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I'm a New seller and I'm trying to figure out how do I ship my products from the alibaba to the FBA warehouse ?
Bring a new seller I’m trying to better understand the business I’ve currently set up everything and am now ready to purchase items to be able to sell. I wanted to understand how to ship my products that I purchased from alibaba to a FBA warehouse? Also how do you figure out which FBA warehouse you ship to exactly? Please help thanks everyone….
Seller_kIukTwdhvntAp
" I wanted to understand how to ship my products that I purchased from alibaba to a FBA warehouse?"
Actually, and as much as I am NOT a fan of that garbage dump of a source, you CAN buy from there BUT you should be aware of all of the risks, including being kicked off Amazon AND being sued by VERY large companies with fleets of attorneys.
It's a new version of the old computer acronym GIGO -- AIAO.
Ali###$# IN, Amazon OUT.
Since you already bought from the sounds, do everything you can to protect yourself realizing that it is too late on many facets!
FIRST, NEVER have Ali#$#$$# ship directly to Amazon until you KNOW that you can trust the seller there.
Have everything sent to YOU so you can verify the quantity, the packaging, the quality, and, being sure they did not switch out garbage.
Then you send it to Amazon.
"Also how do you figure out which FBA warehouse you ship to exactly?"
Study Seller U for the next month. If you had already done that you would know the answer to this question already!
https://sell.amazon.com/learn
AMAZON FBA SHIPMENTS
One of the 'joys' of doing FBA is that THEY decide what they want/need in whatever location and they have you ship it there.
That is so that THEIR customers can get things faster and make THEM look good.
If you ship multiple boxes they can/will make you split shipments. There was one recent thread where the seller had to ship to three locations. They were using the ‘placement service’ and said ‘This dramatically increase cost. For me it cost of sending same shipment went from $300 to $1500. ‘
My solution has been (and until I am in a nursing home and can't ship things any longer) to sell FBM. I don't trust Warehouse Wally and their automated forklifts to not run over my stuff.
I pack and ship things better than they do anyway. My last several shipments came in plastic bags. One was the package of socks as sold in stores with just the shipping label stuck on it. At least the mail man didn't laugh at my choices. I'm considering buying some thongs just to get a chuckle out of him.
If you simply HAVE to do FBA you will continue having these issues and they will most likely get worse as they 'fine tune' where your items need to go.
Good luck because you are REALLY not ready for Amazon and have no idea what you are about to get hit with!
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Seller_4zBzdtgCyS9EI
Oh yeah..here we go again.
Before you keep going, read THIS post and all the comments.
If that's not enough, search the forum for Alibaba
Seller_kIukTwdhvntAp
" I wanted to understand how to ship my products that I purchased from alibaba to a FBA warehouse?"
Actually, and as much as I am NOT a fan of that garbage dump of a source, you CAN buy from there BUT you should be aware of all of the risks, including being kicked off Amazon AND being sued by VERY large companies with fleets of attorneys.
It's a new version of the old computer acronym GIGO -- AIAO.
Ali###$# IN, Amazon OUT.
Since you already bought from the sounds, do everything you can to protect yourself realizing that it is too late on many facets!
FIRST, NEVER have Ali#$#$$# ship directly to Amazon until you KNOW that you can trust the seller there.
Have everything sent to YOU so you can verify the quantity, the packaging, the quality, and, being sure they did not switch out garbage.
Then you send it to Amazon.
"Also how do you figure out which FBA warehouse you ship to exactly?"
Study Seller U for the next month. If you had already done that you would know the answer to this question already!
https://sell.amazon.com/learn
AMAZON FBA SHIPMENTS
One of the 'joys' of doing FBA is that THEY decide what they want/need in whatever location and they have you ship it there.
That is so that THEIR customers can get things faster and make THEM look good.
If you ship multiple boxes they can/will make you split shipments. There was one recent thread where the seller had to ship to three locations. They were using the ‘placement service’ and said ‘This dramatically increase cost. For me it cost of sending same shipment went from $300 to $1500. ‘
My solution has been (and until I am in a nursing home and can't ship things any longer) to sell FBM. I don't trust Warehouse Wally and their automated forklifts to not run over my stuff.
I pack and ship things better than they do anyway. My last several shipments came in plastic bags. One was the package of socks as sold in stores with just the shipping label stuck on it. At least the mail man didn't laugh at my choices. I'm considering buying some thongs just to get a chuckle out of him.
If you simply HAVE to do FBA you will continue having these issues and they will most likely get worse as they 'fine tune' where your items need to go.
Good luck because you are REALLY not ready for Amazon and have no idea what you are about to get hit with!
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