Amazon

[Acido]

Yes we know about Shaw Lane plastic Fc Mick, and the fact that they have folded. And we don't really care to be honest because their owner is a Sheff Wensday 'Fowl' fan for a start, and he made certain sarcy comments about us being relegated this season.

Btw if you want a pint of Acid Mick.... do they do that stuff in halves and pints ?.

[Acido]

Al I got to say this forum, is a much better place without the vagrant and his mini me. When he's done his latest stint of bird, I wonder what new username he'll have. He was using an old one on vile mad not long ago before the long arm of the law caught up with him. The dead bored must be just the matchday thread with countdown to the world cup.

The reason why Im still on this forum Al/Blood is because of that dear old codger Stroller. And this goes back to 6 years ago now lol, and I hope hes still ok by the way. And is it you or Blood who gets accused of being tourettes boy etc, whats all that about ?.

[BaggieBlood]

Which c??? Said that, I never foooking swear, they are just lying b astards.

[WBA1955]

Prefer Amazon Prime to Sky, but at the end of the day they are all rip off merchants.

[wbatillidie]

Sorry Al, but your thread reminded I needed to get a Ps4 controller as a gift from Amazon.

So inadvertently you've got them a sale.

Also, prime is ok TV, much cheaper than sky with lots of extras like free delivery.

I agree though the government must change legislation to get more tax from them and the likes of Google etc.

Yeah thanks Al, I’ve just ordered a mobile phone from them delivery tomorrow can’t be bad👍

[baggieal]

Yeah thanks Al, I’ve just ordered a mobile phone from them delivery tomorrow can’t be bad👍

Even better when they leave it on your doorstep and you call someone in the Indian Ocean to say it's not been delivered, and you get a reward straight back to your account.

[baggieal]

Most of the above is wrong Al.

I used to mainly run my business on Ebay when i started selling direct to the public in 2005 and for the first couple of years it was a great platform.

Then the Americans started to get too clever for themselves by constantly changing the search pages,every time they "improved" the system our sales dropped,we now do barely 10% of the business we did 10 years ago……most buyers much prefer Amazon now.

We started selling on Amazon in 2007-8 and it just grew and grew and a couple of years ago we started sending goods into their warehouse so that they could supply them with Prime.

The numbers are phenomenal…..last year our business grew by 50% and it's heading for a further 25% growth this year.

Amazon pay us sellers every 14 days,not every month and we can request it earlier if we want to.

There are some downsides,specifically that even with a decent turnover they don't seem to allow people an account manager which can be a pain.

Their fees are 15% of the value of each sale plus the Prime fulfilment fee which is around £4.65 per parcel but it's a no brainer really,do you want to sell 10 items a day on Ebay and pay 10% in fees or 100 items a day and pay Amazon 15%…..you do the maths?

As for the tax issue.

We pay ours…..that's all very transparent for HMRC to see but the massive corporations do have HMRC tied in knots.

I was talking to my accountant about this a few days ago and she told me that the whole thing is so vast and so mind numbing in numbers that HMRC do not have the number of staff or staff well qualified enough to deal with Google and the likes which is why they "strike a deal" as far as vat etc are concerned.

In effect they agree to accept say X million because the alternative is to have staff tied in knots for years and still ending up with nowt!

She said that anyone with a brain clever enough to understand this digital nightmare is taking a job on big money with a digital giant rather than working for p i s s poor money for HMRC.

Until HMRC actually invest in the right calibre of staff and the right systems to cope then the status quo will remain.

If you need any advice on Amazon selling i'm happy to help if i can Al?

Thanks Mick! Listing products that nobody else is selling, I always found a pain as there's no image or description, and not straight forward how you then list, whereas ebay you create a new listing after finding the category - upload the image, then do the text description, and away you go. Is Amazon just as simple listing unique products, and if so - what am I doing wrong? Might give it another whirl.....

Don't like the fact with Amazon though in the past, you could easily get kicked off, and unlike ebay, you don't have a UK/Irish person to help. But hey ho times have moved, so I will try again. Any thoughts Mick? Also with 300 products on ebay, is there a quick way to import them into Amazon?

[mickd1961]

Thanks Mick! Listing products that nobody else is selling, I always found a pain as there's no image or description, and not straight forward how you then list, whereas ebay you create a new listing after finding the category - upload the image, then do the text description, and away you go. Is Amazon just as simple listing unique products, and if so - what am I doing wrong? Might give it another whirl.....

Don't like the fact with Amazon though in the past, you could easily get kicked off, and unlike ebay, you don't have a UK/Irish person to help. But hey ho times have moved, so I will try again. Any thoughts Mick? Also with 300 products on ebay, is there a quick way to import them into Amazon?

What sorts of s h I t are you trying to flog Al :-))

[BaggieBlood]

That sounds a bit fishy Al, but Come on You got to give jeff bezos some credit to find and then get mermaids in the indian ocean to just give free stuff when your stuff "doesn't" get delivered.

What's not to like?

Let's guess what Al sells?

I think vile and wolves themed dildos and jeremy corbyn party masks.

That's 3 just 297 left.

[baggieal]

That sounds a bit fishy Al, but Come on You got to give jeff bezos some credit to find and then get mermaids in the indian ocean to just give free stuff when your stuff "doesn't" get delivered.

What's not to like?

Let's guess what Al sells?

I think vile and wolves themed dildos and jeremy corbyn party masks.

That's 3 just 297 left.

Wrong Blood - thick warm socks for vagrants and a spade to shovel up all the ****e they spout! Talking of which - I heard the double decker bus in Dinglehampton had run over a vagrant in the excitement over that fantastic world breaking promotion!! Seems odd nobody has heard from Newcy or the 20 other alias' he goes by!