It seems that this article and the stream may have fallen into the abyss, but I thought I could call back and give me two meanings.
The problems that I encountered during international sales are really two parts.
Firstly, I won’t dive too deeply, since it is more connected with the processing of business trading and credit cards, but commercial services and payment gateways have not yet deployed a system that is rooted in fraud. Unfortunately, provided that the client abroad uses a fraudulent credit card, he will almost certainly pass through the gateway and trading services as a good sale, and then deposit it in the bank account of the retailer, only to be identified as suspicious weeks later. Naturally, banks reach and extract fraudulent funds and leave the retailer holding the bag.
On the other hand, this is logistics, or rather, a competitive or non-competitive price leading to sales.
Amazon.com has been a boat across the market, and many will argue about the enormous benefits that it brought with it in the competition. Amazon was God for many particularly small businesses, which, without the marketing advantage of Amazon, would have been little more than the scribbles on the back of the napkin in the viewing hole. They are great for reaching the domestic consumer, and their impact on the wider international space is growing rapidly.
But for those of us who are trying to sell through our own website, abandoning the huge commissions paid to the hippo, it may be a little more difficult to handle international shipping.
First of all, rates. Getting bets that compete is tough. Have you seen retail prices from Fedex, DHL or TNT? They are insanely expensive and unrealistic for the seller. I agreed on rates with UPS, TNT and DHL, but the results were not very good. Not enough volume for real discounts. This is when competing with Amazon makes you feel really very small.
I measure the percentage of lost business from increasing increase to delivery speed and its extremeness.
Honestly, as a seller who has developed over the last decade of the ups and downs of Amazon, I found out because of heartache and lost a lot of money, whether through BiG Bank Merchant Services, which do not accept any bidders or expensive international shipping costs. Where I moved, my stocks are far from Amazon and FBA and to execution centers that can handle all my logistics issues.
For example, reverse logistics. For those of you who may be new to this term, it refers to the process of returning goods from the end consumer to the seller. Managing this with international clients can be difficult. In addition, fulfillment centers offer volumetric rates that I cannot get on my own with the above carriers; UPS, FEDEX, DHL, TNT. Rather, the execution operations I work with tend to be flexible and understand the cost correlation associated with international sales.
The fulfillment companies that I used are:
Good - Amazon FBA Better - Shipwire Best - Newgistics
I will not leak through any of them, but I will say that as my requirements evolved, the FBA could not keep up with the times. With other solutions, I have full EDI integration between me and all my distribution partners. Partners who make life a lot more manageable.
For international shipping rates that exceed retail rates, check out these international shipping calculators:
USPS DHL MyUS American eBox
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This will at least send you in a direction that makes sense. I hope this personal recount helps people who go through different stages of growth.