Amazon Brand Restriction

A Dark Time for Amazon Sellers

The past week or so has been met with a lot of concerning news for Amazon Sellers. This is, perhaps a direct opposite of the experience many in the miles and points community has experienced with the Chase Sapphire Reserve.You see, for one reason or another, Amazon is restricting brands. In fact, there’s a reddit…

Fulfillment by Amazon, FBA

A look at how Amazon Fulfillment Centers Operate

I stumbled upon this great little video from Time Magazine, about how Amazon Fulfillment Centers operate. How Amazon Fulfillment Centers OperateI think there are a number of things that we can learn: Polybags are your friend. I’m thinking the star of this show–the bear of course–would have arrived much cleaner if it had been poly…

Amazon Prime Day 2016

Don’t Forget – Today is Amazon Prime Day!

Note: This is a scheduled post – and I will make every effort to update it as new Amazon Prime Day updates become available, more so in the first half of the day, as I’m on the other side of the world at the moment.Today is the day we have all been waiting for! Today…

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…

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…

Sales Tax and Fulfillment by Amazon

DISCLAIMER (and you know it’s serious, since I don’t use all caps often): I am not a tax professional. What follows is meant only for “entertainment value.”The topic of sales tax draws many varying views. Do you collect sales tax in your home state? Do you collect sales tax in any state in which you…

PSA: Always Inspect Returns Immediately! #Reselling

I have had quite the backlog from what is informally referred to as “Returnuary“, and invariably, I found a lower cost product, a Brother PT-D210 label maker.Well, yesterday, I finally got to that lovely little label maker, only to open the box and notice that the customer didn’t return everything. Take a look for yourself…