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Jumia vendors, quick question:

If you're selling a product for ₦10,000, do you know exactly how much enters your bank account after Jumia fees?

Most sellers don't.

Another thing many vendors don't realize is that competitors can quietly undercut them overnight and steal sales before they even notice.

I recently built a tool that:

✅ Tracks competitor prices
✅ Calculates your actual profit after fees
✅ Shows the cheapest seller in your market
✅ Alerts you when competitors change prices.

I'm currently onboarding a small group of sellers to test it.

If you'd like a free competitor analysis, send me:

Your product link
Your cost price

I'll run the analysis and send you the report free of charge.

Let's see whether you're actually making money... or just making sales.

If you sell on Jumia, you already know that making a sale does not always mean making a profit. Many vendors are silently running their businesses into the ground just because after fees and commissions are deducted from their sales, they go home with virtually nothing. The truth is, many of these vendors don't only rely on jumia for their sales, they simply treat jumia as a side hustle.
From a real business point of view, every business branch must yield profit else it'd be aborted.

However, here are the three main traps and how to avoid them:

1. The Packaging & Surcharge Trap: Jumia takes its 10%+ commission, but many sellers forget to calculate the mandatory branded packaging costs and shipping contributions before setting their price. As a business owner, or a vendor, accountability is everything. You should be able to keep track of how much expenses you take for every product you sell. If that's not the case, you may just be making the algorithm richer at your own expense.

2. The Hub Rejection Fine: If hub staff reject your item for a subjective reason, you get hit with an automatic ₦3,000 cancellation fee. I've learned that sometimes jumia staff lie about this, but as a smart vendor, you've got to calculate this risks to ensure you don't go beyond your margin even if your product is flagged. Alternatively, you can always double-check your items before drop-off.

3. Blind Price Wars: Dropping your price just because a competitor did is business suicide if you don't know your absolute lowest margin. Imagine you didn't calculate your potential profit, then you see another seller drop price below yours, instinctively you're definitely gonna be moved to drop yours way below theirs. But here is the catch:

What if they've made their calculations?

What if they bought cheaper?

What if they're running low on stock so they just need to sell of and buy again?

To survive, you must calculate your exact take-home profit before adjusting prices.

There is an independent Price Intel and tracking dashboard that secretly spy on jumia listings. It automatically track competitor prices and calculate your true profits after all Jumia fees are deducted.

From my understanding of jumia algorithm, it's only manual work, which is extremely tedious and time-consuming, that'll help you sell smarter. But this tracker, it allows you breath a little.

Stop selling blindly and hoping for a good payout. Take control of your numbers.

Do you think a tool like this will help Jumia Vendors make profits? Let us know in the comments

ConstellarVTR:
From A background perspectives,Jumia conducts its business activities by collocating space on its web site which they call sellers-centres to its prospective sellers/partners so that they can market/promote their merchandise commodities brands items on this very platform.

In comparison,Jumia owns little of all merchandise commodities brands items that is listed/displayed on its websites for sale to its prospective consumers/customers. A large percentage of that figure about 90% or so of this representing whole total numbers of all merchandise commodities brands items that is listed/displayed on Jumia’s website are owned directly by its Partners (Vendors) or Sellers or the prospective ones in the making etc.

Jumia makes its money both legitimately and illegitimately. Legitimately by charging a commission rates on all items sold on its website that is owned by its sellers/partners. The illegitimate ones is the hidden surcharges that most sellers aren’t aware of but will come to the knowledge of the seller when the funds for the final merchandise items sold after commission rates had been deducted by Jumia is finally remitted to them. The infuriated sellers like me protests others simply ask that their stores be delisted from Jumia’s website or better still they reluctantly refuse to fulfil orders requesting Jumia to ask their prospective buyers to pay for these merchandise items before their orders could eventually be taken or fulfilled. While the unfortunate ones who don’t have a platform to voice their complain keep silence or moreover try to avoid been cuts in the web next time in this over charging billing schemes from Jumia devised crafting means in adding an unnecessary amount of money to the price on their merchandise items listed/displayed on Jumia’s website to make-up both the instantaneous hidden surcharges charged on the previous merchandise items sold and also the prospective ones yet unsold. This hidden surcharges most of them are nominal fees while others are above the threshold.

