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selling video I'm Nikki Kirk and today I'm taking you sourcing with me for Retail Arbitrage
to sell on Amazon I set it all out of black that's not how I normally say it so now it
sounds weird anyways we're going to Costco today I am not having a great day sourcing
I went to Walmart Target Marshalls I did the best at Marshalls um so I'm excited to go
to Costco because personally I absolutely love Costco just as a consumer and it's always
fun to Source here and it's been a couple months since I have been so I'm excited to
head in it is July 5th and so I think they might have this like holiday item that I get
every year here I don't know if it's too early yet but we shall see first order of business
though is I have not yet done my tax exempt at Costco because I'm in Oklahoma now and
my tax exempt did not used to be from Oklahoma and so they wouldn't take it since it wasn't
here they like wanted a letter saying I wouldn't sell anywhere in Oklahoma it was very bizarre
but now I have an Oklahoma tax exempt certificate so that's my first order business I'm gonna
head in and go straight to the member counter and get that added to my membership you do
have to like upgrade to the business or something so if you have a regular Costco membership
which FYI pay for all your memberships with your business because that's why you're sourcing
here right so I have Sam's Club my business pays for Costco my business pays for but I
think you have to upgrade from a regular membership to business or something I'm not sure anyways
I did that last time even though I didn't end up getting tax exempt I'm just rambling
now so let's head into Costco and see what we can find [Applause] [Music] ha
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okay so first thing I went in and got my new card executive I guess I don't know they had
to take a photo which is kind of funny because I didn't shower this morning so my hair is
a little crazy but whatever it's just Costco card um side note did you see that Kardashians
where she like got all Glam for her DMV because I literally just watched that and so I was
like oh my gosh anyways so after that I always get everything in that first like aisle I
just like scan it because all that stuff is the stuff that is currently on promotion which
every single little bit of like pennies cents dollars matter here because the margins are
always so close I don't know if there's people who work at Costco and sell on Amazon or if
it's just sellers doing bulk and working on like 10 margins I really don't know but it's
always super slim so I did find a couple of things in that first aisle the main thing
I wanted to give as a takeaway is to always look for bundles especially places like Costco
bundles bundles bundles so you can see here this is what happens when I scan the UPC and
then if I scan the front like a photo all these other listings pop up so you want to
make sure you're doing that you also want to make sure the brand is the brand so a lot
of sellers are making their own listings and if you have a registered brand on Amazon well
then your brand will be the brand so if it's supposed to be Kirkland it should be Kirkland
if you see other random names like you see here that means it's another seller and in
all likelihood you will most likely get an IP or no not an IP a counterfeit because when
you register your brand with Amazon you have to get a trademark and all that but when you
register it with Amazon to make your own listings like that you can then get people off your
listing so just something to watch always I talk about all the time because I've been
hit with it when you don't notice you don't always notice the brand doesn't match and
so if you list on it you could get a counterfeit which is just annoying to deal with the other
reminders always ask for approval just because it says you're not approved don't take that
as the final answer go ahead and click through so I was able to get Auto approved in this
and then after that step I also want to make sure it's not an IP brand so I headed over
to IP alert to put it in there and everything checked out so that one looks like it should
be good if you want to get IP alert I have a 30 off promo code they've given me all the
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you can go to yoursellingguide.com IP alert or click the link in these video notes I also
did a quick drive-by of the appliances because we're gonna need for the shop which hopefully
soon now a fridge washer dryer and dishwasher so that's exciting so Q4 is fast approaching
and they had Halloween stuff they had the holiday stuff they had my holiday stuff that
I was specifically looking for I've sold it every year however I think it's like so new
and they're all new designs this year so I didn't get it I I really don't want to make
the bundle or whatever make my own listing for it um so I'm going to check back in a
month and see if anyone else has made the listing for me but anyway so Halloween when
you're gonna look for Halloween costumes now people are mixed reviews I sell Halloween
costumes every year I make good money on it I don't have a lot of returns other sellers
will get a lot of returns and then they stop doing Halloween costumes uh in next year so
it's all up to you I still do them I think I've only got like two or three returns which
honestly is worth it to me returns are just a part of business and they aren't they don't
get like abundance of Halloween returns so anyways so these Halloween costumes I wanted
to just show you what to look for and maybe this is why people are getting returns if
they don't notice it exactly every store will have different Halloween costumes and they
might look exactly the same so like this example it has a cape and at first glance the one
at Costco didn't look like it has a cape but then I read the little placard and it says
it does come with the cape so sometimes they come with like shoe cover things sometimes
they don't so you really have to look at all the details for those Halloween costumes to
make sure that what you're listing on is exactly the same product there's like deluxe there's
regulars all everything in between do your research another way to scan for Halloween
costumes is to scan the front of the item so typically that photo they're using to show
the costume on the packaging is the same photo they'll use on Amazon so just double check
to make sure those work a lot of times the upcs won't come up for Halloween costumes
but you can scan the front and find it it takes a lot of work to find those Halloween
costumes so definitely be on the lookout keep those prices High there's no reason to price
tank we are all gonna make money they're selling for a lot of money Halloween is a Cash Cow
of a holiday so definitely make sure you jump on it as soon as you start to see Halloween
stuff these ones didn't make a profit so I had to leave them here I like to go through
the Costco clothing personally and also for resell so I typically own kids clothing
all clothing gets a lot of returns it's a lot of returns like I would say 50 of your
stuff is going to get returned so it is a numbers game but with kids stuff people generally
know the kids sizes and there's not a lot of flux like there is with adult sizes for
whatever reason so I typically do kids so unless there's like Adidas and Nike type stuff
in the adult clothing everything I will go with the kids one time I did Adidas adult
pants and I guess they were a little more slim cut than the people thought they would
be so that sucked so some of those got returned but I do the packaged like bras package socks
um t-shirts all that kind of stuff in the package as well as the kids clothing so here
was a Carter's example I scanned it like I was taking a photo of the clothing and it
came up only thing is this one at Costco it was the same exact set except it had an extra
shirt at Costco and I don't really think anyone's gonna be mad about getting the extra shirt
so if it was worth it it wasn't worth it to sell on that one but that's okay like you've
taken a risk anytime you sell something that's different so if it has a couple more vitamins
then the listing I mean if you're if they're getting 365 and the listing says 330 I don't
think anyone's gonna be mad about that if they get an extra shirt again I don't think
anyone's gonna be mad about that it's when you do the opposite so if they're expecting
400 and you send 350 they're going to be mad right but in general it's a risk but you can
take it if you want so I'm having to take AC breaks because it is hot here in Oklahoma
even though it looks like it's gonna thunderstorm it's hot so I think we're at a new camera
angle again because the camera fell every time I turn the AC on anyways so where was
I oh I went through the home area here's a couple finds from the home section then I
went through the food area so here's a couple of finds from the food area here's a fine
that I'm not gonna share because look at that profit so I got I loaded up my cart with that
item the limo is 10 because they're on sale for eight dollars normal prices I think 11
or 12 dollars so they'll still make money but at that price I got all 10 of them and
then I got a couple more at the higher price so I mean just that one item right there it
was 150 profit for the 10. that one find is really my gold mine of a fine from today and
it might be a replay so that's awesome I hope this video was helpful if you want to join
me in what I'm sourcing all day every day and especially through Q4 look at joining
the bolo group it's open year round and coming up in August the Q4 group will be open so
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you will be the first to know so yeah I hope this video was helpful thank you guys so much
for watching I'm gonna continue on with my sourcing trip today and I will see you back
here for another Amazon selling video
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