r/AmazonFBATips

I'm a new seller. I started selling about 8 months ago. It is a private label brand in the supplement space, which is very saturated and competitive. My biggest issues right now are that pretty much all the sales are coming from ads and those ads are coming in at a very high ACOS so it's very unprofitable. We were hoping for organic sales to catch up but it's just not happening. Another problem is that I'm located in North Carolina and all of my containers are arriving in a third party fulfillment center in NJ and their fees are really eating into my margin (which is nonexistent anyhow because of the ads), on top of that they're very inconsistent and always late on shipments... Im getting killed and not sure how to continue.

We want to outsource the Ads to someone competent and local in the US. We are also looking for someone to outsource the listings to, images, copy, A+ Content etc. We also desperately need a fairly priced fulfillment center that is reliable and familiar with sending FBA shipments to Amazon.

If anybody could give some recommendations or general advice I would really appreciate it.

So some time ago, Keepa updated a few things and now isn't showing prime exclusive prices anymore, not updating price graphs during promotion periods and on top not supporting RSS feed anymore.

What addons are you guys using to keep track of prices properly and also be notified via RSS? I find that much more reliable as I don't have any email notifications, no desktop or any other enabled to avoid being bothered most of the time.

I have looked across Reddit already but not found any concrete, specific info. People simply keep blurting out Addon names with no mention whatsoever whether they fit the specifications even. Which is pretty much like browsing products on Amazon and getting the search results all clogged up with these useless dropshipping random capslock letter brand products.

I've originally added Keepa to FF because of its detailed graph, ability to track multiple sources including Prime offers and it helped catching some verry limited offers already which came especially handy in dealing with scalpers.

More sales dont always mean more profit on Amazon. A product can be selling better than last month while actually making less money per unit. One useful habit is checking your contribution margin at the ASIN level, not just total revenue or ACOS. Take your selling price and subtract product cost, Amazon fees, fulfillment, ads, returns and other variable costs. Compare that number month over month. Sometimes the ASIN bringing in the most revenue is the one quietly eating your margin

We’re an electronics manufacturer selling worldwide, with official Amazon stores in the US, UK and EU. We also have our brand registered on Amazon

On Amazon US, another seller is selling one of our products for $129.19 while we sell it for $175. They’re running price discounts and taking the Buy Box. We’re FBA, they’re FBM, showing four units in stock and seemingly replenishing as orders come in.

I suspect they’re dropshipping through one of our US distributors. A colleague ordered a unit, and we traced its serial number to a batch we sold to that distributor. The unit also arrived damaged.

I tried reporting them to Amazon for being unauthorised and breaching our MAP policy, but got nowhere.

Has anyone dealt with this successfully? What are our actual options to get their offer removed quickly or stop this from happening?

Hi everyone,

I am a local FBA seller in the UAE (not international seller)

Has anyone here imported goods from South Korea into the UAE as a new business?

My company is still new and we haven’t reached the VAT registration threshold yet, so we’re not VAT registered.

The issue is that several freight forwarders / IOR providers in Korea are asking for a UAE VAT TRN before they can provide the service, which I obviously can’t provide at this stage.

Has anyone been in a similar situation? If so, how did you handle it?

Fyi, I’ve imported stuff from china multiple times with no problem.

I’d also really appreciate any recommendations for freight forwarders or IOR providers that can handle South Korea → UAE shipments for a non-VAT-registered company.

Thanks a lot!

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October is here, and many importers are rushing to get their inventory ready for Black Friday, Christmas, and year-end sales.

One thing I've learned from the quality inspection industry is that rushed production can create problems that aren't immediately obvious.

When factories are working against tight deadlines, it's worth paying extra attention to:

• Inconsistent workmanship between production batches
• Missing accessories or incorrect packaging
• Products packed before final QC checks
• Incorrect Amazon FBA labels and carton markings
• Last-minute material or component substitutions

Here's a simple tip: Don't schedule your inspection on the same day your goods are supposed to ship.

Leave enough time for the factory to correct any problems and arrange a re-inspection if necessary.

A shipment arriving a few days late is frustrating. But receiving thousands of defective products during your busiest selling season can be much worse.

For those importing from China, are your Q4 orders already shipped, or are you still waiting for production to finish?

Curious how everyone is handling their holiday inventory this year.

A better way to think about reordering is to work backwards from how long it actually takes inventory to become sellable again. Add supplier lead time + freight + Amazon receiving time + a safety buffer, then compare that against your daily sales velocity. If the whole process takes 50 days and you only have 35 days of stock left, youre already late even if Seller Central still looks healthy. Simple change, but it can prevent a lot of avoidable stockouts.

Hello all,

We have a few campaigns running our best campaign suddenly for the last 3 days went from 1.5k-2k impressions to maybe 100-300 impressions a day. what happened in between, prime inventory went to 0 so inbound shipment showed longer delivery time but not out of stock. account health dropped to at risk because we listed a product that was removed for restricted product but it isn't so we are currently trying to fix that but that happened a bit over a week ago and sales and ads were still fine in between. Is it possible we are shadow banned in some way? inventory has slowly started to climb back up its sitting at 9 prime ready units but also or sales rank dropped like crazy in between but that has happened before and it never ruined the campaign. Any advice is appreciated!