What are the similarities between Amazon's overseas warehouses and FBA warehouses?
1. Both require sellers to prepare goods in advance and have good warehousing management experience, so sellers do not need to worry about warehousing and distribution issues;
2. They can shorten delivery time, improve customer satisfaction, and help increase store sales;
3. Sellers are required to ship in batches, and the shipping methods are generally air, express, and sea, which can effectively avoid logistics peaks;
4. Both can provide return and exchange services for buyers;
5. Regardless of whether you choose an FBA warehouse or a third-party overseas warehouse, sellers must pay warehouse rental fees, logistics fees and other fees every month;
6. The products are outside the control of the seller, but both have customer service services provided to keep the seller informed of the inventory status. a
What are the advantages of Amazon overseas warehouses and FBA warehouses?
Advantages of overseas warehouses for sellers:
1. Shorten time and improve efficiency;
2. Reduce logistics costs and customs clearance fees;
3. Increase product profits;
4. Accomplish a large number of small-scale orders and increase transaction volume;
5. Manage goods efficiently and process orders quickly;
6. Improve product exposure, form brand effect and scale effect, and enhance product competitiveness;
7. Upgrade the traditional trade model to overseas warehouse trade, shorten the trade process, and reduce the overall trade risk.
Advantages for buyers (consumers and retailers):
1. A large number of suppliers to choose from;
2. Rich products and fully guaranteed quality;
3. It is convenient to check the goods and purchase them flexibly and freely, reducing the risk of unsalable inventory;
4. Reduce the company's investment and reduce operating costs;
5. Shorten the time of receiving and returning goods.
Advantages of FBA:
1. Improve the listing ranking, help sellers become featured sellers and grab shopping carts, improve customer trust and increase sales;
2. Many years of rich logistics experience, warehouses all over the world, and intelligent management (acquired robot manufacturing company Kiva Systems in 2012);
3. Super fast delivery time (most warehouses are close to airports);
4. Amazon professional customer service;
5. Eliminate negative review disputes caused by logistics;
6. All FBA logistics fees are waived for products with a unit price of more than 300 USD.
Disadvantages of FBA:
1. Generally speaking, the cost is slightly higher than domestic delivery, but it also depends on the weight of the product (especially FBA delivery from third-party platforms);
2. Poor flexibility (a common shortcoming of all overseas warehouses, but other third-party overseas warehouses can still have dedicated Chinese customer service to handle some issues, but FBA can only communicate with customers in English, and the response via email will not be as timely as that of third-party overseas warehouse customer service);
3. If the preliminary work is not done well, problems with label scanning will affect the entry of goods into the warehouse, or even prevent them from entering the warehouse;
4. The return address only supports the United States (if you are doing FBA on the US site).
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