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Fulfillment by Amazon: What Amazon doesn't tell third-party sellers

by joseph7384
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I've been into offline marketing for quite some time now and although I'm doing quite well, I started to take an interest in E-bay because my daughter had a few things that she wanted to sell.

In mid 2012 I've been noticing an influx of E-bay arbitrage courses and I watched sales video after video and couldn't get a grip on diving right in because of so many
unanswered questions, and so my research began.


Results conclude that it's not worth the trouble

  • Most of these marketers tell you to just swipe a product image right from Amazon, that's a no no.
  • Some tell you to use Amazon Prime, again a no no.
  • They say to gift the item so your customer doesn't see an Amazon label, how long can that last before Amazon see's 100's of gifts that your sending and realizes what your up to.

The biggest Problem is from, Wait for it; yes that's right Amazon themselves. I found this just this morning, and you'll be shocked at their audacity on how to deal with the solution.

Comingling merchandise: Amazon has fulfillment centers nationwide, and using a barcode system, it ships products from the facility that can get them to the buyer the quickest. If a buyer in Nevada selects a product from a third-party seller in Florida and Amazon's system finds an identical product offered by a California seller whose merchandise is located nearby, the Florida seller will get credit for the sale, but the buyer will receive the California seller's merchandise. Since the products are identical, theoretically that shouldn't be a problem.

But this makes it difficult for sellers to control product quality. One seller claims his account was unjustly closed and he faced a ruinous lawsuit after pirated DVDs he didn't supply were sent in lieu of the genuine article. A beauty product manufacturer ordered an item directly from Amazon and received a knockoff instead, raising additional quality control questions. While this is an opt-in program, for sellers, issues like this can result in negative reviews - or even worse, legal liability - through no fault of their own.
Source: Fulfillment by Amazon: What Amazon doesn

Can you imagine that, Amazon sends someone else's product to save on shipping costs, the products turn out to be pirated and then turns around and shuts down your account, "way to go Amazon".

The whole point here is really for newbies! don't jump into a WSO or other offers head first without doing a little research, do your homework and save yourself a bundle of headaches.
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    Amazon has fulfillment centers nationwide, and using a barcode system, it ships products from the facility that can get them to the buyer the quickest.
    Of course Amazon would ship from its closest fulfillment center....but it owns those fulfillment centers. The story seems to be about shipments from third party seller locations - not from Amazon centers.

    I agree about the confusion if an order was credited one place and shipped from another company but it sounds "off" to me somehow. I'd like to know more specifics.

    I just received an order from Amazon - placed with a company in California but the item itself is a replacement item available at many locations and Amazon sellers closer to me. My order was shipped from the company in California I ordered from. This was not an "amazon fulfillment" order but a third party order which is what this problem seems to be talking about.

    I could understand a major appliance seller re-routing order shipments of large appliances among it's retailers to save shipping costs but other than that I don't see how this would work for Amazon. Maybe I just don't understand it.
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