increases in the past – or at least compensate them for most of our products. So, what are the reasons for the current increase?
The reason for the increase is not the higher cotton price, which actually levelled out at a little this year. Production and transport costs have further increased, and so have the expenses for compliance and quality management. Manufacturers have set higher prices for increased wage levels and energy costs, as well as for investments in quality standards and certifications of the manufacturing processes. As I have mentioned in previous posts concerning this topic, those are expenses that we generally support since they raise social standards – and all of us profit in the end from better quality.
When it comes to the transport prices, we can see a similar situation as in 2008: A lot of shipping companies have decreased their loading capacity and increased their prices for container transport from the Far East by 400%. Now clients have to pay up to $2400 for shipping a 20‘ container to Europe. Unfortunately, those are costs that we have to bear, too.
We want to continue offering you and your customers a wide variety. This is why we’ve decided not to increase individual product prices exorbitantly, but rather to increase the prices of all products by 5 %. As before, we’ll round our prices to the nearest round 10 pence. This means you might have to check your prices after the increase at the end of next week
Due to the high number of products being changed in price and our cache, there might be some temporary irregularities. All changes should be finished at the end of next week.
There are a few products which will not be increased in price. Check the forum for further information on which products this will be.
hi darren & ebo — I’m sorry but we’re not able to update all commissions with one click automatically. this will cause an even longer “backlog” (until all products are adapted twice).
it’s an interesting idea though and very helpful feedback, we’ll be investigating it in case there are price changes in the (hopefully not too near) future 😉
I agree with Darren. The ability to control commission across products (or ranges) would be far more friendly and efficient for shop owners!
The thought of changing products on a 1-by-1 basis is daunting. Then again, so is the thought of having obscure prices getting shown on the store and scaring people off!
Even with the increase, these products are very well priced.
I hope that the website has the best of luck in the future.
I have been a member for only 2 days, and have found it easy to use and very good.
The values are great.
5% is a big increase and will definitely decrease sales by a lot. A lot of the competition is already cheaper. I’m sure all the Spreadshirt managers will be minted, so why not just cut into their profit.
I think your entry level t-shirts in EU shop are way expencive. Moreover, the cut is unattractive for 18-30 years old target group. I suggest you to consider a t-shirt line that offers better models and cooler color choice. Do not worry if you downgrade the quality a bit, we can compensate it with high quality design. The apparel at H&M has for example a decent quality at attractive price, color and model range.
Er, but your prices are already laughably high, you mark up your t-shirts by 1,000%, yes over a thousand, I buy the same products elsewhere too! You are just greedy and blaming it on transport costs etc doesn’t impress those of us who do our own importing – no significant changes in prices for me.
Not a single product sold through Spreadshirt, 100s sold from local printers, I guess your business model is flawed?
Please give us an option to reduce commission by 5% instead of pushing all our product prices to an arbitrary price!
I’m sorry for your situation, but I can assure you sell your products in Italy is very difficult, compared to the competition are very expensive.
Hopefully in the future, nowadays people do not have money and selling online has become difficult, especially resituzione spend money on a tshirt because it is too big or too small.
For many people it is cheaper to print in Italy.
Damn those sweatshop workers earning more than a dollar a day and the liberal-myth climate change brigade pushing up transport taxes. I say kill them all and let God decide.