Australian Selling on Amazon?

Did you know there is now Amazon.com.au? I am also in Australia and I assume you can use your Aussie bank details for that site.

There are some fulfillment orgs in the US that cater to Aussie companies. They might be able to help out. It might be too spendy to bring your products into their world and send them to Amazon though. I used to work for Austrade so I found out about those folks. Also, talk to your local Austrade or TradeStart rep and maybe they have advice. The want exports!

Yes, you can definitely do this! You may still need a U.S. bank account as you mentioned. I don't know that you need a U.S. address. On Amazon.com, they encourage us to "branch out" to selling on other Amazon (international) sites. I don't think they require these things anymore (at least not in the U.S- could be wrong about that). If you DO need both of these things, they should be fairly simple to set up (google "set up a u.s. bank account from Australia"). I believe you can also set up a P.O. box in the U.S. fairly easily that will serve as a "U.S. address."

If you work with suppliers, most of them will be willing to send merchandise DIRECTLY to Amazon's warehouse (FBA-fulfillment by Amazon as you mentioned.) This will take the Australian piece out of the puzzle (and save you a LOT on shipping.) If your supplier is only in Australia, you'll need to ship it to the U.S yourself, but when done in bulk will still be worth it in the long-run.

Worst case scenario, you could go on Elance or Odesk and find a U.S. contractor to do some of this initial setup for you- of course you'd have to be careful with the legal side of it (having someone else set up a bank account for instance). It could be worth hiring an attorney to be sure everything is done correctly and 100% legit.

Once you get it set up, I think you'll be happy that you did! Hope this helps!

If you look into it you will find that people from many countries are selling on Amazon. It is not just those in the US by any means.

Hi,

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We provide you with a US collection account which you can use to receive US bank transfers from US companies (such as Amazon). We have many Amazon Sellers currently receiving payments to their Payoneer accounts.

The Payoneer account has a Payoneer Prepaid Debit MasterCard card, which you can use to make purchases online, in stores, and at ATMs worldwide. You can also withdraw your funds to your local bank account.

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Payoneer supports local bank transfers to over 80 countries. These countries will all have access to the Withdrawal to Bank Account Service.

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