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
Case Study – Electronics Sales Ranks and Competing Against Amazon
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
Overcoming Your Fear of Buying High Ranked Items
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
Using the CamelCamelCamel and Keepa Google Chrome Extensions
* This blog post is out of date as CameCamelCamel has been updated and is no longer helpful to resellers.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
How to Read & Understand CamelCamelCamel Graphs
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
10 Things You Need to Know For A Profitable Q4
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
To Share or Not to Share a BOLO
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
A Case Study in Sales Rank
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
