Your creative work, you deserve a cut. So we give you 22.5 percent -- a bit of an odd number, but it works out to $1.00 from every full-price, $4.50 sale. We ain't in no way telling nobody they're ever gonna get rich off of this. But build a sticker cool enough that five other people want a copy, you've paid for yourself. We figure that's fair.

Since we do volume rates, we can't really swing kicking you a buck apiece for 30 stickers priced at $3.00 each, so we prorate the buck -- hence, the funky 22.5 percent.

Also, we don't pay out a buck from your sticker's first sale (The one where you buy it and goes into the catalog). That buck goes to the nebulosity of admin overhead: The cost of maintaining the catalog and keeping track of where all the bucks go. However, buy more than one copy of your sticker the first time out, and we will pay the pro-rated share for stickers [2 ... n]. It's a swell little accounting nightmare we've cooked up for ourselves -- though so far, we think we've been able to stay on top of it.

If you have a Paypal account, we'll send you your royalties, if any, every three months. If you don't have a Paypal account, we'll basically set one up for you by sending money to your email address. Our next royalty payout is scheduled for Sept. 1, 2006

Again, in all likelihood your royalties won't amount to much. Which is why we recommend that, rather than pocketing your sticker royalties, you earmark 'em instead for one of these worthy causes. Your bucks plus the bucks of all the other sticker designers supporting the same cause might actually amount to something. The above link has a lot more information on the donation option.

All this is:
Needlessly complex. It's a pain in the butt. Probably, more trouble for us than it's worth to you. But we'd like to point out that 20-30 percent is the staggering profit margin of your average market-monopoly, chain newspaper (Cox, Journal Register, Thomson, Gannett etc. Source: Leaving Readers Behind: The Age of Chain Newspapering, University of Arkansas Press, 2001, and a fantastic book).

Buy a week's worth of chain newspapers ($0.50 x 6 plus $1.50 on Sunday = $4.50) and you'll put about a buck into the pocket of an absentee landlord of the public trust. Buy one of our bumper stickers, and you'll put a buck in the pocket of someone who may be saying something corporate media won't let them say. A better deal, eh?