Selling Books On Amazon Merchant Fulfilled

The fulfilled by amazon program allows you to ship all your books to an amazon fulfillment center amazon takes care of the rest of the sale and you kick back and collect.

Selling books on amazon merchant fulfilled. Fulfillment by amazon covers shipping customer service refunds and returns. Convert any listing into fba. With amazon fulfilled by merchant sellers primarily have a monthly subscription fee a small fee per order placed and a referral fee for each order.

A fbm seller is responsible for shipping their own products once a sale is made. Sellers ship their books directly to one of amazon s fulfillment centers fc. Avoid amazon s strict fba requirements.

Fulfilled by merchant fbm you create the listing and ship your orders yourself. The way i see it is if you have a book that would be under the threshold for free shipping when sold fba you might do better selling it mf because the customer only wants that one book and only wants to spend 5 10. Fulfillment by merchant fbm or fulfillment by amazon fba.

Amazon is known for changing its fba requirements without giving sellers enough time to adapt to changes and they get much higher during q4. There are three principal methods of selling and fulfilling your orders on amazon. The good and bad of fba.

But the steps are a bit different from the regular way of selling books on amazon. I can see depending on your price point being able to sell books merchant fufilled but that s pretty much it in my experience. As much as we focus on and rave about selling on amazon using the fba program fulfillment by amazon there are actually times when we feel it is beneficial to merchant fulfill mf items this means that instead of amazon processing the order as is with using fba you will process and ship the orders yourself to the customer there are six scenarios where we would merchant fulfill as well as.

Your shipping costs depend on your carrier resources you use to ship products and the cost of labor. If you have access to your products outside of amazon fulfillment warehouses you can list your products again as merchant fulfilled and ship them to the customer yourself or have a prep center or third party fulfillment center do this for you. Whenever a sale pushes through amazon packs and ships the book to the customer and handle complaints returns and other inquiries on your behalf.