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The Power of Selling Replenishable Inventory on Amazon

June 15, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman 2 Comments

When I first started selling on Amazon, I mainly focused on buying items from garage sales, thrift stores, estate sales, and the clearance aisles in my local retail stores. I loved how I could buy something for $1 to $5 that I could sell on Amazon for $15 to $20. I was making amazing ROI

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Filed Under: Advanced, Business Growth, Finding Inventory, Inventory, Replenishables, Replens, Sourcing

Why Clearance Items Tank in Price on Amazon (and What to Do About It)

November 2, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

Chances are, if you like to do retail arbitrage as a sourcing strategy for your Amazon FBA business, you love a good clearance sale. There’s nothing like finding items marked down 50% or more on a retail shelf that you can then sell for an awesome ROI (return on investment) via Amazon FBA. But if

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Filed Under: Clearance Sourcing, Finding Inventory, Inventory, Keepa, Pricing Tips, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

Online Arbitrage: How to Know Which Items to Buy for Amazon FBA

May 15, 2020 By Rebecca Smotherman 3 Comments

You’re ready to try sourcing via online arbitrage (OA) for your Amazon FBA business – but what you should buy? That’s the question we all want to answer, right? If we can find great items to buy and resell on Amazon, we can build a sustainable FBA business and steadily grow our profits so that

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Filed Under: Finding Inventory, Inventory, Online Arbitrage, Sourcing

Spring Cleaning for a Profitable FBA Business

March 2, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 42 Comments

It’s almost spring! This is the perfect time of year to do a little spring cleaning of your Amazon FBA inventory. Let me ask you a question. How often do you look at your inventory at Amazon? For most sellers, we don’t take a look all that often. Sure, we might look at our inventory

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Filed Under: Business, Exercises, Ideas, Inventory, Inventory Performance Index, Seller Central, Seller Central Tips, Seller Metrics

Podcast Episode 019 : Find Profitable Inventory Even With Limited Funds

February 25, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

It’s totally possible to get started selling on Amazon with hardly any capital in the beginning. In today’s episode, we’ll share eight different strategies you can use to find profitable inventory to sell on FBA, specifically if you have a limited amount of sourcing capital. The goal with these strategies is to find inventory you

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Filed Under: Beginner, Inventory, Podcast, Sourcing, Uncategorized

How to Find Amazon FBA Inventory for Little to No Money

October 29, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

“I need to buy more inventory, but I don’t have very much money to spend on my business!” We’ve all been there, right? Most of us started out as Amazon FBA sellers with very little capital to spend on inventory. Some folks might start out with a significant chunk of change they want to invest,

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Filed Under: Beginner, Finances, Finding Inventory, Getting Started, How To, Inventory, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

6 Steps to Take When an Item is Returned to Amazon

June 27, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 49 Comments

One of the most annoying emails for FBA sellers to receive from Amazon starts with “Refund initiated for order #102-12345-67890.” Getting a return notification is not only annoying, but it can sometimes spark a few fearful questions.  Is this return one of the high priced items I just sold? Is the buyer going to say that

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Filed Under: Account Suspension, Inventory, Returns, Seller Central, Seller Central Tips, Seller Metrics

Inventory Lab Review – Why We Use InventoryLab For Listing Amazon FBA Inventory

January 13, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 51 Comments

As Amazon FBA resellers, we’re all looking for ways to save time and money in processing our inventory. One of the biggest ways I encourage FBA sellers to save time by spending a little money is to use a third-party listing service, rather than listing your FBA inventory directly through Amazon Seller Central. The fewer

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Filed Under: Beginner, Business, Getting Started, Inventory, Inventory Lab, Product Listing, Resources, Tools

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

Case Study – Electronics Sales Ranks and Competing Against Amazon

September 2, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 14 Comments

In this blog post, I asked you, according to your own sourcing strategies, if you would buy a particular Electronic item or not. Here’s the item we looked at: Product: Adonit Jot Pro Fine Point Stylus – Silver ASIN: B00931DHKM Clearance price at Target: $3.94 Total available for sale: 20 NOTE: This post was updated

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Exercises, How To, Inventory, Pricing Tips, ROI, Sales Rank

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