Using Amazon Fulfillment Service Centers to Grow Your Business By: Skip McGrath

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1 Vision-One Press 1004 Commercial Ave Anacortes, WA Special Bonus Report for Buyers of The Complete Amazon Marketing System Using Amazon Fulfillment Service Centers to Grow Your Business By: Skip McGrath Copyright 2015 Skip McGrath and Vision-One Press; All rights reserved. This document and its contents may not be sold or republished. Short excerpts are allowed for press quotes and promotion.

2 This is a bonus report to update information in ebay to Amazon: Making the Transition and The Complete Amazon Marketing System. I mentioned these services in my Amazon Selling Courses, but only briefly. Since then I have been taking advantage of these services to grow my business so I wanted to expand on them in this special report. So what exactly is an Amazon Fulfillment Service Center? It is a service company where you have your wholesale suppliers (either here in the US or from overseas) ship the merchandise to their warehouse. Once it arrives they will store if for you (at prices lower than Amazon charges for storage) and when you create a shipment you them the product labels and shipping labels. They then label your items and ship them to an Amazon FBA warehouse for you. There are about a half a dozen of these companies in the US. You can find them by Googgling Amazon fulfillment service. However, I am only going to talk about one of them, as it is the one I use and recommend. The company is called My Inventory Team and they are located at 8110 C Highway 22, Dresden, TN Click on the link My Inventory Team to visit their website to see their complete line of services and fees and to register. Here is a list of the services they provide and the fees they charge: Please note our current turn around time to process and send inventory to Amazon FBA is 2-4 business days minimum. Clients will be put in a rotation and will get processed accordingly. My Inventory Team offers a service for a fee, to send the merchandise you purchase directly into Amazon for you if you do Amazon FBA, which can save you time and money. Our minimum FBA service fee to process an order is $35. We can ship directly to you and have very good freight rates with UPS and FedEx if you are ordering by the pallet. Newly Added Services for 2015: We are receiving pallets from your manufactures that just need to be freight forwarded to Amazon US warehouses. We will charge a pallet for receiving, outside pallet labeling, and storing for you, until you provide the freight shipping labels via . This is based on Amazon labeling your individual items for you.

3 SERVICES OFFERED: We also can now receive inventory you purchase from other suppliers and process it to Amazon FBA. OUR FBA PROCESSING PRICE STRUCTURE: Here is our fee structure for our FBA services both for our inventory and for inventory of your own that we process: $35.00 Min order for 1-35 pieces $50.00 Min order for pieces $65.00 Min order for Pieces Once you reach 100 pieces or more it is $0.60 a unit. This fee includes: receiving, unboxing, inspecting, inventorying, and labeling your merchandise. Labels: ( based on 100 units).60 a unit This includes the following: Receiving, Inspecting, Inventory, and the product label. There is no individual fee for each of these services stated above. The fee includes all services provided above. EXAMPLE: =60.00 This fee does not include the required boxes that we will need to use. In addition to the per piece price you may incur the following additional fees based on what is needed to process your order. Volume sellers over 5000 or more units a month will be.50 a unit., This fee includes receiving, unboxing, inspecting, inventorying, and labeling your merchandise. Items that are here longer than 30 days will incur a storage fee based on calculating cubic feet from inches. My Inventory Team will also create product bundles for you. These fees below are in addition to our per unit fee. Multi pack/bundling $0.40 a bundle. Bundle/ Multipack:(based on 100 units).40 per bundle/multipack If you plan on bundling or creating multipacks with more than 6 units in each then please call us for a quote: EXAMPLE 1: (2 UNITS IN EACH BUNDLE).60 a unit X 100 units= Bundle:.40 a unit X 50 units= Bag:.55 a bundle X 50 bundle=27.50 Total= This example is for products that are bundled together that do not require bubble These examples do not include the price of the box fees for boxes that we will need to use.

4 Shipping box pricing: Small boxes 16 x 16 x 16 $2.75 a box including bubble wrap lining Medium boxes 18 x 18 x 18 $2.98 a box including bubble wrap lining Large boxes 20 x 20 x 20 $3.07 a box including bubble wrap lining These prices may seem expensive, but they are actually very competitive (I have checked with other companies). Also My Inventory Team is located near most of the Amazon warehouses, which tend to be in the East. If you are in the West or Midwest the savings on shipping cost will often offset most if not all of the fees. Here is an example. I have one supplier in New York who charges me $36 to send a carton of 24 items to me near Seattle, WA. When I create the shipment to Amazon s warehouse on the East coast it costs me another $ That is a total of $ But my cost to ship from My Inventory Team to the same warehouse in the East is only $11 (a savings of $6.00) and the cost for my supplier to ship to Tennessee instead of Seattle is only $22 instead of $ This is an additional savings of $ So it costs me a total of $20 less when I use their service. If their fees total $35, their service is only actually costing me $15 out of pocket and it saves me a ton of time. This service is also valuable when you import goods from overseas. Amazon s policy on shipping goods directly to Amazon from overseas is very complex and you must use the services they recommend to clear your shipments. Also if the overseas manufacturer makes any mistakes in the procedure or paperwork, they will refuse your shipment and you will have to have it shipped back to you at your expense. The other factor is storage. Some of the items I import I bring in quantities of 500. That is too many to send to Amazon at one time. So what I do is store 400 at My Inventory Team (their storage charges are less than Amazon s) and have them send 100 at a time into Amazon. My Inventory Team is also a valuable service for Amazon sellers who live overseas and sell on Amazon US. You can order your wholesale merchandise from US suppliers and have it sent to them or you can ship your own goods from your home country to them and they will label and ship your items into Amazon for you. The other reason for using a service like this is time. I am at the point where if I want to add more SKUs to my Amazon business I would have to hire an employee to help me label and create shipments. I don t really want to do that, so I find its much cheaper to ship my goods to My Inventory Team than do it mysef. On the order of full disclosure If you sign up with My Inventory Team with this like I will earn a very small affiliate commission, but their pricing is the same to you

5 whether you sign up with my link or sign up directly. I know the owners John and Esther Bullard personally. They are fine people. I have been using their service for about two years and have had excellent results and recommended them to my readers long before John set up the affiliate program. Happy Selling Skip McGrath