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Think14 is an owned US FBA prep center serving California ecommerce sellers. Amazon stopped prepping US inventory in January 2026, so California sellers need a dedicated prep partner. Ship to our owned Texas facility and we label, prep and forward to FBA at $0.75/unit.
Every unit labeled to current Amazon spec by a trained US team.
Suffocation labels, bubble wrap, bundles and multi-packs built to spec.
$0.50/cu.ft buffer storage and FBA inbound shipments created for you.
Inspect, regrade and resell 60-70% of returns instead of scrapping.
California has the highest concentration of Amazon sellers in the US. We give you a central-US prep base that avoids West-Coast warehouse congestion and long-term storage traps.
We own the building, so when we say 48 hours, there is no third-party 3PL to blame. One team, one SLA, $2M insured.
Every unit follows the current FBA prep matrix, so your inbound shipments clear receiving without warnings.
Barcode over the manufacturer code on every unit, polybags with suffocation warnings where Amazon requires them, bubble wrap for fragiles. Standard materials are inside the $0.75 rate.
Case-pack shipments where your SKUs qualify, optimized carton configurations, and 2D barcodes, built to cut placement fees on every inbound shipment plan.
Bundle creation with sold-as-set labels, multipack kitting, and insert placement within Amazon terms, so your California catalog can carry offers competitors cannot copy.
Dock to FBA-ready shipment inside 48 hours, then forwarding to the fulfillment center Amazon assigns, with tracking visible in your portal.
California is where most Asian imports enter the country, through Los Angeles and Long Beach. If your goods land there, the instinct is to prep nearby. The catch is that California warehousing is among the most expensive in the country, and holding buffer stock there erodes the saving on the short first leg.
We take the freight inland to our owned Austin floor, prep to FNSKU standard, and forward into the fulfillment network from a cheaper, more central position. For sellers holding real cover rather than shipping hand to mouth, the storage difference usually outweighs the extra drayage.
Containers cleared on the West Coast and routed inland to prep without a second California warehouse.
$0.50 per cubic foot in Texas rather than California warehousing rates on the same pallets.
One known inventory location is easier to reason about for state tax than stock held across multiple states.
Amazon and Walmart collect and remit sales tax on marketplace orders delivered to California under marketplace facilitator rules, so the tax on those orders is not yours to calculate. That does not make you invisible to the state: orders from your own Shopify store, wholesale, and economic nexus thresholds are still yours to track.
Where your inventory physically sits matters too. Stock held in a state can create nexus there, which is one practical argument for one known warehouse rather than inventory spread across a network you cannot see into.
Read the full California sales tax guide for Amazon sellers →
No. One carton or a full container, the same 48-hour prep SLA and $0.75/unit pricing apply.
About 2-3 days by ground from our Texas facility to most Amazon fulfillment centers serving California.
Yes. We coordinate with your forwarder, or act as your forwarder, and receive, count and inspect every carton.
Returns are inspected within 72 hours and 60-70% are regraded and resold, so your write-offs become recovered revenue.
Get an itemised quote in two minutes. No minimums, 48-hour SLA.
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