Teachers Pay Teachers

I am writing this review as a seller of a few digital products. I priced my items under $2 so it would be affordable for teachers and I would make a little money. I used to make a decent amount on each sale. Now I make $0.52 for each poem I sell. They take almost a whole dollar! That is a rip off! I think I will pull my items and sell them elsewhere, or just keep them! I am disgusted by how greedy TPT has become! Sellers beware! It makes me want to buy from somewhere else too. SMH

As a teacher I appreciate teachers pay teachers for what it is. I have found some awesome free resources on the site! As a seller, I'm highly disappointed that they feel the need to take 60% of what I earn from what I make myself from scratch! I just can't with these big companies taking advantage of the people that make the money for them. I'm just going to post my things up for free! From a $2.00 sale, I was paid out $. 80. Ridiculous. I'd rather give it away!

Their policies directly discriminate against populations who wish to identify in specific ways or share specific parts of history they deem "harmful or outdated". History is never "outdated" and how someone identifies is not "harmful"?

What is deemed harmful or outdated is based on white Americans who do not share the same history, ethics, morals or understandings on other countries histories...

Most of their content is pure rubbish and overpriced. People are putting ridiculous restrictions
On content and expecting that you pay them again to share it with other teachers.

The site is passing on Australian customers' sales data to the ATO without consulting its customers.
As the ATO likes to make money off the average man and ignore the big companies which show
The absurdity of the measure and the desperation of the ATO.

I've uses TPT for many years and started using it for their free items. I try to create a lot of my own product. More recently I saw the value in my time or would be in a jam and would actually make a purchase.
I decided, last week, after spending a tremendous amount of time creating a resource for my class, to become a seller.
It was disheartening, to say the least. I received LESS than half of my product price. Most of it goes to the creators of the site. It was one thing when I thought I was giving part of my teacher salary, to another teacher selling on the site. But, it's completely different that just by posting my work on this site, the creators get more than 50%. So much for TEACHERS helping TEACHERS.
Please keep this in mind when purchasing a high priced item, it's not always the seller/creator getting all of the money.
Seems a bit of a scam to me. Not much of a help to the teacher posting their work.

I have used TpT for years, and I've purchased many wonderful resources. My district recently purchased the school wide subscription. This is a rip off! I was allotted 20 resources by Sup. Each resource can be up to $15. I found a small bundle of three resources for $6.75, well under the $15 max. I have to download each activity individually and use up three of my resource allotments. Individually these resources are about $2.

Teachers pay Teachers offers a gold mine of resources for educators (free and paid). As a speech language pathologist, my students and I have benefited from the products for over 12 years!

I bought the lit unit for Slacker by Gordon Korman. I sat down to use the questions and was surprised to see the chapter questions and vocab work was mislabled. The questions for Chapter one did not match the novel. Totally useless. And since it is a digital download, no refund. This was not cheap, I paid $24 for gobbledy gook. Won't use this seller again, ever.

PS I only gave it one star because I had to, it doesn't deserve a star.

This company engages in intellectual censorship. Although attempting the noble aim of preventing potentially harmful or insensitive content to be sold on its site, this company errs on the side of thoughtless suppression and censorship. This should concern all educators, as censorship has always been framed as a measure to "protect societal norms." In this case, the company zealously attempts to uphold their ideas about "social justice" by simply suspending any content at all that contains red flag terms. As an example, a lesson which asked students to read an excerpt from Gandhi's Hind Swaraj (one student taking role of reporter and one editor "Gandhi" was described as "trivializing trauma of imperialism by asking students to role play as "victims." Not only does this show the ignorance of TpT to history, but also how superficial their efforts are to achieve social justice at the cost of draconian suppression of content.

They sent a request for a review of the product. I rated it and wrote a comment. It was 2 stars. They wrote back and said they had reviewed my review and my comment wasn't accurate so they were un-publishing my review. Wow!

