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I put my price up by £1 in Amazon's own calculator. My fees went up by £1.42.
▲ 15 r/AmazonFBAOnlineRetail+2 crossposts

I put my price up by £1 in Amazon's own calculator. My fees went up by £1.42.

Everyone says don't sell cheap products on Amazon that fees eat anything under £20 and you should be in the £20 to £40 range. I sell a £9.99 product in Health & Personal Care and it works, so I've been quietly ignoring that advice for about ten months.

Last week I finally ran the obvious test. Opened Amazon's revenue calculator on my own live listing, changed nothing except the price, and typed in £10.99.

Two lines moved:

- Referral fee: £0.80 → £1.65

- FBA fulfilment: £1.52 → £1.90

With VAT and the digital services fee rising alongside the price, total deductions went from £4.10 to £5.52. So putting my price up by £1.00 cost me £1.42.

There are two reasons, and they both fire on the same penny:

  1. Health & Personal Care referral fee is 8% up to £10 and 15% above it. And it isn't 8% on the first tenner and 15% on the rest it's 15% on the entire sale price.

  2. £10 is also where the low-price fulfilment band ends, so the FBA fee jumps at the same moment.

My referral fee is currently waived under the new seller incentive. Once that ends, pricing at £10.99 would leave me 43p per unit worse off than £9.99 before I lose a single sale to the higher price.

I'd always assumed the fee structure roughly scaled with price. It doesn't. There's a wall at £10, and sitting a penny underneath it is worth more to me than anything else I could do with pricing.

I went through the whole thing line by line on video every deduction off that £9.99 in order, down to what's actually left per unit, with the calculator on screen at both prices so you can watch the two lines change. It also has a correction in it: I'd told people the referral cliff would cost me around £780 a month, and it turns out to be roughly half that.

https://youtu.be/r10PXv37ep4

Anyway — if you sell in a category with a £10 or £20 referral threshold, what's your price? Genuinely curious how many people are sitting a few pence on the wrong side of one without realising.

u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 3 days ago
▲ 91 r/AmazonFBAOnlineRetail+2 crossposts

£2,864 to launch my first Amazon UK brand. 10 months later it's done £35,360 (screenshot)

Launched a private label brand on Amazon UK in late October 2025. Ten months in, the account has done £35,360 in revenue (screenshot attached — revenue, not profit).

Total cost to get the first product live: **£2,864**.

I could never find a straight answer on that number before I started. People say £500. People say £10,000. Both are usually selling a course at the end of the sentence.

Two things about that £2,864 genuinely surprised me:

**The trademark cost more than twice the stock.** My entire first order — 500 units, landed, DDP air from China — was £350. The trademark was £744. The brand ended up being about half my total spend and the actual product was 12% of it.

**I ordered zero samples.** 500 units of something I'd only ever seen in photographs. It worked out, which isn't the same as it being right, and I wouldn't repeat it on anything more expensive.

I've broken all eight cost lines down properly — with the actual Alibaba invoice, the trademark bill, the GS1 receipt and the Brand Registry approval on screen, because a list of numbers from a stranger on the internet isn't worth much without the paperwork. It's my own channel, so flag it if that's not allowed here: https://youtu.be/kabhWuvDLUo

For context on whether it was worth it: the first ten weeks returned £3,644.56 across 352 units, so revenue covered the launch cost with about £800 spare. Profit is a very different number and took a lot longer.

What did yours cost to launch? Curious how far off I am, especially on the trademark.

u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 7 days ago
▲ 1 r/AmazonFBAOnlineRetail

£2,473 net profit from £6,138 revenue in July. Full cost breakdown for my second Amazon UK brand

Did this for my other brand for the month of May 2026 and a few people said it was useful, so doing it again for brand number two. Different product this time, launched back in late October, much cheaper item, lighter, sells for under a tenner.

Quick reality check before the numbers: I'm still on New Seller Incentives so I'm not paying referral fees right now. That's doing a lot of work in this month's profit and I know it. Flagging it here first, not at the bottom, because I've seen too many posts bury that kind of thing.

What actually came in

627 units. £6,138.79 with VAT sitting in the account, £5,216.64 of that is actually mine once VAT is stripped out.

Selling at £9.99, £8.32 without VAT. Cheap product, cheap to make.

