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off-topic You know what really grinds my gears?!?
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salsalady
eXtreme Business
That's true.^^^
I replied saying I would respond during normal business hours. I feel like posting that "the shipping manager is out of the office until Monday." And let him stew over the weekend.
Then Monday, I could post that the fulfillment team is on strike and I can't get any information cuz they locked the computers in protest.
This could go on indefinitely...
I replied saying I would respond during normal business hours. I feel like posting that "the shipping manager is out of the office until Monday." And let him stew over the weekend.
Then Monday, I could post that the fulfillment team is on strike and I can't get any information cuz they locked the computers in protest.
This could go on indefinitely...
salsalady said:
That's like answering the phone and pretending to be a recording lolllll. "Texas Creek is closed, please call back, this has been a recording, beeeep"
salsalady said:
how does the whole amazon thing work if you dont mind me asking?
always was curious about this... do you just ship amazon pallets of stuff and they send it out via one of their warehouses?
and how do you sell your stuff as prime ellegable?
Scoville DeVille said:
think thats bad? try subbing for a firm thats payed by the city. you pretty much wait 60 days after the city waits 60 days to pay the primary. its insane, you pretty much have to bill services knowing you will have to float payroll for months.
billing to a client that we know pays in days is always going to be like 20% less.
salsalady
eXtreme Business
QQ~queequeg152 said:
I signed up as an Amazon Seller just over a year ago and I have been fulfilling all the orders myself. I bought a Dymo 4XL thermal label printer. I use quick-fold boxes and a bit of bubble wrap, all of which I pay for. Amz does make it easy to buy shipping at a discounted rate from all the various shippers, I use USPS First Class because what I sell is small and light weight. Using the Buy Shipping thru AZ saves me about .90 each, plus the time I'd have to spend at the PO standing in line, weighing and printing tickets for every box.....
What I also have to deal with is....customers! It hasn't been toooo bad, but there are knuckleheads that make you want to literally
.I'm very close to utilizing the Fulfillment By Amazon (FBA), which is shipping my stuff to their warehouse and then they ship it out to the customers....for an additional fee......
Right now, for PE original, If I use FBA, it would cost me $4.50 per unit. What that gets me is-
no $2.75 USPS shipping
no Dymo labels .01?
no shipping box .75
no additional PE labels on the outside of the shipping box .10
no bubble wrap .01
no 10 minutes per order- typing on the computer to print out the label, packing the tin in the shipping box, applying the label, driving to the PO....
no dealing with dumbass customers who moves from TX to GA and when they didn't get the order shipped to TX(cuz they didn't check the mailing address on their Amz account when they placed the order!!!) want me to ship a replacement to GA for free.... What is that worth? $$$$$$$$
Just winging it, it costs me about $3.75 in costs of labels, shipping and boxes to send out one item,...plus my time to go to the PO and deal with customers. For an additional .75 per order and they take care of everything....that's looking pretty tempting!
I don't know about Prime Eligible, I haven't gotten that far into it yet. You can buy listing preferences, things like...you bid .10 per click to have your bath towels come up as the first listing offered when a customer searches bath towels. But if someone else bids .11 per click, they get the first listing, and you get 2nd listing. I don't know how all that works, but apparently it's worth it ti buy yourself a higher listing when someone searches.
It's all more $$$ for Amz, and at this point, they are getting enough. If I do use FBA, they'll be getting even more. BUT...one other benefit is, they have the item in stock so I don't have to be around, or even on the grid, and the product is getting shipped out.
Hope this helps.
SL
very interesting. thanks for typing all that out.
SadisticPeppers
eXtreme Business
One big gear grinder for me... being on vacation and still getting called for tech support, even after telling others not to call and ask. Usually when someone calls me 3-4 times in a row, my first thought was that a relative died or had fallen severely ill, and I should pick up, but no, it was because they couldn't get to Facebook....
