FC transfers. In stock. back to FC transfer
Hello,
I have an item of stock that I invested quite heavily in. Great seller (sales rank 2 in its category), decent profit margin (40% after fees). Only one FBA seller on the listing and amazingly- no Amazon on listing. So this seemed like the product to go in on.
I sent several hundred units in over 6 weeks ago. 7 sold in a few hours. Then they disappeared into FC transfer… a week goes by, then two, then three, then four, then five.
All of a sudden 4 days ago they are live again. But I could not get the buy box at all. The other seller was priced above me- I moved my price- done everything I could think of to get some shifted. Matched the buy box for a day, I even dropped the price to £6 (I paid £9 per unit) just to see if it would catch up… Nothing worked. Now they are back in FC transfer AGAIN. And seller support are telling me they MIGHT be available on the 15th of November. That’ll be 10 weeks after I sent them in. Not to mention the £4,500 I have tied up in these items!!
Why would this happen? Does this kind of thing happen often? If so, how in Gods name are we supposed to plan anything!?
I’ve been selling on amazon for around 10 months. I am aware FC transfers can sometimes take up to 30 days, but I have never had this happen. It has really got me nervous about investing in stock and I am not the kind of person to get spooked easily.
9 replies
Seller_bdSdLjti4IugQ
Sorry to hear about your problems… If you can post an ASIN people can have a look at the listing with regards to the buy box problem… With regards to the transfer it’s very strange for them to be in a transfer for so long but it can happen. Based on our experience I would advise always splitting a shipment up. In this case it sounds like you’ve got 500 units so send 250 units in then a week later another 250… or even 100 a go… If a shipment happens to get lost or delayed you’ve only got to deal with a much smaller amount of stock rather then the whole thing…
Seller_EJIX7rqDNQJi2
Amazon has their own reasons, it can be due to some of your products having to be transferred to a specific warehouse suitable for this category or size of goods or simply to make your items available for faster delivery by sending them to multiple FCs across the country.
Regarding the loss of a BuyBox, there might be numerous reasons for this and you have no guarantee you will be able to keep it on any listing.
