Selling through Amazon FBA

[river41]

how do you keep track of  hundreds of items to know when one has just disappeared. I get knowing the more expensive items by heart how many you have but a run of the mill item how do you know do you have a spreadsheet or inventory system that lets you know what should be there and then you compare?

[belljohn]

8 hours ago, river41 said:

how do you keep track of  hundreds of items to know when one has just disappeared. I get knowing the more expensive items by heart how many you have but a run of the mill item how do you know do you have a spreadsheet or inventory system that lets you know what should be there and then you compare?

I mark everything I send in FBA on my inventory list.  I mark sold as I get an Amazon shipping notification.  I highlight returned if I get a returned notification.  After the 5th of each month, you can can reconcile your inventory.  I search my database for "FBA not sold" and compare this to my "Inventory, active items" on Amazon.  l can then note any discrepancies.  Like others have said, once my items are checked in, I don't worry about the inventory numbers that much.

[Jackson]

So was Winter Fun (set 40124) discounted in store?  FBA sellers are selling it for $12.97.  At that price, the buy cost would need to be about $8.00 just to break even.

MSRP for this set was $9.99.  Any insights? 

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01762YNY8/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=

[dcdfan]

So was Winter Fun (set 40124) discounted in store?  FBA sellers are selling it for $12.97.  At that price, the buy cost would need to be about $8.00 just to break even.

MSRP for this set was $9.99.  Any insights? 

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01762YNY8/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=

IIRC, someone reported after Christmas or New Years, they were marked down...

[justapilgrim]

So was Winter Fun (set 40124) discounted in store?  FBA sellers are selling it for $12.97.  At that price, the buy cost would need to be about $8.00 just to break even.

MSRP for this set was $9.99.  Any insights? 

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01762YNY8/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=

This is easy. The horde saw the trick or treat go to $20-$25 quick (over $30 now), so jumped on the vignette bandwagon. They forgot this set sucks, and are now just dumping to free up capital

[Bold-Arrow]

Here is a new one :

customer orders an item for 22$ on nov 30

customer leaves 5/5 feedback in December 

customer recieves $104.xx refund for said item today 

customer makes 85$ .... Sheeeesh 

 

[tacsniper]

11 minutes ago, Bold-Arrow said:

Here is a new one :

customer orders an item for 22$ on nov 30

customer leaves 5/5 feedback in December 

customer recieves $104.xx refund for said item today 

customer makes 85$ .... Sheeeesh 

 

can you tell us how? this is better than any investment known to mankind! I will be placing thousands of orders once we have a script on how to convince AZ rep to give us extra $ on each order

18 hours ago, Jackson said:

So was Winter Fun (set 40124) discounted in store?  FBA sellers are selling it for $12.97.  At that price, the buy cost would need to be about $8.00 just to break even.

MSRP for this set was $9.99.  Any insights? 

 

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01762YNY8/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=

I don't see why these sellers need to race to the bottom. With the animal seasonal theme this year, 2015 seasonal sets will do well in 2016.

[Bold-Arrow]

9 minutes ago, tacsniper said:

can you tell us how? this is better than any investment known to mankind! I will be placing thousands of orders once we have a script on how to convince AZ rep to give us extra $ on each order

I don't see why these sellers need to race to the bottom. With the animal seasonal theme this year, 2015 seasonal sets will do well in 2016.

If I knew I'd tell u . Opened a case. Utter nonsense. I understand the refund but making money on top of it as a buyer? My guess CS manually refunded wrong order number 

[Robb]

5 hours ago, Bold-Arrow said:

Here is a new one :

customer orders an item for 22$ on nov 30

customer leaves 5/5 feedback in December 

customer recieves $104.xx refund for said item today 

customer makes 85$ .... Sheeeesh 

 

I might of gotten the reverse of this. Unless I'm mistaken, the customer paid ~30 for a set from me, I received ~20, and yesterday I received ~8 in compensation in association with the refund of the set. The thing is I can't find anywhere that shows they took back the original ~20. I might be misunderstanding it though.

[Bold-Arrow]

update: Amazon refunded me the 85$ without further explanation

[newbie77]

2 hours ago, Bold-Arrow said:

update: Amazon refunded me the 85$ without further explanation

just $85,00 so you are still out $22,00 ?

[Bold-Arrow]

19 minutes ago, newbie77 said:

just $85,00 so you are still out $22,00 ?

Well till the cusotmer either return the item  or I get another credit in 45 days . 

[Deeker]

Anyone getting a lot of returns as of lately selling through FBA?

Last year I had maybe 4-5 out of 200 or so items sold.  This year alone I have had 6 on about 50 items.  I have had two items that where no longer sell-able so I had those shipped back to me. I am honestly starting to think that many people are buying our FBA products and shipping back their damaged ones they own.  

[jaisonline]

43 minutes ago, Deeker said:

Anyone getting a lot of returns as of lately selling through FBA?

Last year I had maybe 4-5 out of 200 or so items sold.  This year alone I have had 6 on about 50 items.  I have had two items that where no longer sell-able so I had those shipped back to me. I am honestly starting to think that many people are buying our FBA products and shipping back their damaged ones they own.  

Don't your sets have a unique Amazon applied sticker over the barcode that's harder to peel off and place on another box?  if so, this should help with your box condition concerns.

[exciter1]

15 minutes ago, jaisonline said:

Don't your sets have a unique Amazon applied sticker over the barcode that's harder to peel off and place on another box?  if so, this should help with your box condition concerns.

Yes, mine do.

[Deeker]

They do have the sticker on the bottom.  But the Avery sticker you use is easy to peel off the bar code.

[Dbroncoboy]

As far as returns- yeah they have been much higher this year for me than ever before. I'm running at about 2.75% so far of my December orders being returned. In years past I believe I stayed under 1%. A lot of items over $100 are being returned, and probably about 50% of the Millennium Falcons I sold got returned (unopened mostly). I also got back a BB8 that had the motor and everything inside it removed, abused light sabers, etc.

Additionally four items Amazon lost in warehouse got me a reimbursement of $300 a piece and they are selling for about $700 each... It's not been a very good January, but as others have said, its a love/hate with FBA. Most of the time it's love, just been a rough month. It happens... I can only hope the influx of new people who seem comfortable selling stuff for 1% profit are getting the same treatment  

[Bold-Arrow]

Returns @ Amazon have been brutal this year .... just ridiculous. I was able to recoup money on obvious scams and stuff returns opened/mangled and/or crashed .

[justapilgrim]

I had a few returns for *better price found". People pay the holiday premium, then ship you the lower priced one they picked up when prices cool off

[exciter1]

FWIW, I've had zero Raptor Escapes or 10697s returned.

[newbie77]

26 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

FWIW, I've had zero Raptor Escapes or 10697s returned.

actually all of my returns are 75920 which i am gladly accepting.

[exciter1]

6 minutes ago, newbie77 said:

actually all of my returns are 75920 which i am gladly accepting.

Buyers must hate me.

[Achilles]

My returns have been as normal, one thing that stood out to me - I had 4 Mines of Moria sets returned this season, by far my highest. I only scanned one that I got back, and it was complete. Haven't gone through the other 3 yet. But that's the only thing that struck me.

 

[redcell]

I haven't checked percentage, but I've had alot of returns.

[Deeker]

Well it finally happened.  I sold my first set  LEGO Star Wars Palpatines Arrest (9526) Exclusive that had the seller return item saying it was missing pieces or accessories.  This is absolutely untrue as it was a sealed box that I purchased new sometime ago.  

 

Is there any recourse for this since I am 100% confident this person most likely opened and took the figures out.  I am not surprised this has happened but feel so violated.