good morning and welcome back to another amazon selling video today is a sourcing video and i am
in a new town new city going to hit up all the stores that i hit up a couple weeks ago because
i'm still on the hunt for my hot products and there are quite a few of them so i counted on
my google maps and it looks like there's 10 stores it's really just walmart home goods tj
maxx marshalls you know that's basically the same store and then grocery outlets i might stop by
target also because there are a few items on the bolo list from target i'm most excited for grocery
outlet because you guys the beauty items i found are still holding their price from three weeks
ago so i got it for 19. it's currently buy box at 46.99 but mine are 49.99 and selling so i'm just
leaving my price at that when you're looking in your seller app if the buy box price like there's
only one lower seller just go ahead and keep it high especially if the rank is pretty low and this
is a pretty low rank in beauty so i just leave mine we rotate the buy box every once in a while i
get the sale the lower sellers sell off and you'll see if you're like in your manage inventory you'll
notice that it'll get a little bit higher price and then it'll go back down and that happens often
so you really have to be proactive about your pricing but anyways that is still a hot item and
i am on the lookout for it in other random nikki news i got an apple watch and this is my first
sourcing trip using it so i'm really excited to see how much calories actually burn a day sourcing
how far i walk and all of that so stay tuned i'm gonna head into this first store which is walmart
as always in these videos i will fill you in after each store let you know the total profit at the
end which you already know right now because you clicked on the video but i have no idea yet i
haven't bought a single thing and so yeah i will check back in after i see how it goes to walmart
okay so according to my apple watch i was in there for two hours and i did 130 calories so far today
i did not get a whole lot in there but i did have some good finds and a little tips for you first
thing is i totally forgot about valentine's day so i walked in and i saw all the valentine's day
candies and everything and so i just immediately went there to start scanning what you want to look
for is new and different candies things you've not seen before so there was a lot of hershey's kisses
items that i've not seen before i actually got auto ungated and hershey's kisses around
christmas time so just things to look out for and while i was scanning this popped up i thought it
was a great opportunity to talk about it because i do get this question quite often so essentially
there are two listings for this product one has a better rank and one makes more profit when you see
something like this it's totally fine to pick whichever one you want to list on usually the
lower rank or if they're kind of close you might as well just go with the one with more profit
sometimes amazon will notice this and combine the listings but i've done this before i've listed on
the higher profit listing even if it's a little bit of a higher rank honestly in grocery both are
kind of fine so you can just pick the one you want they are here at walmart another thing to look out
for is big items items that people don't really want to send in because it's like a big item this
happens in toys a lot but here we go right here this big box of chocolates it's selling for 43
dollars costs 19.98 and it's making 11 almost 12 dollars so if you want to send in big items
then this is here at walmart at this point though when you're watching this you might have to do it
fbm because we're getting a little bit too close to valentine's day but still it's here one last
note on valentine's day or any kind of seasonal so next holiday i think is either st patrick's day or
easter st patrick's day is kind of a smaller one but you could find stuff at dollar tree and then
easter is obviously going to be the next big one so always check keep it to see how the items were
doing last year if it had a good rank if price was pretty decent then you can probably pick it up and
assume that it'll be the same so always check keepa and just a quick note of encouragement if
you are having trouble scanning there is stuff out there i promise you you just have to keep
scanning because i share stuff in my bolo group if you're a part of my youtube channel you can join
it it's like the bolo group the retail arbitrage level and so you join it and you don't have to
share a bubble you just get bolos i share three to four every month while i'm out shopping from you
know bigger retailers so like walmart tj maxx so that's available to you if you want to join it so
i'm sharing stuff on the bolo group on my youtube bolo group i'm buying stuff myself and then i'm
showing you stuff in videos that's all that stuff is different i never cross over and post things in
the same one so that's just a taste of like what's out there there are stuff out there you might need
to get ungated but just keep scanning don't give up so in addition to some of the stuff i got today
i had you know those walmart secret clearances everyone's talking about it's a jurassic park
toy and it was on sale for one dollar i've never actually found like that crazy of a clearance
which leads me to always use the walmart app because you can check prices but you also will
find the hidden clearance things on there so that was a cool find i also found stuff from members
