hi and welcome back to another amazon seller video it is raining here in oregon so i've been forced
inside to do my videos for now if you're new to my channel my name is nikki kirk and today i'm just
going to go over a couple of like comments really because that's all they are about retail arbitrage
and scanning in store and what do the employees think and all of that so really quick let me just
read the two comments that i'm going to share today one was from a youtube user scott he says
how long do you awkwardly or suspiciously scan before finding something do you get hassled
by the staff and then i had a member of the bolo group ask this i am new to amazon and doing retail
arbitrage for the past four weeks i am curious if scanning at the stores presents issues has anyone
experienced being followed by walmart security is scanning legal is retail arbitrage legal
then when i was checking out at the self checkout he was watching me has anyone experienced this
what do you say when people ask you why you're buying so much of one thing so this is actually
kind of a fun video to make because it's amusing but in the beginning this was a legit fear that
i had so i'm sure a lot of you also have this fear that you're doing something wrong or illegal
first retail arbitrage is completely legal you are not doing anything illegal there's
actually a supreme court case which says that a retailer cannot tell you that you can't sell
something if you've bought it legally from that retailer so it is completely legal but that does
not mean that some brands and retailers will make your life a little bit of a headache so
i'm sure you're aware that target has a policy against resellers and then there's some brands
where i'm sure you've heard that there's like ip complaints or they'll say it's counterfeit
and so that's why some brands are restricted on amazon because the brand wants to protect itself
now i totally understand both of these scenarios like a brand doesn't want any counterfeit issues
like we literally just bought a battery for my canon camera and the battery says canon and when
i put the battery into the camera the camera is like does it say canon because we think this is a
counterfeit battery somehow the camera knows that so it's it's things like that that obviously canon
is protecting themselves and on the store level it makes sense target doesn't want someone like
me coming in and buying 10 of the hot toy when literally 10 different families can get it for
their kid you know so it makes sense on the one hand for target specifically i just order online
and i'll order as many as they let me so it's usually four to six and then i place multiple
orders for six and it works fine so there's workarounds um but at the end of the day like
i said while you're doing while what you're doing is legal do you really want to be fighting battles
with brands and all that so if a brand sends me a letter i will just i don't respond to the
brand but i do like say okay i'm probably going to stop selling that or i price to move that's just
what i do please please please don't just listen to what i do on these kind of legal things i'm
just telling you my experience that went down a little rabbit hill but just to fill you in a
little bit on that part of it as far as scanning and target because they aren't reseller friendly
they also have an app though so i could literally just be a shopper scanning in target and because
of this i've totally scanned in the toy aisle with employees right there and i'm going to
kind of try to hide what i'm doing but at the same time i'm not really concerned about it
walmart on the other hand is incredibly reseller friendly in fact if you didn't know if you have
a sales tax license or sales tax certificate or resale certificate they are all the same
thing just like many different names you get it from your state's department of revenue and you
can literally take it to the walmart customer service desk and they will give you a little
card where you are now tax exempt every time you shop at walmart obviously only for your
retail business i recently got my card i for three years did not use this card because i was i don't
i don't even know if you want to see the whole video i shared the whole process of me going
through and getting it but i wish i would have got it sooner because that was such a like don't
do what i do mistake you could be saving money and making more profit if you just get your little tax
card so walmart is super reseller friendly so you have nothing to worry about as far as the person
following you around unfortunately there are some walmarts that are like more locked up and secure
it could be that it's in a big city it could be they are profiling you for whatever reason
i don't know why people profile anyone so it could be any of those things like i went to i think it
was in vegas we were at walmart and literally everything was locked up like baby formula and
otc over-the-counter medicines cold medicines everything you needed a key and then when i got
them which was kind of weird because i was buying like six of them she had to like put them in one
of those other lock things and hand it to me and then i go to the cashier and then they undo it
so there are some areas i guess of the country where walmart is like this but i have to say i've
only been in a handful of them all over the us so for the most part that's not a really big thing
at walmart even still with all that you are not doing anything wrong and walmart is totally fine
just a little bit more of a hassle and time waste i think but whatever so now here's the real behind
the reason of the fear of like what you think other people are thinking of you we're just
hyper aware of what we're doing and of ourselves in general and i hate to break it to you but
other people don't care about us like we like to think what they do so it is incredibly and highly
likely that the people are not even noticing you at all cashiers or the clerks or other customers
you might think they're noticing you or thinking you're weird but that's just you projecting your
own stuff because they probably didn't even know you're there honestly so don't worry about it
