RIP AMAZONBRAH and Amazon FBA thread

[jiujitsubro]

This is for retail arbitrage, I go in stores and buy stuff for $1-4 and sell it for $12-15 on Amazon.

I got my private label stuff in last week but with all the labeling, shipping, boxing,etc I'll be lucky to even double my money on those.

I'm making a lot more money with retail but the downside is I have to always be out buying since any good deals or clearance items are low quantity and sell out.

don't worry about it. whatever puts more money in your pocket, not to piss off miscers but at the end of the day its whats in your wallet

[HGM1989]

in for later

[mike.hunt]

Great success!

Found an online source for one of my best selling retail items. I sold out of 50 of them in 2 weeks.

Buy price $4, sell price $15

Das fukin it mane

[robertk232]

Great success!

Found an online source for one of my best selling retail items. I sold out of 50 of them in 2 weeks.

Buy price $4, sell price $15

Das fukin it mane

Not sure if DAS IT MANE. PM me your product, source and amazon listing to confirm. SRS.

[HankScorp1o]

Amazon Seller App
http://fbatoolkit.com/
http://camelcamelcamel.com/

Camelcamelcamel is dope, but fbatoolkit's numbers are often completely wrong. I have a friend who sells 10+ units a day of a certain product, but according to fbatoolkit, with his BSR in his category he only sells 1 unit every 2 days. Others report the same kinds of variations so if you use them be sure to double-check their data against other services.

[mike.hunt]

Yea FBAtoolkit just gives you a good guesstimate. Sometimes a 100k rank item will sell faster than a 10k rank, BSR can be kinda misleading

[jiujitsubro]

putting my first listing up....

for 9,000 lol bought it at 7,500.

I suspect volume will be slow but imagine if you sold one item a day? brb CEO10k/d

[OrdoAbchao]

In on this. Just scoping it out for now.

[mike.hunt]

What's good bros

In class daydreaming about the AZ hustle..

[logik01]

Best day yet yesterday. Did 5 sales totalling $75. I'll only take like 20 dollars profit but it's something at least! It's a good feeling knowing you don't have to post them. Soo much easier.

Any of you guys ever used sponsored products? I'm tempted to do it, but what happens when you cancel it? Do you go back to where u were before in terms of rank?

[Killshot1]

You never replied to my PM Dawn

[mike.hunt]

Best day yet yesterday. Did 5 sales totalling $75. I'll only take like 20 dollars profit but it's something at least! It's a good feeling knowing you don't have to post them. Soo much easier.

Any of you guys ever used sponsored products? I'm tempted to do it, but what happens when you cancel it? Do you go back to where u were before in terms of rank?

Gj brah

Sponsored/PPC is good if your selling an item that is replenishable and has good margins, people do it for private label items to boost sales and rank. Rank will stay the same after you stop ads, until sales slow down then of course rank will drop.

[mike.hunt]

brb sending out 12 boxes today, each about 45 pounds
bought it all on Monday, took 3 days to process & pack all the chit

[logik01]

brb sending out 12 boxes today, each about 45 pounds
bought it all on Monday, took 3 days to process & pack all the chit

Haha at least you dont have to post everything individually mate, thats a lot of weight aswell.

I signed up for sponsored links, over a 1000 impressions and a measly 3 clicks, crazy.

[robertk232]

500 units of my first PL product hit inventory middle of last week. I gave away about 35 as review units and turned on Amazon PPC. Once a few reviews hit, sales started to trickle in "steadily." I was at 7 sales for the weekend, but someone just bought 8 of them.

I will be placing a new order for 1,000+ units in the next week or so.

Currently inquiring with suppliers for new products to get a few more products going as fast as possible.

[HankScorp1o]

500 units of my first PL product hit inventory middle of last week. I gave away about 35 as review units and turned on Amazon PPC. Once a few reviews hit, sales started to trickle in "steadily." I was at 7 sales for the weekend, but someone just bought 8 of them.

I will be placing a new order for 1,000+ units in the next week or so.

Currently inquiring with suppliers for new products to get a few more products going as fast as possible.

Sweet, gj brah. What'd you use as a review giveaway service? The owner of Zonblast is in a mastermind I'm in and gives us discounts so I might use ZB, but I've heard Viral Launch and a few others have better review-response rates so idk

Anyways, congrats on getting things up and running.

[mike.hunt]

Gj brah, how much profit you making per item?

[x8Pauly8x]

Gj brah, how much profit you making per item?

This.
If you can also indicate the price paid per unit as well it'd be awesome.

[mike.hunt]

Fook me, a product has dropped to 6k BSR with 0 FBA sellers and I gotta wait a week for delivery then another 3-4 days for it to be checked in at warehouse.
So many missed sales. I cri every time

[GlenButerol]

Fook me, a product has dropped to 6k BSR with 0 FBA sellers and I gotta wait a week for delivery then another 3-4 days for it to be checked in at warehouse.
So many missed sales. I cri every time

How do you know how many fba sellers there are for a given product?

[mike.hunt]

How do you know how many fba sellers there are for a given product?

On Amazon Seller App it lists how many, if your on computer just click view all "new and used" or "other sellers" and count how many listings with prime.

[robertk232]

Sweet, gj brah. What'd you use as a review giveaway service? The owner of Zonblast is in a mastermind I'm in and gives us discounts so I might use ZB, but I've heard Viral Launch and a few others have better review-response rates so idk

Anyways, congrats on getting things up and running.

