hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video if you're new to my
channel my name is nikki kirk and today we are going retail arbitrage sourcing
to sam's club now i have never sourced a sam's club before i've never actually been inside of
one but during a live hangout that we have in the quarterly bolo group someone mentioned sam's club
was one of their great places to source so i thought i might as well check it out now
if you have been sourcing so far in 2022 you know that it's kind of rough out there it's rough out
there for everyone experienced or new so if it's rough for you just know that you're not alone
but also whenever things get rough that is a great time to get out of the rut right so if you are
always sourcing the same stores go ahead and go to a different store go to a different little town or
city in your area even if you have to drive an hour and definitely go to different categories
try something new right what you're doing isn't really working so just branch out and
try something new and you might find some great stuff so hopefully that's what we will experience
here today at sam's club now i have no idea how much the membership cost um it will be a business
expense because i'm only coming here to source so i'm gonna put it on my business card and i have
no idea but i will let you know how much it is i do know that they take your resale certificates
sales tax free all that so i'm gonna bring mine in and see what that whole process is like again
i know nothing so i will fill you in afterwards on how everything went as well as everything i found
foreign
okay so i got here a little after 10 because that's when it opens and it's now like almost two
so three and a half hours almost four probably my math's bad anyways it wasn't there for a long time
so right off the bat getting a membership is easy you just walk right into the counter it's right
there when you enter um i actually thought it was optometry because it's right behind it and they
even said everyone thinks that and i was like well it's like right behind there so i let her
know that i wanted to add tax exempt right off the bat and so she said it's probably better to do a
premiere business or select or whatever it's called i can't remember the hundred dollar a year
one here's the deal and what i can understand the difference in the two are the 100 a year one you
get to start shopping at 7 am which is huge for me because i actually hate waiting till 10 like
at costco and stuff i'm like i'm already here at walmart which opened at 6 i just want to shop
so that right there is reason enough for me to get it there's also some other perks here's what it
looks like probably they have it online but yeah so she added my tax-exempt paper i have my retail
certificate in my purse all the time because i use it at t.j.maxx and marshalls and so that was easy
it's just as easy as walmart mine is not from this state that i'm in currently but they took it and
costco would not take it because it wasn't from the state that i'm in so that was an interesting
difference and now whenever i go to check out it will just always be they're going to say
hey is this tax exempt i say yes or no so i did personal today as well as business tax exempt so i
had two different purchases and i just let them know checkout was super easy i decided not to
do the scan because the people were just standing and i thought might as well have someone else work
instead of me they do have the scan and go app so you can literally apparently have not done it
yet but you just scan your items and put them in your cart as you're shopping and then at the end
i think she said when you first sign up you'll get a 10 discount for doing it you show the qr
code when you leave the store and then that's you paying for it i don't know like i said didn't try
it yet so easter is coming up next it's our next holiday and so i was scanning all the easter stuff
here's an example of why you should always scan the front of the item like you're taking a photo
of it because i first scanned these two pack of russell bunnies and they were there just the one
listing with the upc right but when i scanned the front look at all these other listings that popped
up so just a reminder to always scan the front also especially in stores like this i then just
went right to electronics right where i was at and there was a lot of electronics in there that came
up however they are all really high rank and the thing with electronics is you don't really want
to go or at least i don't really want to go over 10 000 and so these were all like in the 300 000
so i passed on those also in electronics when i saw like the third members mark brand thing i was
like oh okay so this is their kirkland they had it throughout and it did come up so definitely don't
just not scan it because it's their own brand same as kirkland at costco it does come up so i
was scanning those things i then went and did all the office supply area and i did find some stuff
like this lap desk it comes up in the app but it was again not a great rank for office supplies
i use jungle scout no matter what for all of my like scanning when i'm unsure about a category
it's just jungle scout dot com slash estimator one of the questions i get asked often is which
one do you sign up for and pay for i don't pay for it i only use the free one so what you do is you
put in the rank and you put in the the country that you're in and then you put in the category
