Should I use FBA or ship orders myself (FBM/self-ship) in India?
The short answer
FBA earns you the Prime badge, near-automatic Buy Box eligibility and Amazon's own fulfilment and customer service, genuinely worth it once volume is predictable enough to absorb storage and fulfilment fees. Early on, FBM keeps working capital and stock control in your hands, which matters when demand or SKU count is still unpredictable and you can't afford dead stock sitting in an FC. Most scaling India sellers end up hybrid: FBA for hero SKUs with stable off-take, FBM for the long tail, rather than one model for the whole catalogue.
A quick summary to orient you. The real value is below: the resources worth your time, from people who've actually done it, not us.
Here are the resources
Hand-picked from around the web, each with a note on why it earns your time. India-specific ones carry a badge.
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Why we picked it
The official FBA page for India, including the APOB (Additional Place of Business) GST registration requirement that catches out first-time sellers trying to ship stock to Amazon fulfilment centres across states.
Why we picked it
Real seller-to-seller troubleshooting on Buy Box eligibility edge cases that the polished guides don't cover, worth skimming when your ASIN loses eligibility for no obvious reason.
Why we picked it
The most credible independent research shop tracking Amazon seller economics globally, useful for calibrating whether what you're seeing on Amazon.in (rising CPCs, seller distress) is an India-specific problem or the global marketplace trend.
Why we picked it
One of the clearer breakdowns of what actually drives Buy Box eligibility and rotation, price, fulfilment method, performance metrics, from a tool vendor that also happens to publish solid free education.
