I just sold two books for £15 each. In the estimates for each item it said the fees would be £6.26 each. That’s a total of £12.52 when the actual fees came to £23.23. I’m aware that those are estimate figures but there is big difference of £10.71 between them. I based my profit off these estimates. How I’m I meant to make a profit and also be competitive with other sellers prices at the same time when the fees are so high and nowhere near the estimates that Amazon has calculated? I was only left with £6.77 so I actually lost money instead of making a profit. If I increase my prices I will no longer be competitive with the prices of other sellers for the same item. I’ve tried contacting seller support but I can’t seem to get them to understand so far. Is anyone else having this problem?
You need to account for VAT on those fees as well as the closing fee on books thats on top of their referral fee
Hi.
You will find that your European FBA sales will have increased fees when being fulfilled from a different country outside of the local marketplace. (EFN rates)
There must be something else at play other than VAT since even adding the fees together that you quoted in your later post they don’t come close to £23. Was this an international order?
The fba fees are for all of that statement period not the two sales so will include Storage fees etc depending how long your period is
I have 5 books in storage at the minute sequin and the commission fees id imagine us among the amazon fees of £15.02 Ninja.
The time period is for the 12 days we are already in October. I presume it will continue for the month.
did you sell outside your own country? Then the estimate is wrong and you need to look into the FBA shipping cost table- its much higher. VAT should not be much of an issue with books.
If you can compete with Amazon, thats a good question and challenge
i feel you… luckily i don’t much sales… i just started back to sell 1 month ago after stopped for 1 & 1/2 year. … i almost fainted & my item was 5 times your price…fees wasn’t that much last time…