and it'll tell you about how many it sells a month at that rank as we know ranks are fluid
but for office supplies i here's an example i put in 75 000 just to see what it would be
and so office supplies i really would only go up to 100 000 so i did not get the lap desk
well that's not true i got one for me because i work a lot on the couch at night and so this will
make it a lot easier but anyways so i didn't get it to sell though because the ring was too high
there's also a ton of like bundled stuff here so when it's bundled like this toy example that you
can break it apart and still sell it here's one like it makes money on one of them but it doesn't
make money on the other one and so it's not worth it for me to buy it but this i did this all day
today at the store i was looking okay here it is like this but can i break it up and what does it
give me in fact the things that i didn't buy today are bundles but i'm gonna break them up and sell
them separately in one instance or bundle them together so it's a three pack i'm gonna bundle it
as a two pack and then so yeah that is something that you really should look for here at sam's club
if you're newer to amazon selling this is what it looks like when something is sold out so when
something's sold out i go ahead and i go over to keepa and i use keeper to see what it was selling
for so you can see for example here these are pretty much selling for what i could buy them here
at sam's club so i was like even though it sold out i could technically raise the price but since
it was selling for so little it's it's highly unlikely that amazon's going to let me raise the
price too much so i just didn't even bother but say they were selling for 15 it won probably would
have been worth it and i probably could have like since it sold out edged it up to like 17 and just
seen but what happens when amazon thinks the price is too high is they will price cap it and price
alert you and you get like an alert like hey your listing was taken down because you got to fix the
price it's just a pain so now i use keepa to see like what was it selling for as a gauge to know
what i could possibly sell it for i was really typing in stuff a lot so here's another example
of some luggage that you can scan the upc and it doesn't come up but when i typed in like full like
full i don't know how you say full luggage you can see that they do come up don't make a profit and
the rank is too high but anyways just wanted to show always you want to type stuff in it does take
longer and i gotta say i was getting pretty like over it pretty quickly in there so i did like the
electronics and then the office supplies and that kind of like home area they had these
random delicious looking brownies and that's when i knew i was getting hungry they had also these
weird looking sugar cookies again how i knew i was getting hungry they don't have samples unlike
costco i don't know if this is normal or just the store or what but they did not have samples and i
was starving so i scanned really like i would at a costco and i everything there just kind of like
didn't make money it's almost like how i feel about trader joe's is that an employee must
be selling on there because it's like it'll make money with your employee discount but not so much
me shopping it so they do have special clearance and you can see the signs kind of look like this
and they also have skin and go special prices so this l'oreal item had skin and go special
price so there it's kind of interesting i don't if costco has clearance i'm not aware of it and then
i finally started to find stuff in food so here's an example i always scan spices and so this one
on its own doesn't make any good enough profit for me but when you scan the front i found this bundle
listing so here's one for you that this bundled one makes a good profit here's another ghirardelli
food item that i found now some people in the group are saying they have ip complaints but i
didn't see it i looked an ip alert i have the ip alert little app thing on my phone if you want to
try it out they give me a discount i'll link it below but anyways i searched garydeli and it came
up clean so there's no eyepiece that i know of so i would be fine selling this but again here it is
if you want to grab that one from sam's club i gotta say i'm just hoping what i bought makes
enough profit to cover the membership at this point i was not impressed but sourcing right
now in general is not that good so i'm going to go continue my sourcing day today and i'm going
to fill you in on if it got any better at other stores and if sam's club just kind of sucks or
if it's just bad everywhere i hope not because i really need a win also their pizza's not as good
as costco in case you're wondering okay really quickly because it's starting to get dark and
i'm still out here sourcing so far i gotta say the rest of the sourcing is good it's not a great day
but definitely way better than sam's club so it was sam's club always though like i will leave
costco with nothing sometimes so it just kind of happens but all in all because i didn't really
find a lot let's see one of the things i got could potentially be a replen if it does well
so who knows i might be back there but anyways thank you guys so much for watching i hope you
enjoyed this video if you want me to check out a store that you've never been to let me know and i
will make another video sourcing there as always thanks for watching and i'll see you next time