What actually went out

FBA fee £1.52 a unit. Digital services fee £0.03. Landed cost getting it from China to the Amazon warehouse, £0.70 a unit. That's £2.25 a unit before I've touched advertising, which leaves £6.07 a unit, or £3,805.89 for the month.

Then ads. £1,332.10 spent across roughly 20 campaigns, the screenshot only fits the top few by purchases.

What's actually left: £2,473.79. Give or take.

And I do mean give or take. There are a few Subscribe & Save orders mixed into this month which get discounted and complicate the VAT and revenue picture slightly, so the real number might land a bit under this rather than over. Wanted to say that out loud rather than pretend this is precise to the penny.

The PPC side, honestly

1,739 clicks, 1.21% CTR, 328 purchases, £2,818.50 in attributed sales, overall ACoS sitting around 47%.

One small Sponsored Brands campaign is doing the best work, barely any budget, ACoS around 31%. My biggest campaign by volume is nowhere near that efficient, sitting closer to 49% ACoS but it's the one carrying most of the actual sales.

And then there's one campaign that's just bad. 29% top-of-search share sounds good until you see it's running at 92% ACoS, basically handing money back on every sale it touches. Still deciding whether to cut the bid hard or just kill it.

Why I'm bothering to post this

This margin looks good on paper. It won't look this good once referral fees come back, probably somewhere close to 15% of revenue disappears at that point. I'd rather know that now and plan for it than get surprised later.

Genuinely curious what other sellers are seeing on their ACoS once a listing settles in. Is 47% overall normal for month five of a product, or am I letting a couple of bad campaigns drag the whole account down. Would rather hear the honest answer than guess.

(All figures ex-VAT. Referral fee currently £0 under New Seller Incentives. Profit figure approximate — SNS orders and VAT treatment mean it could land slightly lower than shown.)

u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 9 days ago
▲ 6 r/AmazonFBATips

£2,473 net profit from £6,138 revenue in July. Full cost breakdown for my second Amazon UK brand

Did this for my other brand for the month of May 2026 and a few people said it was useful, so doing it again for brand number two. Different product this time, launched back in late October, much cheaper item, lighter, sells for under a tenner.

Quick reality check before the numbers: I'm still on New Seller Incentives so I'm not paying referral fees right now. That's doing a lot of work in this month's profit and I know it. Flagging it here first, not at the bottom, because I've seen too many posts bury that kind of thing.

What actually came in

627 units. £6,138.79 with VAT sitting in the account, £5,216.64 of that is actually mine once VAT is stripped out.

Selling at £9.99, £8.32 without VAT. Cheap product, cheap to make.

What actually went out

FBA fee £1.52 a unit. Digital services fee £0.03. Landed cost getting it from China to the Amazon warehouse, £0.70 a unit. That's £2.25 a unit before I've touched advertising, which leaves £6.07 a unit, or £3,805.89 for the month.

Then ads. £1,332.10 spent across roughly 20 campaigns, the screenshot only fits the top few by purchases.

What's actually left: £2,473.79. Give or take.

And I do mean give or take. There are a few Subscribe & Save orders mixed into this month which get discounted and complicate the VAT and revenue picture slightly, so the real number might land a bit under this rather than over. Wanted to say that out loud rather than pretend this is precise to the penny.

The PPC side, honestly

1,739 clicks, 1.21% CTR, 328 purchases, £2,818.50 in attributed sales, overall ACoS sitting around 47%.

One small Sponsored Brands campaign is doing the best work, barely any budget, ACoS around 31%. My biggest campaign by volume is nowhere near that efficient, sitting closer to 49% ACoS but it's the one carrying most of the actual sales.

And then there's one campaign that's just bad. 29% top-of-search share sounds good until you see it's running at 92% ACoS, basically handing money back on every sale it touches. Still deciding whether to cut the bid hard or just kill it.

Why I'm bothering to post this

This margin looks good on paper. It won't look this good once referral fees come back, probably somewhere close to 15% of revenue disappears at that point. I'd rather know that now and plan for it than get surprised later.

Genuinely curious what other sellers are seeing on their ACoS once a listing settles in. Is 47% overall normal for month five of a product, or am I letting a couple of bad campaigns drag the whole account down. Would rather hear the honest answer than guess.

