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How To Start An Amazon FBA Business

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Re: How To Start An Amazon FBA Business

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Post by arbingsam »

nibnib wrote: post #3

This looks fantastic. I am curious about reselling Chinese products - why do Alibaba sellers value FBA businesses? Why don't they just set them up themselves?

Hello. I'm the guy who wrote the article. Just created an account as I saw I was getting some traffic from Hacker News.

In answer to you question: They do sell on Amazon FBA themselves. More and more so in the last year. In fact, in the seller center there are two choices for language, English and Chinese. That is why I suggest focusing on creating your own products or improving on existing ones rather than just reselling stuff from Alibaba.

Even then you need to do your own marketing. As a consumer in your own market place you should have an advantage over a Chinese seller who can only speak broken English.

It's also worth pointing out that these factories aren't in the business of creating brands. They're in the business of mass producing other people's brands. As such the more people who work with them the better, regardless of where they plan on selling the final product.

Re: How To Start An Amazon FBA Business

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Post by petecooper »

arbingsam wrote: post #4
nibnib wrote: post #3

This looks fantastic. I am curious about reselling Chinese products - why do Alibaba sellers value FBA businesses? Why don't they just set them up themselves?

Hello. I'm the guy who wrote the article. Just created an account as I saw I was getting some traffic from Hacker News. In answer to you question: They do sell on Amazon FBA themselves. More and more so in the last year. In fact, in the seller center there are two choices for language, English and Chinese. That is why I suggest focusing on creating your own products or improving on existing ones rather than just rese…

Constructive suggestion: make a note of which URLs are affiliate links, or have a referral/affiliate disclaimer on the article.

Re: How To Start An Amazon FBA Business

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Post by ivank »

How risky is it to ship straight from the factory to Amazon? It seems like a supplier could switch to shipping duds/rejects, Amazon would sell them for you, and you'd get a pile of 1-star reviews on your listing. Do FBA businesses do anything to deal with supplier risks?

Re: How To Start An Amazon FBA Business

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Post by Vibrelli »

From experience - really really research your suppliers as these will make of break your business. Many 'suppliers' on Alibaba, are not manufacturers just on-sellers. Also use other non-alibaba methods of sourcing suppliers, hire sourcing agents who speak the lingo and help vet the factories for you. Also focus on quality.. don't sell junk ;)

Re: How To Start An Amazon FBA Business

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Post by Vibrelli »

ivank wrote: post #7

How risky is it to ship straight from the factory to Amazon? It seems like a supplier could switch to shipping duds/rejects, Amazon would sell them for you, and you'd get a pile of 1-star reviews on your listing. Do FBA businesses do anything to deal with supplier risks?

For a quality supplier, it's not in their interest to sell you rubbish. If you make money and are successful, then so are they. Get to know them really well but make sure you get lots of samples. In saying that, some just don't sell quality products, it's up to to filter them. You can also hire people to do Quality Assurance testing at the factory on your orders.
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