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
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
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
Review of Tactical Arbitrage and OAXray
It has been a while on the blog since we have taken a dive into strategies for online arbitrage (OA), so I want to spend some time today talking about two products we use for finding profitable inventory from online stores to resell on Amazon: OAXray and Tactical Arbitrage. This article will include reviews of
Why I’m Using Poshmark to Sell My Amazon FBA Returns
Have you used the fashion buying and selling platform called Poshmark? It’s a website and mobile app where users can list their new and used clothing, shoes, accessories, and cosmetics for sale. I recently began using Poshmark as another platform (along with eBay) for selling my Amazon FBA shoe returns and shoes with boxes damaged
How to Use Inventory Lab to Track Supplier Profitability
Let’s talk profitability, shall we? You’ve likely heard us mention that we use the Inventory Lab software package to streamline our process of listing inventory on Amazon FBA and for sourcing inventory through the Scoutify app. Today we want to share with you another feature of Inventory Lab that we’ve come to depend on: the
Our Favorite Amazon FBA Sourcing App – Scoutify
Like we said in our last blog post, there seems to be a huge debate among Amazon FBA sellers about whether to use the Amazon Seller app for sourcing inventory or whether to pay for a third-party scanning app. Check out the comments on that post to see that some people feel pretty strongly
The Amazon Seller App – Pros and Cons
You don’t have to talk to Amazon FBA sellers for too long before you know their opinion about which sourcing apps they prefer. There seems to be a raging debate about whether the Amazon Seller app is sufficient for sourcing products to resell or whether you should pay for a third party scanning app. Today
The Biggest Amazon FBA Sourcing Mistake You Can Make
As Amazon FBA sellers, we have all made this sourcing mistake at one point or another. Especially as we’re just getting started in the business, without much experience to give us confidence. Typically, we start out selling items that are familiar to us. Many sellers come to Amazon as book lovers, looking to get profits
