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Make a New listing or turn a good selling FBM to FBA?
I have a good selling product and I want to make it to FBA.
I have a few reviews and starts and buy box . I am worried about the period from making it into a FBA and shipping the product I will lose sale and my trending sale.
Is it better to make a new item or change the listing to FBA?
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Seller_JQ2Dj853XJZRt
On inventory page on right hand side select Add a Condition. Use this to generate a new listing for FBA and continue selling FBM,
Once inventory available in FBA you can have two different prices or take the FBM inventory to zero
Seller_8sP6ffckcRn6v
You can sell the same item at the same time as FBM and FBA.
Follow what @Seller_JQ2Dj853XJZRtwrote.
Seller_ERLzXBGQ4ppyV
I sent 4 of my best-selling products to FBA and lost my butt. They take forever to get this listed in inventory, and they lost 24 of my units. FBA fees way to high, and after I did that and sold out changed it back to FBM and sales went down by 70% and I have yet to recover.
Seller_r9wMm8LrE5iKj
In this case, I might suggest reading the forums, rather than writing to them. (that's not intended to be snarky)
What I see posted daily about FBA nightmares should be enough to scare anyone off. If you can afford to lose your inventory and cash from sales on top of paying excessive fees, then FBA might be for you.
Seller_fLvvZO4xNMu0D
If you are ok with this then you can happily feed amazon. Also, items were returned by customer damage will not be reimbursed => you will take the loss(es)
But .... If your product has low return rate, FBA should boost your sale faster. The problem you must deal with is FBA receiving process. It now takes longer than normal, amazon promised to close your shipment in 3 weeks. I would say 3 times longer (my 2 shipments were delivered in May 20th then they were closed in June 26th and July 5th).
Best luck of feeding amazon !!
Seller_XBO7paXDRHxnG
FBA has been terrible for me. My #1 has LOST me money on FBA. #1 because I sell low-priced products, and the fees kill me. #2 customers lie.
I have over 2000 orders off of Amazon and only one exchange request, ever. On FBA, I had 3 for "defective" products. It's freaking soap. Because of that, my best-seller is rated as "fair" and has been suppressed.
Rose_Amazon
Hi @Seller_h9aBKs3UtzRDe
Thanks for the post. Unfortunately, you can't not transfer you FBM reviews to FBA. You will need to create a totally new listing to sell a product both FBA and FBM.
Best regards and have a good weekend.
Rose_Amazon
Seller_IZ5lvEic6oGAx
Avoiding FBA is almost always the right choice...
Seller_SJRMV3s4mNrFA
How much inventory can you afford to "lose" when FBA checks them in? Amazon claims sellers send them ALOT of 20-30 pound EMPTY boxes...
Seller_b9WizAGoDfKQH
We do both, using the same ASIN, so the customer has the option of buying from us for us to ship or FBA. FBA has it's issues, but relatively small - normally the cost of FBA is significantly less than FBM - they do have extremely good shipping rates. We have several thousand orders a year through Amazon both FBA and FBM and are overall. happy with both systems. And yes, it may depend on what you are selling - just logistically some makes more sense FBA and some more sense FBM
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