hey guys thanks for joining me for a new
video first and foremost i fixed my
microphone so no more terrible audio
quality
coming through that headset that i used
yesterday but today i want to talk about
amazon fba it's been a while since i
talked about it on my channel because
the fba videos don't draw as big of an
audience
which by the way is a quick quick note i
mean that's because fba has a higher
barrier of entry and guess what
higher barrier of entry means means less
competition
so everybody that talks about like oh i
can't get sales on redbubble you know
redbubble's like the lowest barrier of
entry way to launch an e an e-commerce
business
where you can get it done in like an
hour you know you can have a listing for
sale online in like an hour or less if
you've never been on redbubble before
whereas fba there's like way more to it
so it makes sense that these videos
don't draw as big of a crowd but anyways
today i want to talk about
inventory removals i'm going to show you
how you can fulfill orders from
your fba inventory to you know if you
have your own shopify store or something
you can fulfill orders over there or you
can remove your inventory to yourself
and use it if you want a copy of your
product or you want to keep one on hand
or you want to use it whatever
you can do that and you can set up
automatic inventory removals
for unfulfillable products is most
likely while you do it why you would do
it
also at the end i'm going to talk about
the fba donations program which is a
good option for supporting charities
with your
inventory that you don't want don't need
or want to get rid of so
let's jump into
all right real quick before we start let
me introduce myself i'm ryan hogue i've
sold over 1.8 million
on amazon to date i have a fba facebook
community there's a link in the
description i'd love to have you there
and i have a free fba mini course seven
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completely free to join if you'd like to
give me your email address it'll help
you
find and source your first product all
right let's talk
inventory removals from amazon fba and
first let's start with a reference like
what does this even
mean so you know with fba we buy our
inventory we
house it at the amazon fba fulfilled by
amazon
warehouses and fulfillment centers i've
actually had the ability to go and tour
one because i live like an hour away
from one of them
and i think there's only like six
locations in the united states that are
open for
touring and i had to like book it like
six or seven months in advance it was
crazy but i was happy i got the
opportunity to do it it's good to see
um you know what's really going on and i
know if you guys are paying attention to
the news
it's typically not positive news when
they talk about how the employees are
treated there i'm not gonna lie when i
was there it was loud
and it was busy but anyways different
story for a different day
all right so let's look at the reference
for required removals
so the amazon services business
solutions agreement requires that you
remove
all unsuitable units from amazon
fulfillment centers we will notify you
via automated email if you have any
inventory you must remove
unsuitable units include those that are
unsellable because the customer returned
them in damaged condition
check the fba customer returns report
for relevant returns to see if this is
the reason your inventory is no longer
sellable
to avoid having amazon dispose of your
inventory create a removal order for the
units within 30 days of receiving the
required removal notice
you won't be able to cancel a required
removal order once amazon creates it
so amazon doesn't want to waste
warehouse space
housing products that may be damaged
because a customer returned it or may be
damaged because keep in mind if you're
sourcing from
you know outside the united states which
the vast majority of people do because
manufacturing prices are cheaper
they can get damaged in transit so this
this happens even if you think you have
the best supplier ever
or the best product ever there's going
to be customers that return it and
there's going to be
units that get damaged in transit so
you're you're going to have units that
are at amazon that
you can either have removed to your
house like i used to send them to my own
house and i just had them like piling up
um some of the products are pretty funny
actually and i was giving them away as
like christmas gifts and stuff
i've definitely sourced products that i
was like oh my friends would like this
one
and without telling what what i'm
thinking of specifically i've got some
pretty funny ones
uh inventory removal orders so this is
how you create a removal order if you
want to do what i just described and
have them shipped to you
by the way amazon should send you an
email when there's units that you need
to
do something with before they just throw
them away by the way i think you can
turn off those emails if you follow what
i'm going to show you in this video
you can set up like automated disposal
orders which i'll talk about in a second
that's what i do so then i don't get the
emails anymore
all right so go to seller central go to
inventory manage inventory
and at the top there there's like kind
of like a secondary navigation
click remove unfulfillable inventory
and you'll see it says four so that
means i have four units that are
unfulfillable now it just so happens oh
no not four units four different skus
sorry because you can see in the
unfulfillable column i've got 17 units
from four different skus
and right behind me i can make it a
removal order for each individual
product or you can
select all of them on the left hand side
and then where it says action on xero
selected you can just say create removal
order bulk
all right so i clicked one of my
products and said create removal order
and here you have the option you see on
the left hand side you can have ship to
