Hi!

I'm starting up this forum as recently Amazon has allowed Malaysians to apply in the Amazon FBA Seller account.

If you have just jump in the bandwagon or a season seller, please give us your thoughts, comments, success stories and frustration. We hope to create a great seller community so that we may share our mistakes in order not to repeat it while helping others in the process.

I am personally an individual seller and still a beginner. Hoping to learn from others and have a free lifestyle and let go all the frustration associated with 9 to 5 work.

Here's a general idea of what Amazon FBA is all about:


This post has been edited by lokesc: Jan 5 2019, 10:25 AM

Most sellers ship from Alibaba to Amazon warehouse. Of course the shipping fees are rather steep.

I will be attending a course soon and sending my first product soon. Hope all turns out well.

The Amazon marketplace is huge and caters about 40% of online business which is insane. Opportunity is there and despite saturated product offering, it's still a very good place to sell.

I am selling locally on eBay and mudah only at the moment. I've just registered my individual account and finalizing my 1st product before shipping.

Amazon will only determine the warehouse after the listing of the product.

Products are easily source from Alieexpress, Taobao & Alibaba. It's quite common to buy from China and sell it over on the US market.

Absolutely!

Great! I'm also planning to get a full version of a research tool. Which one do you recommend? Jungle scout/Amazeowl/Helium10?

Unicorn smasher stats are really off substantially if I'm not mistaken.

Any issues of getting the Amazon buy box when first starting off? I heard sometimes it could be difficult.

Impressive to see your contributions here. I'm still sourcing my product niche now. Just curious is it necessary to have PPC campaign or Facebook Ads. I heard some were even using many chat. I foresee it could be a challenge.

What about gaining the buy box button? Will beginners be struggling? I'm a designer and I kinda researching a lot of products and finally found my niche. Will try to get my product up and running soonest possible.

For newbies here, the following are some of the good AMAZON FBA YOUTUBE channels to follow:

Just search this guys' channels out:

Seth Kniep
Wholesale Ted
KT Nine
Crescent Kao
Samer Brax
Tamara Tee

Thanks! But can we assume that a private label will have exclusivity for the buy box to be shown?

It's funny that most supplier on Alibaba quoted very high cost almost as high as Malaysia air shipment via DDP. I wonder why. Maybe you have more experience.

Finally got my first shipment ordered from China. small quantities to test my seller account. Hoping to learn the ropes on Amazon FBA.

I will post all my updates on my journey to this new Amazon FBA business as I embark on this new frontier. Woo..hooo!

Nope I got my individual plan to test some stuff and learn the basics before I go all in.

That will be called FBM and typically it can be tricky unless you have secure an agency for distribution. Otherwise any delivery stuck by supplier will be your responsibility.

You need to get supplier to give you all the alternative shipping available. Bare in mind some shipping methods may need your full commitment and understanding in doing so.

This is to ensure no costly shipping occurs which may affect your margins down the line.

This post has been edited by lokesc: Mar 5 2019, 09:45 AM

You have to ensure that all the details are identical across all documents you send. Otherwise, Amazon will not approve.

Learn more about Amazon FBA from sellers on YouTube and find out more about the business as this is not eBay nor it's lelong.com. It's a business and you need to know the ropes before you dive in.

Ask yourself is it suitable for you after you get to know the ins and outs of the business before you spend the money on a premium course as most basic and advanced tutorials are already available online.

Setup is pretty straight forward as anyone can do without guidance. Secondly, the bulk of Amazon FBA is about research which require us to buy tools like jungle scout, etc. My suggestion is try out the trial version of each type of tools before you decide to splash your hard earned money.

In many cases, these tools are to assist, the real truth is how good is your product and sales volune which will determine whether you win or lose.

As the support is not forever, it's prudent to have your own gut feel and tons of research.

Get someone who has use the same agents which are tested reliable before using them. Some are interested in money more than anything. Once you ship it out, things may get hairy at times.

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the fee is rm3k. Includes support fee

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Thanks Sifu. Fair for a fee. Let’s me watch some more FBA video for general knowledge before anything.

By the way, can we use your trusted China shipping agent? Or, this is part of the RM3k fee?

Thanks again.

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