SFP Amazon Pallets
Hello,
Does anyone else here ship pallets to Amazon Depots via SFP using pallets?
We seem to be sending about 5-6 pallets a day and its costing us a fortune.
We think Amazon should really be returning some of these pallets to Amazon SFP Sellers to alleviate the costs.
Also what happens to all the pallets we send out. They are not cheap by the way. about £5 each which adds up over a year.
47 replies
Seller_YmHRo13Ia4O1H
Hi,
No, Amazon won’t return the pallets to you, and neither would any other company you supply would ever return a pallet to you unless it was part of the CHEP scheme.
When you buy stock from suppliers do you ever think to return the pallet?
If you are sending 5-6 pallets of stock into Amazon a day me personally I would stop worrying about £25/30 I am sure there is something more important to focus on.
Seller_SLt0K04c8itt6
Actually that is incorrect. Both hermes and DHL return pallets.
“When you buy stock from suppliers do you ever think to return the pallet?”
Amazon do not buy these pallets off of us. We are giving them as a charity.
£25/30 is over £9000 a year in lost capital my friend. If you include the labels they also fail to supply (which most other couriers do for free like Hermes) Then there is probably an additional £2000 - £3000.
At the end of the day the extra things add up.
Seller_SLt0K04c8itt6
Yes - I have argued this since the beginning.
Apparently it is tabled for a very long discussion some way in the future. I really wish someone from the SFP head office would look at this sooner.
I don’t understand how it make sense either from a sustainable perspective to constantly cycle pallets.
Amazon must fields of pallets somewhere they are surely paying massive tax on ?
Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
Just a thought, if it applies, are your products clampable?
If so, then there is no need to use pallets at all. You can in fact use loose load.
Seller_n33KwLeg9XOvi
Just look around your area for Free pallets. Plenty available where I am if I ever run out. Surely if your suppliers send you goods on pallets - you can just use those to send your stock into amzn. If your sending 5-6 pallets a day into amzn - always have a good stockpile of pallets in your yard
Seller_cJDqPFV2U0xru
Come and take our pallets for free! NOBODY picks them up! We have pallet deliveries but don’t send out as pallets. We advertise on FB for people to take them for free!!!
Seller_aovSrGTvHBnnz
No offence but this has got to be the weirdest complaint on this forum.
Do your supplier not provide you pallets?
If these pallets are provided by your suppliers then you’re not paying anything extra.
Also, if you want free pallets I can get you tons of them.
Seller_K71iKhD8kX1da
I am assuming you are sending large boxes. we ship around 3-4 pallets a day, split over 350 orders and the cost is negligible. personally more concerned over the price rise of Amazon shipping.
Seller_ae51e0CJoHqCX
Send by the parcel instead of sending by the pallet then you don’t have to worry about it. Naturally it will cost a whole lot more.
I also send my packages in boxes which I am aware they empty when they get to the other end, I wonder what happens to these boxes?
I mean at 20p a box and based on me sending around 10 boxes per week, that’s £2. £104 over the year. Every penny counts!
