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Reselling, the next frontier for Manufactured Spending

Whether you feel the golden era of manufactured spending has passed or not, the fact remains that opportunities tend to close faster than new ones open up. Pure manufactured spending (Read: Introduction to Today’s Manufactured Spending) is still viable, but it certainly has gotten harder. Reselling, which I propose to be the next frontier in manufactured…

Glasshouse Inventory

My Experience with Glasshouse Inventory

Glasshouse Inventory provides an exhaustive inventory reconciliation service. I signed up for Glasshouse Inventory’s service mid-2016. I even had them go back into 2015 to see if there were any reimbursements that I had missed. I even thought so highly of Ashley, the principle of Glasshouse Inventory, that I was happy to have her present…

Amazon Seller App

Amazon Seller App Enhancements – 2017 Edition

Earlier this week, Amazon rolled out changes to their Amazon Seller app. I call these changes because, I’m not entirely sure they are all enhancements. There are some new features though, which I’ll also cover in this post. You can see what the Amazon Seller App used to be like here and here. User Interface…

Amazon FBA adds Discounted Shipping Partner

Amazon keeps adding features for Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) Sellers, in this case, Amazon FBA adds Discounted Shipping Partner. This has the potential to really help some, and doesn’t hurt anyone, a bonus in my opinion. Its amazing to see how much Amazon has changed shipping in the past year or so when I wrote…

Amazon Restricts New Sellers from FBA Q4 2016

In what may be the first time ever, Amazon Restricts New Sellers from FBA Q4 2016. This is a huge deal, both for new sellers that have wanted to jump into Amazon but hadn’t yet gotten around to sending in inventory.All accounts indicate that Amazon has done this without any advance notice. Specifically if you…

My Amazon Prime Day 2014 - for example

Start Preparing for Amazon Prime Day 2016!

A few days ago Amazon sent out a reminder to Start Preparing for Amazon Prime Day 2016!While most of the action will be toward the bigger resellers who received invitations to propose a Prime Day promotion, the fact is, Prime Day generates a lot more traffic to Amazon, which is good for everybody! According to…

Fulfillment by Amazon, FBA

Amazon to restrict more Apple Products

Mark this one as developing. Amazon has sent out e-mails to sellers of a number of Apple products’ ASIN’s, that come 2 June, they will no longer be permitted to sell them without manufacturer (Apple) approval.On Twitter, Josh Lucas shared the news, and was kind enough to share the e-mail he received:For now, it looks…

Fulfillment by Amazon, FBA

Changes coming for Amazon’s FBA Fees in Q4!

If you’re an Amazon Seller, you probably got an e-mail. If not, you can read all the gory detail of the changes to FBA fees in this post, or in the source article. Monthly Inventory ChangesAmazon is perhaps a slave to its own success, when it comes to its Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) service. The…

PSA: Add a product to inventory before buying – Reselling

There are a lot of things in reselling that you can’t prevent, like returns, waning interest in a product, and general market changes.But there is one thing you can prevent, is having to return a product—or finding some other way to offload a product—because Amazon won’t let you sell it as new, or worse, won’t even…

Fulfillment by Amazon

PSA – Remove Meltable Inventory from FBA now!

If you’ve gotten into reselling recently, you may not know that Amazon doesn’t permit any meltable inventory from May 1st to September 30th. If you’ve been doing this a while, and knew this, well, a reminder never hurts, right?So here’s your reminder: Remove meltable inventory from FBA now! Yes, you have a couple of days, but, lets…