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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

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

5 Retail Arbitrage Sourcing Tips for Amazon FBA Success

February 15, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 5 Comments

Although my FBA business has transitioned to become more focused on wholesale over the past couple of years, retail arbitrage (RA) is still one of my top methods of sourcing. I’ve shared some of my favorite RA sourcing strategies with you in blog posts in the past: The 2 Best Retail Arbitrage Sourcing Strategies How

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Filed Under: Finding Inventory, Ideas, Inventory, Retail Arbitrage

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

Amazon FBA Changes – Retail Arbitrage Receipts & Brand Restrictions

August 29, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 26 Comments

How have you been handling all the recent changes and rumors of changes in Amazon FBA selling? That’s not a rhetorical question. I really want to know. How have you been handling all the news about FBA changes? Have you been freaking out? Have you been paralyzed with uncertainty? Have you kept doing business as

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Filed Under: Account Suspension, Business, Retail Arbitrage, Seller Metrics

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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Filed Under: Inventory, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing

Overcoming Your Fear of Leaving with an Empty Shopping Cart

June 23, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 6 Comments

We’re well into our second round of blog posts in our series on Overcoming Your Amazon FBA Fears. If you want to catch up on the previous posts, click here to read through them. Today we’re going to discuss a fear that can strike deep in the heart of anyone who spends time doing retail

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Filed Under: Fears, Finding Inventory, Mindset, Sourcing

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

Find Better, Faster Selling Amazon FBA Inventory

April 27, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

Has this ever happened to you? You go sourcing for inventory to sell on Amazon and find some good stuff… I mean, the prices are good, the sales rank is good, but once you finally get these items to Amazon, the prices for many have either tanked, or they just never sell. You check in

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, CamelCamelCamel, Finding Inventory, Inventory, Keepa, Online Arbitrage, Resources, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing, Tools

Our Favorite Amazon FBA Sourcing App – Scoutify

April 6, 2016 By Rebecca Smotherman 13 Comments

  Like we said in our last blog post, there seems to be a huge debate among Amazon FBA sellers about whether to use the Amazon Seller app for sourcing inventory or whether to pay for a third-party scanning app. Check out the comments on that post to see that some people feel pretty strongly

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Filed Under: App Reviews, Inventory Lab, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing, Tools

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