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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

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

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

Overcoming Your Fear of Leaving with an Empty Shopping Cart

June 23, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 6 Comments

We’re well into our second round of blog posts in our series on Overcoming Your Amazon FBA Fears. If you want to catch up on the previous posts, click here to read through them. Today we’re going to discuss a fear that can strike deep in the heart of anyone who spends time doing retail

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Filed Under: Fears, Finding Inventory, Mindset, Sourcing

Using the CamelCamelCamel and Keepa Google Chrome Extensions

May 9, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

* This blog post is out of date as CameCamelCamel has been updated and is no longer helpful to resellers. But the info about Keepa in this post is still very helpful. Today’s blog post will be short on written text so that we can point you directly to a screen capture video. I’ve put

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Filed Under: CamelCamelCamel, Finding Inventory, How To, Inventory, Keepa, Online Arbitrage, Resources, Retail Arbitrage, Sales Rank, Seasonal, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks, Tools

Find Better, Faster Selling Amazon FBA Inventory

April 27, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

Has this ever happened to you? You go sourcing for inventory to sell on Amazon and find some good stuff… I mean, the prices are good, the sales rank is good, but once you finally get these items to Amazon, the prices for many have either tanked, or they just never sell. You check in

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, CamelCamelCamel, Finding Inventory, Inventory, Keepa, Online Arbitrage, Resources, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing, Tools

The Biggest Amazon FBA Sourcing Mistake You Can Make

February 11, 2016 By Rebecca Smotherman 19 Comments

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

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Filed Under: Business, Finding Inventory, Inventory, Mindset, Sourcing

The Best Items to Buy on Craigslist and Sell via Amazon FBA

February 3, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 10 Comments

If you’re like me, you get tired of chasing the next clearance sale at the big national retail chains, only to have your retail arbitrage finds “tank” in price before you even get your inventory sent in to the Amazon FBA warehouse. Sure, there are times when you can beat other sellers to the punch

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Filed Under: Finding Inventory, Oversized Items, Sourcing

Overcoming Your Fear of Going Deep on Inventory Items

December 1, 2015 By Rebecca Smotherman 1 Comment

“Should I go deep on this item?” “How deep should I go on this item?” “What does it mean to ‘go deep’ on an item?” These are all questions we get on a regular basis, whether in blog comments, in the Full-Time FBA Facebook group, or on our YouTube channel. One of the universal fears

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Filed Under: Exercises, Fears, Finding Inventory, How To, Inventory, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing

Overcoming Your Fear of Negotiating a Better Deal

November 3, 2015 By Stephen Smotherman 10 Comments

Have you ever found yourself frustrated after you go into a store, find a lot of items with great sales ranks, only to find the clearance or sale prices are just not low enough to make it worth reselling? Or maybe you’ve been at a garage sale, and the seller has their items priced way too high. If only you could get an additional

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Filed Under: Exercises, Fears, Finding Inventory, How To, Retail Arbitrage

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