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Selling Merch by Amazon on Personal Websites

I'd like to be able to sell my hoodies and tee shirts directly on my personal website so that I don't lose the clients to the Amazon site. I also believe, people coming to my site would be more inclined to purchase if selections are there. Obviously, they can be on Amazon as well. Is it possible to make this happen please?

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newuser-8ab2556c-4b57-41cc-a503-f9f81c07e9d8 answered

Great idea to add this feature, would benefit both Amazon and the merchants...

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lawrence westfall answered

You can link to Amazon and even use an Amazon affiliate link and get paid twice

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Only up to 10% though for Affiliate, right? And there seem to be a lot of rules for affiliate. Still thinking it would be wonderful to keep the sales on my site without losing clients to Amazon site. Thanks for answering. I appreciate it.

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Patrick Gray answered

Well...you can go to the Merch by Amazon help page and upload the templates for TShirts. You can open the template in an editor (I use Corel, either CorelDraw or Corel Photopaint, I can't remember which one will 'pull apart' Adobe templates) that opens Adobe stuff. You can pull out the Amazon examples of the front of a TShirt and the back of one too. You can find in that template download somewhere the "official" Merch by Amazon TShirt colors. The you can import the TShirt image into a graphics editor (I use CorelDraw), then you can make the TShirt one of the official Merch by Amazon colors, again in CorelDraw. Then...(what fun!).. you can import (in CorelDraw) your very TShirt design that you created and place that image right on the TShirt template, and scale your image to be just exactly so as seen on the real TShirt. Presto-Chango! you have on your own computer a very nice version of your own Merch by Amazon TShirt. CorelDraw will export your whole composition as an image file, and you can upload that image file to your website. I "sprinkled" my TShirt images throughout my website. I'll try to attach how I did this with my "Reality Contact Area" TShirt, which is from my T Shirts as a Story page on my website. https://pistonrobot.com/discussions-not-related-to-pistonrobot/t-shirts-as-a-story/


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Sounds complicated, I do have photoshop and can get the images to my website, no coreldraw. Tried signing up for affiliate, and there are a lot of rules there, must use exact link with no copying of the tee and design on personal website. And still, you lose the visiting website clients to the Amazon site. I stick with my request, I'd like to have the ability to purchase these items directly through my site without needing to go to Amazon site. Your website is great, thank you for answering.

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Ellyn Johnson answered

The only way you can do that is become an Amazon Affiliate. You will get images and text links, earn the affiliate fee and your regular percentage rate.

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Samantha Bushika answered

Are we allowed to put the price on the link button? I am an influencer and I am making a merch page on my site but as an Amazon affiliate or influencer we typically are not allowed to put prices in our promotion content. This can't be applicable to our own merch, right? Because we have some say in the price? Am I wrong? I think having the price on the button is a good idea and looks more professional.

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