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Changes To Patreon Teirs & New Blank Shirts Effective October
🕑 Added 2019-08-26 23:28:02 +0000 UTCEverything that I'm about to say will not go in effect for the current month of September. It will go in effect for the next month of October.
I've spent the last few months going back and forth about the pros and cons of what I'm about to say, as we grow as an artist and start to have a larger platform we have to make changes from time to time. We will no longer be offering to give a tshirt to our patreon members at the 10$ teir for every single month, in favor of swapping it to a every other month reward program.
Patreon as a platform takes 11% of our profits and every tshirt costs 4$ to make and 3-5$ to ship if it's in the US. The money loss Never truly bothered us because we would just juggle money from when we got paid from YouTube and when we get paid from patreon to support the distro & punk with a camera as a whole on top of working as a server and doing commissioned work. However now that we have to make more than 30 plus shirts every new month it's starting to bite into what we can do, create, and purchase going forward. This platform is made for artists to gain a secondary income and allow them to grow quicker. We are making this change so we can continue to create a profit and allow us to fund all of our ideas going forward.
Unrelated to the chage to the patreon teirs we've been considering raising our tshirt prices to the new industry startard of 15$ but I never felt like our gilden shirts were worth that change in favor of keeping things affordable. However after having so many bands join the distro and paying everyone out at the end of each month I started to notice that even though our shirts sold for 10$ plus shipping and handling that pir artists where only profiting 3-5 a sale.
Reccently we have joined a partner ship to a good friend to allow us to purchase off of their wholesale account. We are now able to purchase belle canvas shirts as our go to blanks for about the same price as he gilden shirts we have been using. Allowing for a justifiable change in price to our shirts since they are a much hire quality shirt in comfort.
So here are the changes going forward.
1. All distro & patreon shirts will be printed on belle canvas shirts.
2. Our price for distro shirts on our store will be raised to 15$ to allow to pay our artists more and allow up to make the shirts on belle canvas
3. A change In rewards teirs for supporting us
10$ a tshirt every two months.
20$ tshirts for every month
All other tiers will be as they were. If you are a 10$ support and prefer to get tapes before tshirts let's us know and we can make sure that if we make a new tape that you get these item first.
