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    Transitioning From B&M to Online Making $3,500 in 6 Months

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    This last month has been pretty busy for me so I haven't been spending much time on the computer. Not in the the amazon field but my other businesses started to pick up so I had to make sure to tend to them and let my online stuff go to the back burner for a little bit. But I did manage to get...
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    Transitioning From B&M to Online Making $3,500 in 6 Months

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    It doesn't state whether or not they are a representative of Amazon or the other party claiming infringement. If I have to remove them, I have to remove them. Not a huge loss but just makes me think of how many other products could fall under infringement.
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    Transitioning From B&M to Online Making $3,500 in 6 Months

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    The last few weeks have not gone too well for me. Sales have been slow. In the last 2 weeks, I have sold maybe 100 dollars of inventory on amazon and ebay. So to keep things moving, I sold one of my cars. As bad as I hated to see it go, I need the money to keep other things moving so this had me...
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    FBA and Importing Goods From China

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    Picking a brand name can be as simple as combining a few names together or something that intrigues you. When I started my brand, I wanted the name to be able to appeal to almost any product. So how I did it was by taking my kids names and switching some letters around to create a brand name...
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    Transitioning From B&M to Online Making $3,500 in 6 Months

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    One month update: The ball is rolling a little better but hasn't picked up much speed. Since inception of this business model, I have managed to go from not knowing the first thing about selling on amazon or amazon fba to sourcing, purchasing and importing my own products to sell on amazon. In...
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    Transitioning From B&M to Online Making $3,500 in 6 Months

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    After initializing the ppc, I made my first amazon sale of my PL items yesterday. It converted in 3 clicks which is really good but the click through rate has dropped significantly. I am going to work on getting more reviews for my items to see if will help pick up sales.
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    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    The manufacturer is just trying to get more out of you for the shipping. I shipped samples from 2 different suppliers in China to the U.S. and paid $210 for everything. One box weighed 17 pounds and the other 13 pounds. The bulk of my cost was for the products and not the shipping. My average...
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    Transitioning From B&M to Online Making $3,500 in 6 Months

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    All of my fba products arrived at the amazon warehouses. The total process took 3-4 days to prep and ship them to amazon's warehouses. Amazon had me ship the products to 3 different warehouses. FBA is the only way to get amazons ppc or the buy box. If you want to get the buy box and be able to...
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    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    That's my goal. Get 5-10 items selling around 20 per day. Might not seem like much but like @Ecom man stated if the margins are right, look out! 5 figure profit easy each month! Everyone on here is thankful for @Ecom man shedding his knowledge on how to import and sell on ebay and even amazon...
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    Transitioning From B&M to Online Making $3,500 in 6 Months

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    Since my last debacle, I went ahead and created a new listing to correct the package quantity amount in my old listing. Instead of creating 4 new listings for the variants, I decided to only create one new listing. My other variants will be fulfilled by myself while the new listing will be...
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    [AMA] Importing & wholesaling for resale on eBay.

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    I put some of my products up on ebay and BAM! Sold one after only 4 days of listing.
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    Transitioning From B&M to Online Making $3,500 in 6 Months

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    Update: Well back to almost square 1. Finally received an answer from amazon and it wasn't what I wanted to hear. To change the package quantity, I have to create all new listings with new UPC's. On top of this, I will lose all my reviews and will have to wait another week to get my products...
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    FBA and Importing Goods From China

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    I am waiting for amazon to clarify this for me but no where under in listings tool will it allow me to change the package quantity. You can change the available item quantity and that's it.
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    FBA and Importing Goods From China

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    I have a progress thread on here https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/transitioning-from-b-m-to-online-making-3-500-in-6-months.53346/and I give a quick rundown of how I target products. Finding a products and supplier isn't that hard unless you are going after a product that is so...
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    FBA and Importing Goods From China

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    Yea this is what I don't understand.
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    FBA and Importing Goods From China

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    If I am the only one selling this brand, shouldn't the buy box be in my listing? No one competes with me on this so their is no competing for the buy box.
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    FBA and Importing Goods From China

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    Thanks @SJVC. I understand that sales won't be overnight and 2 weeks isn't giving it much time to creep up in the sales ranking. What I can't understand is that in the categories where my product is listed, it is no where to be found. I have searched through thousands upon thousands of listings...
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    FBA and Importing Goods From China

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    I setup an ad campaign. Amazon states my ad is not getting impressions because I don't own the buy box. I guess the only way to own the buy box is to have amazon fulfill it. So I started the process of packing my products to send to amazon and hit another snag. My package quantity is wrong. Not...
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    Transitioning From B&M to Online Making $3,500 in 6 Months

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    Update: Amazon has approved my products to be fulfilled by them but I hit another snag prior to sending my products in. During the creation of my list, I somehow managed to put the wrong package quantity on my listings. This wasn't much of a big deal since I fulfilled the orders but now since...
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    FBA and Importing Goods From China

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    @BGLefty Thanks. I'll check these out.
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