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Think14 is an owned US FBA prep center serving Illinois ecommerce sellers. Amazon stopped prepping US inventory in January 2026, so Illinois 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.
Illinois and the Midwest are central to the FBA map. We prep, store and forward so your Chicago-area inventory reaches FBA quickly.
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 Illinois 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.
Illinois sits at the centre of the country's rail and road network, and Chicago is a major inland port for containers moving off both coasts. Onward transit is rarely the constraint for Illinois sellers.
The constraint is usually Amazon storage cost on stock that arrived earlier than it sells. We hold the buffer at $0.50 per cubic foot and replenish against sell-through, so your listings stay in stock without funding months of Amazon warehousing.
Chicago-routed containers move inland efficiently for prep and onward distribution.
Drip-feed replenishment keeps your inventory-to-sales ratio out of surcharge range.
FNSKU labeling, bagging, bundling and kitting at $0.75 a unit.
Amazon and Walmart collect and remit sales tax on marketplace orders delivered to Illinois 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.
No. One carton or a full container, the same 48-hour prep SLA and $0.75/unit pricing apply.
About 1-2 days by ground from our Texas facility to most Amazon fulfillment centers serving Illinois.
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.
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