Selling on Amazon.com if you're an international seller (Beginner)

This video goes over how you can sell on Amazon.com if you don't live in the USA. My good friend Ruchi Vasishta, who is based in UK and sells on Amazon.com created it.

If you have further questions about this, there's a Facebook thread dedicated to it right here.

Here are the countries Ruchi mentioned as 100% painless - but if your country is not on the list, keep watching the video. She offers 2 other options:

Australia

Austria

Belgium

Canada

Cyprus

Estonia

Finland

France

Germany

Greece

Hong Kong

India

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

New Zealand

Portugal

Slovakia

Slovenia

Spain

United Kingdom

United States

Here is the official list from Amazon on all of the countries they allow. You can also find a lot of answers to F.A.Q. there about Amazon specifically.

Other Pointers, Tips, And Tricks

Muhammad from South Africa shared how to sign up using a different sign up process for international sellers: When you go to seller central and click to sign up, on the VERY first page it will ask what country your business is in. Don't answer that. On the right side of that question is a group of FAQs.. and one of them has a link to the correct sign up sequence for international sellers.

Oscar Candid from Singapore posted here and said that he was able to sign up for an account with his credit card using his local address, bank account number, and hp number. He said there's a new Amazon Currency Converter for Disbursement service that makes creating an account easier without a U.S. bank account.

Kee Guan Hin, also from Singapore, posted here and confirmed that sending a scanned copy of your passport and a recent bank statement is enough for Amazon to get an account.

For a USA phone #, members have reported great results with  TextPlus and MagicJack.

If you need a forwarding address, you can use Stackry, MyUS, or any of the plans my assistant team compiled here.

For withdrawing funds, most people use Payoneer. You can see a discussion on this here.

Make sure you use the correct address. Amazon is very insistent on this, as scammers often use incorrect addresses. 

If your account is denied at first, CALL them. Johanna (and several others) have mentioned success with this tactic. Amazon's Seller Support phone number is 1-866-216-1072.

If you have other questions, I suggest that you go through this thread in depth. People have shared some great tips there.

Transcript:

Hi, so one of the questions that keep coming up is, "Can someone who doesn't live in the US sell on Amazon.com?" 

The short answer is yes. The long answer is what you've got to do depends on what country you live in. 

If you live in any of the countries I've got listed here and I'll paste this below the videos all so you've got the information. Then it's pretty straightforward, you can go in, you can basically put your country in and put your bank account information in and you're off to the races. 

If not, then you've got a couple of additional steps but not a big deal. What you've got to do, number one is go and you've got to go get a US address so that's usually like a, you know, like a forwarding address.

A lot of companies out there, I'll paste them below so you've got that information that's clickable. Then you have got to use a third party payment company like World First or Payoneer and the way that works is they'll give you basically kind of like a US account where you can receive the money and then you've got to withdraw from that account. 

Amazon will pay your account in Payoneer, for example, and then you go in and say, "Okay I need to withdraw this money," and they will send it you from that account to your local bank account. That's one of the ways that most international Amazon sellers that don't live in a country on this list, that's how they do it.

If that doesn't work for you then what you need to do is go to a local international bank that might be near you, like for example HSBC, and you ask them if it's possible for you to open a US bank account through them. Just bear in mind that I said US bank account, I'm not saying US Dollar account because a US Dollar account will still, if I open a US Dollar account here it would still be a UK account just in Dollars, you need a US bank account. 

A lot of them will do it but you shouldn't have to get there because I know a lot of people that use Payoneer and I know a lot of people that use World First and that works perfectly and as I mentioned if you live in any of these countries then this should work just as easy it does for Americans. 

That's pretty much it, let me know if you've got any questions. You can post them below and, yep, take care.