Teachers Pay Teachers has some fantastic content on their site and I don't begrudge teachers for buying them. However I do want to say that teachers pay teachers rips off their content providers heavily. To share as an example, I created a set of resources for my AP class. About 6-10 pages of content each, I decided to help my fellow teacher by selling them for $1.50 a set or $3-4 for a Unit packet. I didn't want to charge fellow teachers a crud ton of money. In the last year, I had around $50 gross sales. My Net return was $22. They took over half of the money I earned for people providing my services. They took out 21.95 for their "service" to me. They then took out a transaction fee of 30 cents for every transaction under $3.00 (So almost everything I created). Then they charged me 42 cents in service fees to send my money to paypal.

When you pay for a 150.00 package, note that the author might be getting $60 in that trade. So buy cautiously.

TPT is illegally withholding the money I have earned selling my products on the site. I have been doing so for over a decade. In spite of trying to resolve the problem for over two months and through two supervisors, they still refuse to disburse my money to my PayPal account as has been the practice for over a decade.

I have never received the materials I purchased on this fraudulent site and there is always some reason I am not able to get in contact with them. Don't waste your salary on this site.

I enjoy the digital options to the activities. It allows for diversity and versatile learning strategies.

I have been trying to recover my password to gain access to my account. After trying to recover my password, over several days, I wrote TPT an email about this. It's been a week and I have yet to hear from any staff. I have resources that I have collected over several years and it's all being held captive. It's frustrating. TPT is quick to take your business but its assistance is nonexistent. If you have an account here, download everything and make back ups. If you ever lose your password, you will be on your own with all your paid resources somewhere in the ether. Good luck with this shady company and tread carefully.

Terrible service! Got a worthless product and left a 2 star rating only to get a hateful email from the whiny owner and then the website contacted me to inform me they removed my comment and has now falsely given this work a 5 star rating again... so any 5 star product on the page may not be... buyer beware!

This always freezes, have ALOT of glitches and bugs, and sometimes my work dosent save. I mean, I dont like this compared to other websites.

I ordered a couple items for my class in anticipation of the new school year. No tracking or shipping info was provided and their customer service is non existent. Their phone number is a recorded message that tells you to go to the website where they reply with a generic response giving you a case # which is 5 digits and they'll get back to you in 24 hours. That was 5 days ago. Unless you're purchasing something you can download instantly I'd stay away from this company.

Selling an item on teachers pay teachers is one way to sell. However they are a rip off because they take more than half of the money you make on the website. For instance I sold an item for $3.00 that I worked really are to create and they charged me $1.35 as their commission an additional. 30 cent as a transaction fee. It left me with the earnings of $1.35. This website is designed to take all of your profit. It is so sad to see websites like this. They could make such a wonderful impact by getting these items out there but they make absolute sure that the seller pays them half of what they make or even more. Such a shame.

I really loved this site and used a particular store that had awesome resources, unit bundles, etc for my courses. Unfortunately I found out 4 students in my class gained access to this website and purchased the same resources. I'm aggravated that they so easily accessed the same information. I logged on so long ago so I can't remember if there was some sort of security to ensure that my own students would not be able to access the site the same way I did.

I have only used them once and the materials that I bought (which I couldn't completely see before buying) were so lame, so subpar (I guess I'm used to the many wonderful FREE lessons that are published by sites like Busy Teacher) that I wrote a review in which I was very specific about what was wrong with the material. About two weeks later, I received a very insulting email from the author/s, basically telling me off, that I hadn't had to buy it, etc. When I complained to TPT they basically said, sorry, we don't interfere with what the authors write but you can respond. Well, when I tried, they had pulled down the materials. Fast forward about two months and this is what I have just received even though I had unsuscribed from TPT. "This is MINE and you should only review things you have bought (?)I like how you are too chicken to sign your name. Grow some balls!" yep, these are supposed to be college educated, professionals. All I can say is that it supports my general feeling that there is no quality control in TPT, especially for the higher grades. The stuff that I bought (for Around the world in 180 days) was so badly done, it probably was written by some hack.

I find it very helpful. There is a great collection for very well maintained worksheets for nearly all high school subjects. I contribute to it regularly.

As a teacher for nearly 30 years, I have found this website to be a good resource.