hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video we are still in indiana where it is too
windy for me to go outside and film a video so i'm here in my rv office slide we still don't
have a heater which is why we're still here and fun fact if you didn't know because of kovid the
rv industry has like taken off so they actually don't even have parts so they're trying to find us
apart the part of our heater that's broken which is taking a while and also while we're talking
rvs if you didn't know in addition to selling on amazon i also have rootless living magazine which
i co-created with my roommate damien so if you have never checked it out and you want to get it
for free you can go ahead to rootlessliving.com and get a free digital subscription all right
back to amazon selling which is why you're here so this is just gonna be a quick video of advice
on restricted products because i've done a similar video but i've seen it come up a couple times this
week on just buying restricted products and hoping that you'll be ungated one day and i do not advise
that so i'm going to break it down for you why my advice for amazon selling doing retail arbitrage
is do not buy anything until you can actually sell it like you're unrestricted to sell it
of course i'm talking about retail arbitrage when i say this because if you're going through the
un-gating process you have to buy something to be able to get ungated in it to get that invoice but
if you're just doing regular retail arbitrage outsourcing don't buy something if you cannot sell
it i mean i guess if you have a ton of capital and you like to gamble and just hope that one day
it'll sell or you'll be able to sell it or you sell on another platform you could probably buy
the item but if you are doing retail arbitrage for amazon you have to be able to sell it in order to
sell it so if you do want help on gating where you do get the invoice and you can get ungated
in brands and categories like otc topical fender and hygiene maybe topical grocery toys brands like
lego marvel star wars fortnite all those brands they're all on my website they're all linked below
i have those guides which are affordable and for new sellers specifically so now let me go into why
i'm making this video i actually had this come up twice in the last week once was a member of
my ungating group was just messaging me asking me my advice for a product and then another one
was in the bolo group someone was asking the group in general like would they buy this item
so it's funny because they're both related so it was a shampoo item where they thought just because
they're gated in topicals was why they can't sell it so i know i can't sell it because i've seen it
in stores a lot and it's a premium beauty brand but when you're looking on amazon it just says
you're restricted and if you're restricted in topicals you're thinking great when i get
unrestricted in topicals i can sell it that's not the case because you still probably can't sell it
it could either be brand restricted or it could be premium beauty which is a really really hard gated
category i'm still gated in premium beauty i think most of the people i talk to are still gated in it
the other one that the member asked me directly it was a murad product and i used to sell murad
it's at t.j.maxx all the time and i was selling it no problem but then i think it was this summer or
maybe was last summer i can't recall they gated mirad at the brand level so now i would have to
purchase it from urad or somewhere where i can get an actual invoice i don't have that so i can't
sell it but this person wouldn't have known that if they hadn't asked me and i had that knowledge
because they are just thinking it's gated and topical because they're gated and topical so my
piece of advice is this do not buy something if you are gated in it with the hopes that you will
one day be ungated because there's so many other factors that come into play and now you're just
stuck with this item that you can't sell unless you turn around and sell it on ebay which i don't
do ebay but anyways there is so much product out there that even when you do get ungated
you might not find that exact one but you'll find so many other ones so you're not really
losing anything and you're just tying up money in that that rolls into my other piece of advice is
don't scan categories that you are gated in if you can't sell toys don't scan toys it'll just
frustrate you and drive you crazy if you can't sell grocery don't scan grocery and the list
goes on and on and on you can get ungated which if you have the funds to do it i highly highly
recommend it because it will be game changing someone in the group recently shared that they
sent in their first shipment and it was 400 of profit all from the topical and grocery guide
so the return on the investment which is honestly not that much money in the grand
scheme of things and when you're starting out and your funds are really tight it is
it seems like a lot but i'm telling you it is so worth it and it pays off in the end here i will
show you some of the recent success stories from the members of my ungating groups so you can see
it firsthand from them it's not just me telling you but that's all i really have to tell you don't
buy something if you can't sell it yet just wait i promise you there will be more stuff out there
for you when you are ungated if you need help on gating check out my guides below and that is
it for this amazon selling video i will see you back here in a couple of days and as always happy
sourcing
you