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 four years now all from
my fifth wheel rv which is currently out here in beautiful montana so in today's video i'm gonna be
answering all of the frequently asked questions around amazon ungating and my ungating guides
and courses so hopefully this video is helpful and before i get into that i just wanted to say
why i started these guides or created them in the first place when i first heard about selling on
amazon doing retail arbitrage i was living in los angeles in an apartment but i was getting ready to
move into a rv to travel the country full-time so i needed something to do because i did not
want to do my nine-to-five desk job even though i probably could have done it remote i just didn't
want to do that anymore so i did some research and i ultimately settled on a course that i
purchased because that's the way i learned best is by someone like step by step telling me how
to do it which fun fact that's how i teach because that's how i learn best but anyways
so that's how i started back in 2017. while i was in la though before we took off i actually was a
part of a fitness community online kayla etnis i don't know if you guys know who that is the sweat
community but this was before it was called sweat and all of that so we used to host bbg which is
what it was called meetups in los angeles and i would film them and put the videos up on youtube
so fast forward to when i started selling on amazon i had already kind of been making
videos for youtube so for whatever reason i actually filmed me from the very beginning of
my amazon journey now i put it out there i'll link the first video here if you want to see it but it
says i started out by saying if you're watching this video then i have become a successful amazon
seller and if you watch it i'm saying it all timid like against the rv super quiet because i hated
the sound of my voice maybe i was just putting it out there that i'm going to be successful at this
and you know i was just projecting it forward that one day someone is gonna watch this video
even if it was never gonna be anyone but me but honestly quitting amazon never crossed my mind
so i guess i did know it was gonna work out in the end so when i was successful after five months of
selling i pulled out a profit and started paying myself every month from my amazon selling business
i started to talk about it and i talked about it on instagram because that is my main like
social media where i prefer to be it's just easy i like photos all that kind of stuff
so before youtube i was definitely on instagram so i started talking about it then and i got some
friends and followers asking me a lot of questions so i would answer them here and there and then
in may of 2019 i actually started the bolo group be on the lookout it was created to help these
new sellers who are asking me what to buy what should we buy like it was created so that they
could talk to each other ask questions tell each other what they're buying where they're
finding it and just be in a safe place where we all respect and are going to not you know
tear those leads or tank the price on all of that so that was why i created the bolo group
and then from the bolo group they sellers were asking me in the group how do you get ungated
and i had gotten ungated myself back in october of 2017 i actually went through the whole process of
how to get ungated in grocery place my order and all of that and so i knew how to do it and then
fast forward to 2019 that same supplier actually could engage sellers with a lot of different
categories so there was grocery topical otc tons of different brands like huggies and all that
crest dove all those that you need to get ungated and that supplier had them for one low cost
so i went ahead and created a guide of step by step how to do it from there i also knew how to
get on get it at toys at that point so i went ahead and i made a separate toy guide now the
reason they're separate is because they are two different suppliers that's the only reason if it
was one supplier for all i would have one guide that says you could do it all here since they're
separate i break down the process for the specific supplier literally how to open an account how to
search their website all of that stuff is in each guide so that again is why they're separate and
then fast forward this year i actually created my third guide which is all around the premium brands
like nike adidas under armor so those bigger brands that sellers were asking me how to get
ungated i went ahead and made a guide on what i know everything that i've created from these free
youtube videos to my guides courses polo group it has all been from sellers asking me for help
so selling on amazon i still sell it is still my favorite thing to do like i love going sourcing i
don't necessarily like packing it up but i love selling the stuff so that will always be
my favorite thing and i also really enjoy helping sellers along the way and these things just came
out of people asking me for my help i actually have some really big plans to continue to grow
my amazon selling business next year so i'm super excited and i'll share all that as it happens but
my amazon selling business is still the favorite thing i love to do okay so that's how the guides
were created and why i created them now let me jump into the frequently asked questions around
the guides and on gating if you're wondering what engaging even means it has actually a frequently
asked question here on youtube i'm sure as people are searching and they hear me talking and they're
like what the heck is that ungaining means you are restricted on amazon so you'll see either a
restricted or request approval or approval needed or a red bar it looks a little different i'll
flash a couple right here but no matter what it is it just means that you can't sell it your amazon
account cannot sell that item you are gated so you get ungated which is not a term i came up with it
was just the term that was in the amazon universe so that's what i use for my guides some people
are asking me if that guides are still relevant and working yes they are like i said the premium
brand one i just created four months ago now the topical and toys un-gating group has actually been
updated quite a few times so they are still relevant and working in any new updates i make
sure to update the guides there's also so much information both the toy on gating guide and
the topical grocery have their own facebook group so if you have both guides you could
be in both groups but there's so much additional information and helpfulness that come from those
and i'm going to show i'm going to take a break throughout this thing
just to show you some of the recent successes because i think it's important not to just
hear from me but from here from real sellers who are sharing in the group their successes
so in addition to the three us guides i actually have two canada guides a canada toy and a canada
topical grocery guide so if you are a canadian seller those are available to you those suppliers
will ship to canada the us guide suppliers will not so please don't buy the wrong guide
because the supplier might not send to you one of the other most frequently asked questions is
can you get a gated on amazon without ever having sold anything and the answer is yes
