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What to Do When You Buy a Dud for Your Amazon FBA Inventory

February 26, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 5 Comments

We like to pretend it never happens…but sometimes as Amazon FBA sellers, we will buy a dud to try to resell. We find what we think will be a great piece of inventory, we have great hopes and dreams to get a nice return on our money, but that inventory turns out to be a

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Filed Under: Beginner, Sourcing, Troubleshooting

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

The No-Risk Strategy to Gain Confidence in Your Amazon FBA Sourcing Skills

June 18, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 6 Comments

One of the hardest parts of learning how to sell on Amazon is the process of gaining confidence in your inventory sourcing skills. When we’re looking for profitable items to add to our Amazon inventory, we might get caught up in worry that we’re making a bad decision. What if the price tanks? What if

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Filed Under: Beginner, Exercises, How To, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

Overcoming Your Fear of Training Your Competition via Outsourcing

April 30, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 5 Comments

We all need help. Especially when it comes to running an Amazon FBA business, we need help in order for our business to grow. Sure, there are days when I feel like no one can Tetris the contents of an FBA box quite as well as I can, but in reality my business has more

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Filed Under: Business, Fears, Outsourcing, Sourcing

How to Compete against Amazon and Win

March 26, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 3 Comments

I’ve heard it before and thought it was true. Well meaning people have said, “If Amazon is selling the item, then run away as fast as you can. You can never win against Amazon.” I followed this advice for many years thinking if I were to compete against Amazon, I’d always lose. It turns out they

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Filed Under: Advanced, Amazon Buy Box, How To, Sourcing

Top Retail Arbitrage Tips for Clearance Sourcing for Amazon FBA

February 22, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 7 Comments

In my last post I covered 5 retail arbitrage (RA) sourcing tips for Amazon FBA success. Today I want to narrow the focus a bit to talk specifically about clearance sourcing at retail stores. Clearance sourcing is always a lot of fun because you can find items at super low prices that you can potentially

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Filed Under: Beginner, Clearance Sourcing, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

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

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

The 2 Best Retail Arbitrage Sourcing Strategies

August 2, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 13 Comments

Retail arbitrage can be very profitable. The feeling of anticipation when you walk into a retail store is extremely motivating. I always advise other resellers to grab a shopping cart when they first enter a store because they need to be mentally ready for a big haul. Now, the big haul doesn’t always happen, but

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