Amazon FBA & FBM

For a seller shipping from Turkey to Amazon, two questions come before all others: should Amazon handle fulfilment or should you, and what does that choice actually cost? This section addresses both with numbers.

The FBA or FBM article starts by correcting a common misreading: according to Amazon’s own documentation, FBA and FBM are treated equally when the featured offer is selected. The decision therefore is not about which one sells more, but about account health metrics, inventory turnover, return rate, product dimensions and, if you sell in Europe, compliance obligations. The article reduces this to a seven-question checklist you can apply product by product.

The cost layers article opens up the line items most often left out of a margin calculation: beyond commission and fulfilment, there is the storage utilisation surcharge, the aged inventory surcharge, the low-inventory fee, returns processing thresholds and the inbound placement fee. The conditions that trigger each one are written out separately.

On Amazon, most margin loss does not come from one large fee but from several small ones stacking. These articles aim to make those items visible before they compound.