At present, many e-commerce platforms and export companies are deploying overseas logistics systems by building "overseas warehouses". The construction of overseas warehouses enables export enterprises to send goods in batches to foreign warehouses to achieve local sales and local distribution in China. For cross-border sellers, you can choose the Amazon FBA delivery mode, or you can choose the third-party overseas warehouse delivery mode.
Two overseas warehouses PK
Amazon FBA warehouse
The service provided by the FBA warehouse is impeccable. The platform has mature development, abundant capital and high degree of informatization. However, the storage capacity is limited, and the warehousing cost and the processing cost of slow-moving products are relatively expensive.
Third-party overseas warehouse
Arranged by a third-party logistics company, the selection range is wide, and the sales platform is not limited, but there are many participating sellers, and there is no consistent standard for service quality.
When looking for overseas warehouses, new and old sellers should not look for overseas warehouses without formal legal operation procedures, not subject to the certification and supervision of relevant functional departments, small overseas warehouses, imperfect systems, immature related services, and unreasonable low-price strategies. .
What is the difference between them?
Service difference
FBA does not provide customs clearance services
Some overseas warehouses provide customs clearance services, and some also include tax payment and delivery to the warehouse.
Warehousing Product Requirements
FBA does not provide assembly services, and requires sellers to affix the outer box label and product label before entering the warehouse. If the product label is found to be damaged, it will be returned for refurbishment.
Overseas warehouses will provide sorting and assembly services before products are put on the shelves.
Return
Amazon supports unconditional returns for buyers, and FBA warehouses do not conduct any evaluation of returned products and do not charge buyers any fees. Even if the returned product has no quality issues, Amazon will not resell the product to other buyers.
As for overseas warehouses, if the returned product is not a quality problem, it can be repackaged by the seller and then sold.
Choose
Amazon FBA warehouse has certain restrictions on the size, weight and category of products, so the choice is biased towards small, high and high-quality products
Overseas warehouses have a wider range of choices than FBA warehouses. This means that products that can enter Amazon FBA warehouses must be able to enter third-party overseas warehouses, but products that can enter third-party overseas warehouses may not be able to enter Amazon FBA warehouses.
