Newbie - Send to Amazon but have to get product to myself first?
I thought I could directly put Amazon’s warehouse address as destination address when I order from my supplier, but looking at the workflow it looks like I need to add my own address, have the products shipped to me first before I can ‘send to Amazon’?
I feel I’m not understanding correctly here, how do people scale to 1,000 items? Do we all need a warehouse eventually? Then what’s the point of FBA saying ‘not needing warehouse’
Newbie - Send to Amazon but have to get product to myself first?
I thought I could directly put Amazon’s warehouse address as destination address when I order from my supplier, but looking at the workflow it looks like I need to add my own address, have the products shipped to me first before I can ‘send to Amazon’?
I feel I’m not understanding correctly here, how do people scale to 1,000 items? Do we all need a warehouse eventually? Then what’s the point of FBA saying ‘not needing warehouse’
Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
I would suggest that you get the basics sorted out first.
You need to understand the various things already mentioned, such as CE marking and so on.
Without that sort of thing in place first, you will crash very quickly.
Have you got an understanding of how to keep accounts?
One thing that you will find, is that it is EXTREMELY easy to lose money selling on Amazon.
You need a full understand of the costs involved.
All of the various things like Helium10 and so on, can be useful, but only if you use them to their full extent. Otherwise, they are just an additional cost.
If you are doing Private label, do you understand all of the problems as well as advantages to doing that?
Shipping to the UK, can take 12 weeks or more. Yet shipping plans only remain open for 90 days.
This can cause problems.
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Seller_7VbclcPFFRTnc
You can ship from your supplier direct - but its not recommended if its a new supplier as you need to check quality etc
Where is your supplier , UK, China etc ?
Seller_NoMNQDGnEW5Bx
You need to balance out the costs, Amazon will label and prep for you at a cost but you’d have to factor that in. You also may not want to send all your items in at once depending how many you’ve ordered
Seller_NoMNQDGnEW5Bx
I dont have a warehouse but I use a storage unit because I dont want everything at home and they take in and offer parcel collection too
Seller_0Amk0hnQkPWMH
Don’t you want to check the quality first? I would
Winston_Amazon
Thanks for creating such an interesting thread @Sheepirate ! Seeing as you are new, (welcome to the Forums by the way) highly recommend to check out Seller University
