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Amazon handed prep work back to sellers, and the consequences of getting it wrong land on you rather than on them. A carton that arrives wrong gets refused, refused stock sits somewhere earning nothing, and a launch date moves.
FBM keeps the things worth keeping. Your packaging, customer data & margin. It also puts Amazon’s performance metrics directly on your dispatch times, which is a comfortable trade at home and a much harder one from four thousand miles away.
On a marketplace, a slow delivery is the marketplace’s fault. On your own store it is yours. The box that arrives, the day it arrives and how easy it is to send back are all part of what someone bought, and they decide whether a first order becomes a second one.
Treated as a cost, a return is written off twice, once on the refund and again on the unit. Treated as inventory, a lot of it goes back on sale. What decides which of those happens is how quickly the unit gets looked at and how far it had to travel to be looked at.
Stock held inside the market it sells into arrives as a domestic delivery. No customs event on the order, and nothing for your customer to settle before the courier hands the parcel over. Ours sits in the UK, the Netherlands and the US, which covers...
End-to-end playbooks for cross-border growth
Pre/post-event intelligence tied to EU expansion
Supplements and EU health regulations
Cosmetics and personal care expansion
Sports & outdoor brand expansion into Europe
Selling clothing brands into European markets
CE marking, WEEE & compliance in Europe
Amazon, Otto, Zalando & European strategy
Market-by-market guides, incl. size & sector data
VAT, customs & import tax across EU markets
Selling requirements and extended producer responsibility rules
Warehousing, fulfilment & cross-border shipping
The 12th Annual ASGTG Amazon Sellers Conference brought together 40 top-tier service providers across 9 presentations at Kol Yaakov Hall, Brooklyn, under the banner "ASGTG Powered by AI." The tightly curated provider lineup kept the day focused on practical Amazon seller tactics rather than a broad trade show sprawl.
Worth a note on composition: this is a small, niche event where the room skews toward service providers presenting to each other and to sellers, rather than a large pool of ecommerce brand founders. If you're a seller looking for specialist help with your Amazon operation, that composition works in your favor. If you came hoping to compare notes with other brands at your stage, expect a thinner crowd.
Founded by Ed Rosenberg, ASGTG keeps the provider list deliberately small: 40 vetted service providers presenting to an audience of active Amazon sellers. That curation means the sessions run more like peer recommendations than a general vendor showcase.
Worth revisiting if the balance between brands and service providers becomes clearer over time; for now, expect more vendor conversations than warm brand leads, given the provider-heavy composition.
More useful if you need specialist Amazon service providers than if you want a room full of other brand founders.
Active sellers looking for vetted tools and services to grow their business.
A small, vetted group of 40 providers presenting practical Amazon growth tools.
Three takeaways stood out from a compact, curated program.
The "Powered by AI" theme reflected how deeply AI tooling has moved into listing optimization, advertising and operations for active Amazon sellers, not just larger enterprise brands.
Sellers responded well to a small, vetted provider list, a format worth noting for any brand evaluating service partners in a crowded marketplace tooling landscape.
Sellers with mature US Amazon operations discussed international marketplaces as a natural next step once domestic growth plateaus.
Coverage of the conference centered on AI tooling maturity among active Amazon sellers.
The conference's AI focus reflected how normalized these tools have become among active Amazon sellers. For a seller expanding into Amazon EU, the same operational bar now applies there too.
Sellers who have plateaued on the US Amazon marketplace increasingly discussed international expansion as the next available growth channel.
Despite its Amazon-seller framing, the curated 40-provider format suggests a service-provider-heavy audience. Best treated as a place to find specialist providers rather than peer brands.
ASGTG confirmed that established Amazon sellers are already thinking about international marketplaces once US growth plateaus. Amazon EU isn't a copy-paste of a US listing, though: it's a country-by-country operation with its own VAT (value-added tax), compliance and fulfillment requirements behind each storefront.
Given the provider-heavy composition of this specific event, its clearest value is as a shortlist of Amazon specialists rather than a venue for meeting other brands at your stage. That may shift if the attendee mix changes at future editions.
A seller who has mastered Amazon US still faces a fresh compliance map in Europe. Expandly sequences VAT, product compliance and fulfillment together so an Amazon EU launch doesn't stall on paperwork.
Recent changes to how low-value parcels are taxed at the EU border mean US sellers shipping direct to European customers now face a per-order customs charge that didn't exist before.
A per-order customs chargenow applies to direct-to-EU parcelsAmazon UK, Germany, France and other EU storefronts each carry separate VAT and compliance obligations, unlike the single US marketplace sellers are used to.
Separate per countryVAT and compliance obligations across Amazon EU marketsAmazon sellers juggling a VAT agent, a compliance advisor and a fulfillment provider separately lose time to coordination. GEP™ runs it as one sequenced operation instead.
GEP™one method, compliance to fulfillmentThe 12th Annual ASGTG conference brought 40 curated service providers and 9 presentations to Brooklyn under an AI-powered theme, covering practical tools and tactics for active Amazon sellers, including growing interest in international expansion.
ASGTG is a US-focused seller conference rather than a European sales channel, but its curated provider format and AI tooling focus are useful for sellers evaluating which tactics and partners will transfer to an Amazon EU launch.
ASGTG draws active Amazon sellers and a deliberately small group of 40 vetted service providers, keeping the event focused and peer-driven rather than a broad open expo. The audience may skew more toward service providers than brand founders.
Amazon EU can work as a standalone channel, but each marketplace still requires its own VAT (value-added tax) registration, product compliance and, usually, local stock for competitive delivery speeds. It reduces some of the work of running your own storefront, not the underlying compliance and fulfillment requirements.
Assembling a VAT agent, a logistics provider, a compliance advisor, and a marketplace consultant separately creates coordination cost and gaps between them. A single expansion partner runs it as one operation, which is faster to launch and easier to manage. Expandly works this way, using the Global Expansion Pathway (GEP™) as the method.
If ASGTG confirmed international marketplaces are the next growth lever, the question is how to launch Amazon EU without repeating US mistakes in a new set of markets.
Expandly handles the parts that hold Amazon sellers back in Europe: VAT (value-added tax) registration, product compliance, Amazon EU listings, and fulfillment from our Netherlands warehouse. It's one sequenced operation, built on the Global Expansion Pathway (GEP™), rather than five vendors to manage yourself. Want to talk through what launching on Amazon EU would look like for your business?