Fulfillment By Amazon Simplified (eBook)
Many people have heard of Amazon FBA, but many don’t know what it stands for and how it can help them improve their online selling.
FBA stands for Fulfillment by Amazon, which the company is set up so you could use the Amazon warehouses to store and ship items you sell through the Amazon website.
It’s a simple but powerful process that ensures your business will grow without spending a lot of money.
Consider this scenario: you’re doing some product sourcing and have several items you’ve picked up – DVDs, books, toys, some home and beauty items, etc.
Most people, by this point, are thinking they want to purchase more stock but lack the room to store it. This is why Amazon came up with its Amazon FBA program. You can have a basic Amazon selling or Pro-Merchant account to use the program.
All you need to do is list items into your selling account and several clicks later, you’ll be given some barcodes to print out. These barcodes will need to be placed over the item’s original barcode.
You’ll also need to print the packing slips out for each item. These will go in the box.
You’ll need to set up a pickup time from a carrier, which will depend on two things:
- Country in which you live.
- How you pay for it.
The order gets completed, and you wait for it to be picked up. In a few days, the item is in the Amazon warehouse where it sits while it waits for it to be sold. You just sit back and make the money. Amazon FBA will handle all the customer emails, shipping and payments; you just provide them with the stock and earn the cash.
Amazon will charge extra, but the costs are low and the postage savings are amazing. After all, you’re using the buying power Amazon has and don’t have to contend with any Post Office lines, bubble wraps or boxes. Amazon FBA handles this all for you.
People also don’t know that Amazon FBA can be used to ship out to other buyers using such platforms as eBay. Amazon will hold onto the items and send them out when they’re sold. The cost is minimal and is much cheaper than what you can pull off.
Amazon will have pricing information for all countries – just do a quick Amazon FBA search.
You lose nothing by trying out the program. However, there is a plethora you’ll gain from it.