Amazon's shipping methods:
Currently, there are three main ways for Amazon, a cross-border e-commerce platform, to ship goods: FBA, third-party overseas warehouses, and self-delivery. Here, Haimao Cross-border makes a simple comparison.
1. Advantages of FBA: fast logistics, increased customer trust, and improved listing rankings. If you receive negative reviews from buyers due to logistics reasons, Amazon will help remove them.
Disadvantages: The overall cost is slightly higher, the first-leg operation is cumbersome, and you need to do customs clearance yourself. The buyer return rate is likely to increase, which increases the cost of inventory pressure. The return address only supports the United States (when doing US FBA).
Further reading: "About Amazon FBA's warehouse division and warehouse consolidation."
2. Third-party overseas warehouse
Advantages: Reduce logistics costs, speed up logistics time, help develop local markets, and the cost is slightly lower than FBA.
Disadvantages: high inventory pressure, risk of backlog, and uneven management levels of third-party overseas warehouses.
Further reading: "Amazon FBA warehouse VS third-party overseas warehouse, which one is more advantageous?"
3. Self-delivery
Advantages: Reduced inventory costs, low storage costs, and more flexible operations.
Disadvantages: Listing exposure and ranking are less than FBA, it is easy to get bad reviews from customers due to logistics reasons, and without the Prime logo, it is difficult to win the favor of Prime members.
What are the advantages of Amazon’s own delivery?
Amazon's self-delivery model is a logistics model in which the seller is responsible for packaging, mailing, customs clearance and other operations. The seller needs to choose the logistics channel for delivery. So what are the advantages of self-delivery?
1. A wide range of logistics channels to choose from
There are many logistics methods to choose from for Amazon's own delivery, such as international express, international dedicated line, international EMS, E-mail, international small package, international large package, etc. There are many logistics channels, and the logistics channels available to sellers are very wide.
2. Alleviate financial pressure
Compared with Amazon FBA and overseas warehouse models, self-delivery has less financial pressure, lower costs and higher capital turnover efficiency.
3. Freedom to choose logistics methods
By choosing the self-delivery model, sellers can choose the appropriate logistics method based on the product, customer needs and destination country to meet customer needs. If you have high requirements for timeliness, you can choose international express delivery. If you require low logistics prices, you can choose postal parcels. You can also choose logistics channels according to the products.
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