(All figures ex-VAT. Referral fee currently £0 under New Seller Incentives. Profit figure approximate — SNS orders and VAT treatment mean it could land slightly lower than shown.)

u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 9 days ago
▲ 12 r/AmazonFBA

£2,473 net profit from £6,138 revenue in July. Full cost breakdown for my second Amazon UK brand

Did this for my other brand for the month of May 2026 and a few people said it was useful, so doing it again for brand number two. Different product this time, launched back in late October, much cheaper item, lighter, sells for under a tenner.

Quick reality check before the numbers: I'm still on New Seller Incentives so I'm not paying referral fees right now. That's doing a lot of work in this month's profit and I know it. Flagging it here first, not at the bottom, because I've seen too many posts bury that kind of thing.

What actually came in

627 units. £6,138.79 with VAT sitting in the account, £5,216.64 of that is actually mine once VAT is stripped out.

Selling at £9.99, £8.32 without VAT. Cheap product, cheap to make.

What actually went out

FBA fee £1.52 a unit. Digital services fee £0.03. Landed cost getting it from China to the Amazon warehouse, £0.70 a unit. That's £2.25 a unit before I've touched advertising, which leaves £6.07 a unit, or £3,805.89 for the month.

Then ads. £1,332.10 spent across roughly 20 campaigns, the screenshot only fits the top few by purchases.

What's actually left: £2,473.79. Give or take.

And I do mean give or take. There are a few Subscribe & Save orders mixed into this month which get discounted and complicate the VAT and revenue picture slightly, so the real number might land a bit under this rather than over. Wanted to say that out loud rather than pretend this is precise to the penny.

The PPC side, honestly

1,739 clicks, 1.21% CTR, 328 purchases, £2,818.50 in attributed sales, overall ACoS sitting around 47%.

One small Sponsored Brands campaign is doing the best work, barely any budget, ACoS around 31%. My biggest campaign by volume is nowhere near that efficient, sitting closer to 49% ACoS but it's the one carrying most of the actual sales.

And then there's one campaign that's just bad. 29% top-of-search share sounds good until you see it's running at 92% ACoS, basically handing money back on every sale it touches. Still deciding whether to cut the bid hard or just kill it.

Why I'm bothering to post this

This margin looks good on paper. It won't look this good once referral fees come back, probably somewhere close to 15% of revenue disappears at that point. I'd rather know that now and plan for it than get surprised later.

Genuinely curious what other sellers are seeing on their ACoS once a listing settles in. Is 47% overall normal for month five of a product, or am I letting a couple of bad campaigns drag the whole account down. Would rather hear the honest answer than guess.

(All figures ex-VAT. Referral fee currently £0 under New Seller Incentives. Profit figure approximate — SNS orders and VAT treatment mean it could land slightly lower than shown.)

u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 9 days ago
▲ 1 r/UKPersonalFinance

Managing VAT and accounting across multiple UK Ltd companies is separate entities the right structure for an eventual exit?

I run two separate UK Ltd companies, both importing physical products from China and selling on Amazon UK as private label brands. First company set up in late 2025, second in early 2026. Third brand launching next month under a third separate Ltd company.

The reason I've kept them separate from the start is exit planning my thinking is that if each brand sits in its own Ltd company with its own clean accounting, it's much easier to sell individual brands independently down the line without untangling everything from a shared entity.

Both companies are VAT registered and filing quarterly returns separately. Each has its own accountant handling the books independently.

A few things I'm trying to work through:

  • Is the separate entity per brand approach actually the right structure for eventual exits, or are there cleaner ways to do this?
  • With each company VAT registered separately, is there any risk HMRC treats them as a single entity given they're under common ownership and in the same sector?
  • Has anyone here sold an Amazon brand that sat inside a Ltd company what did that process actually look like?
  • At what point does the admin overhead of multiple entities become a problem worth solving with a holding company structure?

Happy to share more detail. Trying to get a more informed picture before going back to the accountant with the right questions

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u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/smallbusinessuk

Managing VAT and accounting across multiple UK Ltd companies is separate entities the right structure for an eventual exit?

I run two separate UK Ltd companies, both importing physical products from China and selling on Amazon UK as private label brands. First company set up in late 2025, second in early 2026. Third brand launching next month under a third separate Ltd company.

The reason I've kept them separate from the start is exit planning my thinking is that if each brand sits in its own Ltd company with its own clean accounting, it's much easier to sell individual brands independently down the line without untangling everything from a shared entity.

