Today’s blog post will be short on written text so that we can point you directly to a screen capture video. I’ve put together a video walking through the process of researching 5 products from the Amazon catalog, using the Camelizer and Keepa Google Chrome Extensions to help make a smarter sourcing decision. In the
How to Read & Understand CamelCamelCamel Graphs
Have you ever looked at a CamelCamelCamel graph and thought, “Are you sure those are prices and sales ranks? It looks more like the results of a lie detector test.” If so, this blog post should help you get a basic understanding of what is involved in reading a CamelCamelCamel price or sales rank history
The Most Harmful Amazon FBA Sourcing Decision You Could Ever Make
Did you know that a book on Amazon ranked 10 million yesterday could be ranked 500,000 today? All it takes is one sale. Just one. One sale of that book on Amazon could change the sales rank drastically overnight. Would you buy a book ranked 10 million on Amazon to resell? Would you buy a
Find Better, Faster Selling Amazon FBA Inventory
Has this ever happened to you? You go sourcing for inventory to sell on Amazon and find some good stuff… I mean, the prices are good, the sales rank is good, but once you finally get these items to Amazon, the prices for many have either tanked, or they just never sell. You check in
How to Find Out Exactly Which Items Will Be Charged Long Term Storage Fees
UPDATE: Amazon has recently updated their Inventory Age report, and this post is now outdated. What I teach below still works, but there is now a much easier way to find what you’re looking for. Click here see my latest training report on how to find out exactly which items will be charged a Long Term
Decoding the Electronics Amazon Sales Rank Code
Most resellers rely on Sales Rank when making purchasing decisions. For reasons known only to Amazon, the category of Electronics (sometimes called Consumer Electronics) often does not provide a category wide sales rank. Many times when scanning an Electronics product, a scouting app (like Profit Bandit or ScanPower) will return a sales rank of N/A
Why I Bought a Toy Ranked 1.2 Million for Resale
When it comes to sales rank, every Amazon seller has their own idea of what a “good” sales rank is. For me, I’ll almost always buy a toy that is consistently ranked under 150,000. I’ll even buy a toy that is ranked much higher, as long as the number of competing sellers is low and
A Case Study in Sales Rank
Today we’re going to look at the sales rank history of a specific book I’ve been following for over seven months. I first found The Boy Captives at a thrift store near my home and quickly bought it. The book had a rank of about 1 million and was being sold as used on Amazon