FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) means that sellers send their product inventory sold on Amazon directly to Amazon’s local market warehouse. After customers purchase your products, Amazon’s system automatically completes subsequent shipments, but seller services will be charged. fee. As Amazon’s own logistics, you can imagine that if you choose FBA, you will definitely have many advantages.
Advantages of FBA
1. It can improve the listing ranking of merchant stores, help sellers become featured sellers, win golden shopping carts, improve customer trust and increase sales.
2. With many years of rich logistics experience, warehouses around the world implement intelligent management.
3. The delivery time is super fast (most warehouses are very close to the airport)
4.7*24 Amazon professional customer service.
5. It can avoid negative review disputes between merchants and buyers caused by logistics.
6. Exempt all FBA logistics costs for products with a unit price of more than $300.
Are there no disadvantages to FBA? Of course!
1. In general, the cost is slightly higher than domestic delivery (especially FBA delivery from non-Amazon platforms), but it depends on the weight of the product.
2. Poor flexibility (all overseas warehouses have common shortcomings, but third-party overseas warehouses can still have dedicated Chinese customer service. FBA can only communicate with customers in English, and replying to emails will not be like the first one) The customer service of the three-party overseas warehouses is so timely).
3. The FBA warehouse will not provide customs clearance services for the seller’s first batch of goods.
4. If the preliminary work is not done well, problems found in label scanning will affect the storage of goods, or even prevent them from being put into storage.
5. The return address only supports the United States (if you are in FBA in the United States).
6. FBA buyers return goods too casually, causing serious losses to sellers.