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You’re not sourcing enough.

@ecomtjb Couldn’t agree more I have two little ones as well and I get to be present for all of these moments as they grow up. Like you said this business is not easy and can be very stressful at times but the freedom it provides is worth every stressful moment.

Becoming an Amazon seller gave me something I never expected: time. I'm raising 2 kids, with our 3rd on the way, and instead of missing the moments that matter because I'm stuck in an office, I get to be there. School drop-offs. Doctor appointments. Random Tuesday lunches. Playing in the backyard. Building an e-commerce business hasn't always been easy. There were plenty of long nights, mistakes, and risks. But the freedom it's created for my family has made every bit of it worth it. Money is great. Time with your kids is priceless. That's the real ROI. If you're building something today, keep going. The sacrifices can pay you back in ways that aren't measured in dollars. What's the biggest benefit Amazon has given you outside of income?

@joeypraete OA

From packing FBM orders out of my bedroom in 2024. To two years later doing $375k in my last 30d on Amazon. Where I operate fully remote - never touching product, with a team of 5 VA's, and 400% growth compared to 2025. Amazon Online Arbitrage changed my life. Scalable systems, team building, and long-term thinking changed my trajectory. Now I'm teaching others my same model, whether you are starting out or scaling your own Arbitrage business. Comment or DM “OA” and I’ll send the details.

@GavinSweeneyy Hey, I added a “if backordered set to max price” rule at the top so it will check that condition first. Has helped a lot with price tanking while in fc transfer. May be worth a test 👍🏼

Okay so I realized it was just nuking all products in FC transfer but not selling lol I'll try this instead, maybe 20 days is even too short

@CajuaRobinson Amazon

Most Amazon sellers are sleeping on AI. 5 years ago we would’ve needed 3 more employees. ChatGPT filled those roles. I built a Custom GPT specifically designed to help you with Brand Direct Wholesale. It’s trained on our 7 figure SOP’s and decade of Amazon experience. Want access? - Like this post - Reply “Amazon” - Follow me (so I can DM you) And I’ll send it over + some bonuses.

@ecom_withmark @FBMJunkie @cleartheshelf I agree 💯. I’ve taken it twice over the past few years. Always learning more. No better teacher out there then @cleartheshelf Highly recommend the OA challenge.

@FBMJunkie @cleartheshelf It’s the best, helped me multiple times over these last few years!

Reflecting on these past 4 years selling online full time. I started out doing RA, 100% FBM for the first 6 months. I wanted to get into OA, learned from @cleartheshelf & made 100% pivot after taking the OA Challenge.

@TonyGainzzz @sellersnap_io Great choice! Sellersnap has been a game changer since we switched about 3 months ago.🚀🚀

Locked in the yearly contract with @sellersnap_io. Prep Center Secured Repricer Secured 30K in extra fundings Secured It will be a great Q4. 🚀🚀🚀

Respectfully… this just won’t cut it. Yes, we understand. Product authenticity matters. It's the bedrock of customer trust. And we agree, it should be protected with everything Amazon's got. But let’s talk about the other side of the equation. The seller partners who’ve helped make Amazon what it is today. These aren’t faceless corporations. They’re husbands and wives, fathers and daughters, families who’ve poured thousands… tens of thousands… even hundreds of thousands of dollars into inventory. They've hired employees. Taken out loans. Bet their future on the promise that if they did things right, Amazon would be a partner worth betting on. Then one day, without warning, they're gated. Blocked. Stripped of the of the opportunity to sell products they’ve built their business around. No hearing. No roadmap. Just a wall. And the worst part? There's no other marketplace with the depth, reach, or customer trust that Amazon offers. So when that wall goes up, it’s not just an inconvenience, it’s an existential threat to small businesses. To families. We know this may be tied to what’s coming out of the Section 3 suspensions, and we’re not asking for blind leniency. We’re asking for clarity. Because here’s the truth: You can’t grow a business when the rules change without notice. Sellers need to know what risks they’re taking. If tomorrow their most profitable products is off-limits how can they invest confidently today Uncertainty kills competition. And without competition, prices go up. Selection shrinks. Customers suffer. The very things Amazon was built on,value and variety, start to erode. Amazon’s seller partners want to play by the rules. They just need to know what the rules are. Give them visibility. Give them a path. And they’ll continue to do what they’ve always done. Drive selection, lower prices, and make customers happy. Isn’t that what we all want?

@CajuaRobinson AI

Most Amazon sellers are sleeping on ChatGPT. We needed to hire another team member, ChatGPT filled the role. I put together 7 prompts & the data you'll need to feed it to get started. Want the list? - Like this post - Reply "AI" - Follow me (so I can dm you) And I’ll send it over.

@JeffSendsIt Really appreciate your post. We struggled with similar issues at a much smaller scale. However it’s very eye opening to see how these issues can grow exponentially at scale. Really makes me realize we need to work on systems now. Lost child Asins is a big one we struggled with.

