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How to use Scoutify to Find Profits in Amazon Restricted Items

April 9, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 10 Comments

It’s so frustrating. You’re out sourcing for inventory and finally find a profitable item, only to discover you’re restricted from selling that item on Amazon. Seriously?! When this happens to me, I usually just put the item back on the shelf and keep sourcing. I try to forget about that restricted item and move on with

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Filed Under: Advanced, Finding Inventory, How To, Inventory Lab, Restrictions, Scoutify, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting

Is selling on Amazon FBA easier or harder than 5 years ago?

April 2, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 6 Comments

Things sometimes seem to change in the Amazon world faster than we as sellers can keep up. Long-term storage fees are changing this year, the Amazon guidelines are updated from time to time, and sales rank changes multiple times throughout the day! It’s hard at times to know whether Amazon is getting easier for us

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Filed Under: Mindset, Resources, Troubleshooting

How to Compete against Amazon and Win

March 26, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 3 Comments

I’ve heard it before and thought it was true. Well meaning people have said, “If Amazon is selling the item, then run away as fast as you can. You can never win against Amazon.” I followed this advice for many years thinking if I were to compete against Amazon, I’d always lose. It turns out they

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Filed Under: Advanced, Amazon Buy Box, How To, Sourcing

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 24 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

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