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Amazon FBA Storage Changes 2018 — LTSF and Storage Space

March 5, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 37 Comments

Hopefully by now you have seen the email from Amazon about upcoming changes related to storage at FBA warehouses. As with all of your seller emails from Amazon, I hope you took note of the email and read it thoroughly to familiarize yourself with Amazon’s policy changes. In this post I want to break down

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Filed Under: Long-Term Storage Fees, Seller Metrics

Top Retail Arbitrage Tips for Clearance Sourcing for Amazon FBA

February 22, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 7 Comments

In my last post I covered 5 retail arbitrage (RA) sourcing tips for Amazon FBA success. Today I want to narrow the focus a bit to talk specifically about clearance sourcing at retail stores. Clearance sourcing is always a lot of fun because you can find items at super low prices that you can potentially

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Filed Under: Beginner, Clearance Sourcing, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

5 Retail Arbitrage Sourcing Tips for Amazon FBA Success

February 15, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 5 Comments

Although my FBA business has transitioned to become more focused on wholesale over the past couple of years, retail arbitrage (RA) is still one of my top methods of sourcing. I’ve shared some of my favorite RA sourcing strategies with you in blog posts in the past: The 2 Best Retail Arbitrage Sourcing Strategies How

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Filed Under: Finding Inventory, Ideas, Inventory, Retail Arbitrage

Is Retail Arbitrage (RA) Sourcing Dead?

February 6, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 50 Comments

I’ve been selling on Amazon for several years now, and one lingering question has been circulating FBA seller groups that entire time: Is retail arbitrage dead? If you do a Google search for that question, you will find info related to the topic as far back as 2013. I’m writing this post in 2018, so

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How to Win the Amazon Buy Box for Maximum Sales

December 13, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 15 Comments

We left off on the previous blog post with my top 6 points that you need to understand about how the Amazon buy box works. If you haven’t checked out that post, I highly recommend that you read it first before moving forward with how to win the buy box. As a reminder, Amazon does

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Filed Under: Buy Box, Getting Started, How To, Tips & Tricks

6 Things You Need to Know about the Amazon Buy Box

December 11, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 13 Comments

Perhaps the most important goal of any Amazon FBA seller is getting more sales, so today I want to cover a topic directly tied to the majority of sales on Amazon – the Amazon buy box. If you look on an Amazon product page, the buy box is the little box in the top right

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Filed Under: Amazon Buy Box, Beginner, Getting Started, Pricing Tips

Review of Tactical Arbitrage

October 10, 2017 By Rebecca Smotherman 23 Comments

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 the main online arbitrage tool we use for finding profitable inventory from online stores to resell on Amazon: Tactical Arbitrage. If you feel like you

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Filed Under: App Reviews, Finding Inventory, Online Arbitrage, Resources, Sourcing, Tools

The Top 5 Features of the New Scoutify 2 Amazon FBA Sourcing App

October 3, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 16 Comments

In the spring of 2017, I got a message from Kimberly of InventoryLab. She knew I am a huge fan of both InventoryLab and Scoutify (the Amazon sourcing app that comes bundled with InventoryLab). She wanted to know if I wanted to be a beta-tester for the all new Scoutify 2 sourcing app. Heck yeah!

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Filed Under: App Reviews, Finding Inventory, Inventory Lab, Resources, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing

Decoding the Electronics Amazon Sales Rank Code

September 28, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 28 Comments

Most resellers rely on Sales Rank when making purchasing decisions. For reasons known only to Amazon, the category of Electronics often does not provide a category wide sales rank. Many times when scanning an Electronics product, a scouting app (like Scoutify) will return a sales rank of 0 or N/A (Not Applicable). In almost all

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Filed Under: CamelCamelCamel, How To, Ideas, Retail Arbitrage, Sales Rank, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

Is There Still Room for New Amazon FBA Sellers?

September 19, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 19 Comments

  One question I am consistently asked since launching fulltimefba.com back in 2013 is this… “Is there still room for new Amazon FBA sellers?“ Most people ask this question out of two fears they are experiencing: The fear of not finding enough profitable inventory to sell on Amazon. The fear of too many competitors who

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Filed Under: Beginner, Fears, Getting Started, Mindset

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