I'm right with you on that.
I sell at Zazzle too but I haven't added any here for ages. This is no longer a good site for newbies. The change to the payout system is when I just started to slide. It's taken me years to get another check in.
Thing is, (for those who haven't noticed or forgotten or something) if one is a newbie, one is probably not a full time artist, but working a regular job. And with that, who has time for the fixing nitpicking (some is legit but some is nitpicking for certain) or do that extra work with marketing to make the current payout system worthwhile?
I'm sorry to say I don't. I liked it when I started here and have no intention of taking my stuff down. But neither am I going out of my way to put stuff up. The profit I get back wouldn't feed me for a day.
On the other hand I DID get another check in, even though I had no time and had completely forgotten and given up on it.