By now you should know how much we love using online arbitrage (OA) as a sourcing strategy for our Amazon FBA business. Today we want to talk with you about the flip side of all the wonderful benefits we’ve seen from using OA in our business. If we only told you that doing OA can
Top Amazon FBA Mistakes – Why Most People Fail FBA & How to Succeed
This probably isn’t the news you wanted to hear – the reasons why your Amazon FBA business could fail. No one likes to focus on the negative. We would all much rather hear the good parts of any story about running an FBA business – the money you can make, the big house or the
How to Edit Amazon Shoe Listings with the 2019 Shoe Size Requirements
Have any of you shoe sellers noticed you’re getting stranded inventory where you need to edit the shoe sizes to comply with the new sizing requirements Amazon recently rolled out? In mid-2019, Amazon notified sellers about standardized shoe size requirements to be enforced across all of their catalog. We discussed this topic in this blog
Understanding the Suppressed Buy Box on Amazon (And How to Regain It)
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
How to Request Reimbursement for Damaged Amazon FBA Removal Orders
Sometimes when we create a removal order, the items we have sent back to us get damaged. Maybe you decided to have a pair of shoes sent back and the Amazon warehouse shipped the shoes back in a plastic bag causing the shoe box to get crushed beyond repair. Or maybe you returned a toy
Podcast Episode 013 : Communicating with a Seller Central Support Rep
Nothing is more frustrating than trying to get your point across to a Seller Central representative and feeling like you are continually being misunderstood. When you’re already annoyed with the issue you’re needing to bring to Amazon for help and the answers you get from a Seller Central rep don’t seem to help, then that
How to Open an Amazon Seller Support Ticket (and Get Phone Support if Necessary)
Let’s face it. At some time or another, you’re going to need to open up a support ticket with Amazon Seller Support in order to fix an issue that’s impacting your Amazon business. The good news is that Amazon has multiple options in order for you to get the support you need. The bad news
What to Do When You Buy a Dud for Your Amazon FBA Inventory
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