it doesn't have anything to do with your account and like how many sales you've had you can open
your account today and then tomorrow start getting ungated before you ever make your first sale
another question i get asked a lot is what about my receipts from walmart won't those work
no amazon is requiring an invoice a valid invoice from a supplier or distributor or wholesaler or
whatever you want to call them it has to be a business invoice it cannot be a store receipt
another question i've been asked is what do you do if amazon asks for an invoice
well this is when you get ungated if they're asking for an invoice that simply means your
account is gated now in the amazon app or even on the desktop you can go ahead and request approval
which i always recommend doing because you never know what you might get auto approved and
auto and gated that's when you ask for approval and you are approved you don't have to have an
invoice at all but if it asks for an invoice at that point is when you have to have an invoice
another question is what guide should you start with if you are a new seller i always recommend
the topical and grocery guide that's where i would go first just because for a small amount
of money around 250 dollars you can get ungated in so many categories that is why i suggest that
it opens up so many high profit categories but you can start wherever you want honestly if you
are seeing more of the premium brands out there or if you want to start with toys you can do that too
another question i'm often asked is do i guarantee it i can't guarantee it
i can't guarantee it's going to get you because i'm not amazon and amazon who is who is approving
your account and saying yes you can sell in these categories based on your invoice
so that's nothing i control i it works it's worked for thousands of sellers so there's no reason to
say that it won't work but i can't guarantee it do you have to have an llc no you do not have to
have an llc or business license to sell on amazon or get ungated if you have a resale certificate
so that's another question do you have to have a resale certificate
you do have to for the toy guide and the toy guide only for the topical and the grocery
and the premium brand you don't have to have a business or llc or a resale certificate you as
a sole proprietor as you are can get ungated for the toy you do have to have a business license or
a resale certificate which is a tax license from your state so you do have to have one of those
for the toy guide but for the other you do not now you can get a resale certificate as a sole
proprietor from your state you don't have to have an llc or business for that so just so you know
another question i've asked about the guide is does it come with an invoice or a letter
no it tells you how to place your order to get your invoice it does not come with the invoice
or letter i'm telling you the real way of how you as a business can place your order and when
i say business i mean you are running an amazon business that's what i mean by business but i'm
telling you how you can place your order to get the invoice you need and everything you
need to do to make sure it works another question is do you have to buy 10 of every
single item or can i buy two of those two of this so it's 10 units total on the invoice
you have to buy 10 of every item that you want to be approved in so if you're trying to do toy
story it has to be 10 toy story things if you're trying to do mattel it has to be 10
mattel things if you're trying to do grocery it has to be 10 of the same grocery item now there
are ways and i talk about it in the guide how you can do like i use a frozen uno card as an example
because that won't get you for frozen probably disney and also toy category and also mattel so
that's something that you could get ungated in four different things by just one purchase of 10
items but you do have to do 10 items and this is not a requirement that i'm saying it's from amazon
so if you've hit request approval for the invoice then you'll see that amazon is asking for 10 items
do the guides tell you what to buy no they do not and the reason is that the suppliers
inventory changes all the time so i tell you how to look through it and how to identify products
like i just talked about that uno card game but you have to dig through the current suppliers
inventory to find an item for your account because every amazon seller's account is different what is
gated for me might not be gated for you or vice versa so you have to check your own account but
i walk you through all of that in detail so that you can make sure you don't mess up on your order
apart from the guide costs what can you expect to spend as i said in the topical grocery otc guide
you can expect to spend anywhere from 200 and 250 dollars the minimum order is 200 which is why with
shipping it comes out to and depending on what you order it could be as little as 250 dollars to on
get you and as always your orders are expenses on your taxes their tax write-offs for your business
so there is that perk even though it is an expense right now for toys there's no minimum order and
for the premium brand there's no minimum order so it's all up to you you can piecemeal it you can
order here and there you can order however much money you have when i did the under armour and
jordan i spent eighty dollars and ninety dollars so it was like 170 i think all together on toys
i think i spent about 500 i can't remember it was like back in 2018 now but but i got out and gated
in all the categories that i needed like star wars marvel uh wwe mattel all those kind of things
so again for the topical grocery it's 200 250 and for the other guys it's whatever you want
to spend or can spend of that time there's no minimum order now this is probably one of my
most frequently emailed questions they want to know it says on amazon it says an invoice
and a letter how can i get the letter from nike it's actually an either or question it's saying
you can have an invoice or a letter and since you have an invoice you don't have to worry
about the letter part how do the invoices come do they come in the mail or are they emailed to
you it varies by the supplier but for the most part they all come in the box with your shipment
after you submit the 10 items to amazon that's on the invoice do you have to sell them can you sell
them somewhere else you do not have to sell the items that you are buying in fact sometimes most
times they won't make a profit but you shouldn't be looking to make a profit when you're trying to
place your own gaining order you just want to get ungated so you could donate them you can try and
sell them you can sell them on another marketplace or i think some people do facebook marketplace to
sell them so wherever you want to do with them you do not have to sell them on amazon so those
are my most frequently asked questions again every video i have has the links so you just click below
and all the links to this guides are there for you as well as my beginner fba selling course and the
bulba group so whatever you need or if you just want to hang out with me here on youtube you are
so welcome too i enjoy making these videos and i will be back for more thank you guys so much
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out these videos for you guys here thank you so much and have a great week and happy sourcing
you