I just created an Amazon Business account for my small business, and I'm wondering if it's any good. Thus far, the main difference for me is that I have to constantly switch back and forth between my regular Amazon account and my business account. A bit of a pain, if you ask me. What's your experience?

We currently have an Amazon prime account in the business owner's name that several people know the password to. We each have our company cards on the account as saved payment methods and the owner has her personal card on there. We use it to buy office supplies and also the owner uses it for personal things. Would it be better to switch to an Amazon business account? From my understanding, that would mean we'd get better prices on office supplies, but would we lose out on the prime benefits such as free 2 day shipping? It seems that Amazon Business Prime is its own thing but I'm not sure how it stacks up to a free business account or to a personal prime account.

I'm trying to find the best place to get products for my business. I ran across Amazon business and it seems to be different than consumer. Does anyone use it? Do you think its worth it? Is there something else I should look into?

Amazon keeps sending me emails like once a day asking me to create a Business Prime account, touting "business only pricing" as a benefit. Anyone use this? Is it worth the hassle of signing up?

Context: Small business that has been around for 40 years selling parts out of a brick and mortar location, and 4 years ago started an online store with great success. Leaving type of parts ambiguous, but think RV/ATV/Marine type stuff.

We’ve noticed costs from domestic suppliers for basic products go up substantially in the past 4 years, so for this coming season we’ve secured a line of lower cost/better value parts from overseas. We plan to re-brand to our own brand name and offer support/parts, and we can charge 80-100% markup on these and still be incredibly competitive with existing name brands.

When comparing our planned pricing to Amazon listings for comparable products, we are set up to be very competitive. We also have the advantage of warehousing in Canada alongside Amazon so we can offer quick shipping, and play into the Canada-ism in our branding.

The internal battle in my head is that we are trying to push our brand and online store, where we keep 100% of the revenue from. But it’s undeniable the impact Amazon has on the market.

We are wondering if it would be worth it to order additional stock to list on Amazon and compete against the other sellers with our value products. I have no experience selling online, and while it must be worth it with all the people doing it, it also wouldn’t be worth it for Amazon if there weren’t some gotchas. So I guess I am wondering

• What are the average fees that it costs to list product on Amazon?

• Does anyone else in a similar position have any experience with this?

• And much broader, would it be worth it for us to list these products on Amazon?

Thanks for any insight you can provide!

So Busines Prime Duo links your Prime account to your business account and, supposedly, gives you bulk purchase discounts along with the advantageous free shipping of your prime account. I have an LLC so isnt this technically piercing the veil between personal and business activity?😳Also, I feel like I'm kinda being bullied into getting the Prime Duo deal since you wont get free shipping otherwise. Does anyone have this deal already and if so what is your experience as a business owner?🤔 This idea seems like a half baked idea by Amazon, should I just create a separate account and just run my business stuff with no free shipping? Any alternatives? Thank you, guys

When I say Amazon Business, i am referring to this program:

https://services.amazon.com/amazon-business.html

Do any sellers here make good money selling cases quantities to businesses (instead of individual customers) or Amazon? Or do the discounts that businesses ask for cut too much into ROI?

There seem to be many products that are not profitable selling individually on Amazon, but selling 30 to 100 of them in a case might make more sense. Do products sold via Amazon Business have a separate sales rank metric that is distinct from the Amazon BSR.

Is Amazon Business something that is best managed separately from B2C Amazon purchases?

Thank you.

To anyone thinking about starting an Amazon business — let me talk you out of it before you waste your money.

Cold truth: 99.9% of you will fail trying to make Amazon your main income.

Why? Because most people are naive, lazy, and think a few YouTube videos or a $500 course makes them an entrepreneur. Everyone wants “passive income” without putting in the years of grind it actually takes to build something real.

For every 100 people who buy a course, maybe one actually makes it. That’s why the “gurus” flex Lambos and screenshots — they’ve got thousands of students and barely any real success stories.

And listen — Amazon isn’t what it used to be. OA and RA sellers are getting Section 3’d daily, brands are gating harder than ever, and seller support is absolute trash. Until your account health score is elite, Amazon will treat you like a cockroach waiting to get squished.

But if you still want to do it — go for it. Just go in with realistic expectations. You won’t get rich quick. You won’t replace your 9–5 in three months.

It takes years to build a real seven-figure business.

Amazon’s brutal. But if you’ve got grit, patience, and zero quit — it might just work..

I know it's against their TOS, but I'm wondering if it's illegal. If the worst they'll do is terminate my account I don't really care.

After reading all the hoopla, if I'm a small buyer, reseller I'm still trying to figure out if it's worth making the switch and paying $179 per year versus $119 per year just for prime and the supposed discounts on computer hardware. Any feedback, Pros or cons? Thanks very much

Just had a meeting with our “Amazon Business Account Exec” and they tried to make the pitch about doing more with the business features available. Our company has no purchasing team/department and all departments handle procurement themselves.

Our Amazon account has existed for 10+ years (well before Amazon Business was a thing) and as such it was never strategically set up for what the Businesses program is now. We have 6 other consumer accounts registered with our company’s domain suffix and each of these is paying for prime (and each account represents a different department within our company).

