Amazon will begin displaying Marketplace listings offered with international shipping on its other sites outside the U.S.
Good idea, let’s hope it brings in some extra sales. Here’s the entire announcement:
In the next few weeks, we will be testing new ways for sellers to do more business with buyers from Amazon’s other sites around the world.For all new or existing Marketplace listings where the International Shipping option is selected, we will enable those listings to appear to buyers on other Amazon sites. These listings will appear when there are no listings available for those products from Marketplace sellers on that site. Over time, we will broaden this to more international buyers.
We will confirm the orders from international buyers to you the same way we are already notifying you of your orders to ship.
Please feel free to send us your feedback at intl-shipping-offers@amazon.com.
Thanks for selling at Amazon!
5 Comments
Wonderful! It’s about time!
But I still don’t understand why they won’t let me list a book if it’s published abroad and it’s already listed on amazon.co.uk or amazon.de. Doesn’t make any sense!
Yay! A positive change, for once.
In answer to why we can’t put some international printings on the U.S. Amazon.com marketplace.
MY understanding of amazon’s answer to the same question, posed this summer at the conference, is as follows. They are looking to create a world catalog. At present they have separate catalogs on each country site. So, it would add to the complexity of the merge to have duplications of the ISBN’s or other product listings.
For now I have a “patience box”. I put books that are worth listing in the box, and once a year or so, I try listing them again.
Tangential subject:
A few weeks ago I shipped a book to Japan for about $9.50, the global priority rate. Later I wanted to send a book to Italy and was told that rate was not available, and that I would have to pay much more. Is there a set of guidelines anywhere for shipping books to foreign countries?
For certain countries, including Italty, you can’t use Global Priority.
You can calculate postage rates here.