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Any experience with using Amazon prep service?

Hi fellow Amazon sellers,

I just wanted to gather some information if it’s worth it to use Amazon prep service.
Specifically does anybody have experience on how long usually takes them to receive, prep and label items, are items often lost or not received in correct number and is it easy to get reimbursed for this lost items?
I’m currently shipping around 6k units a month, using only Amazon FBA and wanted to potentially ship around 2-3k units to Amazon so they prep it so any advice/input is much appreciated.

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Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ

Any experience with using Amazon prep service?

Hi fellow Amazon sellers,

I just wanted to gather some information if it’s worth it to use Amazon prep service.
Specifically does anybody have experience on how long usually takes them to receive, prep and label items, are items often lost or not received in correct number and is it easy to get reimbursed for this lost items?
I’m currently shipping around 6k units a month, using only Amazon FBA and wanted to potentially ship around 2-3k units to Amazon so they prep it so any advice/input is much appreciated.

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Personally, I wouldn’t use the service as I think it’s far too expensive for what it is.
I send in about 10k-12k units every month and do them myself.
Or to put it another way, just to get them to do your excess each month, say 2000 units, just to label, that’s going to cost you £300, which is straight off your bottom line.
If you want them to prep as well, that’s a fair bit more, as I think it’s 25p per unit (Without checking).
So consider it properly, before you do use the service.
It will delay things going on sale anyway, whilst they prep them, so why not just use that delay, to do it yourself and have that £300 in your pocket?
Maybe look at commingling as that is a big timesaver.

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Seller_NoMNQDGnEW5Bx
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I only use prep when it’s either very simple stuff (so a whole box of 200 the same) or things I really don’t have time to bubble wrap but I’ve generally found it’s OK and pretty quick to get out on sale. The costs can add up though so be careful of that but it’s useful sometimes when I have big deliveries to just send a few boxes there quickly

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Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ
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Thanks for the response. Find it helpful as I wanted to use it the same way (when I have extra stock) just ship it so Amazon does the prep, so the products don’t stand for a week in my warehouse.

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Personally, I wouldn’t use the service as I think it’s far too expensive for what it is.
I send in about 10k-12k units every month and do them myself.
Or to put it another way, just to get them to do your excess each month, say 2000 units, just to label, that’s going to cost you £300, which is straight off your bottom line.
If you want them to prep as well, that’s a fair bit more, as I think it’s 25p per unit (Without checking).
So consider it properly, before you do use the service.
It will delay things going on sale anyway, whilst they prep them, so why not just use that delay, to do it yourself and have that £300 in your pocket?
Maybe look at commingling as that is a big timesaver.

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Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ
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Hi Neil, what you said here makes complete sense.
I just checked the prices and it’s £0.25 for just labeling and around £0.50 for polybagging. To be honest I thought the price is somewhere around £0.10-0.15. Per this I’d rather employ one more prep worker in the business and push a little bit more units and would cost me way less. Regarding commingled inventory I’m not really a fan of this option, but again didn’t try it so who knows maybe one day. Much appreciated

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Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
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Commingling actually works OK. But it depends on what the item actually is. So don’t just write it off. :slight_smile:

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Hi Neil,
I’m being here a bit cheeky but I have a question.
I saw you answered similar question to another seller so wanted to check with you.
I want to ship, a product which is packed as pack of 12 in a box, on a pallet. But don’t want to put the box (case) label on it, just the FNSKU label. The whole pallet is only one product, it this would come around 90 boxes. Did you try to do this and did Amazon accept it?
Thank you very much for your time.

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Any experience with using Amazon prep service?

Hi fellow Amazon sellers,

I just wanted to gather some information if it’s worth it to use Amazon prep service.
Specifically does anybody have experience on how long usually takes them to receive, prep and label items, are items often lost or not received in correct number and is it easy to get reimbursed for this lost items?
I’m currently shipping around 6k units a month, using only Amazon FBA and wanted to potentially ship around 2-3k units to Amazon so they prep it so any advice/input is much appreciated.

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Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ

Any experience with using Amazon prep service?

Hi fellow Amazon sellers,

I just wanted to gather some information if it’s worth it to use Amazon prep service.
Specifically does anybody have experience on how long usually takes them to receive, prep and label items, are items often lost or not received in correct number and is it easy to get reimbursed for this lost items?
I’m currently shipping around 6k units a month, using only Amazon FBA and wanted to potentially ship around 2-3k units to Amazon so they prep it so any advice/input is much appreciated.

