Selling Lego on Amazon.com

[joch29]

looks like amazon removed strikethrough on past negative feedback and removed the statement that Amazon takes responsibility for the bad FBA experience.  So far at least it looks like the negative feedback dont count towards ratings.

[Lego_Monsters]

11 minutes ago, joch29 said:

looks like amazon removed strikethrough on past negative feedback and removed the statement that Amazon takes responsibility for the bad FBA experience.  So far at least it looks like the negative feedback dont count towards ratings.

Hmm...same on my account as well. 

[Lego_Monsters]

On 9/30/2018 at 4:33 PM, asharerin said:

For sure you need to have inventory that either turns quickly OR has a big enough margin to absorb the fees. If you are caught in the middle you can bankrupt your business.

On 9/30/2018 at 3:21 PM, asharerin said:

No we are currently sitting above 700 on our replen accounts and our Lego non-pro account has no index and we have 1000 cubic feet both standard and oversize for that so not problems at all. We always price and use PPC to dominate the buy box so always sell thru very quickly. No doubt we will sell thru every unit in FBA by 1st or 2nd week of Dec. Lots of new warehouses just coming online and it is already a giant sh*t show so we are prepping daily and shipping as much as we can Mon-Fri right now. I still fully expact alot of inventory we are sending now to be received after New Years (especially small and light).

On 9/28/2018 at 6:41 PM, brickology101 said:

Thank you. 

Arent you concerned about sending all your Q4 inventory now with regard to the new Inventory Index ?

12 minutes ago, joch29 said:

looks like amazon removed strikethrough on past negative feedback and removed the statement that Amazon takes responsibility for the bad FBA experience.  So far at least it looks like the negative feedback dont count towards ratings.

When do you guys usually send out your inventory for the holidays? Now's the best time?

[exciter1]

When do you guys usually send out your inventory for the holidays? Now's the best time?

I started in January

[joch29]

8 hours ago, exciter1 said:

I started in January

never really stops...

[cladner]

1 hour ago, joch29 said:

never really stops...

true dat

[odysea11]

Curious.......did anyone else receive a message about removing Friends Playground set? I'm wondering if it's because that set became an Amazon exclusive, they are thinning the FBA herd.

[Migration]

Here’s another one.

[cobrakai]

I got an e-mail about this one going restricted starting 11/17 also.  I thought it used to be TRU exclusive, but maybe the old stock went to Amazon as an exclusive.  Also, the Chewbacca mask that was hot a couple years ago is now Amazon exclusive and going retricted in November.

LEGO 6175769 Star Wars Jedi Starfighter with Hyperdrive 75191

[Migration]

75192, 75929, 70652, 60141, 41340, 75954, 75955, 75953...all hard gated for me. 

Edited October 4, 2018 by Migration

[ravenb99]

3 minutes ago, Migration said:

75192, 75929, 70652, 60141, 41340, 75954, 75955, 75953...all hard gated for me. 

Just in time for the holidays...

[Phil B]

75192, 75929, 70652, 60141, 41340, 75954, 75955, 75953...all hard gated for me. 

For those like.me who don't know all set numbers by heart: UCS MF, Carnotaurus escape, stormbringer, police station, friendship house, great hall, hogwarts express, whomping willow.

[Migration]

Just now, Phil B said:

For those like.me who don't know all set numbers by heart: UCS MF, Carnotaurus escape, stormbringer, police station, friendship house, great hall, hogwarts express, whomping willow.

That list was done like that to make it easier to check those numbers to see if you can list, but I guess you missed that with the passive aggressive poor memory game.

[redcell]

There are a bunch more sets that are all hard gated now.  Has anyone found any that aren't currently in print and for which Amazon is not a seller on the listing?  I haven't.

[ravenb99]

4 minutes ago, Phil B said:

For those like.me who don't know all set numbers by heart: UCS MF, Carnotaurus escape, stormbringer, police station, friendship house, great hall, hogwarts express, whomping willow.

 

[Phil B]

That list was done like that to make it easier to check those numbers to see if you can list, but I guess you missed that with the passive aggressive poor memory game.

Relax dude.

[Migration]

Relax dude.

So have you checked to see if you are gated? Or checked any other items? Anything constructive to add to the conversation?

[Phil B]

So have you checked to see if you are gated? Or checked any other items? Anything constructive to add to the conversation?

Not sure what got you so worked up. All I did was provide names for the set numbers you posted, so that others would know what you were referring to without having to go in and look it up. Purely meant as help, no bad intentions.

[cobrakai]

1 hour ago, Phil B said:

For those like.me who don't know all set numbers by heart: UCS MF, Carnotaurus escape, stormbringer, police station, friendship house, great hall, hogwarts express, whomping willow.

That's weird.  I'm still ok to sell all of those.  It just seems like the former TRU exclusives like Friends Playground and Jedi Hyperdrive ship are hard gated for everyone now that they are Amazon exclusives.  

[brickology101]

1 hour ago, Phil B said:

For those like.me who don't know all set numbers by heart: UCS MF, Carnotaurus escape, stormbringer, police station, friendship house, great hall, hogwarts express, whomping willow.

None of the sets are gated for me. Been selling Legos FBA since March 2016. Sold 100 k$ in 2016, 220 k$ last year and much less this year....so far.

[brickology101]

18 minutes ago, cobrakai said:

That's weird.  I'm still ok to sell all of those.  It just seems like the former TRU exclusives like Friends Playground and Jedi Hyperdrive ship are hard gated for everyone now that they are Amazon exclusives.  

Yeah, I am gated too for the hyperdrive and friends playground. None left to sell so it is ok for me.

[landphieran]

5 hours ago, cladner said:

true dat

 

6 hours ago, joch29 said:

never really stops...

My girlfriend: "You can stop whenever you want"

Me:

[redcell]

The new gates are just for the holiday season.  They will be lifted on 1/5/19.  There had been some notice earlier that they were going to gate the Top 100 toys or something like that and it looks like they applied those gates more broadly.

[brickology101]

City Advent calendar 60201 #43 in Toys and yet not gated ? Strange

[newbie77]

watch out for brand infringement from LEGO groups for sets and everything now.

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Edited October 6, 2018 by newbie77