How the Amazon price calculator Germany helps

If you wish to sell on Amazon.de Germany site then you will have to tailor your sale price taking into account Amazon fee structure for their Germany site.

• Subscription fee: Individuals do not pay a subscription fee but they can only limited numbers of products. You have to go for professional selling plan that involves payment of Euro 39 per month.
• Professional sellers do not pay a per item selling fee
• Referral fee: This ranges from 7% in consumer electronics to a high of 45% for Amazon device accessories, the norm being 10% to 15% on most categories.
• Media items lik books, video games, software and DVD attract closing fee.
• High volume listing fee of Euro 0.0004 per sku applies if seller exceeds 2 million sku per month.
• If a buyer returns a product and a refund is initiated, Amazon returns the referral fee less their administration charges.

If you sell a number of products then calculating all these manually in order to arrive at price and profitability can be time consuming and prone to errors. In addition you have to compute VAT on the fees. The easier way is to use the price calculator for Germany shown here on this page.

The critical points for selling on Amazon are:

• Price product right in line with what competitors charge
• Pick right product category that has sufficient margin of profit after payment of Amazon seller fees, or pick categories where Amazon fees are lowest or pick products that are less likely to be damaged during storage and transit.
• Manage sourcing and overheads to your total purchase cost is low and you can price product right.
• Pick products that sell in high volume so you can sell at low margin and still make profits.

Amazon enabler digicommerce.in offers total assistance to individuals who would like to get on to Amazon marketplaces and earn profits from day one.