Amazon warehouse explained please
Hi there
I am trying to understand selling on Amazon QUICKLY however there are so many various pages I must read through.
I would REALLY appreciate an educated person to break it down for me.
I am interested in the warehouse facility… have I got this right???
Do Amazon accept bulk stock into their warehouse from me and then sit on it while it sells? Effectively they are storing my stock???
If this is true how do the fees work for the storage? is it all called FBA?
THANK YOU GUYS
Amazon warehouse explained please
Hi there
I am trying to understand selling on Amazon QUICKLY however there are so many various pages I must read through.
I would REALLY appreciate an educated person to break it down for me.
I am interested in the warehouse facility… have I got this right???
Do Amazon accept bulk stock into their warehouse from me and then sit on it while it sells? Effectively they are storing my stock???
If this is true how do the fees work for the storage? is it all called FBA?
THANK YOU GUYS
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Seller_6NRzCEEtpNNSg
You CAN store your stock in Amazon warehouses, however, depending on what volume of stock you’re talking about, it can be very expensive compared to using a regular warehouse and drip feeding your stock in to Amazon.
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Read the below.
There is far too much for anyone to breakdown for you.
Seller_cJms0GbotqqtV
Once you have read up on FBA there is one other thing to consider. If you decide to use FBA and send stock to an Amazon warehouse, you can then use that stock to fulfil orders from other sites, eg eBay, other selling platforms or your own website. Amazon charge a fee for this.
As others have said, there is more to this than simply buying a bulk lot, sending it to FBA and expecting to sell it quickly for a profit. In most categories there are already established sellers doing this, and competition can be intense (and sometimes dirty). Margins can be tight. And there is no guarantee that just because something is available for sale that anybody will want to buy it. There is no substitute for research before making an investment in stock.
Paul
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Heres my experience of FBA - some items really benefit from being in FBA - usually business type purchase items - so not a personal purchase. Small items as well as the carriage costs are good.
However personal purchase items have a much higher return rate and I mean a MUCH higher return rate and when you then have to pay to get an item returned to you it makes the positives of FBA soon become a negative. You have to remember Amazon buyers send stuff back and they send it back in shocking condition and Amazon refund them - not only that they lie and say the item is faulty even when its not so they get the item returned to Amazon for free - this then goes against your stats for selling defective items. If you then get an item that starts selling well you may find Amazon start to sell it under your cost and you get left with loads of stock in FBA that then start to accrue storage costs unless you pay to take it out or reduce your costs and potentially make a loss. My advice is unless you have a good niche product or a product you have bought through proper channels at a really good price I would think twice about putting volume in there. Amazon can also put a stop on your products and proving authenticity can be a long drawn out affair which still may result in them not letting you sell your stock ! Amazon is a fairly faceless organisation and getting help is hard as theres so many autonomous replies to things.
You need to do more research but theres some research you just cant do I would dip my toe before jumping in
Seller_K8edOfPu9HEmN
Personally I would dip my toe in and buy a few items and sell them FBM and get to know the system before buying a lump of stock and sending them over to Amazon. Amazon can be brutal in the treatment of experienced 3rd party sellers never mind inexperienced ones, and there are 100’s of threads on these boards relating to the subject.
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Amazon warehouse explained please
…chaotic and oppresive. You’re welcome ~ Lee
Seller_hC0hNVDuILaKO
One question,
Are you a UK resident?
If not then you will also have to register for VAT with HMRC prior to sending any stock to Amazon UK