New to Amazon FBA – Need Help with Retail Arbitrage
Hi everyone,I’m starting retail arbitrage on Amazon FBA and looking for advice from experienced sellers. I’ve been scanning products with the Amazon Seller App and doing research, but I still have a few questions.
A few thing I need help with :Finding Ungated Products – What are some good beginner-friendly categories and products that don’t require approval?
Best Retail Stores for Sourcing – Besides Walmart and Target, where do you find the best deals for retail arbitrage?
What are some pitfalls that new sellers should watch out for?
I appreciate any tips or insights you can share. Thanks in advance!
New to Amazon FBA – Need Help with Retail Arbitrage
Hi everyone,I’m starting retail arbitrage on Amazon FBA and looking for advice from experienced sellers. I’ve been scanning products with the Amazon Seller App and doing research, but I still have a few questions.
A few thing I need help with :Finding Ungated Products – What are some good beginner-friendly categories and products that don’t require approval?
Best Retail Stores for Sourcing – Besides Walmart and Target, where do you find the best deals for retail arbitrage?
What are some pitfalls that new sellers should watch out for?
I appreciate any tips or insights you can share. Thanks in advance!
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Theat is a straight way to make Amazon suspend your account. You will need:
1. A "Letter of Authorization" from the brands allowing you to sell their brand on Amazon.
2. INVOICE (not receipt) from an authorized distributor. An invoice is a document with your name and address, exactly how you registered it in your seller account under "Legal Entity" and "Official Registered Address". And an authorized distributor is a company authorized by the brand owner. If you buy on the WEBSITE of a brand, you get a receipt and not an invoice.
Seller_aNsixtdBpnLRG
hope you did not pay cash for the youtube BS'er that made the post
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I am an Experienced Amazon FBM Seller, and I am more than Happy to give you the advice you are asking for.
To cut to the bottom-line, STOP NOW. Put your Seller account on "Vacation Mode" and DELETE ALL LISTINGS that you have joined.
No it will NOT.
Here is why: Amazon NO LONGER allows for Retail Arbitrage. Period.
This means that even if you were an FBM Seller, you would be risking Account Suspension simply by joining ANY Amazon listing without having the proper documentation to prove a Valid Source. This means an INVOICE from either the Manufacturer or a Recognized Authorized Wholesale Distributor. Retail Receipts are NOT recognized as valid documentation. Without proper documentation you risk account suspension that could ONLY be resolved by your providing documents that you do not possess. It does not matter if you made a Sale or not, simply being on the listing is enough.
Doing Retail Arbitrage via FBA is even WORSE by huge magnitudes!
Not only do you risk the same account suspension as the FBM Seller, but you ALSO risk having your FBA Inventory SEIZED as "Counterfeit Products", ALL of your funds from sales withheld and potentially Refunded back to ALL of the Buyers you sold them to.
So, for your OWN sake:
1) STOP NOW. Put your Seller account on "Vacation Mode" and DELETE ALL LISTINGS that you have joined.
2) Complete Amazon Seller University available for FREE on this site. This resource contains ALL of the info you need to Sell here, as well as the obvious pitfalls that many New Sellers fall into (like improper product sourcing).
Wherever you received your instructions that got you to this point is completely FALSE and will result in problems for you, not income. Go back and let them know, or leave Feedback to protect future victims from the BAD advice you followed that got you here.
Ignore this advice at your own peril.
