Redbubble Seller Review | How it Works & What To Expect

What: Redbubble puts your art on t-shirts, hoodies, notebooks, stickers and posters — and lets you set your own profit margin.

Expected pay: NA

Husl $core: $$$$

Commissions and fees: Not applicable (You get a royalty on each product sold with your art on it; the royalty depends on the product and the mark-up you set.)

Where: Nationwide

Requirements: Be 16 or over; have art available for upload that doesn’t infringe on the copyrights of others

Review:

Like Society6, Redbubble puts your art on t-shirts, hoodies, notebooks, stickers and posters — and a wide array of other products. However, where Society6 sets a price per product and tells you how much you’ll make on each, Redbubble has a dynamic pricing formula where you can set your own margin.

For instance, if a t-shirt’s base price is $18.50, you can add a $10 mark-up and the site will sell it for $28.50. Or, you could decide to accept a lower mark-up to sell at a lower price. By and large, seller reviews are positive. Sellers get paid on the 15th of the month for the previous month’s sales. However, RedBubble has a minimum $20 payout. So, if your balance is less than that, the payout will be delayed until you hit or exceed the threshold.

Another positive: RedBubble sells your designs on a breathtaking array of different products, from stickers to clothing and device covers to home goods. The site says that the average artist earns a 17% commission. Artists on this site maintain all rights to their work, so you can sell here, as well as with the site’s many competitors.

Recommendations

There are several other print-on-demand services, including Threadless and Design by Humans, but our read is that Society6 and RedBubble are the two best. (If you want to sell art outside of print-on-demand, consider Etsy or Zibbet.)

What their sellers say:

“I’m a seller on Redbubble (I earn about 40-70 dollars/month) and I really like the platform. Good quality products, even tutorials and easy understandable guidelines when it comes to uploading and promoting your artwork. I also did some research and compared other websites to Redbubble and most of them can’t keep up and got less than 2 stars ratings and an immense amount of people complaining. On the other hand, they deleted 2 designs from my account once. I got no email or anything so I asked if something was wrong with it and why it was deleted. Since I got no response weeks later I just re-uploaded them and I had no further problems. But of course I’d have been happier with a proper reply and explanation.”

I was treated with great kindness and respect and felt that the support actually wanted to help me and find a solution. I didn’t have to wait long for responses and was met with a generous and very fair solution within one day, after explaining to the customer service that there was a difference between the color of the shirt i ordered (as seen in the preview online) and the actual color i received. So my concern was taken seriously and i was offered a satisfying solution.”

“Didn’t get a clear reason to why my account got deleted by them, contacted support and they sent me to their “specialists” that handle that stuff but haven’t heard from them in weeks. They also did’t answer any other mails about why it’s taking so long… Also, the products are under mediocre quality, but at an expensive price.