Re: Sending my products to Amazon? Questions.
FBA has gone through some major overhauls lately. Their policies have changed quite a bit in the past couple months. First of all, the new "create a plan" system is a POS compared to the old system. Once you start a plan, you cannot even add new products to it. The flexibility of the system is utter trash and was put in place this way to prevent people from exploiting the system. Exploits were thus fixed, but at a major cost. It's amazing how crappy their tech team seems to be.
Also, the FBA system used to be more separate from sellercentral. Now, if you get a warning from FBA by messing something up, your sellercentral can get dinged as well. If you mess up with FBA, your selling privileges can be revoked for a month after the first warning... and permanently if you continue to raise red flags. FBA manager's words, not mine.
FBA has also limited their box weight to 50 lbs., from the recent 70 lbs. limit. If you ship them a 53 lbs. box, expect a warning or phone call.
FBA has gone majorly downhill, but at the same time, Amazon doing certain things to give sellers incentive to using FBA, such as making featured harder to get (or easier to lose), and giving buybox to the FBA at higher selling percentages over the next lowest non-FBA. In conclusion, using FBA all depends on YOU and what YOU'RE selling. The weight, the competition, the price, etc. If there isn't much competition on most of your listings, your volume isn't through the room, and your items are cheap to ship, and/or sold at cheap prices, I would seriously consider staying AWAY from FBA. |