address or dispose
dispose does what it sounds like it's
going to throw it away and ship to
address is so you can
take those units if you want to do
something with them by the way like i
used to do that but this is kind of like
where you transition from
starting on amazon to okay i'm i got
i got it i feel like i belong here i'm
i'm a successful seller
let's do all these things at scale and
not slow down to try to
repackage uh you know some product that
maybe we have like
eight dollars invested in you know so i
just do the disposal orders by the way
just wanted to make you guys aware this
is from their resource again on seller
central in the help section
removal order process typically removal
orders are processed in 14 business days
however during the holiday season and
peak removal periods processing may take
30 business days or more
which sucks because you also pay higher
inventory storage fees in the holiday
season so it's going to take longer to
remove and you may get
slapped with paying for those you
probably will have to pay for those
units that you've got at their warehouse
regardless of their fulfillable
status unfulfillable or fulfillable
all right auto removal of inventory this
is what i do
and from the reference on amazon when
inventory in amazon fulfillment centers
is not in sellable condition it changes
to unfulfillable and is set aside if you
do not create a removal order for your
unsellable inventory within 30 days
after amazon notifies you of its
required removal
it's unlikely to be automatically
disposed of see required removals for
more information you can remove
unsellable inventory at any time by
submitting a removal order
all right so we just showed how to do
that manually but also
on the remove unfulfillable inventory
screen which i showed you how to get to
earlier it's the same thing inventory
manage inventory
manage unfulfillable inventory i think
was the was the title of the link and
then there's this other button up here
auto removal settings click that
here you'll see this ui so it says
automated unfulfillable removals
enable disable i think it's disabled by
default i switched mine to enable
and then it says return or dispose if
you click return you have to give them
your address and your shipping info if
you hit dispose you're good
and then schedule it says weekly on the
8th 15th 22nd and 28th the weekly option
can reduce your storage costs most
effectively so i selected that one keep
it simple
and again if you hit return instead of
dispose you'll have to give them your
address
all right fulfillment orders this is
what i referenced initially when i said
you can have amazon fulfill your orders
from
seller central from not from seller
central but from the fba warehouses
well i guess you would create the
fulfillment order in seller central
there is also ways to automate it so
that if you get the order on shopify
seller central sees it and they fulfill
it and you know everything's scalable at
that point just so you know i'm sure you
guys could have guessed that there's a
way to automate it
but walking through that would be a
separate video
all right so here all you have to do is
go to inventory
manage inventory find the product there
that you want to fulfill
so this isn't a removal order where
you're shipping it to your house this is
a fulfillment order like hey you're
shipping it to a customer
so on the right hand side where you see
all of your inventory there's like those
little edit buttons and there's a little
carrot next to it click the carrot
and then go to create fulfillment order
and then from there by the way i guess i
didn't put screenshots but when you hit
create fulfillment order it's
it's literally like you're buying
something from a website except you're
just
having them ship it from fba so you put
in your customers name address
etc order id and that's it and then
within a couple days they should ship it
out to your customer
also just wanted to make you guys aware
of the donations program
so this is a nice way instead of just
trashing things if they think they can
reuse it or give it to your unwanted
inventory to selected us charities
um you can opt into the donations
program so just wanted to put that
on your radar as well that's a nice um
and there that's the thing
our usual disposal fees apply you know
so it's like oh yeah donate this
inventory so that means you're taking a
loss
for the product cost plus inbound
shipping cost at a minimum
plus whatever you paid in storage fees
et cetera oh you wanna
donate your inventory that you're going
to dispose oh don't worry
amazon's not going to waive those
disposal fees they're still going to
charge you in full because the richest
man in the world
he doesn't care jeff bezos the owner so
just i thought that was funny
all right and hey that's it for this
video guys thanks for watching i just
wanted to let you know if you watched
till the end i do have a full
step-by-step
amazon fba course i spent over a year
writing it i'm constantly
expanding it updating it i'm going to
refresh the whole course in 2021
and i've been doing weekly live streams
for everybody that's enrolled every
friday so i've already done one this
morning
and it's been going really well we've
got a whole group of people that are
well at this point most of them have
already found their product
ordered the product we're just waiting
for it to be manufactured and shipped
over here
and while that's happening we're working
on listing optimization so that's what
we talked about today so it's really
good stuff soon we're going to talk
about advertising and whatnot so that
once the inventory gets there
everything's going to be set up the
listing will be fully optimized the ads
will kick in immediately
and we'll see some sales so it's good
stuff a link in the description if you
want to check that out but anyways guys
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