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Think14 ships merchant-fulfilled Amazon orders for New York sellers from an owned Texas warehouse, at Texas storage rates. We hold your stock in our owned Austin, Texas warehouse and ship your merchant-fulfilled orders the same day, so your handling time can sit at zero and your on-time delivery rate stays where Amazon wants it.
With FBA, Amazon owns the shipping performance. The moment you switch to FBM, that performance becomes yours, and it is measured. These are the numbers that decide whether your listings stay healthy.
Amazon expects late shipments to stay under 4% of orders. Same-day dispatch from a staffed floor is the only reliable way to hold that at volume.
Above 95% of orders need working tracking uploaded. Every order we ship carries a carrier-scanned tracking number pushed back to Seller Central.
Under 2.5%. Cancels almost always mean you sold stock you did not physically have. Bin-level counts stop that.
The metric buyers feel. Shipping from central Texas puts most of the country inside a short ground window instead of relying on expensive air.
New York sellers face the worst warehousing economics in the country: the highest rent per square foot, the hardest labour market, and loading docks that are genuinely difficult to use. Holding stock in central Texas and shipping nationally removes that problem entirely, at the cost of two to three ground days to your own metro.
The hidden cost of self-shipping is not postage, it is the handling time you have to pad to stay safe. A seller packing orders between other work sets handling time to two days, which pushes the delivery promise out, which loses the sale to a competitor promising Friday instead of Tuesday. A warehouse that dispatches before cutoff every day lets you set that to zero and compete on the delivery date itself.
We are not going to pretend Texas beats a Queens warehouse for delivering to Brooklyn. It does not. Your New York-metro orders will take two to three ground days from us instead of one.
The question is what share of your orders those are, and what you pay for the privilege. Storage in the New York metro runs several times our $0.50 per cubic foot, and that premium applies to every unit you hold, not just the ones going to local addresses. For most sellers the maths is straightforward: a small delivery penalty on a minority of orders, against a large and permanent cut in holding cost on all of them.
Where this flips is if New York and the Northeast corridor genuinely dominate your order book, or you sell something people expect next day. If that is you, say so when you request a quote and we will tell you honestly rather than sell you the wrong thing.
$0.50 per cubic foot on every unit you hold, against New York metro warehousing that costs several times that.
You are not negotiating a Brooklyn loading bay, a freight elevator, or a seasonal labour market to get orders out of the door.
Central Texas lowers the average shipping zone across your whole order book, which usually outweighs a slower lane into your own city.
FBM is not a downgrade from FBA. For whole categories of product it is simply the cheaper and safer channel, and the sellers who run both from one inventory pool are usually the ones with the best margins.
FBA oversize fulfillment fees and storage scale badly with cubic feet. The same unit shipped FBM from a warehouse you pay $0.50/cu.ft for is often several dollars cheaper per order. See oversize items: FBA vs 3PL.
Low-velocity SKUs attract FBA aged-inventory surcharges and eat into your IPI score. Held FBM they cost you storage and nothing else.
When restock limits block an inbound or a category needs approval you do not have yet, FBM keeps the listing live and selling instead of going out of stock.
Your Walmart, eBay, Shopify and TikTok Shop orders cannot ship from FBA stock without paying for multi-channel fulfillment. One FBM pool serves all of them.
Your Seller Central orders flow to our floor through the channel integration. No emailing spreadsheets, no manual re-entry, no missed order sitting unseen over a weekend.
Stock lives in bin locations with live counts, so the quantity Amazon shows is the quantity on the shelf. That is what keeps pre-fulfillment cancels near zero.
Packed in your branded packaging, labeled on our negotiated carrier rates, and the tracking number is back in Seller Central the same day it ships.
FBM returns are yours to handle, which is where most sellers lose the margin they saved. Ours come to one dock, get inspected, and 60-70% go back into sellable stock.
For a national order book, yes. New York metro addresses are two to three ground days out, but every other region is closer and cheaper than it would be from New York, and your storage cost drops sharply. If the Northeast is the bulk of your sales, tell us and we will be straight with you about it.
Handling time zero does most of the work: shipping the same day the order lands recovers a full day against a seller who pads two days of handling, which often cancels out the extra transit distance.
Inventory in Texas creates a Texas connection, not a New York one, though you may already have New York obligations as a business located there. Marketplace facilitator rules mean Amazon collects on its own orders. See our New York sales tax guide.
Yes, and this is where the gap is widest. Cubic-foot pricing on bulky goods is punishing in the New York metro and reasonable in Texas.
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