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Opening An Amazon Account
Opening An Amazon Account
No monthly fee
No listing fees
£0.75 per item sold ($0.99 – Amazon.com)
Referral fee on sold items (standard 15%+ VAT)
Professional Seller
£25 + VAT/month ($39.99 on Amazon.com)
No per item fee
Referral fee on sold items (standard 15% + VAT)
Create products in bulk
Set you own shipping rates
Buy box Eligibility
Note that new sellers are only eligible for the buy box after three months of trading activity.
The buy box is a very important concept which will be discussed in a later lecture.
Combined EU account
The Amazon Europe Marketplaces account allows sellers to:
Share listing information and manage your inventory consistently across Amazon's U.S.,
Canada, and Mexico marketplaces
Combined order screen for NA orders
Single monthly fee
Shared account information
Shared inventory means that the stock level of the a SKU is the same across all connected
marketplaces. If a SKU A1000 has stock of 5 in the UK, it will also show as having stock of 5 on DE,
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FR, IT, ES if listing have been created in those marketplaces. The ASIN assigned to this SKU must be
the same on all the linked marketplaces.
For many categories the referral fee is 15%, though this varies by category and by amazon country
Many sellers chose to gain additional exposure for their product by buying advertising. Amazon’s
advertising programme is called Amazon sponsored products and is charged on a cost per click basis.
Account setup
Some things to bear in mind
It may be possible for the same company to open multiple Amazon accounts, however this can cause
problem with ‘linked accounts’ and should be approached with caution.
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