hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video still by the beach if you're new to my
channel my name is nikki kirk and i've been selling on amazon doing retail arbitrage all
wall full-time rving living in that rv traveling all over the country all of my videos are just my
own experience selling on amazon there are so many different ways that people sell on amazon
or ways to do things while selling on amazon so these are just my own experiences and what i do
anyways for this video i really quickly wanted to cover two things that i discovered this week about
fbm shipping and fba shipping as well as congratulate the winners of my rolo printer
giveaway the first thing i learned this week you know that like fbm shipping credit that
you see when you're in the amazon selling app and it's like you'll get 4.99 for this
well i finally figured out what it is i can't even remember how i figured it out but i was so
excited to finally understand it because i've been so confused and if you've heard me you
say don't worry about it you don't get it it's just annoying and it's in there well now i know
what it is it's actually not even a credit at all all it is is if you are an individual
seller meaning you're not a professional 39.99 a month seller you can't make a shipping template
so these i'm talking fbm here so you since you can't make a shipping template amazon
is charging the customers for shipping because you can't offer free shipping right because you
don't have a shipping template and shipping templates are how you offer free shipping
so that credit all it is is the cost that amazon is going to charge the customer for shipping
and then they'll pass it on to you so it's not really a credit it's just giving you the money
so that you can buy the shipping if you are a professional seller and you are charging shipping
obviously you're going to get that money for shipping and that's your credit but if you offer
free shipping you don't get that money at all and it's just in the app and it's just super annoying
if you're a professional seller and you've sold fbm before then you know that you just
go to your orders manage orders and in there you're gonna see that they paid for shipping
that's your credit so when you go to any order so i'll go ahead and go to order real fast
and then here you see that this customer paid 15 16 for expedited shipping because i offer free
regular shipping but they wanted it faster so 15 16 is what they paid and now if i copy the same
order number and i go to my payments dashboard so reports payment go to transaction view look
up that transaction and now here in other you're going to see that they paid 1516 which is what
they paid for shipping and so that's how it kind of pops up and while we're here if
you wanted to see that you can see here all the little breakdowns on transactions which i think
is kind of interesting if you care but that's your credit so don't think of it as a credit
it's not actually a credit unless you are charging the customer shipping and then at that point
it's just what the customer paid for shipping i actually opened a help ticket to ask them to take
it off and they were like what are you talking about is this on every asin or is this asian
specific and i was like it's on everyone here's an example and they were like oh i understand you
want to take that off we can't do that so it was worth a shot obviously when you're scanning it's
super frustrating because you can't accurately really see what the profit is or you can't easily
do it so how i do it is let's pull up an example so let's say i wanted to sell these eggs and i'm
going to see what they will be and go to seller fulfilled so amazon's saying that
it would charge 4.99 so i guess it's kind of helpful if you're making your shipping template
to know like what amazon would charge and now you know like 4.99 is probably pretty standard
all i would do is since it's saying 1225 is the price up here i do 12.25 and now i can see
what the fees would be on 1225 which is 259. so now in my head the cost of purchase was 349.
i'm gonna say it's five dollars to ship it because it's a small lightweight will fit
in a padded envelope if you need more help on fbm i have a video which can help you out
12 25. amazon's saying 259 are the fees it's gonna cost me five dollars to ship and it costs 3.75
so my profit on this would be 91 cents is a rough estimate probably pretty accurate i mean unless
the shipping was easier but obviously it's not the fancy six dollars that the amazon app is
telling you which is why it's frustrating so hope that's helpful at least it's not very helpful but
we understand what it is now the other thing i learned this week is you know when you're doing
fba shipment and you'll say it's like 30 pounds and then the billable weight when you go to buy
your shipping from ups is like 80 pounds and you're like what the heck like in what way is
this 80 pounds well i finally understand how they do it it's not amazon at all it's actually ups
so the way ups does their billable weights is twofold so so first it takes your actual weight
of the box so whatever weight you said it was it rounds it up to the next like whole pound
so every time i'm like oh seven and a half pounds yeah that doesn't really matter it's eight pounds
so then after that it takes the dimensional weight of the box so how much after your box measurements
is the dimensional weight that it figures out and there's a whole calculation i'll link the ups
page below if you want to look at it and it takes the greater of those two
so that's how that all works out again not super helpful but now we understand it so if you have
a really big box but you have light items it's going to kind of skew to the dimensional weight
so as best you can just package your items in boxes that are proportional to the weight i guess
sometimes you can't sometimes you just have really big lightweight toys okay so now i
want to do a shout out to the five winners of my rollo thermal printer giveaway so all this year on
instagram i've been doing random friday giveaways of just like random cash products paypal money
all of that and so this time i thought i would take it over to youtube and so on the community
tab if you are subscribed i did a thermal printer giveaway it's a rollo thermal printer which i hear
everyone raves about i don't own one yet i'm going to order one as i'm ordering the winners giveaway
prizes but just stay tuned because i plan to do more throughout the month there so if
you're interested it's on the community tab of my channel but anyways congratulations to the
winners sandy p rubin g guadalupe j emily j and alejandro s i have emailed you all so you should
be receiving your printer purchased on amazon of course anyways that's all i got for you guys
i am here for a little bit longer at the beach so i will have another beach video for you on sunday
and then we are headed off to my other favorite magnolia waco texas to visit the magnolia markets
and i cannot wait so anyways thank you guys so much for watching i hope this video was helpful
as always i'm there to help you if you have any questions please let me know comment videos you
would like to see and all of that thank you guys so much for watching and happy sourcing
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