Hello.

I want to understand if I must register for a UK VAT. I want to sell products on Amazon UK, and I will ship all my products to UK customers (FBM). So the products will be sent to the UK from Europe.

I checked the VAT Handbook that Amazon provides to the sellers, and there is this information:

Sellers registered on Amazon and selling to customers within the UK.

You are required to be VAT registered in the UK if:

3. You are a Seller established in one EU country selling and moving goods to consumers based in the UK,

and your total yearly sales to UK consumers exceed £70,000.

If I understand correctly, then I don't need to register for UK VAT because I am a seller from Europe, and I will be selling and shipping goods by myself, and my yearly sales don't exceed £70,000.

Also, if it helps, I am registered as a VAT payer in my country. But I don't have OSS because I haven't reached 10,000 Euros in Europe yet.

Did anyone else receive a call from amazon to set up a large and heavy shipping template? We got a call about 2 weeks ago. Obviously i didnt believe it was from amazon and wouldnt give him any information but he did seem to know we had a shipping template on some products called "Heavy - no one day shipping".

He talked me into setting up this new template where we could set fees for places like highlands and islands or block certain zones from ordering if it was too expensive to ship to them. So i set up this new LARGE AND HEAVY SHIPPING TEMPLATE with a shipping fee for highlands and islands. I've now noticed that It states on the template that it has to be an arranged courier delivery. That isnt a good idea seeing as amazon discourage all contact with customers and many customers it seems hardly ever see a message from sellers anyway. This was not properly explained to me at the time.

More importantly, the reason I noticed this is because we didnt have a sale on any of the items i had added to this new template since it was set up. I got curious about this and checked them out today and every single item is marked as "Currently Unavailable" even though we have them marked with stock in the inventory. So somethinfg is clearly wrong with the system, and I guess the moral of the story is that when amazon do call you with their latest idea, dont listen to them!

I have moved them all back to our own "Heavy - no one day shipping" template and they are now back on sale.

Has anyone been able to get their shipping setting from the UK to the USA lower than 10 to 20 days? We have a fully tracked 7 day delivery service from the UK to USA and Canada and are unable to change our shipping settings to reflect this for our customers.

Amazon Account manager advised the setting should be there but it isnt. Amazons own policy states it will be available with the new shipping settings yet it isnt and Amazon support have said we cannot have the 7-14 days shipping time frame as no one is allowed it now.

We have been running fully tracked since Jan with no Joy other than it stopping the relentless scamming A-Z claims

Anyone have any Idea?