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Top Features of the Scoutify App for Amazon FBA Sourcing

January 16, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

Retail arbitrage sourcing for your Amazon FBA business is only possible if you use a high-quality scouting app. For several years, we at Full-Time FBA have depended on the Scoutify app from the makers of Inventory Lab. We’ve published numerous blog posts and videos on the topic of how great Scoutify is, and we’re excited now

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

Review: Tactical Arbitrage Academy

October 2, 2018 By Rebecca Smotherman 9 Comments

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

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Filed Under: Advanced, Finding Inventory, Online Arbitrage, Resources, Reviews, Tactical Arbitrage, Tools

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

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 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

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

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