Some of you are being required to fill out a dangerous goods section for every item that you are sending to FBA.
Here's a video on how to bypass this. I also show you how to go back and fix it if you are in the middle of this tedious process.
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How to Sell Used Books with Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA)
Sadly this doesn’t work if you’re listing on Amazon using the “Add a product” links.
Also did you see the recent question about what your ratio of product sales to payment amount? Very interesting. Would like to know if there is a target sellers should have. Is it bad to have your payments less than 50% of sales? Seems like the cheaper your books, the less of the net you get.
I have found this work-around only works when using ScanLister so far. Yes, the cheaper the books that sell, the less net you will get. That’s because there are variable fees and fixed fees. To keep it simple, I will use merchant fulfilled fees as an example. The fixed fees are $1.80 (closing fee) and variable fees are 15%. So, if you sell a $100 book, the fees will be $16.80. If you sell a $10 book, the fees will be $3.30. The fees for the $100 book only represent 17% of the book. The fees for the $10 book represent 33% of the book.
My average sales price is $16. I think this makes me higher on average than most sellers of recent popular titles (but not of textbook sellers). So my net for a $16 book is about $11.80. So for simplicity’s sake, if I sell 100 of these books in a payment period, I’ll have sold $1600 worth of product and my net payout should be $1180.
Of course if you sell FBM you have to deduct shipping, and if you sell FBA you have to deduct FBA fees, including the $40 professional selling fee, and monthly storage fees. These fees must be getting pretty high, because to stick with my example of 100 $16 books, my net payout would not even be half of the total ($800), but more like $650. I feel like something is wrong, because it’s not like I’m selling very cheap $4.99 books at all. The irony of this is that I feel like I’ve become a much better Amazon seller over the years, and I’m much faster, and I’m selling very steadily, but I am making much less than I did in the past. Either something is wrong, or I have to send in 4-5 times as much as I currently do.
Thanks, Nathan, as always for your insights and help. You run the best bookselling blog out there!
Hey Nathan, Thanks so much for posting this info! The dangerous goods section was ridiculous when I had a large shipment last week – all books! Since Scanlister is what I use..this should solve the problem.
This isn’t working for me, it doesn’t convert them to FBA after this, and they were originally listed as FBA.
Can someone with more tech knowledge maybe make an iMacros script to do the dangerous goods page?
Thanks Nathan! This has been driving me crazy!
Glad it’s working for you!