Outside of spending much of my time skiing, I use Q1 to reflect on how prior year went and what we need to do better. Easy to focus on what you are doing well, but important to see what u can improve on. At our scale, its easy for little things to fall through cracks that can turn into larger issues which would say a bit of what happened to us in 2024. Doing full review in Q1, helped me realize that our inventory management processes in 2024 had some minor issues that are starting to lead to larger issues specifically some pretty massive storage fees in 2024. Some notes reviewing storage fees we paid: -We paid over $267k in storage fees in 2024 -Our short term storage fees averaged over $10k per month outside of Q4 and $38k in Q4. -Long term storage fees didn't start bad, but quickly got bad in May and then continue to get worse. June - December I averaged almost $6.5k a month in long term storage fees. -At our volume, we can't avoid storage fees, but no reason I should be paying over $200k in storage fees. Not only did some poor inventory management lead to increased storage costs, but led to some other issues for us: -Not selling inventory fast enough, leads to us carrying more skus. During peak times we had close to 7k active skus. At our scale, we will have a lot of skus. But Id like to see that number peak closer to 4k not 7k. -The more active skus we have the more operational costs to manage all these skus -We spend so much time focusing on the old / bad stuff, that don't spend enough time focusing on optimizing the skus that sell well. -In Q4, my lead purchaser was spending a large chunk of her time reviewing our massive list of aged inventory trying to clear it out which reduces her time available to source for profitable products I'll throw in comments some of issues that led to this and some plans for 2025.

Final Holiday Push …260 orders! 💰💰💰 🚀 @flips4miles @fieldsofprofit

@thecaseywoodard HD

Ok, enough gatekeeping. I'm the reason Retail Arbitrage at Home Depot has become impossible. For months, I've been using this bot that taps directly into Home Depot's backend to find every single Hidden Clearance & Penny Item Deal in every single Home Depot in America. While you're walking up and down HD aisles for flips, I pull up to every store knowing *exactly* what I'm going to find. It's time I share this - Reply "HD" to this tweet and I'll dm you a link to it. Must be following.

150+ orders out the door this morning…love this time of the year💰 🚀 @flips4miles

If you got regated on stuff yesterday - MAKE sure to be loud on social media tagging Amazon and the associate accounts. Stuff like this cant happen and really really puts people at risk. Don't be quiet, we have to unite over this

@amznsellerhelp this is a REALLY REALLY bad thing for sellers on your platform. This is not the type of change that should be made on less than 24 hours notice, this goes way deeper than just selling products. Please fix this

An absolute banger of a podcast by @cleartheshelf and @ChrisRacic interviewing Eli. I wrote down a cliff notes version of what I heard that might help others (actually selfishly helps me by writing it all down so I can become a better seller). Here are 22 take aways that I got from the podcast: 1. Using WhatNot to liquidate bad buys. - This is a newer platform I just heard of two days ago but great to see how we can incoporate it into our Amazon busniess. 2. Eli sources 90% of his own products and he's doing $500k. - This is incredible. I love it. 3. Talked with another bigger seller and noticed they get more buy box share in general having more inventory in stock across their whole catalog. 4. He has sites to come back to regularly and has something still in his catalog from 2017. - I use Link Collect but am interested in what tools others' are using. 5. Blind Spots - He was scared to grow out of fear of being too invested in Amazon and Amazon completely shutting his account down. 6. Find a category you like and dive deeper into different social media channels that talk about it - Instagram pages, Reddit, Facebook groups, etc. Watch the TRENDS - The category is beauty for Eli. 7. Heavy advocate for gift cards - 1%, 2%, 3% doesn't seem like much but at scale, it's thousands of dollars. 8. Uses 10 different cashback sites. 9. Predicting where reselling is going - not going anywhere and will always be around. - Agreed 10. Amazon is a constant changing landscape and we have to play by the rules. You could literally make millions of dollars at home in your pajamas. 11. Amazon is not saturated, it's just more opportunities. It's more sellers, but it's also more customers. 12. Managing online receipts - use a catchall - one archive and one inbox. Need that for yourself and/or for any employee you bring on. 13. CloudHQ Plugin for authenticity/IP Complaints/account health issues - locates all the emails of all the orders of a particular ASIN (search by keyword) and print all those emails to one PDF. - LOVE THIS 14. You will need a scanner to scan documents into the cloud if you're doing RA - @fba_dr actually has a good write up on documenting RA purchases. 15. Brought account health and returns back in house versus outsourcing those tasks. 16. Managing orders and missing items - doesn't do a lot of reimbursements from retailers. Loss rate is too low versus a retailer shutting him down. Once a month or so, look for discrepancies for products ordered and products prepped. 17. Hire when you you've maxed out your time efficiency. 18. Lean into debt wisely - ideeally pay off credit cards every month but in a growth phase, 80%-90% is understandable. 19. Most important account health issues - IP complaints, authenticity complaints, expired complaints. 20. SOP for Authenticitiy Complaint - Open SKU Ecomomics on Amazon for ASIN, see how many sold in the last year, find all orders in email, uses Adobe Professional Suite to combine together and attach a POA with it. 21. A total of 4 suspensions. Account was suspended for 2 months at once and with Ed Rosenberg's help, he was able to get back up and running. Eli admitted at least 1 or 2 times was due to neglecting account health issues. 22. Listens to How I Built This - which often interviews owners of beauty brands, beauty being a category Eli focues heavily on. See point 6. THAT'S ALL FOLKS. Not my podcast, I only took notes to help me become a better seller. If you read all the way down here, you want to be better too. Let's be friends. Share this is you found it valuable. Very good podcast!!

@cleartheshelf @coreyganim Wholesale

We recorded a video with @coreyganim and he spilled all the secrets on how he's grown his Amazon Wholesale business. We discuss: • Start Up Capital • Finding Suppliers • Scaling • and more... Comment "Wholesale" and I'll DM you the full hour long guide.

@davidamzhustle FBM

I shouldn't do this but I shared my personal FBM template in this video 😬... The Complete Guide to Amazon FBM - Literallty the only video you'll ever need PLUS a download of my template. ✅ LIKE this tweet and 💬 COMMENT "FBM", I'll send it over. Must be following me.

@IamDylanSawyer @flips4miles SOURCE