Both companies are VAT registered and filing quarterly returns separately. Each has its own accountant handling the books independently.

A few things I'm trying to work through:

  • Is the separate entity per brand approach actually the right structure for eventual exits, or are there cleaner ways to do this?
  • With each company VAT registered separately, is there any risk HMRC treats them as a single entity given they're under common ownership and in the same sector?
  • Has anyone here sold an Amazon brand that sat inside a Ltd company what did that process actually look like?
  • At what point does the admin overhead of multiple entities become a problem worth solving with a holding company structure?

Happy to share more detail. Trying to get a more informed picture before going back to the accountant with the right questions.

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u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 2 months ago
▲ 1 r/AmazonFBAOnlineRetail

May 2026 breakdown: Amazon UK private label, £5,523 revenue, £1,759 net profit. Real numbers, full costs included.

Started this brand in late February 2026. May was the first month I actually sat down and properly worked out what I kept after everything.

Sharing it because I wish someone had done this when I was starting out. Most posts either show revenue with no cost breakdown or claim profits that don't survive any scrutiny.

Revenue May 2026

370 units sold across the month. Total revenue including VAT: £5,523.70. Excluding VAT (which isn't actually mine): £4,621.30.

Worth flagging upfront: I'm on New Seller Incentives right now so no referral fees or Amazon commissions. Factor that in when reading these numbers the economics will look different when that period ends and referral fees kick back in at roughly 15% of revenue. I know it's coming and I'm already planning for it.

Avg selling price around £14.99, 345 order items so a few multi-unit orders in there.

Costs all figures exclude VAT

Advertising spend: £1,329.54

FBA fees plus Digital Services fees: £2.74/unit across 370 units = £1,013.80

COGS, landed cost from China to Amazon warehouse: £1.40/unit = £518.00

Total out: £2,861.34

Net profit: approximately £1,759.96

Small caveat: there are some B2B orders in the mix which can shift the VAT picture slightly so this figure might move a little either way. Worth mentioning because I've seen people post "profit" numbers that quietly ignore this stuff.

What the PPC actually looked like

Overall: 378,116 impressions, 1,295 clicks, 0.34% CTR, 248 purchases, 39.24% ACoS, 2.55 ROAS.

The campaign I'm happiest with is the manual at £25/day — 177 clicks, 40 purchases, 25.50% ACoS. That's well inside my break-even so I'm leaving it alone.

The auto at £37.50/day is sitting at 50.39% ACoS which is above break-even. I keep it running because it's still harvesting useful search terms I haven't thought of. Worth it for now, not forever.

A couple of campaigns had zero purchases recorded. One of them had a 29.49% top-of-search impression share with 3 clicks and 0 purchases too small a sample to do anything with yet, keeping an eye on it.

The ones with under 5% impression share and decent CTR probably need bid increases. Low impressions at reasonable click rates usually means the bid isn't competitive enough to show up properly.

What I actually think about this month

The margin is real. Not spectacular, but real. The thing I keep coming back to is that the New Seller Incentives period ending will be the actual test of whether this brand works long term. I'm already adjusting the model to assume full referral fees so I'm not caught off guard when it happens.

If anyone wants to dig into any of the PPC numbers or the cost breakdown, happy to go into more detail.

(All figures excluding VAT. Profit figure approximate due to B2B order mix.)

u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 2 months ago
▲ 7 r/AmazonFBATips

May 2026 breakdown: Amazon UK private label, £5,523 revenue, £1,759 net profit. Real numbers, full costs included.

Started this brand in late February 2026. May was the first month I actually sat down and properly worked out what I kept after everything.

Sharing it because I wish someone had done this when I was starting out. Most posts either show revenue with no cost breakdown or claim profits that don't survive any scrutiny.

Revenue May 2026

370 units sold across the month. Total revenue including VAT: £5,523.70. Excluding VAT (which isn't actually mine): £4,621.30.

Worth flagging upfront: I'm on New Seller Incentives right now so no referral fees or Amazon commissions. Factor that in when reading these numbers the economics will look different when that period ends and referral fees kick back in at roughly 15% of revenue. I know it's coming and I'm already planning for it.

Avg selling price around £14.99, 345 order items so a few multi-unit orders in there.

