For buyers
Amazon & Online Sellers
An online seller buys a listing: the carton has to survive a marketplace hub, the box has to be small enough to keep the fulfilment fee down, the label has to be right, and the photographs have to show the product without a studio. The dollhouse category suits this channel better than most wooden toys because the product photographs well open, the cube is manageable on the small models, and the room-set add-on structure makes a natural bundle listing. This page sets out what to confirm before a listing goes live, and which models in the catalogue make the economics work.
What this buyer needs from the range
- Carton dimensions, gross weight and cube per model before the listing is built, because the fulfilment fee and the storage cost follow the carton, not the product.
- A retail-ready carton or a plain carton that takes a marketplace label, with the barcode position and the label size agreed before production.
- Image groups on every model - the catalogue carries two to six groups per model, an average of about 5.4 - so a listing can be built without a separate shoot.
- A spare-parts plan for figures, loose furniture and hinges, because a marketplace return on a missing piece costs more than the part.
- An age grade and a small-parts warning confirmed for the destination marketplace before the listing copy is written.
How we supply it
- A model shortlist built for the channel: tabletop and small suitcase houses for parcel economics, standard houses for the higher price point.
- Carton drop and handling notes for the models you shortlist, plus the packed dimensions to enter in the fulfilment calculator.
- Room-set and doll-family add-ons that can be listed as bundles or as separate SKUs against the same house.
- Replacement figures and fittings quoted per model and packed with the next production run.
FAQ
Which dollhouse sizes work for FBA and marketplace selling?
The tabletop band under 40 cm is the natural fit: cartons of 0.01-0.05 m3 and under 9 kg keep the fulfilment fee and the storage cost in the range where a listing survives, and there are 47 models to choose from. The standard band of 40-80 cm works at a higher price point but the carton of 0.03-0.12 m3 starts to hurt on long storage, and the large band at 0.10-0.25 m3 is a shop-floor or freight product rather than a parcel one. The practical test is to take the carton dimensions of a shortlist and put them through the fulfilment calculator before writing any listing copy.
Can the carton carry our own label and barcode?
Yes, and it should be agreed before production rather than added at packing. We ask for the label artwork, the barcode position and the carton dieline, return a proof for sign-off, and print the carton to that proof. A private-label carton moves the MOQ up because the line has to be set up and the cartons printed, so for a first order it is often cheaper to ship a plain carton with a printed label and move to a printed carton on the reorder. The barcode itself is the buyer's to supply and to keep current for the marketplace.
Are the product images good enough for a listing?
The catalogue holds two to six image groups per model, an average of about 5.4, all from the workshops and stored locally at 800 and 400 pixels, which is enough to build a listing and to check the product against the photograph. What it is not is a studio shoot: the images show the product on a plain background from several angles, and a seller who needs lifestyle shots or a scale reference will have to add them. We can send the image set for a shortlist before an order, so the listing decision is made on the photographs rather than on a description.
Send the shortlist
Send the models or the range you are planning, the destination market and the quantity shape; we return the confirmed specification and packing data.
Need a specification pack?
Ask for the model list and packing data for the categories you are reviewing.