I own an ecommerce business, and I recently moved away from my previous 3PL (third party logistics company, like Deliverr). In doing so, I evaluated a number of 3PLs, including Deliverr.
For those who aren't familiar, Amazon Multi Channel Fulfillment, which allows you to fulfill orders not placed on Amazon from their warehouses, is much cheaper than all alternatives for a lot of smaller packages. As an example, I have one item that's 2.5 pounds, and about 8.5"x4"x4". To ship it via USPS would cost me $10-12, depending on where it's going. Amazon charges me $6.77.
Deliverr, at least when I evaluated them about six months ago, matched Amazon's pricing exactly. That was pretty shocking to me, since Amazon's clearly only able to maintain those prices because they have their own fulfillment network and lots of revenue from elsewhere to subsidize the actual cost of delivery.
I am currently using Amazon MCF as my 3PL, and one of the reasons I went with them over Deliverr was a genuine concern that Deliverr had a money-losing business model that would only work at Amazon scale, which is obviously a nigh-impossible thing to achieve.
I'm glad to see they got acquired by Shopify, as I think the competition for Amazon is a good thing in the marketplace. That said, I'm definitely curious to see if Shopify will be able to maintain price parity with Amazon.
For those who aren't familiar, Amazon Multi Channel Fulfillment, which allows you to fulfill orders not placed on Amazon from their warehouses, is much cheaper than all alternatives for a lot of smaller packages. As an example, I have one item that's 2.5 pounds, and about 8.5"x4"x4". To ship it via USPS would cost me $10-12, depending on where it's going. Amazon charges me $6.77.
Deliverr, at least when I evaluated them about six months ago, matched Amazon's pricing exactly. That was pretty shocking to me, since Amazon's clearly only able to maintain those prices because they have their own fulfillment network and lots of revenue from elsewhere to subsidize the actual cost of delivery.
I am currently using Amazon MCF as my 3PL, and one of the reasons I went with them over Deliverr was a genuine concern that Deliverr had a money-losing business model that would only work at Amazon scale, which is obviously a nigh-impossible thing to achieve.
I'm glad to see they got acquired by Shopify, as I think the competition for Amazon is a good thing in the marketplace. That said, I'm definitely curious to see if Shopify will be able to maintain price parity with Amazon.