👻**OFFICIAL Amazon FBA Thread**- AmazonBrah

[NinjaNoir]

Anyone have a discount code for this course?

https://www.udemy.com/onlinearbitrage/

[NinjaNoir]

Ok I got the $200 online Arbitrage book for free o=through amazon kindle program. Looking for to make six figures.

[CurlBrah1234]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fulfillment...ce_in_a_while/

Guy made 140k profit in a 2 week span. Crazy numbers and worth a read through the comments

[playsintrafficc]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fulfillment...ce_in_a_while/

Guy made 140k profit in a 2 week span. Crazy numbers and worth a read through the comments

[ruskism]

the guide amazonbrah is pushing really is a waste even for a dollar.

the only thing people should be paying for is "HERE IS HOW TO SOURCE PRODUCTS"

everything else you learn within the first 1-2 weeks of selling on amazon.

the sourcing section of the guide is all about how to walk around retail stores and spot items and then use the authors app to scan them.. which costs money per month.

unfortunate, but i guess what do you expect from a course normally priced at $199 selling for $1. it's basically the josef rakich meal plan of amazon guides

edit: to be clear though, as far as i know amazonbrah has nothing to gain for advertising it so maybe it legit helped him

[amazonbrah]

the guide amazonbrah is pushing really is a waste even for a dollar.

the only thing people should be paying for is "HERE IS HOW TO SOURCE PRODUCTS"

everything else you learn within the first 1-2 weeks of selling on amazon.

the sourcing section of the guide is all about how to walk around retail stores and spot items and then use the authors app to scan them.. which costs money per month.

unfortunate, but i guess what do you expect from a course normally priced at $199 selling for $1. it's basically the josef rakich meal plan of amazon guides

edit: to be clear though, as far as i know amazonbrah has nothing to gain for advertising it so maybe it legit helped him

i never read the book or the course. its there to help new people who dont understand amazon fba. you should see some of the PMs i get. thats why im pushing it. and there is tons of useful information in it that will knock out the learning curve in a day instead of 2 weeks.

[xslick]

Just purchased the course. Will be learning everything within the next 2 weeks and start my business. I should've done this when the first thread was made last year, but I ran out of money. Got about $1100 to test the waters.

[amazonbrah]

Just purchased the course. Will be learning everything within the next 2 weeks and start my business. I should've done this when the first thread was made last year, but I ran out of money. Got about $1100 to test the waters.

gjdm

[user3657]

Is all your inventory from RA? My profit is about 45k a year selling about 250k.

[chesterr]

i've already taken the $1 course but i'm not really interested in going around searching for deals and hope to find something profitable. if any brah could point me in the right direction to starting my own pl that would be sickening. what book or course should i take?

[mike.hunt]

i've already taken the $1 course but i'm not really interested in going around searching for deals and hope to find something profitable. if any brah could point me in the right direction to starting my own pl that would be sickening. what book or course should i take?

Open tabs - Amazon.com & aliexpress.com
Find profitable item
Buy samples, test run
If it sells, buy in bulk and continue selling

Cliffs: buy low, sell high

You don't need a book

[playsintrafficc]

just got my brand approved in the registry. a tip for you guys getting in to PL: don't wait to register your brand. recently i had a product get sabotaged by another seller. they put the most popular variation in a category that i'm not ungated in, it made the listing inactive, and i lost sales momentum. it took multiple calls to seller support to sort it out. pita.

to register you need:
-a brand website
-photos of brand name/logo on both packaging and item
-in the company description you should tell them you own your UPCs and that you don't reuse them. this should get your application through in one shot (it took me a few emails back and forth. this should also be the truth, i bought 500 UPCs on ebay for like 10 or 15 bucks.)

i've already taken the $1 course but i'm not really interested in going around searching for deals and hope to find something profitable. if any brah could point me in the right direction to starting my own pl that would be sickening. what book or course should i take?

there's a few vids on PL at the end of that course.
super simplified strategy:
-choose product
-get samples from mfr
-test samples (i sell mine on ebay)
-negotiate with mfr, design logo and packaging, decide how they will be labeled (silk screened, printed, laser engraved etc)
-place a minimum qty order
-send to fba
-market (giveaways, blog posts, az sponsored listings, zonblast, whatever)

[silkysmoothe]

Say I just bought a bunch of the syntha6 protein at buy one get one free. They sell for 30$ each. Is this a good buy for OA/would you have done the same?

I'm trying to gauge the profit margin you're looking for when doing OA and the types of products and deals you look for.

[chesterr]

I'm no expert and never sold an item on amazon before but it wouldnt sell imo. I would be careful when buying stuff i eat online. Why wouldnt the customer buy from a reputable supplement store like bodybuilding.com that usually have better deals than 30$?

[Looter]

Say I just bought a bunch of the syntha6 protein at buy one get one free. They sell for 30$ each. Is this a good buy for OA/would you have done the same?

I'm trying to gauge the profit margin you're looking for when doing OA and the types of products and deals you look for.

Supps are a poor buy for OA when starting out because it's a gated category.

[amazonbrah]

I'm no expert and never sold an item on amazon before but it wouldnt sell imo. I would be careful when buying stuff i eat online. Why wouldnt the customer buy from a reputable supplement store like bodybuilding.com that usually have better deals than 30$?

because amazon customer love amazon. they will always buy from there

[amazonbrah]

second day of looking for a PL and found one, but may hold off until q4 ends. an item ranked under 10k in health, only 1 competitor. i think i will wait as moq is high at 1000pcs, and i would have to make my own packaging design. i cant tie up 5k in capital going into q4.

