thanks for share
this method works but too risky and get pain in the a** also everybody doing it since years
if you see yourself will stand do it everyone
Thank you TECH N9NE! Was looking for this. Will check it out tonight. Rep added.
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(09-09-2016 03:51 PM)Tayde Wrote: [ -> ]Is this US only?
You can do this anywhere as long as you have an Amazon Seller account.
I did sell items on Amazon. Notice I said "did". At one time I have over 50,000 skus on Amazon that I sold all on a drop ship model. Automation was the key to be able to handle the number of SKUs, the number of products and the number of orders. I received many hundreds of orders. I received many hundreds of thousands of dollars. But in the end when we did the accounting and then looked at the amount of time and effort it was not worth it to work with Amazon. I fired Amazon. When you have that many SKUs you cannot give the time and attention needed to each product to get the sales so the result is that you end up with a high sales volume on a few products.
Why not select a few products and really promote and work with those products. That way you can work to get your sales volume up, as well as increase profit margins. When you are using a drop shipping model, often the items you select to promote are the same items that Amazon is already selling themselves or other third party stores are selling. When the items are FBA it makes it difficult to compete shipping and price wise because of Amazon Prime. Third party stores begin to find that the only way they can compete is to lower their price to create more sales volume. For example, in drop shipping Tees I found that on some brands I could only make $1 to $2 per shirt and be competitive on Amazon and that was even with a required MAP pricing from the vendor. A vast difference from selling on over venues. Further, Amazon is beginning to train their customers to expect a certain level of customer experience that it becoming more difficult to attain. People seem to expect shipping times (2 days or even less it seems) that comes with Prime Membership even when the product is not a part of Prime. There are higher rates of return because of the more liberal return policy that Amazon provides and that customers seem to expect of all third party stores.
My take away from this experience with Amazon is that you should focus on just a few unique products that neither Amazon or any third party stores have that you can create a demand or buzz for. Otherwise it is not worth the time or effort to help Amazon increase Amazon's bottom line and not your own.
