I was approached today about this. When I immediately declined (thought of just leaving it unresponded, but went the polite way), the lady asked me if I wouldn’t mind sharing why I declined, to which I responded “Had problems with missing product from shipments, stranded inventory, removal orders, etc. etc., plus don’t want more complexity in my operation”, and then she said:
Thanks for the info! It sounds like you used NARF, which just to be clear, is a different program.
This program just allows amazon to purchase items from you. They pay the same rate as any other customer, there’s no specialty rates or agreements, and no returns are possible through the program, once amazon buys the item it’s out of your hands.
Understood if it’s not a fit at the moment, but it takes maybe 5 minutes to set up and it’s no additional work to run.
Of course, like most folks here, I’m always in high alert when Amazon wants to sell me something, but I still asked my SAS manager about this. He looked up some info and sent me the following:
By opting in, sellers allow Amazon to purchase their products at the regular consumer price and resell them in other global markets, acting as the seller and importer of record. Sellers can choose whichmarketplaces to include. It’s not a vendor agreement, and typically drives an additional 2-5% of US sales volume with no extra work.
I’m still not convinced, but have a call with both tomorrow and will decide after that. I was indeed part of the NARF program in the past, but it ended up being too much of a hassle. Not sure how much better this one is.
Has anyone tried it?