Browsed tons of sites and used a free one I found. Bro tip: go here - http://www.amazon.com/review/top-reviewers and if you click the reviewers profile, most have their email addresses. While it's a slower process, you can individually email people to ask if they'd like to review your product. I would not start with the #1 person though. Probably has an ego and is probably too busy with other reviews. Start several hundred or 1k into the list.

Gj brah, how much profit you making per item?

Depends on how hard I go with PPC, right now, probably $6-12 an item. Cost is around $4.8. Sad thing is things were just picking up and I had several orders for handfuls of units (had separate orders for 5, 6, 7, and 8 units) and a new competitor popped up priced 47% below me!!! He also has bundled the item I bundled with mine to differentiate it from the other listings. Feeling pretty defeated brahs, but I think I can still be successful, but profits will not be as high. Gonna kick my supplier in the dick if I ever meet him IRL.

I had literally just emailed my supplier saying I was ready to order 1,100 units. I'm gonna watch the rest of the week to see what happens and make the call then. May need to find a new product. The space I'm in is fairly competitive and more and more sellers are popping up with the item I'm selling.

This.
If you can also indicate the price paid per unit as well it'd be awesome.

See above

Fook me, a product has dropped to 6k BSR with 0 FBA sellers and I gotta wait a week for delivery then another 3-4 days for it to be checked in at warehouse.
So many missed sales. I cri every time

This your PL item or is this wholesale or something?

[mike.hunt]

This your PL item or is this wholesale or something?

ayy m8

wholesale, I found it online, hasn't even shipped out yet, called today they dont know whats going on still waiting to hear back lol

and inbound shipping to AZ and check in is slow as balls right now, sent in a huge shipment on june 2 to distribution center and it's still not fully checked in, apparently a lot of people are having this issue, all this waiting is screwing things up

PL items are still sitting on my floor, boxes were all fuked up and I've been too busy/lazy to rebox them

good news is I'm at $354 today in sales, a record for me! ceo status soon
*edit* $383..fuuuuuuark

[BradInPhx]

Depends on how hard I go with PPC, right now, probably $6-12 an item. Cost is around $4.8. Sad thing is things were just picking up and I had several orders for handfuls of units (had separate orders for 5, 6, 7, and 8 units) and a new competitor popped up priced 47% below me!!! He also has bundled the item I bundled with mine to differentiate it from the other listings. Feeling pretty defeated brahs, but I think I can still be successful, but profits will not be as high. Gonna kick my supplier in the dick if I ever meet him IRL.

You're killing it with them garlic presses

[robertk232]

You're killing it with them garlic presses

Brah, it's all about dem bbq claws.



This is from Saturday morning until just now. I'd call it the first weekend that my listing was well established with a solid # of reviews.
Averaging 10/units a day in that timeframe. That would be a juicy average. Likely will not sustain that through the week, but it's nice to have three really solid days in a row.

Going to place a new order for 600 units instead of 1,100.

[MetalLover]

Brah, it's all about dem bbq claws.



This is from Saturday morning until just now. I'd call it the first weekend that my listing was well established with a solid # of reviews.
Averaging 10/units a day in that timeframe. That would be a juicy average. Likely will not sustain that through the week, but it's nice to have three really solid days in a row.

Going to place a new order for 600 units instead of 1,100.

Well done, brah.


I'm about to launch my first product. I've got to be honest, though, I suck at searching for products. Everything I see I tell myself it won't sell.

I'm doing a slightly different business model than the PL group, though. If I happen to get some winners, I will PL and brand register them, though.

[robertk232]

I tell myself I suck at finding products, but I found one that is continuing to trend positively. In the last 36 hours, I've sold 27 units. With my rather high PPC spend, it comes out to about $6.7 profit per unit. Not as high as I'd like, but if I can average 10 sales a day, that's $25k profit per year on one item. That doesn't account for the 50 or so I gave away as samples.


Now... expand to 10-15 products. Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg ggggggggggggg.

[mike.hunt]

I tell myself I suck at finding products, but I found one that is continuing to trend positively. In the last 36 hours, I've sold 27 units. With my rather high PPC spend, it comes out to about $6.7 profit per unit. Not as high as I'd like, but if I can average 10 sales a day, that's $25k profit per year on one item. That doesn't account for the 50 or so I gave away as samples.


Now... expand to 10-15 products. Hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnggggggggggg ggggggggggggg.

Those results are very impressive and not typically what I see with new PL products. Sounds like your on to something really good, now expand in that same category.
I'm selling some products ranked 3-15k and only get 1-5 sales per day for those items because of all the low balling kunts.

[robertk232]

Those results are very impressive and not typically what I see with new PL products. Sounds like your on to something really good, now expand in that same category.
I'm selling some products ranked 3-15k and only get 1-5 sales per day for those items because of all the low balling kunts.

I'm spending like $50 a day on PPC... might be part of it.

Up to 19 units sold today. Recalculated and it's more like $7.3 profit per unit sold. I'm not sure why my sales have jumped so much, but I'm just going to sit back and enjoy.

Hope my supplier can get me my next order fast. Have about 260 in inventory. Another 60 at my house and an order of 600 was just placed.

[x8Pauly8x]

I'm spending like $50 a day on PPC... might be part of it.

Up to 19 units sold today. Recalculated and it's more like $7.3 profit per unit sold. I'm not sure why my sales have jumped so much, but I'm just going to sit back and enjoy.

Hope my supplier can get me my next order fast. Have about 260 in inventory. Another 60 at my house and an order of 600 was just placed.

How much does a single click cost? How long have you had your website for? You think its worth it or do you prefer sticking with Amazon directly?