Mostly likely not. It is the same thing with making audios. If it gets taken down, you lose your 300 Robux. I learned THAT the hard way…
Do you not understand what’s going to happen?? Clothing designers, like me, will raise their prices —> copiers will copy the clothes ----> copiers will sell for less than original designers ----> original designers = no sales ----> copiers make tons of sales ----> copiers copy again, designers quit.
This is insane, you have to remove this feature. Your designers are leaving the platform. Some of my friends that planned on designing already gave up because of this fee. “Powering imagination”, how about change it to “pay to be creative”?
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Well the younger audience won’t know any of this. It is not because they are lazy but because their lack of knowledge towards this situation.
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Reading everything here I strongly disagree with this change. I feel this change would disadvantage clothing designers especially small ones who don’t have the robux they will need to upload any clothing to the site which will in turn increase clothing prices for items they will barely make a profit on. I understand the advantages of not paying for a subscription and paywalling clothing uploads, but there needs to be another way for non-Premium to be able to upload clothes. In my humble opinion, this will only discourage the next generation to thrive in the platform.
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This does a great job of killing every ones hopes and dreams of making a few roblox! 
I know both of my kids will be super mad and hate it. Some of their shirts are terrible (so bad I had to ask what was on the shirt ) but he was so proud of them! You should have seen his smile and face. I was so proud of him… It makes you feel good when your kid creates something by himself. I guess it will break his little 8 year old heart. Which when you think about it roblox is really for little kids… LOL
I must admit I might make some shirts 
and I was thinking:
-I would rather have a smaller tax on all clothing that I wanted to sell (5-10 robux). This would remove all the abandoned group items and junk items.
-Or requiring premium for your catalog items to be sold.
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In my opinion, I don’t agree with this update. Because normally we only need to have premium to upload the shirts for free, that won’t cost a lot of money from clothing designers. But now, it cost 50R$ per shirt. I know, that is good for somebody that wanted to upload shirts but they don’t have premium, but to the people who bought premium just wanted to upload shirts, they lost their money. BUT if you guys change the price to like 10-15R$ per shirt or if taxes are disabled for shirts, that’s acceptable.
You guys are punishing your clothing designers instead of the users who actually steal content. I do not have the answer on how to combat the users that are ruining the catalog experience, but making it 50 ROBUX to upload clothing and taking a 30% cut of that is not the answer.
You’re telling me designers are going to have to price their clothing at 200 ROBUX just to make a 10R$ profit? That is absurd.
Please treat your community content creators better, this is not it.
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Please reconsider this update; this update is horrid towards clothing designers such as myself and others. So many people were against this update, especially those who were/still are small clothing designers. If I bought 400 robux, the most I’d be able to make is 8 pieces of clothes; I wouldn’t be able to make a profit as most of my clothes only get 2-3 sales at a time. I want my sales to go towards advertisements, not towards creating more.
Furthermore, premium is becoming pointless. If you’re going to allow this change, please allow those with premium to still upload for free because I don’t even think this change is going to help reduce bots.
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rip small creators I feel your pain
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there are still millions of shirts on catalog how do you aspect us to earn a profit there are still many people uploading at once chances of our clothes earning us a profit are next to slim 
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btw dont start with the absurd prices on clothes now
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This will fix so much issues!!
This is very upsetting to see. Many who really enjoyed making clothing will now have to pay for their own creativity. Roblox, I hope you know you have just lost many talented designers. My heart goes out to all the small creators, I will try my best to support you guys. 
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this is gonna have a lot of backlash on my openion as the cost for uploading 8 shirts or pants will be worth 5$ and there is no garuntee of the vlothes havin sales
So you’re claiming that me owning a Dominus means that I am loaded with Robux? Please get your prejudices out of here. If this helps the botting issue I’ll gladly accept it. And it’ll probably increase the overall quality of clothing. Now if this doesn’t help at all then sure, remove it. But it’s at least worth a shot. Oh and 
with 0 income so don’t jump to conclusions.
I am just stating that this change is made for the better, by that I mean that they’re trying to prevent botting in some sort of way. You have to respect their decision on the matter as this problem is far worse than paying 50 R$ for an upload.
Also, premium will no longer be required. If people could spend 5$ a month on premium then why wouldn’t they be able to spend 5$ a month to upload clothing pieces…?
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Even if it does prove to be more detrimental than helpful, it’s highly unlikely roblox will undo it. Rarely do they ever backtrack on terrible updates, and when they do it takes them a long time.
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I’m very mixed about this. I’ll firstly start with the positives.
When you search for something in the catalogue, 100s of the exact same clothing pop up, hiding the creations of people who actually cared. Implementing a fee would hopefully eliminate copies of clothing.
Now for the negatives
I am currently developing my first ever Roblox game and I really wanted to go all out in terms of merchandise. I wanted to make clothing that you’d normally find in a gift shop from a rollercoaster. (“I survived…”).
I am not a “very rich” developer. I’m far from it. Any Robux that I do have will be going into advertisements.
Now, this really messes up my merch plans and my income. I never really like to charge for upgrades that could make the game unfair for a certain user. I normally do cosmetic purchases only. However, that doesn’t make much robux at all.
All of that means that I have a very low chance of making any sorts of profit from my game.
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This entire update throttles small creators. Imagine only being able to put 4 items on sale every month if you don’t have an income. It’s not even guaranteed that people will buy your clothing either.
This is one of roblox’s most destructive updates in a long time, and I’m surprised and appalled that it even made it past the planning phase.
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Sure, you could make a bot that says “This shirt is 96.82% similar to that one”, but there will always be false positives or undetected copies. Check out reddit’s Karma Decay for example: it can find exact replicas,
but after changing the contrast, brightness and gamma
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This is much easier said than done. And, if SOMEHOW it succeeds, bot makers will find another ways. They could ID browse users, then grab the shirts/pants from the user texture. Or, if they have enough CPU power to waste, start a Selenium browser, turn on the 3D view, view the clothing from every angle then generate a template. Sure, neither of these give botters clothing with original quality, but do botters care?
The idea is impossible with the current ID system. Sequential IDs have always sucked and are a scraper’s dream, but Roblox will not redo the way their ID system works. It would kill off thousands of links and break a lot of not malicious programs. Plus, the clothing will eventually have to go to a client, be displayed, etc. Hiding the template just isn’t a viable option.
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