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Any experience with using Amazon prep service?

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Hi fellow Amazon sellers,

I just wanted to gather some information if it’s worth it to use Amazon prep service.
Specifically does anybody have experience on how long usually takes them to receive, prep and label items, are items often lost or not received in correct number and is it easy to get reimbursed for this lost items?
I’m currently shipping around 6k units a month, using only Amazon FBA and wanted to potentially ship around 2-3k units to Amazon so they prep it so any advice/input is much appreciated.

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Personally, I wouldn’t use the service as I think it’s far too expensive for what it is.
I send in about 10k-12k units every month and do them myself.
Or to put it another way, just to get them to do your excess each month, say 2000 units, just to label, that’s going to cost you £300, which is straight off your bottom line.
If you want them to prep as well, that’s a fair bit more, as I think it’s 25p per unit (Without checking).
So consider it properly, before you do use the service.
It will delay things going on sale anyway, whilst they prep them, so why not just use that delay, to do it yourself and have that £300 in your pocket?
Maybe look at commingling as that is a big timesaver.

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Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
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Personally, I wouldn’t use the service as I think it’s far too expensive for what it is.
I send in about 10k-12k units every month and do them myself.
Or to put it another way, just to get them to do your excess each month, say 2000 units, just to label, that’s going to cost you £300, which is straight off your bottom line.
If you want them to prep as well, that’s a fair bit more, as I think it’s 25p per unit (Without checking).
So consider it properly, before you do use the service.
It will delay things going on sale anyway, whilst they prep them, so why not just use that delay, to do it yourself and have that £300 in your pocket?
Maybe look at commingling as that is a big timesaver.

10
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Personally, I wouldn’t use the service as I think it’s far too expensive for what it is.
I send in about 10k-12k units every month and do them myself.
Or to put it another way, just to get them to do your excess each month, say 2000 units, just to label, that’s going to cost you £300, which is straight off your bottom line.
If you want them to prep as well, that’s a fair bit more, as I think it’s 25p per unit (Without checking).
So consider it properly, before you do use the service.
It will delay things going on sale anyway, whilst they prep them, so why not just use that delay, to do it yourself and have that £300 in your pocket?
Maybe look at commingling as that is a big timesaver.

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I only use prep when it’s either very simple stuff (so a whole box of 200 the same) or things I really don’t have time to bubble wrap but I’ve generally found it’s OK and pretty quick to get out on sale. The costs can add up though so be careful of that but it’s useful sometimes when I have big deliveries to just send a few boxes there quickly

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Thanks for the response. Find it helpful as I wanted to use it the same way (when I have extra stock) just ship it so Amazon does the prep, so the products don’t stand for a week in my warehouse.

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Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
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Personally, I wouldn’t use the service as I think it’s far too expensive for what it is.
I send in about 10k-12k units every month and do them myself.
Or to put it another way, just to get them to do your excess each month, say 2000 units, just to label, that’s going to cost you £300, which is straight off your bottom line.
If you want them to prep as well, that’s a fair bit more, as I think it’s 25p per unit (Without checking).
So consider it properly, before you do use the service.
It will delay things going on sale anyway, whilst they prep them, so why not just use that delay, to do it yourself and have that £300 in your pocket?
Maybe look at commingling as that is a big timesaver.

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Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ
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Hi Neil, what you said here makes complete sense.
I just checked the prices and it’s £0.25 for just labeling and around £0.50 for polybagging. To be honest I thought the price is somewhere around £0.10-0.15. Per this I’d rather employ one more prep worker in the business and push a little bit more units and would cost me way less. Regarding commingled inventory I’m not really a fan of this option, but again didn’t try it so who knows maybe one day. Much appreciated

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Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
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Commingling actually works OK. But it depends on what the item actually is. So don’t just write it off. :slight_smile:

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Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ
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Hi Neil,
I’m being here a bit cheeky but I have a question.
I saw you answered similar question to another seller so wanted to check with you.
I want to ship, a product which is packed as pack of 12 in a box, on a pallet. But don’t want to put the box (case) label on it, just the FNSKU label. The whole pallet is only one product, it this would come around 90 boxes. Did you try to do this and did Amazon accept it?
Thank you very much for your time.

