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Today, I want to talk about amazon FBA. I’ve had so many questions on my facebook and here on YouTube. people just want to know what is amazon FBA. some point in this article today I’m just discussed.
What it is? how it can work for you?
Basically why I think it’s absolutely amazing. So just to get started amazon FBA. It stands for amazon fulfilled by amazon. So when people say amazon FBA they’re just referring to fulfillment by amazon. Which means basically that Amazon is fulfilling the order. Here’s what you get when you sign up for the amazon fulfillment option. As you may know, amazon has these gigantic warehouses. Basically, they store all the stuff there. And when someone buys it, they have a whole system setup so that they can get them quickly sent out of the warehouse into the buyer really quickly. Now what they did when they started to offer fulfillment by amazon was, they would allow the marketplace sellers on amazon. To send in stuff that they were going to sell on amazon. This will allow sellers to send their stuff in and what Amazon take care of all the hassle and all the busy work. Obviously, there’s a lot of upsides and very little downside to this. Will make an article that has a little bit more in depth on some other things to do with the process. But this article is just about how it works and why. So you can send a whole bunch of different items. There are a few exceptions, of course, you can send anything that’s flammable. That’s really one of the only big deals. When it comes to sending things in. But what you need to know is you can send things extremely cheap. Right now for me when I send in a shipment of stuff. Most of the stuff by sending is about twenty-five cents a pound, Which is really cheap. Of course the more you send to a point the cheaper it is.
Now the way it works is amazon has a deal with ups and basically, you can send your stuff extremely cheap. You get to use the amazon shipping account. So it’s awesome, I mean the last shipment that I sent it was over 600 pounds. If I were to send that out like the USPS, it would easily cost me over a thousand dollars. But with the shipping rate that I had, it was like a hundred fifty dollars which are just incredible. The next thing that happens is it gets unloaded at the warehouse. They check it in and they basically put all your stuff in a certain location. I don’t know exactly how that works. They have the article on the page which you should check out. And it shows some interesting details on to how exactly everything works, it’s really pretty cool.
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Next what happens is all these items that are at the warehouse are available, they are available to you to do as you choose. You don’t have to limit yourself just amazon. I could send in anything there, as long as it complies with the rules that amazon has. So this is really powerful, if I want to do is multi-channel fulfillment, I can sell an item on Etsy or eBay. I can have amazon fulfill that order. so let’s say that I’m selling dog biscuits. I can have amazon just send them out. I don’t have to store them, I don’t have to pack, I don’t have to ship, I don’t have to deal customer service, I don’t have to deal with anything it’s dealt with all dealt. With it’s like having a ton of different employees for every single task. Except instead of paying employees and having to deal with all the paperwork. Without having to deal with all the viability and all the taxes and all the hassle on all the BS that you get when you have to hire someone. So I said before amazon stores all the items for you. Just to give you an idea of the cost over 7,000 books I had in storage last month cost me a hundred and fourteen dollars. Absolutely incredible on the storage. Said it’s amazing to keep one book there for an entire year it’s less than fifteen cents.
So just think about that for a second, Let that sink in amazon at the warehouse is holding over 7,000 books for me. And it cost me a hundred and fifteen dollars a month. Just think about that and then think about the profits that are possible from seven thousand books a month. If you compare the storage space locally, Even if you live in the middle of nowhere it’s probably going to be a lot cheaper. Next what they’re also responsible for, is they know exactly where that item is and they’ll immediately go to it. if I had seven thousand items here, there’s no way in hell I’d be able to find the exact book I was looking for immediately. But they do so again that is incredible. That is technology that they have access to that I don’t. Ahe next thing to do well pack it up into a box. And they’ll use protective packing material if necessary. Again in this month just in January I’ve already sold over a thousand 150 items. Do I really want to find pack up box and ship a thousand 150 items? Probably not, especially if there’s something that is like around $MONEY a pound or more. It’s different of course if you’re sending out like a like a photograph or a small piece of paper that you can mail 1st class with a stamp. I mean that’s different if you can mail I cannot better. Or really small make a DVD, I could see that they be a little bit easier. But the same time you’ve got to find every single one of those items. And then like I said you gotta bring them all somewhere you gotta drop off amazon does it all for you.
These things are getting you can ship it to amazon for super cheap, Amazon will store it super cheap on amazon will take the item out of the massive pile of stuff that you got. And they get exactly the right item most of the time amazon will ship the item exactly what you want. That’s the other thing amazon will ship it wherever it’s going it doesn’t matter. I’ve sold items to the craziest places in the whole world. Is like a little island in the middle of nowhere I forget what it’s called. But it had the population of like 50 and I couldn’t find out a map some guy in there bought some book for me. I don’t know what was I forget. But I mean I do international orders all the time people are people from anywhere people from anywhere by my books and my items. It doesn’t matter, it’s just incredible. The shipping to overseas like I remember the shipping credit is some guy paid it was going to like Afghanistan or something and he paid 799 to ship it. Try to Avoide Shipping errors.
That’s absolutely incredible that’s a really good price for shipping price. For all way too over there. Of course, another huge benefit to using amazon FBA is the customer service. I all customer orders through far dealt with by amazon. Amazon does it all for you, returns amazon does it for You, everything amazon does for you. The only thing that you have to do is keep sending more stuff. And you do have to deal with the taxes but then again that is all automated as well you can automate everything. Amazon FBA is just incredible and like I said for. I can’t say enough good things about it Amazon FBA is actually made. If you ever see anyone talk about FBA, it’s fulfilled by amazon. So just think about that, you know when you’re looking on amazon you see a thing that says prime eligible. That’s what it is, those people are amazon prime sellers. they are part of the amazon fulfillment process.
If you have any more questions about amazon FBA, you want to know anything else about it, you can also view my other article. I’m gonna make some more article talking about why you should be using FBA or if you should not be using FBA. and I’d like to get into a little bit more depth into books. And why I enjoy selling them so much.thanks guys for watching hope this article is useful for you. If so please be sure to give it a thumbs up. Thanks for watching my article guys.
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