hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video if you're new to my channel my name is
nikki kirk and i've been selling on amazon doing retail arbitrage for five years all from my fifth
wheel rv and today i'm talking about something that i've talked about on my instagram a couple
of times and it got asked for me to reshare and i thought you know what this probably will just make
a really good video how to shop small on amazon so something similar to this goes around every
holiday and it kind of goes around throughout the year also it's like boycott amazon walmart target
blah blah they're greedy and taking all this money i don't know about target in walmart
but for amazon if you are boycotting amazon you are actually boycotting hundreds of thousands of
small businesses so i thought i would just show you how you can shop small on amazon or if you
are a seller how you can explain to other people how they can shop small on amazon or you can just
send them this video if you want to but it's just it's not that hard but i think a lot of people
still don't know what the heck third party sellers are and so you can just like gently say you know
you're not boycotting amazon you're boycotting small businesses so people even say it to me
or they'll say something like oh that's so greedy you're gonna buy it for this and you're selling it
for that or how could you possibly sell it for that your price gouging or something along the
lines of i'm not giving jeff bezos any of my money he's greedy blah blah blah i am an entrepreneur
if you are a seller you're an entrepreneur and i would never get mad at someone for being an
entrepreneur for making it in business to where they're you know wanted to be they're successful
and for me i'm not i well i don't know i don't work for the guy i've never met him
i don't know anyone that works for amazon that's not true my brother works in the amazon warehouse
i've never heard anything bad about his experience there so i don't know firsthand
if amazon is a good company to work for or not but regardless attacking jeff bezos and all that
it just doesn't make any sense to me unless you're just mad that some guy is successful in business
i don't know not trying to start a war here over this or start drama i just it just drives me crazy
how people get so upset so if your family or friends get upset and they think like you're
price gouging or blah blah just remind them that no one is forcing anyone to shop on amazon right
like you're shopping there for convenience it's the same as when you order chick-fil-a
through the drive-thru you get one price but if you want chick-fil-a to deliver it for you that's
a convenience and they're gonna charge you for that it's like 2.99 i looked it up for this video
if you want gas off of a freeway guess what it's gonna be a little bit more expensive if
you want something like aspirin at 7-eleven it's probably more expensive than if you went to a cvs
all of these things are conveniences and amazon is one big convenience store so to have something
sent right to you to your house guess what you're probably gonna pay a little more than if you just
went to the store and got it yourself or the item might be sold out everywhere and thus the
price is going up online because you can get it conveniently online but since you're not able to
go to the store to get it well now it's going up this happens with toys during holiday it happens
with other things as they run scarce like the chlorine shortage last summer chlorine went up
on amazon in price and so it just kind of happens as a seller you want to be mindful of those things
because that's a key like oh this is going to be harder to find just so you know i'm going to show
you two actual real life examples of things that i bought on amazon that are pure convenience because
i cannot get them anywhere else except for the pacific northwest or at least easily so if you do
not know or because you don't live in the pacific northwest juanita's is the very best tortilla chip
there is ever and they cost 2.99 to buy them in store if you can find them it's really only on the
west coast so because they're the best chip ever i went in on amazon guess how much they are because
it's a chip and it's breakable and because they're hard to find forty dollars for four bags that's
twelve dollars if i could go in the store and buy it myself but because i want it in oklahoma or
florida it's going to cost me 40 that's just how amazon works that's the price for getting those
items that you can't get if you're not there you could fly there get them have someone ship
them for you for me i could have my family ship me a care package but if i just want it online
because i'm not gonna fly there and get them i'm gonna have to pay a little more this reese's
hot butter rum mix again i think it's a northwest brand i'm not really sure i just know that i like
it and it costs when it's in store it's a seasonal item when it's in store it's 5.99
i paid 13 on amazon to get it sent to me in oklahoma because i wanted it not only that i
wanted it but the liquor store did not have any i would have taken any brand really but they didn't
have any at all so since i couldn't get in store i went online and i didn't have to pay a whole
lot that one wasn't crazy expensive but when it's six dollars or 13 dollars that is you know it's a
pretty big difference okay so those are your real life examples i really did buy those things that
is why people shop on amazon and now i'm going to show you how you can shop small if you don't want
to buy from amazon you can still buy on amazon but just not from amazon as a seller so i'm going to
show you on my phone because i have a feeling most people probably shop on their phone and here we go
okay so say i needed some tylenol let's get this at advil i'm going to click advil pm because i
have pain and i have trouble sleeping at night alright so we got the advil liquid gels and you
scroll down here you can see they're 14.99 again i don't know what the real price is but if amazon's
signed up for 14.97 it's probably that but if you scroll down here to this other area where
it says compare offers this is where you're going to get small businesses aka third party sellers
so you can buy from amazon up there or you can click here and you can see
i could buy it from since ever right here sold by that's who the business is so it's not
amazon so you could buy that one for a dollar more and shop small
you could buy it for murmur center and again what's that now two dollars three dollars more
again shop small small businesses don't get those big like low let me think how am i saying this
small businesses can't buy as much quantity and so they can't get the better discounts
like walmart target amazon can when they buy thousands of a product at once right
i'm only buying at most maybe 24 items and so i'm not going to be able even if i was doing
wholesale to get the same price that amazon can that's why shopping small is more expensive and
that's why i don't think people do it even though they want to do it they'll still probably buy from
amazon but if you really want to help educate your family friends community this is how they
could shop small if they really wanted to and put their money where their mouth is and shop small
on amazon here's another one it's shipping from ny life sold by ny life but they're gonna charge
five dollars for shipping so it costs 13.99 but you're gonna have to pay for shipping on it and
you could just see it keeps going down and down but it's not always the case so let me go back
again if you want to go right here this buy box seller is big desk drawer for 33.99
so they are already a small business in the buy box but if you wanted to look at other offers
there's one right there i'm gonna keep clicking
book finders traders i'm trying to find one that's so that's paper towels
last one i'm trying to find one where amazon is selling and someone else is selling the same price
so here's a disney princess styling head 24.99 again ships from amazon but it's sold by stay
strong llc so that means even though amazon is fulfilling it that's amazon fba fulfilled by
amazon even though they are fulfilling it it's actually sold from a third party seller this
case strong stay strong llc so that's a way that you can also get your items you know next day or
whatever this is saying and get it on tuesday and you can still support a small business here we go
let's look at some other ones i don't want used you could buy it for 15.99 from amazon
or you could buy it for 15.99 from this other getting better every day third party seller and
it's sold from amazon so it's going to come from the same warehouse only on this one now
you're paying the same price as amazon but you're supporting a third-party seller so it does take a
little more time and how to do it but it is worth it if shopping small is important to you so don't
boycott amazon and think that you are boycotting this big giant and hurrah you're actually
blow-cutting hundreds of thousands of small businesses in the process so if small business
is important to you shop small right on amazon and support third-party sellers like you me and
everyone else out there just making a living working on their own time and all that if you
want to know how to get started selling on amazon i have a beginner fba training course which walks
you through in 14 modules how to start selling on amazon from no account to up and running sending
in your shipments and hopefully turning a profit with your business selling on amazon you can
work when you want to work you don't have to work when you don't want to work and you hopefully if
you travel as your goal you can travel around the country like i am so i hope this video was helpful
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