Costs all figures exclude VAT

Advertising spend: £1,329.54

FBA fees plus Digital Services fees: £2.74/unit across 370 units = £1,013.80

COGS, landed cost from China to Amazon warehouse: £1.40/unit = £518.00

Total out: £2,861.34

Net profit: approximately £1,759.96

Small caveat: there are some B2B orders in the mix which can shift the VAT picture slightly so this figure might move a little either way. Worth mentioning because I've seen people post "profit" numbers that quietly ignore this stuff.

What the PPC actually looked like

Overall: 378,116 impressions, 1,295 clicks, 0.34% CTR, 248 purchases, 39.24% ACoS, 2.55 ROAS.

The campaign I'm happiest with is the manual at £25/day — 177 clicks, 40 purchases, 25.50% ACoS. That's well inside my break-even so I'm leaving it alone.

The auto at £37.50/day is sitting at 50.39% ACoS which is above break-even. I keep it running because it's still harvesting useful search terms I haven't thought of. Worth it for now, not forever.

A couple of campaigns had zero purchases recorded. One of them had a 29.49% top-of-search impression share with 3 clicks and 0 purchases too small a sample to do anything with yet, keeping an eye on it.

The ones with under 5% impression share and decent CTR probably need bid increases. Low impressions at reasonable click rates usually means the bid isn't competitive enough to show up properly.

What I actually think about this month

The margin is real. Not spectacular, but real. The thing I keep coming back to is that the New Seller Incentives period ending will be the actual test of whether this brand works long term. I'm already adjusting the model to assume full referral fees so I'm not caught off guard when it happens.

If anyone wants to dig into any of the PPC numbers or the cost breakdown, happy to go into more detail.

(All figures excluding VAT. Profit figure approximate due to B2B order mix.)

u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 2 months ago
▲ 7 r/AmazonFBA

May 2026 breakdown: Amazon UK private label, £5,523 revenue, £1,759 net profit. Real numbers, full costs included.

Started this brand in late February 2026. May was the first month I actually sat down and properly worked out what I kept after everything.

Sharing it because I wish someone had done this when I was starting out. Most posts either show revenue with no cost breakdown or claim profits that don't survive any scrutiny.

Revenue May 2026

370 units sold across the month. Total revenue including VAT: £5,523.70. Excluding VAT (which isn't actually mine): £4,621.30.

Worth flagging upfront: I'm on New Seller Incentives right now so no referral fees or Amazon commissions. Factor that in when reading these numbers the economics will look different when that period ends and referral fees kick back in at roughly 15% of revenue. I know it's coming and I'm already planning for it.

Avg selling price around £14.99, 345 order items so a few multi-unit orders in there.

Costs all figures exclude VAT

Advertising spend: £1,329.54

FBA fees plus Digital Services fees: £2.74/unit across 370 units = £1,013.80

COGS, landed cost from China to Amazon warehouse: £1.40/unit = £518.00

Total out: £2,861.34

Net profit: approximately £1,759.96

Small caveat: there are some B2B orders in the mix which can shift the VAT picture slightly so this figure might move a little either way. Worth mentioning because I've seen people post "profit" numbers that quietly ignore this stuff.

What the PPC actually looked like

Overall: 378,116 impressions, 1,295 clicks, 0.34% CTR, 248 purchases, 39.24% ACoS, 2.55 ROAS.

The campaign I'm happiest with is the manual at £25/day — 177 clicks, 40 purchases, 25.50% ACoS. That's well inside my break-even so I'm leaving it alone.

The auto at £37.50/day is sitting at 50.39% ACoS which is above break-even. I keep it running because it's still harvesting useful search terms I haven't thought of. Worth it for now, not forever.

A couple of campaigns had zero purchases recorded. One of them had a 29.49% top-of-search impression share with 3 clicks and 0 purchases too small a sample to do anything with yet, keeping an eye on it.

The ones with under 5% impression share and decent CTR probably need bid increases. Low impressions at reasonable click rates usually means the bid isn't competitive enough to show up properly.

What I actually think about this month

The margin is real. Not spectacular, but real. The thing I keep coming back to is that the New Seller Incentives period ending will be the actual test of whether this brand works long term. I'm already adjusting the model to assume full referral fees so I'm not caught off guard when it happens.

If anyone wants to dig into any of the PPC numbers or the cost breakdown, happy to go into more detail.

