Have you been selling directly to Amazon via Vendor Central? Recent changes to this platform means Amazon may no longer place orders with your company. Amazon is a big company, and many if not all of the decisions they make are done so for very good reason - they just may not be apparent to everyone. Do you now feel like you just lost a key piece to your puzzle? Actually, this can be very good news for your bottom line! With us at the helm, you’ll likely sell as much on Amazon as you did before but now you’ll have more control, spend less time, and increase your profit. Scroll down to read more . . .
Have you been selling directly to Amazon via Vendor Central? Recent changes to this platform means Amazon may no longer be placing direct orders with your company. Perhaps your typical Monday morning POs have stopped showing up? Perhaps you received an e-mail which reads, “Please be informed that at this time, we are not placing any purchase orders on your products. To preserve the customer experience, the featured offer will be disabled when the product is out of stock. We will notify you if we choose to place any purchase orders.” Perhaps you’ve heard rumors about something called “One Vendor”. We can help.
Do you feel like you just lost a key piece to your puzzle? If Amazon was a major player for you, then your bottom line is likely tied directly to those POs. With them gone, so is a large part of your profit. You need to know one thing: Amazon is NOT saying that your product can’t be sold on Amazon - they are simply saying THEY are not going to be ordering it - at least for now.
Why did Amazon do this? The reasons are not always made public, and we don’t blame them. It’s their company after all. There are often times issues a company of this size must deal with - such as anti-trust issues for one. It may simply be that Amazon is changing their model and moving more toward a model like we are suggesting. In short, you can now simply sell your own product on Amazon at retail, instead of selling wholesale to Amazon.
Actually, this is can be very good news for you! Think about this, instead of selling to Amazon directly at a few percentage points below typical wholesale, and giving them an allowance for returns, and ordering according to their rules using their system - you sell yourself on Amazon. Remember, Amazon still makes money. They aren’t saying that they don’t like you - they are just changing their business model. Now, though, you reap 100% of the profit. With our fees, Amazon selling fees, and ancillary costs you will net roughly 65%-70% of the retail dollar. In the past you were lucky to net 45% of the retail dollar. You do the math - but we think you’ll like the outcome.
With Year 5, you’ll sell every bit as much on Amazon as you did before but now you’ll have more control, spend less time, and increase your profit. Your product is in demand. People want to buy it - and Amazon wants you to sell it on Amazon. They get paid any way you look at it - and rightly so. Take advantage of the changes they are making - start selling your products yourself. We’ll manage it all - but you’ll have more control, spend less time, and your profit will increase. We’ll make sure your prices are set, we’ll guide you in keeping inventory stocked properly, we’ll handle your advertising (which you maybe were not doing at all before) and you’ll simply get a bigger piece of the pie. The door is open, walk through it. People do this every day - we promise, you can too.