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Online Arbitrage Tips for Black Friday Sourcing

November 16, 2022 By Rebecca Smotherman 7 Comments

Not everybody wants to go out and bust the doors and brave the crowds on Black Friday or any of the other big shopping days of the season. Actually, you count me in that number – I am not a huge fan of the big Black Friday crowds and just don’t want to have to

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Filed Under: Black Friday, Online Arbitrage, Resources, Sourcing

Selling Shoes through Amazon FBA: Buying Decisions

February 3, 2022 By Rebecca Smotherman 35 Comments

Let’s get down to the nitty gritty details of sourcing shoes for FBA, shall we? As I (Rebecca) mentioned in a previous post of this series, I personally don’t source for shoes using retail arbitrage (RA). I tried it and came up dry. I use 100% online arbitrage (OA) for my shoe sourcing strategy. The

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Filed Under: Finding Inventory, Inventory, Shoes, Sourcing

Selling Shoes through Amazon FBA: Why We Added Shoes to Our Sourcing Strategy

February 2, 2022 By Rebecca Smotherman 61 Comments

Back in 2015, Stephen and I (Rebecca) decided to add shoes to our Amazon FBA inventory. Since our initial experiment with shoes, we have learned so much about how to source and sell shoes on Amazon. In fact, over the past 6 years, shoe are our second most item on Amazon (the first being toys).

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Filed Under: Finding Inventory, Inventory, Shoes, Sourcing

Amazon FBA IPI Score 2022 – What We Know So Far

January 6, 2022 By Rebecca Smotherman 10 Comments

While many aspects of the IPI (inventory performance index) remain a mystery for Amazon FBA sellers, in this blog post we want to compile what information we do know about how the IPI works and what it means for us as Amazon sellers moving forward. What is IPI and why should I care? The IPI

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Filed Under: Advanced, Inventory, Inventory Performance Index, Restrictions, Seller Central, Seller Metrics

How to Involve Your Kids in Your Amazon FBA Business

March 10, 2021 By Rebecca Smotherman Leave a Comment

We’re all about being prepared here at Full-Time FBA, so we’re starting to look ahead to the month of June and a huge change that happens in our business every year: the end of the school year.  The reason the end of school signals a huge change for our business is that it is a

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Tips for Working with a Partner or Spouse at Amazon FBA

March 8, 2021 By Rebecca Smotherman Leave a Comment

Perhaps you came to the Full-Time FBA blog because you’re wanting to grow your Amazon business into your full-time income. Or maybe you’re wanting to take it from a hobby to a good source of side income. Regardless, it’s one thing if you decide you’re ready to get further into selling on Amazon, but how does your

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Filed Under: Balance, Business, Family Involvement, How To, Spouse

How to Get the Most from Your Online Arbitrage Subscriptions

May 16, 2020 By Rebecca Smotherman 4 Comments

One of my (Rebecca) favorite ways to boost my online arbitrage sourcing is using subscriptions to OA sourcing tools that speed up the sourcing process, streamline the tasks involved, and increase your OA profits. There are a few main types of subscriptions you can use to do your online sourcing: Daily deal lists (FBA Insiders, Rabbit

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Filed Under: Advanced, How To, Online Arbitrage, Resources, Sourcing

Online Arbitrage: How to Know Which Items to Buy for Amazon FBA

May 15, 2020 By Rebecca Smotherman 3 Comments

You’re ready to try sourcing via online arbitrage (OA) for your Amazon FBA business – but what you should buy? That’s the question we all want to answer, right? If we can find great items to buy and resell on Amazon, we can build a sustainable FBA business and steadily grow our profits so that

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Filed Under: Finding Inventory, Inventory, Online Arbitrage, Sourcing

Our 9 Favorite Chrome Extensions for Online Arbitrage

May 12, 2020 By Rebecca Smotherman 15 Comments

If you’re going to do online arbitrage (OA) in your Amazon FBA business, you want to have the right tools to make the process as efficient as possible. In this blog post, we want to spend some time sharing with you a tool that’s helped us build up the OA side of our FBA business:

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Filed Under: Advanced, Online Arbitrage, Tips & Tricks, Tools

How to Respond to Coronavirus and COVID-19 as an Amazon FBA Seller

March 16, 2020 By Rebecca Smotherman 16 Comments

With all that’s going on in the world right now during the spread of Coronavirus and the resulting COVID-19, we at Full-Time FBA want to take a moment to check in with our readers and let you know how we are handling this worldwide emergency as it relates to our Amazon FBA business. Usually we

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