#ntio

As someone who's tried selling their own designs on merchandise w a separate manufacturer, I can give u some insight into Westtower Warrior, Saint & Savage, and maybe even NTIO's prices.

I used redbubble. They've got TONS of neat products u can put ur art on, but let me tell u. If u wanna be affordable AND get what u think ure art is worth, ure gonna have a real hard fuckin time. This is due to the manufacturer having a base price for manufacturing the goods, and u set the markup. Imo redbubble was jacking off to its own ego to the point where products were already too damn expensive for someone reasonable to buy from INDEPENDENT, UNKNOWN ARTISTS. This resulted in me getting $5 or less from each sale I made. If memory serves, I made over $120 in sales, and got only fucking $20. Yep.

And keep in mind that u can't customize products ANY further than just slapping artwork on them.

Now onto Westtower Warrior. They've got some wild pricing from some of the blandest fucking "designer" clothing I've EVER seen. However, Andy, being the extra ass bitch he is, probably found the HIGHEST quality manufacturer he could find in the US that would allow him to rip holes into his jeans. Knowing what u just learned abt redbubble, a company that's supposed to "help the little guy," let's think abt how much his manufacturer probably charges bottomline, AND how personalized his clothing is w the rips and zippers and lil logos in odd places. I have an Avelina De Mora handbag that she highly personalized w studs and faux leather and vegan cashmere that came out to be just over $105 USD bc of her manufacturer. U see what I'm getting at?

It's not the designers' fault that their products are so much when it's often bc of the manufacturer. Andy's not gonna go and build himself a factory so he can pay his workers w/e he wants so he can price his products lower. As for Saint & Savage and their wildly expensive leather jackets, u KNOW Juliet the animal lover went out and found a lil farm that raised its cows well and killed them humanely, not to mention the manufacturing of the leather to make it into a high quality jacket. EVERYBODY involved needs to get paid. The designer, manufacturer(s), and seller. Which isn't cheap when u want everyone involved to be paid fairly. Take NTIO. I don't know how their jewelry is produced, but given that their products are in high demand considering how small of a company they are, that they have to pay their featured artists, designers, wholesalers, and whoever strings all the pieces together into a final product, I think their prices are more than fair.