i get it because i have the same fears like everyone's watching me and i'm just thinking
that i'm crazy or weird or what the heck is that lady doing sometimes customers will oh are you
price comparing and i'm like yeah sure to amazon uh-huh that's what i'm doing so it's just whatever
i mean i get in the zone and i just keep scanning and so when people talk to me i'd probably because
i have a resting [ __ ] face don't actually look like i am being nice but um i just in my zone
scanning so i try to be like oh yeah i'm on amazon you know or i really like that item or whatever
one time when i was in tj maxx one of the clerks or stock people i'm not sure what you call them in
the aisle like restocking the beauty aisle she was asking me what i was doing and i told her
that i scanned to sell them on amazon and then she which i got to say i was a little scared i do
get scared telling people what i'm doing because i still think like i'm doing something wrong or the
store's gonna kick me out but i'll fill you in on why that's not a problem anymore but at this time
i was still nervous and i'd like oh i'll just tell her what i'm doing so she told me actually
there's another guy who comes into that stores and he scans the watches and he will buy them
and resell them on ebay or something so they're literally it happens all the time at ollie's i was
checking out and the guy asked me if my husband shops there and i was like no why it was like
literally the first time i've ever been to the ollies and he said oh there's a guy who comes in
here and he buys a lot of stuff and he sells them on amazon also so and then he went on to tell me
like what the guy buys which is totally not what i would buy or what i was buying so it's just
that's why i'm always saying there's something for everyone on amazon people source different
things i have a friend i chat with often who sells on amazon and she doesn't sell a lot of the stuff
i sell even though we're telling each other leads we still are sourcing our own different things so
anyways so if you watch that video where i do get my sales tax exempt card for walmart i talk
about how i always still had that fear that i was doing something wrong but i have to tell you now
that i've been using my resale certificate what i'm outsourcing at tj maxx home goods marshalls
ross is hit and miss they will probably tell you they don't take it but you can always try ollie's
tuesday morning so now that i'm using it all those places and obviously the cashiers know what i'm
giving them it just makes me like confirms that yeah you are not doing anything wrong because
the stores are used to this obviously people do it like you know does that make sense so that just
kind of like helps me see like yeah obviously it's nothing to be worried about so i have a lot more
confidence when out there shopping now and you guys that took what is i'm almost in my fourth
year so learn from me don't wait so long get your confidence you're not doing anything wrong when it
comes to what the cashiers say or think when i'm buying 500 sunscreens or really was probably 50
sunscreens i just go with whatever they think so if they say oh you really like this product yep oh
you must be having a party yup oh you have a lot of kids yep like i just agree with them because
they're gonna think what they're gonna think and it just makes the conversation shorter to let them
know they're right sometimes i'll tell my resell it really just depends how you're feeling and how
you handle any of these situations totally depends on your personality so i know some members of the
bolo group will like so someone at target was like security kept coming up to them and talking
to them and so she just was like well fine you can walk me around the storm i've got more shopping to
do so he literally like walked with her and then i think she had him hold her bags like carrier
bags out to our car so i mean it's all what you're willing to do i am not a confrontational person so
i feel like i would be like and then leave but you know if you have that personality i mean
if security is following you around why don't you just ask them why and what's the worst
that's gonna happen you're not doing anything wrong so just like all things on amazon as you
get going you get your groove and you'll get more confidence as you go and it won't seem as awkward
and you probably won't even notice other shoppers around you because you're just doing what you're
doing you're not alone that it's awkward and kind of feels weird when you're starting out so you're
not alone but you're not doing anything wrong and there's no reason to feel awkward or weird
especially since a lot of the stores are totally fine with resellers i'll just leave you with one
of the funny things that happens to me it's usually at marshalls and tj maxx in the beauty
aisle as i'll be scanning all the different beauty products right and there's another customer there
and she they always want to know like they kind of i could see them like watching me like looking
at what i'm putting back and they'll pick up the thing and it's like the fear of missing
out like i know about hot products and they kind of want to know sometimes they will ask me oh is
that good like what is that and then i'm always like oh yeah it's good that i'm buying them all
but sometimes i'm just like oh i don't know and then i just keep going but it's always funny to
me that it's happened enough that it is amusing to me that they always like what do you what's
over there that must be a good one so if you have any funny stories of customers cashiers
store clerks whatever feel free to comment them below because we could all use a good laugh and if
you have any concerns about this i hope that this just helps you that you don't have to be concerned
you're not doing anything wrong just continue on and find those things because you got to keep
scanning scan scan scan scan everything to find the high profit items on amazon thank you guys
so much for watching this video and i'll see you right back here for another amazon selling video
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