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Podcast Episode 167 – Why We Don’t Recommend Drop Shipping for Amazon Sellers

December 18, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

There are many popular strategies to make money reselling on Amazon, and today we’re going to talk about one strategy that we don’t recommend you attempt: drop shipping. Listen today to hear about what drop shipping is, why some Amazon sellers like the idea of it, and the big risks associated with drop shipping. Drop

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Filed Under: Account Health, Drop Shipping, Podcast

Podcast Episode 146 – Strategies to Reduce Excess Inventory at Amazon FBA Warehouses

July 21, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

Is Amazon’s excess inventory algorithm getting you and your FBA business down? We’ve got you covered on today’s episode of The Full-Time FBA Show, where we look at the best ways to handle excess inventory at the FBA warehouses. You’ll hear all about how to find out if Amazon has deemed your inventory excess, five

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Filed Under: Account Health, Inventory, Inventory Performance Index, Podcast

Podcast Episode 120 – Avoiding the Top Scams that Target Amazon Sellers

January 21, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

Today, we’re tackling our all-time LEAST favorite topic: Scams! As unpleasant a subject as it may be, unfortunately there are scammers out there targeting Amazon sellers, and it’s important to keep our wits about us. In this episode, we cover the three main scams that Amazon sellers could fall prey to: course scams, personal information

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Podcast Episode 095 : How to Handle Amazon Product Compliance Requests (Pesticides, Children’s Toys, Etc.)

July 31, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

Due to legislative changes in the US, Amazon has had to send out a bevy of compliance requests to sellers for a seemingly unrelated series of product types, ranging from pesticides to towels to toys. In today’s episode, Stephen and Rebecca look at what exactly is causing Amazon to send these compliance requests, why particular

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Filed Under: Account Health, Podcast, Troubleshooting

Why We Don’t Recommend Drop Shipping as an Amazon Reseller Strategy

June 8, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

Fulfilled by Amazon. Fulfilled by Merchant. Multi-channel fulfillment. Drop shipping. These are a few reselling methods you may have heard tossed around by Amazon sellers. Hopefully it’s pretty obvious by the name of our website that we here at Full-Time FBA lean very heavily towards keeping 100% of our sales in the Fulfilled by Amazon

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Filed Under: Account Health, Account Suspension, Beginner, Drop Shipping, Mistakes, Seller Metrics

Podcast Episode 080 : Spring Cleaning Profits for Your Amazon FBA Account

April 16, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

It’s that time of year, where we spring clean various areas of our life, from our kitchens to our closets, to our computers. Just like everything else, over time our Amazon seller account can become cluttered and overwhelming for a multitude of reasons. Most of the time it’s because there are other more pressing and

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Does Amazon Accept Receipts?

March 1, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

A common question we see in our Facebook group for Amazon FBA sellers is this one: “Does Amazon accept receipts?” Actually, if I’m being more accurate, it’s not always posed as a question, but often as this statement: “I heard Amazon doesn’t accept receipts.” Fact or Rumor? Before we get into the meat of this

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Filed Under: Account Health, Account Suspension, Copyright Infringement, Counterfeit, Inauthentic Claims, Restrictions, Troubleshooting

Podcast Episode 055 : Overcoming Your Fear of Amazon Account Suspension with Lesley Hensell

October 23, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 2 Comments

An Amazon account suspension is the number one thing that most Amazon sellers fear. Today Stephen interviews Lesley Hensell from Riverbend Consulting to help clear up some of the grey areas that could lead to account or ASIN suspensions. Lesley starts off the podcast interview by giving us some tips to help you manage risk when

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Filed Under: Account Health, Account Suspension, Podcast, Troubleshooting

How to Handle the 2020 IPI Score 500 Minimum Requirement for Amazon FBA Sellers

July 21, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 28 Comments

In July 2020 Amazon dropped some news that might make many FBA sellers freak out a little – or a lot. But let’s take a few calming deep breaths while we take some time to work through the latest announcement together. (Note: Amazon changes their IPI threshold periodically. For the latest minimum threshold, please refer

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Filed Under: Account Health, Inventory Performance Index, Seller Metrics

Podcast Episode 024 : Inauthentic Claims and How to Respond, with Kim Coghlan

March 22, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

It seems like almost every Amazon seller, at some point, has to deal with being accused of selling an inauthentic item on Amazon – even if we know for a fact that it’s not inauthentic at all. If you’ve never had it happen to you, then it’ll probably happen at some point. And when it

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