Seller Central; Fulfillment by Merchant
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The second option available to you is to fulfilled your orders from consumers who purchase your products from the Amazon website yourself. This is known as fulfilled by merchant, fulfillment by merchant, merchant fulfilled or seller fulfilled. In this instance, when a customer buys one of your products from Amazon.
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You will then pick, pack, and ship the product yourself directly to the customer. Amazon will still deduct their referral fee or commission fee from the sale as described in the previous video, and you will receive the balance in your account from Amazon. The advantage to fulfilling orders yourself is that you can be sure they are packaged securely and can even customize your parcel by including a personal message or a little thank you gift for purchasing your product.
The other advantage is you don’t have to pay any storage fees to Amazon because the product is coming from your warehouse. The disadvantage is obviously that you’ll need to keep on hand packaging materials, labels, etc, and would need to deal with the courier or mail yourself.