0010 Preparing Your Items For Shipping
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welcome back to getting started with
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Amazon FBA and in this video we're going
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to be talking about the next step which
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is getting your items to the Amazon
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warehouse you'll now need to start
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thinking about how you're going to
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prepare your product for shipping and
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that means then you're going to need to
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get it to Amazon so let's walk through
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the process and how it's going to work
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for you to actually get your items in
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position for Amazon to sell them and
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fulfill
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them now Amazon when you to go through
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the process they are going to be
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reviewing uh with you throughout the
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process the list of unsuitable items you
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want to make sure that you review the
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list of things that you cannot sell the
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last thing you want to do is to start
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listing and making sales and you don't
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want to list things that Amazon finds
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unacceptable so this is going to be a
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process that again you're probably going
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to go through a bit of a learning curve
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and education but the most important
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thing is to make sure that you review
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the list of unsuitable items that Amazon
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says that you cannot
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sell now Amazon does not make this a
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mystery they spell it out in great
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detail as to which products you can and
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cannot sell and once again this is a
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list that is objective there is no gray
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area in it please make sure that you are
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uh looking at this and that you know
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that your item is not on this list of
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prohibit lied
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products now obviously you can either
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send your items individually boxed or in
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a bundle box um you'll want to make sure
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again this is suitable for the customer
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and that you're following the guidelines
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which you're basically doing inside of
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Amazon is creating a new shipment and
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creating a label now this label is very
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important because you're going to
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actually get an Amazon barcode that
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you're going to use to put over any
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barcode in your packaging so you don't
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want uh the your your box or your
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packaging to make it to the Amazon
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warehouse and to have its barcode or UPC
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code on it you want to make sure that
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the Amazon barcode is on it Amazon is
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going to give you labeles for that so
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that it will be correctly uh categorized
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it's going to be correctly warehoused so
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that when somebody actually buys to get
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your item and it's actually sent to
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them and then when your item is actually
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shipped
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it's actually going to be stored and
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sorted in Amazon so again the barcoding
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is very vital to making sure the process
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works correctly in getting your items
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ready for
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sale at that point you'll be selecting
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your carrier and you will have the
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opportunity to either ship it yourself
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or to choose Amazon's preferred carrier
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most successful sellers use the Amazon
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preferred carrier mainly because Amazon
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pays the shipper to actually get the
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product and to get it to Amazon and then
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you actually are charged then at the end
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of the month you'll just have to make
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sure that you're keeping track of what
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charges you're going to have assessed to
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your account when you are actually doing
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FBA now hopefully you'll be selling and
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then your items will be selling it'll
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kind of come out of what it is that
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you're selling however you do want to
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track how many shipments are going to be
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charged to your account at the end of
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the
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month now once you actually have chosen
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a carrier you're going to want to take
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your box items with the barcodes then
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you're going to want to put them into a
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larger box with a packing slip so again
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this is a two-step process you're going
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to get your items listed and then you're
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going to get them barcoded you're going
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to choose a carrier and then you're
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going to actually take those boxed items
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with the barcode and then ship them in a
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larger box to
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Amazon when you provide details on
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Dimension and weight you do need to be
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specific and you need to be detailed and
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you need to be correct this is a very
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important part of the process because
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you want to be charged accurately and
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you don't want Amazon to have to
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recharge you or to recalculate this
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could delay your your your shipment it
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could delay uh your purchase so you want
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to make sure that again this is
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something that you do
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correctly now Amazon's going to give you
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anep estimated shipping cost as to what
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it is that you are going to be paid and
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again um you can either void uh the
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charges or accept them so in other words
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if you're just kind of trying to test
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the process you can void out uh those
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charges or if you just want to get a
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sense for how much it's going to cost
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you for a particular item you can go all
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the way through this process so that you
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can see what the shipping charges are
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actually going to be if you're trying to
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determine what your profit is going to
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be now in order to do this you are going
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to need to have a PDF viewer or Adobe
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Acrobat of some kind of way that you're
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going to need in order to be able to
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print that label for the outside of the
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box now in the next video we're going to
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give you a few tips on what you can do
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to be successful in packaging and
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preparing your items for shipment with
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Amazon
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FBA so with that thanks and I will see
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you in another video
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