Fulfilment by Amazon - Merchants can now sell on Amazon's German site without a German VAT number.
As of early January 2010, merchants can sign up to sell their products on amazon.de and benefit from the Fulfilment by Amazon programme without the need for a German VAT number. If you have been interested in FBA in the past but could not get started with the programme, you may find this information particularly useful.
I would recommend that anyone looking at selling with seller central on amazon.co.uk really think twice. Do you want to lose £1000's of stock for months and months on end! We signed up with them over a month ago on the understanding of 14 day payment cycles. We had a load of sales that we shipped. They then they moved it to 30 days plus the 14 so we cancelled and refunded about 25% of the new orders because we weren't prepared to have the money tied up that long. Now as a result of this I have had an email stating 90 more wait. Don't let them ruin your business and cash flow too! Looks like going legal with these guys in Luxembourg will be the only way to sort them out!
I think its great incentive to try FBA.
Posted by: leopard print scarf | 26/06/2010 at 02:19 AM
I would recommend that anyone looking at selling with seller central on amazon.co.uk really think twice. Do you want to lose £1000's of stock for months and months on end! We signed up with them over a month ago on the understanding of 14 day payment cycles. We had a load of sales that we shipped. They then they moved it to 30 days plus the 14 so we cancelled and refunded about 25% of the new orders because we weren't prepared to have the money tied up that long. Now as a result of this I have had an email stating 90 more wait. Don't let them ruin your business and cash flow too! Looks like going legal with these guys in Luxembourg will be the only way to sort them out!
Posted by: Shaun Hopkins | 05/03/2010 at 11:51 AM