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Sales Rank 101 – Understanding Amazon Best Seller’s Rank

March 4, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 6 Comments

“Well, what’s the sales rank?” You hear this question all the time when Amazon FBA sellers are talking about whether or not to buy an item to resell on Amazon. Understanding Amazon sales rank is one of the most crucial topics for new Amazon sellers. In the rest of this blog post we want to

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Filed Under: Beginner, Getting Started, Sales Rank, Sourcing

Decoding the Electronics Amazon Sales Rank Code

September 28, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 28 Comments

Most resellers rely on Sales Rank when making purchasing decisions. For reasons known only to Amazon, the category of Electronics often does not provide a category wide sales rank. Many times when scanning an Electronics product, a scouting app (like Scoutify) will return a sales rank of 0 or N/A (Not Applicable). In almost all

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Filed Under: CamelCamelCamel, How To, Ideas, Retail Arbitrage, Sales Rank, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

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

Overcoming Your Fear of Buying High Ranked Items

June 20, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

I’m like any other Amazon FBA seller out there – if I could source and sell only low ranking, fast turning items at 100% ROI (return on investment) or higher, I would choose to do that every day, all day. That’s what we all want to do, right? Maximize our ROI and maximize the speed

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Filed Under: Advanced, CamelCamelCamel, Fears, Inventory, Retail Arbitrage, Sales Rank, 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* This blog post is out of date as CameCamelCamel has been updated and is no longer helpful to resellers.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

How to Read & Understand CamelCamelCamel Graphs

May 2, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 32 Comments

UPDATE: As of 2/28/19, CamelCamelCamel (CCC) has removed access to the sales rank tab. The sales rank tab currently has a note that says, “Sales rank history has been disabled, we do not expect it to return, and we are unable to respond to any support requests regarding it.” Losing the sales rank data from

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Filed Under: CamelCamelCamel, Exercises, How To, Retail Arbitrage, Sales Rank, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

10 Things You Need to Know For A Profitable Q4

October 1, 2015 By Stephen Smotherman 31 Comments

Q4. For an online seller, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Sales and profits seem to go through the roof as more and more people buy stuff online for the holidays. If you’re just assuming that Q4 is going to be great for you but you’re not doing anything differently, then you might

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Filed Under: Christmas, Holiday, Q4, Repricing, Sales Rank, Seasonal, Tips & Tricks

To Share or Not to Share a BOLO

November 18, 2013 By Stephen Smotherman 9 Comments

In our last blog post, we talked about how to capitalize on a BOLO. We shared many ideas of how to make the most out of both your time and your money when it comes to a BOLO.  Note: In today’s blog, we’ll be discussing retail store BOLOs (not garage sale, thrift store, or other

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Filed Under: BOLO, How To, Ideas, Retail Arbitrage, Sales Rank, Social, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

A Case Study in Sales Rank

October 17, 2013 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

Today we’re going to look at the sales rank history of a specific book I’ve been following for over seven months. I first found The Boy Captives at a thrift store near my home and quickly bought it. The book had a rank of about 1 million and was being sold as used on Amazon

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Filed Under: Advanced, How To, Pricing Tips, Resources, Sales Rank, Tips & Tricks

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