- There are so many advantages to selling
name brand products on Amazon
via online arbitrage and wholesale.
However, one main advantage sellers will face
is receiving IP complaints
or intellectual property complaints
against their store.
And this can result in the loss
hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars
or even losing your entire Amazon store.
Now, today I'm gonna be introducing to you
a tool that I think is a must-have
and anyone selling name brand products
must have this tool going forward
and this tool is IP Alert.
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Hey everyone, my name is Kris
and I've been on YouTube now
for about two years
and in the process I've been sharing different ways
I make money online.
Now this is something I've not touched
on my channel before is IP complaints
and I've not really addressed it too heavily
but for anyone new to the Amazon eco-system,
what an IP complaint is
is when a brand owner or an authorized seller or agent
of a listing will come in and they flag your store
and you have to remove all of your items
under that particular brand or brands
and you can file a complaint,
you can file an appeal to Amazon
and if Amazon does not like your appeal
what will happen is
is that you have to remove all your inventory
and sell it elsewhere.
And this is where you can lose potentially hundreds,
if not thousands, of dollars.
Now, the tool IP Alert can help avoid that entire process.
I think it is an absolute asset for any seller
on the Amazon platform.
Now, the way this tool works is that
once installed into your Chrome browser
and you're actually on an Amazon listing,
you will now see a little red light or a green light
next to the seller store of the listing.
And, if it's a green light
it means it's not known for IP complaints.
If it's a red light,
it means that it has been known for IP complaints
so you should probably stay away.
You know, absolute game changer right here.
Now, what you can do is,
if you click on the little extension,
you can see three buttons.
There's the refresh button which if you click refresh,
to make sure that's it up to date
because the list is continually being added to.
And, you can see a little email button.
So at the time of me filming this about this tool,
there are over 200 users
and all it takes is for someone,
let's say there was a green light and, you know,
it said it was okay, however, you received
an IP complaint.
You can email them about that particular brand
or asynthe.
They do some research and if it comes back clear,
it will then get added to the list
so it's a collaborative effort.
The more people that are on the tool
and working together,
the more accurate it's going to be.
Lastly, you can see a little export button
which that will allow you to export the entire list
and it's not so much about the list,
I mean, you can find a list online
and whether it's accurate or not,
I'm not 100% sure,
I trust the owners of this tool.
The owners of this tool are Christopher Grant
and Nate McAllister
and they've been around on Amazon.
I've learned a lot from them
so I trust the guys who make this tool.
But it's not about the list.
It's also about the convenience
because now what you can do is,
if you go over to tactical arbitrage,
so if you're doing any kind of online arbitrage,
or wholesale scanning on tactical arbitrage,
it is now integrated into the system.
So, all you have to do is,
you don't have to integrate anything,
it does it automatically for you.
If you go to your view data tab,
whether you're in view product data
in the scan section or the wholesale scan,
you can see a little green light or a red light
and you don't even have to go to the Amazon listing.
And you know that I'm all about making things
as efficient and quick as possible
so you don't even have to leave the screen.
And this is something that I highly recommend
people putting in right in the view
so you can quickly see,
okay this brand does not file IP complaints.
Now, this also works for wholesale as well.
And some people may think,
well, why would I need to worry about
receiving an IP complaint if I'm buying
through authorized distributors or manufacturers?
The answer is, is that,
you still want to know.
Because, sometimes, you can be buying from
a manufacturer or distributor that sells
a bunch of different brands and
you're not really sure where,
sometimes they're direct with some brands
and they're not direct with others.
And, maybe you see a red light on of their brands
and it's just good to cross check.
And maybe you're going to do extra homework on that.
Just so you don't get into a scenario where
you purchased $1000 of this particular brand from
a supplier and then you get an IP complaint
and you have to remove all of your inventory.
Definitely not a scenario I would want to get in.
And I have seen people get into this.
Now, last thing I want to say is,
this is not retail arbitrage friendly yet.
My advice to you is you're out doing retail arbitrage
and you're not 100% sure about that brand,
maybe you just keep the list in your car,
an updated list in your car,
and you can cross reference that.
It's not the most efficient way.
However, you might be able to avoid
sticky situations with that.
So, that's it for this video.
I will have a link in the description below.
This is a one-time payment of $99,
at least the pricing at the time of this video.
I think it's mandatory for anyone, you know,
spend 100 to potentially not lose
hundreds, if not thousands and headaches
that come with that.
So, I just wanted to introduce that tool to you.
I will have a link in the description below
as well as the comment section.
If you guys have any questions for me,
be sure to reach out.
I will also post a link to the Facebook group
I have in the description below.
Super active in there and I highly recommend
checking it out.
Tons of really knowledgeable people.
So, thanks a lot guys.
I really appreciate your time
and I will see you in the next one.
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