Reselling is an effective, if non-traditional path for manufacturing spend, meeting credit card sign-up minimum spend, and generally generating miles, points, cashback and hopefully profit. This guide is a collection of posts to help you effectively maximize the use of Amazon’s Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) service for reselling.
Read Also:
- Beginner’s Guide to Fulfillment by Amazon: Setting up an account
- Beginner’s Guide to Fulfillment by Amazon: Analyzing and adding a product
- Beginner’s Guide to Fulfillment by Amazon: Shipping 101
- Beginner’s Guide to Fulfillment by Amazon: Shipping 201
- Beginner’s Guide to Fulfillment by Amazon: Ungating Product Categories
- Beginner’s Guide to Fulfillment by Amazon: Amazon Seller App
- Beginner’s Guide to Fulfillment by Amazon: Amazon Seller App Part 2
- Expert Guide to Fulfillment by Amazon: Dealing with Returns
Introduction to Retail Arbitrage
Enter: Amazon Seller App!
As you can see, there are plenty of things that the FBA Seller App will allow you to do. It is not as powerful as Amazon’s Seller Central, but, you still have a fair amount to do. I would argue the greatest value of this app, is the fact that you can search for products in store. You can do it via text, just like you would searching on Amazon.com, or, you could leverage your phone’s camera, and scan barcodes. I still don’t get tired of scanning barcodes, I mean, it’s just so easy! And most of the time, the App finds stuff. Easy!
Walking through the Retail Arbitrage Benefits of the Amazon Seller App
So, you’re wandering through a large store who’s name I won’t mention (because it’s more fun that way), and you see a product on sale. First you think, hmm, this could make sense to sell!

Are there other valuable aspects of the Amazon Seller App?
Wrapping Up
The Amazon Seller App is a hugely powerful tool, that just so happens to be free. Even if you start out doing Online Arbitrage, there is value in the app, because you can just tap in the product you are searching for, and get a simple to interpret page telling you the lowest selling price, whether Amazon is a seller, and what your anticipated Amazon Seller Fees will be. Most of the time, it will also tell you the rank. If you happen to consider retail arbitrage, then I’d argue it is even more powerful. Are there other paid options out there? Of course! There’s clearly a market for more robust applications, and if you need one, evaluate it and by all means enlist, but for me, I find this to be pretty darn effective.
You sparked the kids interest @ #FT4RL3. Thanks for posting this. Maybe she can figure it out. I don’t have time for any more hobbies!
@KathyL – Awesome!! Good luck to her, she’s welcome to reach out with any questions.
Great guide hopefully I can scale up to supplement my income while I’m unemployed at the moment.
Learned several new things and I appreciate the links to the other sections! Never took notice of the ‘amazon’ sells part, very helpful.
Great!
Search history is also handy.
Several people in my family have the app on their phones and scan things whenever they shop. I have a 17year old daughter so that is almost every day. If she thinks she’s found something I can open my app and look at ‘history’ and see the details.
Same goes when I’m in the fence about a deal. I can text her if she is home and she can put a second set of eyes on it for me. In either case the person at home can use camel3 or fbatoolkit for more info.
The key to this working is to use the same log in credentials for everyone.
@Haley – great point! Search history and being able to favorite are huge too! I find I’ll be scanning so many things in a given week, that sometimes I’ll scan the same thing I had bought a few weeks prior and it comes up as favorited. Quick analysis, and likely a buy.
Is it possible to set the AZ App to only do the calculation for the lowest FBA price instead of just the lowest price? I’ve found people will pay more to buy from an FBA seller.
@Ken – Great question! So far as I can tell, it is not possible to default on the product info screen, however if you notice next to the pricing, there is an arrow to the right, tap that and you can tweak just based on FBA sellers, and you can even play around with the price.
I realize without photos, it is hard to explain, I’ll put something together this week on it.
I’m a little confused as to why their are 2 entries for the exact same item in your graphic list of your Starbucks K-cup sample scan item. Why or how is the same item ranked differently? (Please excuse my complete novice stupidity here, but this is very fascinating.) thanks for the help!