[playsintrafficc]

second day of looking for a PL and found one, but may hold off until q4 ends. an item ranked under 10k in health, only 1 competitor. i think i will wait as moq is high at 1000pcs, and i would have to make my own packaging design. i cant tie up 5k in capital going into q4.

is it this? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J4IVZVC/

[amazonbrah]

is it this? http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00J4IVZVC/

LMAO. i actually considered doing those since there wouldnt be much competition

[MintTea]

So let's see if I got it right. You buy stuff that's cheaper than on amazon either locally or from China, ship it to Amazon's FBA center and put it for sale on their website?

Does anyone know if non-Merican brahs can do it too?

[Inavan]

sweet brah.




also amazon brah, what FB group are you in? How do i join?

I'm a member of Scanner Monkey, and Scan Power. Scan Power is free. Scanner Monkey costs money. Scanner Monkey was helpful, but now that I know more, it's the same questions being asked over and over. I don't go on the fb groups anymore because how fb is setup prevents meaningful discussion. I'm just not interested in trying to read with 3/4ths of the window covered in ads and junk.

Are there any apps/programs you have used.

I'm a big fan of Profit Bandit for retail arb. I also use inventory lab and tax jar.

Guys-

As someone who is familiar with internet entrepreneurship in general but has never sold on eBay or amazon, and never done anything related to arbitrage or reselling, I have a question-

This seems really hard to scale. Like, I read online about someone who buys a book at an estate sale for $1 and sells it for $50 on Amazon. Okay. You can't repeat that 10000 times though. How is this going to make you rich?

I assume the people who get rich find a few products (or more than a few) that they can buy and sell large quantities of consistently. Making it more of a real business that's sustainable and growable (just buy more inventory and sell more = more profit).

Is that the general idea?

Just doesn't seem scalable based on how some people seem to be doing it lol. Or is it just not a method that people get rich by (I'm talking 7-8 figures income)

It scales really well. Amazon provides an infinite amount of warehouse space, customer service, and shipping at marginal cost. You can go from shipping a box a month to tractor trailers a day.

dont even bother. RA is hard to scale thats why i barely did it. OA is way more transparent

I've had no problem scaling RA to the point where I'm looking to PL. I'm setting myself up for Q4 and then will be looking to start private labeling in March '16. I have the advantage of being by a large metro area and have the ability to travel and do RA on the road. If you don't live by a large metro area, RA is going to be difficult to do successfully.

Guy made 140k profit in a 2 week span. Crazy numbers and worth a read through the comments

That's not profit. That's his payment from Amazon which doesn't take into account cost of goods sold as well as some other costs.

[kmplex]

Question..

Are you guys shipping your goods to Amazon for fulfillment?

Problem is, I'd rather ship in-house, faster/cheaper + easier inventory management for me.

But not sure much that will affect sales starting out?

[Inavan]

I'd rather ship in-house, faster/cheaper + easier inventory management for me.

There is absolutely no way you are better at shipping, managing inventory, and customer service than Amazon. Stuffing boxes is a minimum wage job that adds no value. The goal is to increase your productivity, not to do monkey work.

[Rellay]

There is absolutely no way you are better at shipping, managing inventory, and customer service than Amazon. Stuffing boxes is a minimum wage job that adds no value. The goal is to increase your productivity, not to do monkey work.

Don't you have to box and ship the item to Amazon...?

[playsintrafficc]

So i'm trying OA for Q4. Results of day 1:

Total Spend
$1,032.52
Total Est. Return
$561.38
Total Est ROI %
54.37%

this includes az fees and the cost of 3rd party prep.

[silkysmoothe]

Supps are a poor buy for OA when starting out because it's a gated category.

Can you confirm this amazonbrah and playsintrafic

[amazonbrah]

Can you confirm this amazonbrah and playsintrafic

depends on sales rank

[playsintrafficc]

Can you confirm this amazonbrah and playsintrafic

listing in Health category requires approval

[Zere0wn]

So i'm trying OA for Q4. Results of day 1:

Total Spend
$1,032.52
Total Est. Return
$561.38
Total Est ROI %
54.37%

this includes az fees and the cost of 3rd party prep.

Time spent?

[playsintrafficc]

Time spent?

hard to say, spent a good bit of time setting up the fba prep, building spreadsheets etc. also had to cancel some orders, one product came up with a "hazardous" warning once i got to creating shipments and couldnt be sent in to fba. i guess the lesson is add your products before you buy them. but, time spent searching for leads: 0

for the next time you guys go to kmart (in store only):

kmart
Craftsman Evolv 101 pc. Mechanics Tool Set
B00HQW5OOC
#40,903 in Home Improvement
cost $25.00
az price $60.93
profit $20.36
roi 81%
http://www.kmart.com/craftsman-evolv...&blockType=G15
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HQW5OOC

kmart
ENR HD3LMS32 MICRO SPORT 3LED HDLT
B00AHP0NZU
#48,303 in Sports & Outdoors
cost $4.99
az price$14.98 (now 19.99)
profit $5.06 (~$10)
roi 101% (~200%)
http://www.kmart.com/enr-hd3lms32/p-...2&blockType=G2
http://www.amazon.com/Energizer-Micr.../dp/B00AHP0NZU