(All figures excluding VAT. Profit figure approximate due to B2B order mix.)

u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 2 months ago
▲ 8 r/AmazonFBATips

My exact framework for launching Amazon UK private label brands (2 live brands, £37.7K combined revenue, 3rd launching next month)

I've launched 2 Amazon UK private label brands in the last 8 months. Brand 1 (Oct 2025) has done £22.09K total revenue so far. Brand 2 (Feb 2026) did £15.62K in 3 to 4 months. Brand 3 launches next month, inventory's already on a boat from China somewhere.

Not trying to brag here. I see the same mistakes posted on this sub every week and most of them were avoidable, so here's the actual process I follow every time. No paywall, no "DM me for the real version" thing.

Product research first, because it's the only step that actually matters and it's the one everyone rushes.

People pick a product because they like it, or because some YouTuber said it's "winning right now." That's not research, that's gambling with £3 to 5K of your own money. Before I touch anything I want to know if search demand is actually holding up or if I'm walking into a category that's already dying. I look at the top 10 listings, how many reviews, how recent, how good the images are. Can I actually make this better, not just as good. And does the margin survive once COGS, shipping, FBA fees, PPC and returns are all stacked on top of each other, because on paper everything looks fine until you do that math.

If any of that comes back shaky I just walk away. Even from stuff I genuinely liked. That one habit alone is probably why Brand 1 found traction in month 1 instead of month 6, though I didn't realize it at the time.

Suppliers next. I don't go for the cheapest quote. I want fast UK bound shipping, consistent quality batch to batch, and someone who'll negotiate MOQ on a first order. A slightly pricier supplier who's reliable beats one who saves you 20p a unit and then sends you a dud batch on order 2. Learned that one the hard way, won't go into it.

Listing and main image. Most sellers spend the least time here, it's where I spend the most. Your main image is the only thing between someone scrolling past you and clicking on you. I've seen two near identical products, same price, same review count, and one gets 3x the clicks purely because of the image. Before launch I go through every competitor's main image and just ask what's missing, what would make someone stop on mine instead.

PPC goes live day 1 but not broad match everything and hope. Keyword research happens before the listing goes live, not after. Bids start low because you're learning, not scaling. Then you watch it daily for the first two weeks and don't touch the campaigns that are working just because ACoS looks "high", that early data is noisy and basically means nothing.

And then patience. Month 1 is always slow. Always. This is the part people skip mentally, they panic around week 3 and start changing prices, images, ads, everything, before the data's had time to mean anything at all.

Brand 1 didn't feel real until month 3. By month 7 it had done £22K total. Brand 2 followed roughly the same curve but faster, mostly because I didn't second guess myself as much this time around.

That's it really. Nothing secret, just applied consistently. Most people do 3 of these 5 fine and then wonder why their results are all over the place.

Happy to answer questions on any of this. Also working with a few UK based people 1-on-1 on brand launches if that's useful to anyone, but hope this helps either way.

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u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 2 months ago
▲ 3 r/AmazonFBAOnlineRetail

My exact framework for launching Amazon UK private label brands (2 live brands, £37.7K combined revenue, 3rd launching next month)

I've launched 2 Amazon UK private label brands in the last 8 months. Brand 1 (Oct 2025) has done £22.09K total revenue so far. Brand 2 (Feb 2026) did £15.62K in 3 to 4 months. Brand 3 launches next month, inventory's already on a boat from China somewhere.

Not trying to brag here. I see the same mistakes posted on this sub every week and most of them were avoidable, so here's the actual process I follow every time. No paywall, no "DM me for the real version" thing.

Product research first, because it's the only step that actually matters and it's the one everyone rushes.

People pick a product because they like it, or because some YouTuber said it's "winning right now." That's not research, that's gambling with £3 to 5K of your own money. Before I touch anything I want to know if search demand is actually holding up or if I'm walking into a category that's already dying. I look at the top 10 listings, how many reviews, how recent, how good the images are. Can I actually make this better, not just as good. And does the margin survive once COGS, shipping, FBA fees, PPC and returns are all stacked on top of each other, because on paper everything looks fine until you do that math.

If any of that comes back shaky I just walk away. Even from stuff I genuinely liked. That one habit alone is probably why Brand 1 found traction in month 1 instead of month 6, though I didn't realize it at the time.