This very hidden surcharges plus the commission rates Jumia charged that is accrued directly to the seller makes merchandise items sold on Jumia’s website to be astronomically high far well above the market price value in which this very merchandise items are been sold in the open markets. This schemes as I’m aware of have been going on over the years and has remain abetted and unchecked.

This commission rates charged on sold merchandise items on Jumia’s website varies in percentage depending on the categories in which the sold merchandise item is been classified into. For example Computer Accessories merchandise items have an outrageous commission rates of 10% and Above and this sellers have a way of passing this real cost directly to Jumia’s prospective buyers who innocently bears the full brunt of this escalated inflated price ranges.

The commission rates isn’t only the charges Jumia attached on merchandise items sold on its website to its prospective buyers,Transportation cost is also factored-in/included (among the sundries charges in that lists of order) for delivery of this sold merchandise items to the address of the prospective buyers which are nominal in cost fees for Lagos based delivery address and astronomically high for delivery address outside Lagos. The other is the Packaging Materials (both the nylons bags,cartons and packaging labels etc) which until now till April the Third of this year to be precise- i.e 03/04/2017 could no longer be free but could be paid for by the sellers of this merchandise items on Jumia’s website by one way or the other all this list of sundries cost fees charges are offsets or added on to the overall price of this merchandise items sold to Jumia’s prospective buyers on its websites thereby escalating the prices astronomically high on the very detriment of the prospective buyers or shoppers.

https://www./vendor-packaging/?utm_source=%5BNG%5D+New+All+Vendors+List+-+SC&utm_campaign=26a4d7329b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aa795e7213-26a4d7329b-329656825

This very facts outlined here bolstered the claims that merchandise items sold on Jumia’s website is about 25%-40% more in price value compared to the real market value of this very merchandise items sold in the open markets.

Note of caution for all shoppers/buyers wishing to patronise Jumia’s website should first conclude an comparative investigation of the price variations in which the merchandise items they intend to purchase i.e how much it is sold in the open markets to that on Jumia’s website this very way they can avoid been exploited or to fall into Jumia’s keenly crafted gimmick schemes.

https://sellercenter./packaging_materials_online?utm_source=%5BNG%5D+All+Vendors+-+20.03.2017&utm_campaign=174414db09-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fbe1586ca9-174414db09-332122705

My fellow Nigerians I’m soliciting for your supports here in collaborating this awareness so that innocents Nigerians don’t ever get exploited and short-changed of their hard earned resources in this very hard times of economic recession and uncertainties beleaguering the entire nations and its Citizenry. With your support together we can stamp-out foreign criminals who come to Nigeria not to engage in legitimate businesses that will add values to Nigerians instead but to steal their hard earned resources in this regards.

My wealth of experience coming from the background of my business dealings with Jumia (As a seller listing my products on its website platform) now spanning over three years now has contributed immensely to the compilations of this facts finding testimonial that will immensely benefits the general public.

https://jumiasteals./2017/03/21/how-jumia-exploits-its-sellerspartners-for-their-own-malicious-selfish-interest-in-the-detriments-of-its-shoppers-or-buyers/

cc : seun,lalasticlala,Mynd 44.

I totally feel the pain. The way the jumia staff treat vendors like trash and look for flimsy excuses to reject items just to charge that ₦3,000 cancellation fee is pure robbery. I got so tired of operating at a loss that I started using Satoshi Price Intelligence to accurately track my competitors and calculate my true net profit before listing. It is a lifesaver. You can send me a message if you'd like to take a look at it.

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