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I'm currently working on expanding internationally. Last week I sent small shipments out to both Canada and the UK - a lot easier than I would have expected so far.
Depending on how that goes, I plan on expanding to Germany, and possibly the rest of Europe and Japan. Couldn't find too much info on the forum about international FBA selling besides this thread.
@Vigilante I was going to ask if you sold in the UK, but decided to just search their marketplace instead of posting on here and ask you. Doesn't look like you sell there, but you'd probably be interested to know that I saw two of your brands products there for roughly 3x your price here in the U.S. (both being sold by the same seller too). Not sure if you were aware of this or not.
May I ask why you have't expanded internationally to these markets? Maybe there's some downside to it that I've overlooked so far.
1. We do Canada. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it's a pain in the a$$.
2. I am still unsure on Mexico until I get some feedback from others
3. We do sell in Europe, but under some different brand names
4. Recently, Amazon seems to have solved the translation issues for easy migration to non-English platforms
Our mission for 2016 is diversification of channels of distribution and diversification of products into more complex and higher touch technology. The tech support angle of some of the expansion products doesn't lend itself too much to international sales. As @LightHouse has pointed out to me 10 times in the past 10 days, we can triple (or way more) our business in the United States in the next 12 months. So we're not focused too much on international sales right now, as much as we are in improving and expanding our current business but Amazon related expansion will definitely happen also in 2016.
I prefer to let other people go first, learn from them, short circuit the development window, and be a "fast follower." I don't want to be the first guy into Mexico FBA... I want to be the 100th. The first guy always gets screwed.