Best way to disable FBA listings to sell FBM
hello
Most of our FBA products are currently showing as 28 day delivery to UK and DE customers, therefore as you can imagine they are not selling at all
I completely understand the reasoning to priortize certain items at the moment and as the products in question are non-essential but also mostly oversized I have no problem with this.
The problem I have is that depsite the long delivery times Amazon are not giving the buy box to the FBM offer on the same product as we also ship from our warehouse. Therefore we are looking to either disable the FBA or request removal of the items
The removal would be approx 150 x oversized items so that will cost around £90 I believe (I think it’s 0.60 for oversized items) so would prefer to just leave them in warehouse as delivery times could change
So what is the best way to just disable the FBA on these items? ive read that you can change the listing to seller fullfilled but im worried about what might happen to the stock in this case
Thankyou in advance for any advice
28 replies
Seller_qYWBbVqeAGVy5
A little observation Ive noticed Related to the slow delivery times, Amazon seem to be picking out one ‘Amazon choice’ product for many product types in our category and then relax the long shipping time. Seems a bit unfair to me but Amazon have their ways, just give all similar items the same rules I would say
Seller_WeSqHBx5OB3WI
Hi,
- Currently, FBA will not process removal orders, you are not able to remove your FBA stock. Even it is available to remove, it will take a long time.
- My advice: if you have enough FBM stock, then creat a seller fulfilled listing to fulfil the orders by yourself. Also, keep the FBA listings active. no affect to your FBA stock I think.
Seller_qYWBbVqeAGVy5
We have had a reply from SS telling us to convert the listings to FBM, is stranded stock a big problem?
Ive never had it before
Seller_fKMjKGlgNnzVI
Difficult to know what to do in the current situation. I feel a bit like if we change too much now we could be creating problems for ourselves further down the line! My problem has been that by FBM Sku’s are winning the buy box but the sponsored products campaigns wont deliver as they are saying that the listing is not eligable for the buy box! Contacting Amazon yesterday and they have said that they are ‘re-driving’ the Sku’s (whatever this means) and that the advertising should start delivering again after 72 hrs.
Seller_Or6BJBRNojYTB
Unless I’m missing something, there’s absolutely no need to switch your FBA listing to FBA. In fact, that’s only going to make your inventory stranded and create way more issues. And actually, that’s just going to make things worse for all of us.
On Manage Inventory, click edit and there should be an option to ‘Add another conditon’
Here you can add a new sku, for you asin, only have it FBM.
Seller_oFpFzCy04fPTj
So here’s our approach:
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Create an MFN offer for the same ASIN (using ‘add a condition’) and set it to Merchant Fulfilled (we’ve had these for years incidentally, for if/when we run out of stock in FBA)
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Close your FBA listing. The stock will remain in FBA, linked to the correct FNSKU etc - you’re just deactivating the offer. The ranking is at the ASIN level, not the SKU level, so your search rankings will not be affected
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Your sponsored ads will currently be set to advertise only on the SKU which is set to FBA. As this SKU has just been deactivated, its ineligible for advertising. You need to add the new MFN SKU (which you just created) to your ad groups. Then the ads will run again.
The thing with running both FBA and MFN offers at the same time, is that FBA will trump MFN every time, and the amount you need to be lower than the FBA offer (for the MFN offer to get the buy box) depends on, among other things, your performance fulfilling yourself. So if you have both live, you need to be either priced quite a bit lower than the FBA offer for the MFN to take the buy box, or you need to raise your FBA offer quite a bit (which can lead to no buy box at all).
While the prospect of closing your FBA offers for a while might seem quite intimidating, bear in mind that you’re doing this because the FBA ones, in the current climate, aren’t performing well in comparison with your competitors listings who have shorter delivery times. Until that changes, you’re not going to be selling much via FBA anyway so no harm in pausing the FBA offers.
Seller_W2JVHKIH6ciTD
Are we allowed to have two listings for the same ASIN - one with FBA and the other for FBM?
To date I have only used FBA, but since out of stock and can’t send anymore stock, I am not sure if I better to convert my FBA listing to FBM (and then switch back once things get back to normal), or create a second listing for same ASIN with FBM condition?
Regards,
