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OT: Shopify Kinda Sucks
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EEVblog:

--- Quote from: bdunham7 on September 10, 2023, 12:02:16 am ---But do they not also offer the option of selling on your own platform with them handling the pick/pack/ship for a flat fee (not correlated with sales price)?
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No. They are not a general fulfilment business. You can either ship it yourself, or you can have them do it, but the product has to be sold on their platform.
I could save like 10% of that 17% by shipping myself and just using Amazon as a shopping front end, but the point of Amazon is that people want that Prime service.
thm_w:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on September 10, 2023, 12:06:07 am ---
--- Quote from: bdunham7 on September 10, 2023, 12:02:16 am ---But do they not also offer the option of selling on your own platform with them handling the pick/pack/ship for a flat fee (not correlated with sales price)?
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No. They are not a general fulfilment business. You can either ship it yourself, or you can have them do it, but the product has to be sold on their platform.
I could save like 10% of that 17% by shipping myself and just using Amazon as a shopping front end, but the point of Amazon is that people want that Prime service.

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Did you see the link above? MCF is general fulfillment.

"Non-branded packaging. Your MCF orders will be sent in unbranded packaging–Not in Amazon packaging."
https://sell.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/fba-multi-channel
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: thm_w on September 11, 2023, 08:26:44 pm ---Did you see the link above? MCF is general fulfillment.

"Non-branded packaging. Your MCF orders will be sent in unbranded packaging–Not in Amazon packaging."
https://sell.amazon.com/fulfillment-by-amazon/fba-multi-channel

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I didn't see that, will check it out, thanks.
Amazon are a horribly complicated and regimented system though, I can't imagine the problems trying to ship direct from my manufacturer to an amazon warehouse.
Kasper:
Dhl is very unpopular in Shopify's home country, Canada. 
EEVblog:
Went to a lot of effort to set up 5 different DHL shipping zones all with indvidual pricing for multipel weight categories.
Only then did I discover that you can't have a product in more than one shipping profile  >:(

So I start from strach putting the 5 zones under one shipping profile with all products, onyl to then find that it for some reason forces Australia into ALL zones. WTF.
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