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 for amazon fba it is now january and we
are high on q4 right it's officially over however january is pretty much a q4 bonus month where
everything still sells historically for me my january is always just as well as my december
and november so definitely if you have the inventory and your shelves on amazon are stocked
you can expect some pretty good numbers for january so today we're gonna head out and see
just what is there to source in january i'm to take you with me to ollie's bargain outlet now
ollie's is pretty much took over almost everywhere there was a toys r us so if there was a toys r
us in your area but obviously it's no longer there check and see if it's now on all these
i've heard so many times people are like there's no ollies by me only to find out there is one
so i have a rental car this morning because damien is headed out to our land here in
oklahoma with the truck i need a new sourcing car anyways so this is kind of interesting
to try out a different car anyways let's head over to ollie's and see what there is
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okay so first off i can just tell you that january's still a great month to source
i did really good in there so first up when you walk in is obviously books there are so
many books here i often kind of pass by them because when i do scan them
takes forever they don't really make any money books are an odd category because
they uh tend to like i don't know if it's way more or it's just amazon's like original bread
and butter and so the fees are always higher on books also amazon's usually selling them all
so when the fee higher amazon is selling and then they don't make as much like it can cost
it can be a 20 retail book and you can get it for five dollars but the fee eats up all that extra
money and so now you're not making the five dollar minimum anyways but so becky from if you're in any
of my groups you know becky she told me about a book so i decided to go ahead and scan some
books i didn't find the one she shared with me but look at these ones that i did find so if you don't
mind amazon selling here's a good one that i found here's one that i found but i'm not going to share
and then here's a couple other ones with books you can go really high the rank you can go
up to a million obviously i wouldn't go like super heavy the higher the rank gets but
books do sell there's so many books that you can go up to a million in rank also i think whoever
had sold these books like whoever sold them to ollie's when they were marking them out they
sharpied the corners of all of them so there's a lot of books here ollies um this is unfortunate on
these high ticket ones that they did that so you would just have to sell them used to use
like new and then of course you can say like this is pretty much new just there's this mark on it
but yeah they're all shrink wrap too so that was cool here are some grocery and personal items that
i found at all these i am blurring out the ones that i shared in the bolo groups of course so
don't get mad at me but they're in the bolo groups there's a lot of bundle options at ollie's in both
health and grocery so this is an example of coffee you just have to bundle it as a three pack doesn't
quite make 50 roi so i couldn't share in the bowler group so i decided to share it here for you
health foods are also big this time of year you just want to make sure that the expiration dates
are far enough out so it needs to be 120 days out you got to check expiration dates on pet food on
health and beauty on grocery baby food anything that has an expiration date
if it does not have an expiration date and amazon asks for one when you're sending it to amazon i
just make one up a year out because listen i'm not the manufacturer i didn't make the product i'm not
going to place an expiration date on the product however because amazon's asking for it i just tell
them it's a year out you can do the work and look up the lot number and all that if you want to but
that's just what i do and here is your reminder to ask for approval always ask for approval now
if you see something like this that means you were not approved and you would need an invoice
but sometimes you just get the congratulations you're auto approved so always ask it never hurts
sometimes you get approved i got auto approved and quite a bit in there but i just shared this
one just so you know this is what it means if you're not approved so if you should
definitely sign up for ollie's uh program shopping program if you're not already because you get 10
off coupons all the time so not only do they take your tax exempt but they also you will use these
10 off coupons so you don't have to pay tax and you get 10 off which is awesome when you spend
a lot like i do the coupons pile up i literally had like i want to say 10 that expired because
they expired on the 3rd of january and it is the 4th however i did have one left so that was
awesome because i needed it today but now that i spent so much money there it's going to send
me a bunch more in a week or two so you want to stockpile those coupons as much as you can
they also have other discounts and programs like every once a while you'll get a 15
off coupon but anyways definitely be a member uh because i was talking about that why i started
bringing that up was because they i noticed that in the flyers and their emails they had a 35
off toy sale so all these tables were empty there was no toys to be had i mean that's not true they
did have one table of toys and then they had the regular aisles of toys that they always have but
there was not a lot of toys there today but that's okay because literally everything else sells there
was a lot of stuff in there let me continue on so this yarn you gotta scan everything and i
mean everything and it's long and it's tedious especially when you're new and you're seeing
restricted on everything or you're like there can't possibly be anything that makes profit
here is some yarn now the rank is kind of high in home but in home it's not a bad rank that high so
it's here at ollie's there's a few others i just scanned some of them just to show you that there
is literally stuff everywhere i've sold yarn from tuesday morning i've sold yarn from ocean state
job lot when i was on the east coast there's yarn almost all the different stores so scan it you can
probably find some bundles too like at walmart but anyways definitely don't sleep on crafts and yarn
while i was scanning in the kitchen area i scanned these wine glasses and i thought it
was a great opportunity just to show you that this is what it looks like when it's sold out
but when it's sold out i tend to go to kipa so i went over to keep it and scanned it
and there in the historical offers at the end you just filter to the historical offers you can see
what it was selling for now it's still tricky because you don't necessarily know the fees but
you can see this was selling for up to 30 dollars of course when things are sold out like this
you can go as high as you want to i mean sometimes amazon price cap stuff but these kind of wine
glasses it's a pretty well known brand i'm sure you can go pretty high on it in fact if you look
on keep it you can see what it was going for so you can feel comfortable that you can go that high
keepa is essential it is a paid app to get all the best perks of it but it's only i think 19 euros
which is like 22 us dollars a month and honestly if you're gonna sell on amazon you it's almost you
have to have it you don't obviously you can sell without it but it tells you so much information
to make wise decisions that you really need keepa okay so i mentioned pet food earlier
here's a pet food item that i quickly found it doesn't make obviously five dollars profit but
there's a so much pet food out there that does make a profit if you need help on gating and
the topical grocery un-gating group there is a distributor in there where you can get ungated in
pet food i don't think it's a you know a must-have but if you already need to get ungated and you're
placing an order you might as well add some pet food to that order and get ungated in that
category i rounded out my trip to all these with the health and personal area like the
the real isles the beginning was just you know what's out on display and just your reminder to
scan toothpaste toothpaste is my every year year-round staple it changes what flavors and
brands i'm selling what two packs three packs whatever but i'm always selling toothpaste and
i'm always scanning it you guys some of them sell for so much money it's kind of crazy it must be a
real good flavor so you definitely want to scan everything even suave which you would
probably normally think like that's the cheap brand right but apparently on amazon it's worth
a lot of money so here's a suave example of what i found so all together i got a lot of categories
i got the topical grocery health and personal care i got books i got clothing did you know they have
clothing here also so definitely scan all the clothing especially name brand package stuff
you want to scan those also some home and kitchen products and you guys one of the products that i
found i showed in the beginning blurred out just that one that i found could profit over a thousand
dollars and i got so many other things so there's definitely stuff out there in january don't think
there isn't especially now stars are starting to get all their new stuff so get out there and scan
i hope you guys enjoyed this video and it was helpful thank you so much
for watching i will see you back here again for another amazon selling video
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