#114 - Should you ship Air or Boat if you're sourcing in China?
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Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder
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🗓️ 19 January 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Air? Boat? What is the best option for my business? In this episode, I go over my thoughts on which is better and why!
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| 0:00.0 | You might get an air shipping quote back from a supplier and you punch that number into your |
| 0:04.8 | FBA calculator and now you get a boat shipping quote and you punch that into your FBA calculator |
| 0:09.7 | on a per unit basis obviously and it spits out a 42% profit margin. Okay if air shipping is |
| 0:16.6 | 37.5% or higher than do air and if boat is this this, do boat. Like, I don't want to come out here |
| 0:22.2 | and say that because I think everyone's situation is very unique in that aspect. |
| 0:33.0 | What's up, guys? You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom. |
| 0:38.6 | Should you ship air or boat if you're sourcing in China? |
| 0:44.0 | This episode is not going to be super long, but I just want to touch on this subject right now |
| 0:48.3 | because I know we're still kind of in the heat of these supply chain issues, expensive shipping rates and things. And I know this is something |
| 0:56.8 | that's holding back a lot of people from either starting their brand or considering starting |
| 1:02.3 | or it's kind of holding them back in the sourcing phase because the margins aren't just looking |
| 1:06.3 | super hot right now. So I just wanted to put an episode out for you guys, kind of touching just really |
| 1:11.9 | quickly on this topic and a few thoughts about it. First, I want to invite you guys if you haven't |
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