FBA: Amazon may buy your products to sell globally
To help you increase your sales globally, Amazon may purchase your FBA products at your offer price and sell them on other global Amazon stores, including the UK, EU and other countries.
There are no additional fees to participate and you can opt out of the programme at any time.
Here’s how it works:
- Amazon may list, translate and price your products on other global Amazon stores, including the UK, EU and other countries where you do not already have an offer for the product.
- When a customer in the global Amazon store buys the offer, Amazon instantly purchases the product from you locally and arranges cross-border delivery to the customer. We will only sell products from European countries where you have provided a value-added tax (VAT) number in Seller Central.
- You will be paid the set product price and the customer will receive the product as if they had ordered it locally.
- If the customer returns your product, we will add it back to your inventory. You can file removal orders for these returns as you would for a domestic return.
- If Amazon sells your products, we will issue self-billed invoices (and credit notes for returns) on your behalf. You are responsible for keeping a record of these VAT invoices as you would be for any other invoice that you issue.
For more information, refer to Allow Amazon to buy my products to sell globally.
35 replies
Seller_pRGJWGVTfEZZp
Does this practically mean that, if you enable Amazon to buy your product and sell it on another marketplace, you cannot use the ‘Sell Globally’ option for your product in the same marketplace? Because then the exact same product (same brand name) will be sold under two different listings.
Seller_RLXCX068q9bgP
I wonder if this is a decent option for EU while it is so difficult getting stock in.
Seller_wRKqgBUbIGuM5
Make sure you have automated pricing switched off
Seller_vTr6xSIYyELcA
Can i get external traffic on my listing or my rank will get improved when buyer purchase or when amazon buy item from my store?
Seller_bi8rGHHcLpoVs
So does that mean I would then have stock in an EU country and have to register there for VAT?
Seller_f5cnodyVjLD4S
Yes, but that would not be a problem as you need to be vat registered there beforehand to be eligible.
Seller_Ox0kOc8McEka3
would this apply if the listing is already created in the marketplace and you have a seller fulfillment there?
Seller_f5cnodyVjLD4S
I understand the above too mean you would need to be Vat registered in Germany and the return would go into inventory there in Germany.
Seller_gbHZ6PgHeSfPF
Is there programme live now? How is everyone else’s sales?
Seller_vpQAqNlqUVowU
What is going to be the criteria used for this (regarding the products selection)? (as you said some products)
I could notice that already in May Amazon was buying one of my ASINs that was in stock in the UK and out of stock in Germany, so basically fulfilling it with my stock in the UK, but that wasn’t the case for one of my best sellers in Spain that was out of stock there but I had stock in the UK.