Suppliers next. I don't go for the cheapest quote. I want fast UK bound shipping, consistent quality batch to batch, and someone who'll negotiate MOQ on a first order. A slightly pricier supplier who's reliable beats one who saves you 20p a unit and then sends you a dud batch on order 2. Learned that one the hard way, won't go into it.

Listing and main image. Most sellers spend the least time here, it's where I spend the most. Your main image is the only thing between someone scrolling past you and clicking on you. I've seen two near identical products, same price, same review count, and one gets 3x the clicks purely because of the image. Before launch I go through every competitor's main image and just ask what's missing, what would make someone stop on mine instead.

PPC goes live day 1 but not broad match everything and hope. Keyword research happens before the listing goes live, not after. Bids start low because you're learning, not scaling. Then you watch it daily for the first two weeks and don't touch the campaigns that are working just because ACoS looks "high", that early data is noisy and basically means nothing.

And then patience. Month 1 is always slow. Always. This is the part people skip mentally, they panic around week 3 and start changing prices, images, ads, everything, before the data's had time to mean anything at all.

Brand 1 didn't feel real until month 3. By month 7 it had done £22K total. Brand 2 followed roughly the same curve but faster, mostly because I didn't second guess myself as much this time around.

That's it really. Nothing secret, just applied consistently. Most people do 3 of these 5 fine and then wonder why their results are all over the place.

Happy to answer questions on any of this. Also working with a few UK based people 1-on-1 on brand launches if that's useful to anyone, but hope this helps either way.

reddit.com
u/jayeshchauhanreddit — 2 months ago
▲ 7 r/AmazonFBA

My exact framework for launching Amazon UK private label brands (2 live brands, £37.7K combined revenue, 3rd launching next month)

I've launched 2 Amazon UK private label brands in the last 8 months. Brand 1 (Oct 2025) has done £22.09K total revenue so far. Brand 2 (Feb 2026) did £15.62K in 3 to 4 months. Brand 3 launches next month, inventory's already on a boat from China somewhere.

Not trying to brag here. I see the same mistakes posted on this sub every week and most of them were avoidable, so here's the actual process I follow every time. No paywall, no "DM me for the real version" thing.

Product research first, because it's the only step that actually matters and it's the one everyone rushes.

People pick a product because they like it, or because some YouTuber said it's "winning right now." That's not research, that's gambling with £3 to 5K of your own money. Before I touch anything I want to know if search demand is actually holding up or if I'm walking into a category that's already dying. I look at the top 10 listings, how many reviews, how recent, how good the images are. Can I actually make this better, not just as good. And does the margin survive once COGS, shipping, FBA fees, PPC and returns are all stacked on top of each other, because on paper everything looks fine until you do that math.

If any of that comes back shaky I just walk away. Even from stuff I genuinely liked. That one habit alone is probably why Brand 1 found traction in month 1 instead of month 6, though I didn't realize it at the time.

Suppliers next. I don't go for the cheapest quote. I want fast UK bound shipping, consistent quality batch to batch, and someone who'll negotiate MOQ on a first order. A slightly pricier supplier who's reliable beats one who saves you 20p a unit and then sends you a dud batch on order 2. Learned that one the hard way, won't go into it.

Listing and main image. Most sellers spend the least time here, it's where I spend the most. Your main image is the only thing between someone scrolling past you and clicking on you. I've seen two near identical products, same price, same review count, and one gets 3x the clicks purely because of the image. Before launch I go through every competitor's main image and just ask what's missing, what would make someone stop on mine instead.

PPC goes live day 1 but not broad match everything and hope. Keyword research happens before the listing goes live, not after. Bids start low because you're learning, not scaling. Then you watch it daily for the first two weeks and don't touch the campaigns that are working just because ACoS looks "high", that early data is noisy and basically means nothing.

And then patience. Month 1 is always slow. Always. This is the part people skip mentally, they panic around week 3 and start changing prices, images, ads, everything, before the data's had time to mean anything at all.

Brand 1 didn't feel real until month 3. By month 7 it had done £22K total. Brand 2 followed roughly the same curve but faster, mostly because I didn't second guess myself as much this time around.

That's it really. Nothing secret, just applied consistently. Most people do 3 of these 5 fine and then wonder why their results are all over the place.

Happy to answer questions on any of this. Also working with a few UK based people 1-on-1 on brand launches if that's useful to anyone, but hope this helps either way.

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