of the bowler group headshare so that's awesome in addition obviously in addition to me sharing
there's over 200 members who are sharing every month so the list has gotten quite large and that
is it i'm gonna head over to grocery outlet now and i'm really excited so let's see what we find
okay it is starting to get hot out and it's really getting full back there and i've only gone to two
stores so i got a lot of stuff at grocery outlet a lot of the things i was on the lookout for
and one of them actually at the end i was like okay well it wasn't where i got it before so it
must have been sold out and turns out it was like just on a different end cap so i was grabbing all
of them and then one of the guys who works there was like oh thank you for taking all that and
i was like i will take it all and he's like do you need a box and so he started boxing them all
up for me so i grabbed all of those they are not a big money maker they cost five dollars
and they make five dollars but man they sell so fast and i will flip that no problem so that is
a grocery item that i found there i also found a beauty item that costs 14 and it's making 27
so that's gonna be awesome can't wait to get that in there's one more grocery outlet in this town so
i'm gonna go hit that up on the way home so very quickly i'm gonna answer a couple of questions
that i got one is like what do you do when nothing comes up this actually is asked quite often so
when you're scanning and you scan the barcode and nothing comes up that just means it's not in
amazon's like inventory with that upc so if you scan the front of it like you're taking a photo
it might come up if you search it by using the words like type in the words it might
come up so there's other ways to searching but when you see that it is usually a generic item
or this thing that i scanned was icebreakers and you know how they have that like smaller like
only half of a barcode those almost never come up it just means that it's not in amazon's like
catalog but that doesn't mean that it might not be there any other way if it's like a store brand
generic thing it probably is not in there and it probably won't actually be in there because
it's a store brand specific to that store but you never know so it's often asked like why i don't
compete with amazon and i just want to clarify that all this is just my own personal stuff
a lot of sellers do things differently than i do this is just how i do it this is how i've been
doing it so i don't compete with amazon ever even on this item where it's like well you'll make a
profit and a really good rank it's just not worth tying up all my money in this item where amazon in
general is not going to give you the buy box as much because they want to sell it themselves so
that's just why i don't compete with amazon again that's just me another thing is i like five dollar
minimum profit because it gives you a buffer room to like if the price goes down you're still making
a profit whereas if you're buying it and it's only making two dollars you have very little buffer
room again that's just my own personal like what i do a lot of sellers will flip it for less profit
you can do whatever you want to do test stuff out try it and see because that's the best way selling
on amazon is just try and see and then just because it helps someone when i said it before
i'm gonna say it again always click through to see if you'll get auto ungated you might get a yes
and yay you can sell it or you might get a no so i got a yes on this product but then when i went
to check the date it was too close which brings me into you have to double check your expiration
dates 90 days out so i literally google what's 90 days from today whenever i'm shopping and
that's how you get it and then i go extra time of course but just check your expiration dates
okay so that tj maxx was good i got a lot of clearance stuff but honestly in the beginning it
was like everything was over the labels i couldn't scan the barcodes my phone all day has been having
service issues just like it's taking forever for it to pull it up which is super annoying
especially when the barcodes are covered so i was kind of getting over it but i did end up finding
a bunch of cleared stuff in the toy aisle which is great also some clothing on clearance so if
you're a new seller you can sell clothing so definitely check that out uh this is example
of one i got for six dollars and it'll make ten i found three of them like i mentioned previously i
don't sell what amazon does but if you want to do it here's a freebie it's on clearance at t.j.maxx
and then here's another one you know this is a little bit too high of a rank for me but it's
only two dollars so it's also at t.j.maxx so just a couple items to be on the lookout for
if you need help on gating and toys grocery or topical otc i got your back i can definitely
help you out my guides are affordable they come with this really amazing group actually
two groups so there's one group for each guide of sellers and they're all helping each other
get ungated but it's gone beyond that to where everyone is just super nice and friendly and
i'm very proud of it so definitely check that out if you're interested in getting ungated it
also has this a really awesome group so there's that that is really it for right now so i'm gonna
go into home goods and then there's another walmart another grocery outlet and then i'm
heading up to marshalls and possibly target so i still got a lot of academy it is 2 45.
