Have any of you shoe sellers noticed you’re getting stranded inventory where you need to edit the shoe sizes to comply with the new sizing requirements Amazon recently rolled out? In mid-2019, Amazon notified sellers about standardized shoe size requirements to be enforced across all of their catalog. We discussed this topic in this blog
How to Improve Your IPI Score for Amazon FBA
Stephen and I had the opportunity to talk with Amazon employees at the Seattle headquarters in mid-2019, and the IPI score was the number one topic I wanted to ask them about. There seems to be a lot of confusion and frustration among FBA sellers over the IPI score and its ramifications, and the Amazonians
Amazon Shoe Size Requirements for Selling Shoes – 2019
If you sell shoes on Amazon, you likely received an email or saw in your Seller Central dashboard news that starting on August 30, 2019, Amazon will start enforcing shoe size requirements for all shoe ASINs. This news caused some confusion for shoe sellers about what exactly Amazon is expecting sellers to do to meet
Selling Shoes through Amazon FBA: Prepping and Processing (Plus Returns)
Knowing which shoes to source isn’t the only new skill to acquire when it comes to adding the shoe category to your Amazon FBA inventory. Prepping your shoes can also present some new opportunities to learn, but the differences from prepping and listing in other categories are easy to learn if you read and follow
Selling Shoes through Amazon FBA: Buying Decisions
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
Selling Shoes through Amazon FBA: Why We Added Shoes to Our Sourcing Strategy
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, right now, shoe sales are accounting for over 65% of our Amazon sales this year. Since we’re
Review: Tactical Arbitrage Academy
Raise your hand if you’ve ever paid for a gym membership, used it once or twice, and then stopped going because it was a lot of effort for not a lot of results (at least not a lot of results right away). It’s ok to admit it; we’ve all been there. The people who get
Amazon’s Leadership Principles – How They Can Improve Your FBA Business
Do you consider yourself an Amazon leader? Whether you realize it or not, if you sell through the Amazon FBA program, you ought to consider yourself someone with a position of leadership. A while back, Stephen and I took a tour of an Amazon FBA warehouse in our local area. One of the many things
