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As an Amazon seller, you know that fast shipping is key to customer satisfaction. But when it comes to Saturday delivery, things can get complicated. Let's dive into the challenges and potential solutions for offering weekend deliveries.

The Saturday Delivery Dilemma

Many Amazon sellers offer next-day delivery for orders placed before 1 PM. However, this service often doesn't include Saturdays, as shipping carriers like DPD only count working weekdays. This gap can lead to customer disappointment and negative feedback, especially for orders placed on Fridays.

While Amazon treats Saturdays as a regular working day for delivery, sellers aren't required to offer this service. And there's a good reason why many don't - the cost. Saturday delivery can be 50-60% more expensive than regular weekday delivery. This puts sellers in a tough spot: disappoint customers or absorb higher costs.

Potential Solutions for Sellers

So what can you do to navigate this tricky situation? Here are a few options to consider:

1. Switch to a 2-day premium delivery option: This can give you more flexibility and potentially reduce costs while still meeting customer expectations.

2. Explore Royal Mail's Tracked 24 service: In some cases, this service may provide Saturday delivery.

3. Clearly communicate delivery timeframes: Make sure your customers understand when they can expect their packages to arrive, especially for weekend orders.

4. Consider selective Saturday delivery: You might offer this service for certain high-value products or during peak seasons.

It's worth noting that Amazon's shipping tools have limited options for selecting Saturday delivery, which can add to the challenge.

The Road Ahead

Balancing customer expectations for quick delivery with the practical and financial realities of shipping remains an ongoing challenge for Amazon sellers. As ecommerce continues to evolve, it's likely we'll see more innovations in delivery options and logistics.

In the meantime, the key is to be transparent with your customers, explore all available shipping options, and find a balance that works for both your business and your buyers.

We'd love to hear from you! How do you handle Saturday delivery requests? Have you found any creative solutions? Share your experiences in the comments below.

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Hi guys. just seeing what your opinions are on this.

we shipped an order out, customer messages us back to say they were not home. it was delivered to a safe place which was pictured in the tracking.

we asked them a question about it and they then put this reply

"You are clearly not reading what I send and you clearly don’t want to resolve this as a seller. I have no time to play silly games with you. Read what I have sent you and read it properly and you will see how I got the picture. This issue falls with you as you have chosen Royal Mail as the courier. If you don’t issue me a refund I will have no alternative but to leave an honest review of how you have failed to resolve this issue for a paying customer. I will also have to repost yours and my email replies so your customers can see what problems they will face trying to resolve the issue with you. Issue my refund now please as I haven’t got my items and I have done nothing but comply with you"

instantly from experience it looks like they are trying to have us over on this because you dont just do that . so the item has been delivered but i dont know what to do for the best. i think they have just decided to say they dont have it as they know they could easily get something for free.

interested on some thoughts

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Seller Fulfilled Prime Trial question
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Hi everyone i am going to start the seller fulfilled prime trial, however slightly confused as some places it states i can set a cut of time of 2pm and some places it says 4pm can these be changed and which is correct? from my shipping settings i can change the times so i am a little confused as i have a direct price from EVRI for SFP which has been integrated on veeqo so labels will be bought on there and dispatched from veeqo but confused on the dispatch times, if someone can help and just guide me would be much appreciated

kind regards

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Hi,

I've noticed in the last few days that DPD have been added as an Amazon partnered carrier for Small Parcel delivery into FBA warehouses.

I have booked 10 boxes on as a test. However I cannot seem to be able to book a DPD collection, as the DPD tracking numbers aren't recognised.

Anyone managed to book a collection?

Thanks in advanced

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OUT OF AREA LOCATIONS
by Seller_PoUxXpsV1uOGT

Hi,

Does anyone know how to turn off out of area location on Amazon so that we dont get any orders from specific areas

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Seller Fulfilled Prime Trial
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I have been doing the Amazon SFP Trial - when we orginally set up the shipping for Prime Trial all went well it was showing on listing as next day shipping - after about 2 weeks this changed and now the shipping estomated dates are over a week and worse than our normal listings - i have contact Amazon who raised a case and said they would get back to me within 24hrs - since then this case has now disappeared and my listings are still showing worse delivery times than my normal listings - yet all deliveries so far on the trial have been delivered on time - i have tried a couple of time on the chat to resolve this and all i get is read the help files which i have done but still cant find what went wrong overnight

Has anyone else had issues or any advice

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Hi everyone,

I wanted to bring attention to a major issue I’ve encountered with Amazon’s reimbursement process, which I believe may be affecting many FBA sellers without them realising.

Here’s what happened:

A customer requested a return for one of my products.

Amazon immediately deducted £38.77 from my account.

The customer cancelled the return and decided to keep the item.

Amazon later reimbursed me only £29.98, citing the standard formula of "unit value minus unit fees."

This left me £8.79 out of pocket, even though the item was never returned, no shipping or handling took place, and no actual refund-related services were incurred.

Support continues to respond with pre-written policy scripts referencing FBA reimbursement formulas for returned, lost, or damaged inventory. But this isn’t applicable — the customer kept the product, and Amazon still withheld a portion of the funds as if a return had occurred.

This raises serious questions:

Why are sellers being charged refund commission fees or deductions when the customer hasn’t returned the product?

How can Amazon justify applying return handling fees when no return actually happened?

How many sellers are unknowingly losing money on cancelled returns that are treated as completed?

If this has happened to me, it’s very likely happening to others on a large scale. The system clearly needs to be corrected so that full reimbursements are automatically issued in cases where the customer keeps the product and no Amazon services (return shipping, processing, restocking, etc.) are actually used.

Thanks

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manage marchent return at usa
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i have 5 to 10 returns in usa market. have anybody know about good 3pl service provider at usa.

Thank you

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No Royal Mail 2nd class option
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I've never come across this before but I can't use Royal Mail on one of my FBM orders.

I literally shipped the exact same item last night for 87p but when I went onto this one, a minute later, Royal Mail is greyed out and I can only use Evri.

I've opened a case via SS (11238764102) - was told to use Evri but that method is 3 times more expensive and leaves me out of pocket.

Anyone have any clues - tempted to take a hit on my VTR and use a stamp.

It's to Devon and it's a ship by today - delivery up until 1st of July (the exact same stats as other orders the same).

I'm at a loss as I've tried everything - SS aren't helping (no surprises there).

We're forced to use 'Buy Shipping' but this appears to be a glitch that will leave me with either a hit on my metrics or being out of pocket

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Removal costs report
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Can someone tell me how do I find report for cost breakdown for each item removed and shipped back to me?

Long story short some of my inventory aged and been removed automatically, and I have noticed that some small items under 100g measuring no more than 10cm 10cm 4cm for some reason are now classed as oversized and fulfilment fees with weight 80kg+ and I'm wondering amazon sneaky changed items weight and charging me 80 quid each to return an item in the envelope!?

I've only noticed two listings and they both same size and both 70 quid + to fulfil each has 1 unit available, but because I think its scheduled for automatic removal listing shows as out of stock so I cannot request dimensional and weight remeasurement. So they going to ship them and charge me 100s of pounds.... and how many they done already?!

So I need a report where I can see all items shipped to me and how much they have charged for the "service" can someone please help? Many many thanks

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New pack details template
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Amazon have introduced a new template for uploading pack information.

Each pack group is now on a different tab.

IT DOESN'T WORK. Don't they test anything.

The groups don't align and once it has been uploaded it will not allow movement to the next step.

It is just exhausting dealing with them.

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