What this is
How the 7.5% royalty rate from the 2017 Redbubble case compares with the site's merchandise royalty yield of 5.51–8.70% of merchandise sales: inside the range if it is a retail rate, below it if it is a wholesale rate.
How it’s built
- As a retail rate, 7.5 sits 62% of the way up the 5.51–8.70 range.
- As a wholesale rate, with wholesale at half of retail, it equals 3.75% of retail: 0.68 times the bottom of the range.
- For a wholesale reading to reach the range, wholesale would have to be at least 73% of retail.
What we assumed
- Wholesale is half of retail.A rule of thumb for the wholesale reading; the case gives no price ratio.
- A 2017 Australian rate can be set against 2025 Western figures.It is the only stated Pokémon rate found; terms may differ by country, product and year.
Sanity check
The case itself cannot say which reading applies, so this shows consistency, not confirmation.
Where it comes from
Our calculation from other figures in the trainer’s notes.
Show the working
- Rate: 7.5%
- Retail reading cents per merch yen: 7.5
- Retail position in band 0to1: 0.624
- Wholesale reading cents at 0.5: 3.75
- Wholesale reading times floor: 0.681
- Wholesale reading times ceiling: 0.431
- retail 7.5 at 0.624 of band
- wholesale 3.75 = 0.681x floor
- w/r >= 0.7347 to reach floor