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Sorry, what does FBA stand for?
by ernsheong 8y ago
Sorry, what does FBA stand for?
- rangibaby 8y agoFulfilled by Amazon, Amazon keeps your stuff at their warehouse and handles shipping etc
- pacificmint 8y agoFullfilled by Amazon. It is the program where third party sellers can send their products to Amazons warehouses, and Amazon then handles the shipping to the customer. The big advantage is that this makes the products eligible for Amazon Prime, as opposed to products that get shipped by the third party themselves.
- gaius 8y agoIt’s more insidious than that: Amazon commingling means that the merchants inventory which may be all counterfeit is indistinguishable from genuine articles prior to the buyer actually receiving it. If you want to be safe avoid any product that has both Amazon and FBA.
- bootlooped 8y agoThey have a program now for sellers to qualify for merchant-fulfilled Prime. I'm assuming they have to be able to guarantee they can do 2-day shipping, and there is some sort of oversight to ensure they're meeting that. I'm not sure how widespread the program is. I did purchase something within the last year that was listed as Prime, got to me in 2 days, but did not ship from an Amazon fulfillment center.
- richrichardsson 8y agoIt's literally in the 3rd sentence of the article! I highly doubt it was edited in the last 3 minutes. Even if it were, there is this fantastic website you can type queries into and it gives you results pertaining to those queries, literally the 1st result after the obligatory advert when searching just "FBA"!
- ernsheong 8y agoI really did try scanning the article before this. Looked again, and sure enough it was there -.-" The upvotes suggest that I wasn't alone.
- richrichardsson 8y agoFair enough, I was a tad harsh, perhaps some weird cache stuff was happening. I really should not comment on stuff early in the day.