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Seller_NoMNQDGnEW5Bx
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I only use prep when it’s either very simple stuff (so a whole box of 200 the same) or things I really don’t have time to bubble wrap but I’ve generally found it’s OK and pretty quick to get out on sale. The costs can add up though so be careful of that but it’s useful sometimes when I have big deliveries to just send a few boxes there quickly

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Seller_NoMNQDGnEW5Bx
In reply to: Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ’s post

I only use prep when it’s either very simple stuff (so a whole box of 200 the same) or things I really don’t have time to bubble wrap but I’ve generally found it’s OK and pretty quick to get out on sale. The costs can add up though so be careful of that but it’s useful sometimes when I have big deliveries to just send a few boxes there quickly

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Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ
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Thanks for the response. Find it helpful as I wanted to use it the same way (when I have extra stock) just ship it so Amazon does the prep, so the products don’t stand for a week in my warehouse.

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Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ
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Thanks for the response. Find it helpful as I wanted to use it the same way (when I have extra stock) just ship it so Amazon does the prep, so the products don’t stand for a week in my warehouse.

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Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
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Personally, I wouldn’t use the service as I think it’s far too expensive for what it is.
I send in about 10k-12k units every month and do them myself.
Or to put it another way, just to get them to do your excess each month, say 2000 units, just to label, that’s going to cost you £300, which is straight off your bottom line.
If you want them to prep as well, that’s a fair bit more, as I think it’s 25p per unit (Without checking).
So consider it properly, before you do use the service.
It will delay things going on sale anyway, whilst they prep them, so why not just use that delay, to do it yourself and have that £300 in your pocket?
Maybe look at commingling as that is a big timesaver.

10
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Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
In reply to: Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ’s post
Most helpful reply

Personally, I wouldn’t use the service as I think it’s far too expensive for what it is.
I send in about 10k-12k units every month and do them myself.
Or to put it another way, just to get them to do your excess each month, say 2000 units, just to label, that’s going to cost you £300, which is straight off your bottom line.
If you want them to prep as well, that’s a fair bit more, as I think it’s 25p per unit (Without checking).
So consider it properly, before you do use the service.
It will delay things going on sale anyway, whilst they prep them, so why not just use that delay, to do it yourself and have that £300 in your pocket?
Maybe look at commingling as that is a big timesaver.

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Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ
In reply to: Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl’s post

Hi Neil, what you said here makes complete sense.
I just checked the prices and it’s £0.25 for just labeling and around £0.50 for polybagging. To be honest I thought the price is somewhere around £0.10-0.15. Per this I’d rather employ one more prep worker in the business and push a little bit more units and would cost me way less. Regarding commingled inventory I’m not really a fan of this option, but again didn’t try it so who knows maybe one day. Much appreciated

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Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ
In reply to: Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl’s post

Hi Neil, what you said here makes complete sense.
I just checked the prices and it’s £0.25 for just labeling and around £0.50 for polybagging. To be honest I thought the price is somewhere around £0.10-0.15. Per this I’d rather employ one more prep worker in the business and push a little bit more units and would cost me way less. Regarding commingled inventory I’m not really a fan of this option, but again didn’t try it so who knows maybe one day. Much appreciated

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Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
In reply to: Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ’s post

Commingling actually works OK. But it depends on what the item actually is. So don’t just write it off. :slight_smile:

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Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
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Commingling actually works OK. But it depends on what the item actually is. So don’t just write it off. :slight_smile:

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Hi Neil,
I’m being here a bit cheeky but I have a question.
I saw you answered similar question to another seller so wanted to check with you.
I want to ship, a product which is packed as pack of 12 in a box, on a pallet. But don’t want to put the box (case) label on it, just the FNSKU label. The whole pallet is only one product, it this would come around 90 boxes. Did you try to do this and did Amazon accept it?
Thank you very much for your time.

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Seller_lxm1yONqazaNZ
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Hi Neil,
I’m being here a bit cheeky but I have a question.
I saw you answered similar question to another seller so wanted to check with you.
I want to ship, a product which is packed as pack of 12 in a box, on a pallet. But don’t want to put the box (case) label on it, just the FNSKU label. The whole pallet is only one product, it this would come around 90 boxes. Did you try to do this and did Amazon accept it?
Thank you very much for your time.

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