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Handling IP/Copyright Infringement and Counterfeit Claims

March 30, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman 18 Comments

“Retail arbitrage is dead! No one can sustain an FBA business with the possibility of all the IP claims out there!” Have you heard this alarm ringing in the FBA communities, particularly Facebook groups? It tends to come in waves, sometimes more intense than others. Intellectual property (IP) or copyright infringement claims, along with claims

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Filed Under: Account Suspension, Copyright Infringement, Counterfeit, IP Infringement, Seller Metrics

Amazon FBA IPI Score 2022 – What We Know So Far

January 6, 2022 By Rebecca Smotherman 10 Comments

While many aspects of the IPI (inventory performance index) remain a mystery for Amazon FBA sellers, in this blog post we want to compile what information we do know about how the IPI works and what it means for us as Amazon sellers moving forward. What is IPI and why should I care? The IPI

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Filed Under: Advanced, Inventory, Inventory Performance Index, Restrictions, Seller Central, Seller Metrics

Why Amazon Sellers Might Sell at a Loss (and How that Impacts You)

August 10, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

“Selling at a loss?! Why would an Amazon FBA seller do that? I’m here to make money – isn’t everybody?” It might be strange, but selling inventory at a loss is a situation that comes up from time to time in the Amazon FBA world. If you think the idea sounds ridiculous, you’re not the

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Filed Under: Accounting, Business Growth, Inventory Performance Index, Miscellaneous, Seller Metrics, Tips & Tricks

Why We Don’t Recommend Drop Shipping as an Amazon Reseller Strategy

June 8, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

Fulfilled by Amazon. Fulfilled by Merchant. Multi-channel fulfillment. Drop shipping. These are a few reselling methods you may have heard tossed around by Amazon sellers. Hopefully it’s pretty obvious by the name of our website that we here at Full-Time FBA lean very heavily towards keeping 100% of our sales in the Fulfilled by Amazon

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Filed Under: Account Health, Account Suspension, Beginner, Drop Shipping, Mistakes, Seller Metrics

How to Handle the 2020 IPI Score 500 Minimum Requirement for Amazon FBA Sellers

July 21, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 28 Comments

In July 2020 Amazon dropped some news that might make many FBA sellers freak out a little – or a lot. But let’s take a few calming deep breaths while we take some time to work through the latest announcement together. (Note: Amazon changes their IPI threshold periodically. For the latest minimum threshold, please refer

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Filed Under: Account Health, Inventory Performance Index, Seller Metrics

Podcast Episode 024 : Inauthentic Claims and How to Respond, with Kim Coghlan

March 22, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

It seems like almost every Amazon seller, at some point, has to deal with being accused of selling an inauthentic item on Amazon – even if we know for a fact that it’s not inauthentic at all. If you’ve never had it happen to you, then it’ll probably happen at some point. And when it

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Filed Under: Account Health, Counterfeit, Inauthentic Claims, Podcast, Seller Metrics

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

Understanding the Suppressed Buy Box on Amazon (And How to Regain It)

October 9, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 10 Comments

It’s not the most fun topic, I know, but we need to talk about how to handle a suppressed buy box in your Amazon FBA inventory. My goal is to help you understand how or why the suppressed buy box happens – and then know how to regain that buy box and start selling your

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Filed Under: Amazon Buy Box, Buy Box, Seller Metrics, Troubleshooting, Uncategorized

The Riskiest Strategies for Amazon FBA – and Why We Don’t Teach Them

July 1, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 17 Comments

Not every Amazon FBA business is the same. Numerous business models abound, and FBA sellers use a myriad of ways to make money through selling on Amazon. Here at Full-Time FBA, we teach you the proven strategies we have used to make a full-time income selling via Amazon FBA, using only part-time hours. But you

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Filed Under: Account Suspension, Business, Business Growth, Seller Metrics

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

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