Unboxing 2 Amazon Merch T-Shirts - Quality and Print Review

About this video

The creator unboxes and reviews two black Amazon Merch on Demand standard t-shirts he ordered — ‘Auntie Patrol’ and ‘Uncle Patrol’ designs riffing on Paw Patrol — bought for a one-time party. Examining the shirts, he notices an inconsistency: one is a Port & Company blank as expected for the standard tee, while the other appears to be a different, unidentified blank despite being the same product type. Both are DTG (direct-to-garment) prints; one print looks slightly off or misaligned compared to the other, which he attributes to machine printing variation. After a first wash, both designs still look clean, with the colors holding up well. He is most impressed by delivery speed: he says an order placed on the 25th (a Friday, late in the day) arrived the following Monday — about a business day and a half — and a second gift order placed September 6 arrived September 8, both delivered by USPS in plastic baggies. He contrasts this with past Q4 periods when Merch shipping times stretched to about a month. He closes with a caution about the designs themselves: they only swap one word in a well-known brand’s logo, the sellers are not the official brand, and in his opinion that sits on a fine line between parody and infringement — even though he notes the listings appear to have been live and selling consistently since 2021. He says he plans to keep ordering shirts monthly to monitor print quality and shipping.

Key takeaways

• Print quality varies between individual Merch by Amazon shirts — one of his two prints was slightly misaligned, which he attributes to machine printing.
• Blank consistency is not guaranteed: one shirt was the expected Port & Company blank, the other appeared to be a different blank.
• Both prints held up well after a first wash, with colors staying clean and bright.
• Delivery was very fast in his tests — roughly a business day and a half — a sharp contrast with the month-long Q4 delays he recalls from earlier years.
• Designs that merely swap a word in a famous brand’s logo walk a fine line between parody and infringement, even if such listings stay up and keep selling.

Episode details: published September 16, 2023 · 8:11 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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