We are currently in the “Amazon Business Essentials “ program for $179 per year and allows up to 3 users. Making the pitch that Amazon business “Small” program would be $479 per year and allow up to 10 users makes sense on paper, as it would be a savings versus what is being paid by the individual accounts for prime, but….i have a feeling I wound be starting a turf war if I recommend they we go all in one a centralized Amazon Business account. The other departments value their “privacy” and wouldn’t want to or benefit from consolidating purchasing efforts. I do know that individual groups can be created and permissions/ boundaries can be put in place to prevent visibility to other user’s purchases.

So for those that have been in a similar situation, do you find that using and going all in on Amazon Business for your company was a good thing? If we do go forward with this it will be IT’s responsibility ( in our case) to administer the Amazon Business account like any other 3rd party IT platform/service.

I started my business about 10 months ago and I'm selling for almost 3 months now (FBA). The first 6-7 months were just preparation like finding a product for my private label, product design, website, listing, learning as much as possible about selling on amazon and things like that.

Now am thinking about getting a second person on board as 50/50 partner.

I invested usd 25k into the company and lots and lots of time and energy.. Probably around 1000 hours.

The product sells good and has a lot of potential imo as I'm the only seller selling this product and quality is superior tho competitors. I had to increase the price by a lot and decreased PPC because of not wanting to run out of stock and therefore am selling a lot less since 1 month. Since the product is still in launch phase I'm not making any profit but at least break even.

If I'm selling my future partner 50% of the company to get on board, what would be a fair amount? Just 50% of the amount invested seems unfair to me. Even though I'm not profitable yet, the company should be worth more than the initial investment or am I wrong?

Edit:

Maybe I asked the wrong question. I just want to know an estimate of what amount would be fair to ask for. I want it to be really fair for both. Imo $12500 is not fair. But I would be happy with like $17k-20k. Do you think that's fair?

I won't tell the product but it is a private label product and I'm in a small nishe with not that many competitors. All of them are basically selling the same product with minor differences. My product has the same purpose as theirs but the material is completely different and of higher quality.

I am selling my product for an almost 60% higher price compared to the nishe avg.

Most sellers sell between 100 and 300 products per month. I sold 100 during my first month and in the second month close to 200 even though I didn't have reviews and was way more expensive. Last month I only sold about 70 because of way less PPC and because I increased the price by 20% to sell less until the mext batch arrives.

I have a regular prime account and keep getting emails about opening a business account. I don't have a business and would only use this for personal purchases. Would this be allowed?

It is confusing to know if switching to Amazon Business while continuing to pay for prime means that business orders now must have a $49 minimum, not $25, for free 2-day shipping.

Also, are the "exclusive" discounts and bulk discounts any good?

What worries me is that Amazon Business does not have no-rush incentives. I do not actually ever cash those in, but it worries me that signing up for Amazon Business will actually be a downgrade while I continue to pay for prime.

I wanted to buy a small router from Amazon Business. Business price is about £120 inc VAT, and I have to pay £1.99 next day delivery.

I have Amazon prime on my personal account. Identical router had a 30% voucher. Total cost was £79 inc VAT.

My accountant says I can only reclaim the VAT if I go through the business account, but it's still much cheaper going through the personal account (probably about the same once I've taken into account the fact that I'm paying for the router on my personal account from post tax income).

Why the discrepancy in cost between Business and Personal with Amazon?

Small business here and up to now i have ordered stuff i needed using my personal prime account. The business account is $69 extra and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if its worth it? I already get free shipping so curious if anyone has experienced an advantage to using a business account? Extra discounts? Thanks!

I’m a new seller and learning this whole Fulfillment By Amazon business but I’m curious to know the profits of the members of this forum. I’d like to know the following:

1. How long have you been in the business ?

2. What’s your highest monthly profits (revenue - expenses) ?

3. highest profit in a year ?

4. What’s your advice For new sellers? If there was something you could change/improve on to achieve your level of success sooner, what would that be?

Appreciate the responses! Thanks guys.

A few years ago, I converted my personal Amazon account from Prime to Prime Business. I have been paying $179 a year for the subscription, which supposedly gives me useful benefits.

When my account was converted, the first thing that happened was my personal Amazon card's cash back went from 5% to 3%, okay, fair enough.

Over the years, I have noticed in many cases that product prices for me with a business account were actually HIGHER than they were for individuals by viewing the product in Incognito mode. As a small business owner who repairs computers, a "bulk" order for me is 5 items, so the supposed bulk discounts rarely do anything for me. Today was the straw that broke the camel's back, with an item I purchase frequently being offered with a 15% off coupon that I was not eligible for because I am a business.

Amazon allows me to be extremely reactive with turnaround times for clients, but since the pandemic hit, due to my location, shipping speeds have really slowed down. I decided to cancel my Prime Business subscription today, and for the first time was presented with a considerably cheaper option, "Duo". I find it shady that they did not offer me this sooner, but at the end of the day, what I think I'll end up doing is converting my account back to a personal account with regular Amazon Prime.

My question is, can I still use my tax exemption with a personal account? How are other businesses working around using Amazon for anything? I feel dirty every time I buy parts from them because they are competing with me in every area but service, but sometimes they are the "best" option price AND shipping speed wise to get a job turned around as efficiently as possible.

Thoughts?