Some great insights about how to turn your Amazon returns into cash from Marksman RSC.
As we all know, selling on Amazon is intensively competitive. Customers have so many options that they tend to be very selective before ordering online. Besides the availability of high quality products, customers expect excellent customer support. This includes a generous return policy, which is the top reason most choose to shop through Amazon.
If you’re like many sellers on Amazon, you probably didn’t initially realize how much time & resources you would eventually be dedicating to processing returns. If you sell in the electronics category, you know from experience that the electronics category has one of the highest return rates on Amazon. In most cases, the product returned comes back with either the product, box, or both damaged.
Surely, processing returns wasn’t the reason why you decided to sell on Amazon. While all retailers expect the inevitable returns and unconditional refunds, as the business grows the issue of returns usually becomes increasingly more burdensome to process & refurbish returns at a profitable rate in-house.
Luckily, there is a company that can help you with this issue – The Marksman Refurbishment Service Center located in Cincinnati, Ohio. They offer solutions to all your return & refurbishment service needs. Marksman RSC’s business is setup to focus on the processing of returns from Amazon so you don’t have to. In fact, Marksman RSC has streamlined their refurbishment services so the turnaround time for returns is usually within three days; allowing sellers to then immediately relist their items for sale. It’s actually less expensive for most than servicing in-house; providing an expedited solution so you can focus on selling & growing your business.
Marksman RSC’s whole process is very simple:
1. Register for a Free Business Account
2. Once Logged-in under the Pricing tab select Quote from drop-down menu.
Here you can copy & paste (highlight then right click) the item’s ASIN # directly from your Amazon account, input quantity, and then click Submit. Within 24 to 48 hours, this quote page will be updated with the approved price to refurbish your item. To proceed, your do need to update your payment information under the Account Info tab. Then just click the Request tab and select Make Request. Here, you again just copy & paste your item’s Amazon details (ASIN#, weight, description, etc), select the request type (FBM Incoming or FBA incoming) then click Submit Request.
3. Ship Your Returns Directly to Marksman RSC.
Once you have gotten your return notifications from Amazon, instead of having your buyers or Amazon’s warehouses send returns back to your business address, you can just choose to have returns directly sent to Marksman RSC. Although, remember to include your Marksman Account ID on your shipping label. For example:
Marksman RSC (Your 5 Digit Account #)
2828 E. Kemper Rd.
Cincinnati, OH 45241
4. Check-in, Refurbish, & Update Condition of Returned Merchandise:
Upon receiving your shipment, items will be checked-in to Marksman RSC’s cloud-based inventory system and then the refurbishments begin. If no repairs are needed, items will be refurbished within 3 days. Once refurbished, Marksman RSC updates the item(s) condition (ex. Used-Like New) indicating that item(s) is ready to re-list to sell on Amazon.
5. List Refurbished Item(s) Back to your Amazon Store.
After setting up the API connection, you can simply list your returned electronics back to your Amazon store with just a few clicks. Marksman offers a One-Click Relisting function in their system, which is efficient and hassle-free.
6. Marksman RSC offers Drop-Shipping.
Once your items get sold, you then send Marksman RSC an outgoing request and they will ship them out from their warehouse. The Drop-Shipping service offers you practicality and saves you time and money.
The way it works is that Marksman refurbishes your items and will do one of three things:
- If you merchant fulfill, Marksman can act as your drop shipper.
- Or you can choose to just have the item sent back to you.
- Or if you sell in FBA, you can log on to create your product labels, upload them and Marksman will send the items into FBA for you. (It is important to keep in mind that since the item is refurbished, you as the seller will have to generate and upload new UPC codes to Marksman RSC since you cannot use the same code for a refurbished item).
So if find yourself spending more time processing returns than growing your Amazon business, Marksman RSC is an available cost effective solution. To further learn how to effortlessly turn your returns into cash with video tutorials, here’s a helpful link to get you started today: “Marksman Process” video
Disclaimer: The information and views presented in this blog post are the opinions of the guest author, and not necessarily those of 888 Lots.