all right i just finished in home goods i found some good items pretty much everything was grocery
i think it all was grocery actually so just really quickly i'm going to recap and tell you some tips
and then i'm gonna head up the rest of the stores because i'm getting tired and i really just need
to push through and yeah so it's still got a long day and it is now almost four so anyways so here's
a free before you it costs five dollars at home goods and it makes eleven dollars just a little
hot tip scan pasta it's super weird but go ahead and scan it because you will be surprised at some
of them especially if there's new or different or something's a little like special about it
if you're new and you're gated home goods is a perfect store because there's so much kitchen
you can scan all the pans i mean linens everything there's a lot of stuff you could spend probably a
couple hours just scanning up and down getting a feel for it so it's a really good place to start
and then if you get ungated again my guides can help you but once you're ungated they have toys
they have beauty they have grocery like it's a really good place and i think a lot of retail
arbitrages kind of skip it over because home goods is a little intense it feels like the
stuff is like coming in on you but i've gotten a lot of good finds
the last couple months from home good so definitely check it out so that is kind
of it i'm going to pack it all up i'll be packing it up in my parents house
my dad just retired so his office is empty and i'm taking it over while we are here
all right you guys this was my biggest shipment ever 513 items total i honestly can't believe it
i don't think i've ever had over 400 items so 513 is a lot and honestly so much of it is just replen
replend from the stuff that i sourced at grocery outlet and walmart a couple weeks ago i just
went back and got literally all of it because everything that i had sent started to sell and as
soon as i see that i go okay i need to hit up the other stores and i go grab more so all together
i went to three grocery outlets two walmart a tj maxx and a home goods so not a whole lot of stores
but i did fill up my truck you guys all together the profit was four thousand five hundred dollars
which is insane i sent it all in it took me i'd say 10 hours to source it all that one day and
then i probably spent another 10 hours packing it i started around like noon on the day afterwards
and then i i get to the point where i'll like put it all in on amazon and then i've got them all
counted and i print my labels and then the next day the next morning i wake up bright and early
and i start packing them i put the labels on and put them into the boxes everything did go to just
two warehouses i'm currently in oregon one went to california and the other one went to florida
so you'll see here most of them went to california 84 for the shipping on that it was a 314 pound
seven boxes barely fit in the truck and then i had another florida one which was thirty four dollars
two big boxes so you'll see here my total profit was four thousand six hundred and thirty but after
the 119 ship and again this is estimated profit because i made this spreadsheet everyone always
asks this is a spreadsheet i make specific for my videos to show you guys this is not something
i actually use and would recommend i don't make this for every shipment just the shipments where
i'm trying to show you what the profit and potential is so don't ask me for it because
i don't have it it literally is just me entering it as i go and then i have the equations which
are super simple you just go how many did i buy times how much profit it made and voila if you do
want an inventory and profit like software seller board is affordable and i use it for that purpose
exactly so you can go ahead and get two months the link is below you don't have to insert a credit
card or anything you can just try it out and see if you like it but it tells you your profit and
forecasting which i really like so anyways back to the shipment so all together i just went to
seven stores i actually was so tired i gave up on they're still in marshalls i haven't gone to
a target and another ross i didn't go to any rosses but i didn't go to that one either
so my most unit-wise category actually profit-wise also was grocery with 251 units 2 166 of profit 47
grocery is a killer category it does come and go like sometimes i don't have a lot of
groceries sometimes i have a lot normally like the last couple weeks i've had a lot of toys
but now it's just 51 toys 500 profit kitchen just a couple things clothing three items
uh my other most profitable category was health 25 of this total shipments profit came from
health you guys that's why i'm always suggesting if you're new you really want to get ungated and
those it's why i created that guide first when i created my guides because it is so important to
helping your business grow you can grab the guides below if you'd like they are always in every video
but honestly that is where i would spend my money as a new seller hands down totally recommend it
so here i also broke it out by replans again my replans are things that i've sold either last
week last couple months or that i sold last year or a year two years ago honestly some of the stuff
i found i was like oh i sold this two years ago it's still here some of it's actually been in
some of my videos because i didn't think i'd find it again but i did so anyways there are replans
re-plan this is a replenished shipment let me tell you three thousand dollars sixty-six percent
but also it had a lot of bolo help these are all bolo leads that i got from the group not
ones that i shared ones that other sellers in their group are sharing and they are helping me
almost a thousand dollars came from the bolo group in just one trip sourcing so the group
honestly pays for itself if you know how to use it and you use it wisely it's there for
you how it works is we every seller in there is sharing at least one item i share like three or
four every time i go sourcing a lot of sellers actually share more because it is an awesome group
an awesome community of people everyone is really nice and helpful so if you want to join it it is
there for you if you are a new seller i highly recommend getting ungated first and then coming
in and joining it but if your funds are unlimited and you want to join both you are very welcome to
i just think that your money is better spent getting ungated first and then hop over if you
want anyways that's always available to you also just wanted to share that because shout out to
the awesome polo group they are helping me every shipment all the time the total roi so i spent
three thousand seven hundred forty seven dollars which is kind of a lot i don't usually spend that
much is usually around two thousand but i got 124 roi and you guys a lot of these items like i said
are still selling for two weeks ago i got them they're still selling at 49 and i got more of them
all that i could find at 20 all these things are out there you just have to be wise and when you
see something good and it takes off go get as much more as you can obviously wisely don't go crazy
but sometimes you do i hope this video was helpful and inspiring you to just start and get out there
go scan scan everything scan some more keep scanning it is so worth it it pays off you guys
as always thank you so much for watching and i'll see you back here for another amazon selling video
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