- Greetings everyone and welcome, my name is Chris.
In today's video, we are going to be talking about
getting ungated and selling on Amazon.
Whether you're a new seller or old seller,
you realize how important this is
to really maximize Amazon to the fullest.
However, if you don't know where to start,
it can be pretty daunting.
Now before we get into that, I just want to say
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Now let's go ahead and actually get into talking about
getting ungated.
Now getting ungated, honestly, gating on Amazon
is one of the best things they ever did.
Because the more barriers to entry,
the better it is for sellers
who actually know what they're doing to get ungated.
And that's what I'm here to help with.
Now I also do wanna say that the four methods
I'm gonna give you are listed from easiest
to most difficult,
and they're really only gonna work assuming that you have
good feedback.
There are no guarantees
that these will work if you have bad feedback.
So let's go ahead and get into.
Number one.
Number one is getting automatic approval.
Now once your account has been open for a certain period
of time, and once you've sold a certain amount of items
in a dollar amount, or whatever currency you're in,
you're able to get automatically approved.
And the way do this is, you just go the list the item.
If it says you're gated and you need to request approval,
you just click Request Approval,
and if this method works for you,
it will say you are automatically approved.
That is why you always want to make sure
you just try to do this at first.
So, that's method number one.
Just try to request automatic approval.
Now method number two is using an ungating service.
This is the only one that I can't actually advocate
for someone to do
because it may be against Amazon's terms of services.
I've actually done this for certain categories myself,
so I paid for Grocery,
and at the time, it was cheaper when I did it.
And this is just something that you have to weigh in.
You know, is it worth risking?
Is the cost worth it?
I do wanna say though that my Grocery invoice
because that I submitted,
I was actually able to get ungated
in several other categories that weren't groceries.
So I was able to get ungated in jewelry,
watches,
supplements,
topicals.
The only one that didn't work was music,
and the reason for this is because
it's just a machine that,
a computer system
that's reading these invoices, it's not an actual person
going over these.
So it did work for quite a few categories.
So that was nice.
But just, I wanted to let you guys know that.
Now means number three
is actually obtaining letters of authorization
and invoices from an actual supplier.
Now, let's say I want to sell a Disney water bottle
and I'm gated in Disney.
I can't just go buy a Disney water bottle from Walmart
and try to sell it on Amazon and upload my receipts.
That's not gonna work.
You're actually gonna have invoices,
need invoices and letters of authorization.
Now when people say that this does not work,
it's because they don't have it structured right.
So I actually tried to do this myself
and Amazon said it's denied,
so I called seller support,
and they told me
that you have to make sure that the information matches
what is on the seller account,
so business name, address, all that stuff.
If it does not match to the certainty,
it will not be accepted,
and you'll get denied.
So that's just something to really keep in mind.
Also, minimums for each purchase to get ungated.
So for a beauty product,
let's say you want,
back when beauty was gated,
you had to purchase at least
I think it was 30 items I was told.
You know, and beauty really isn't gated anymore.
But that's just something to keep in mind as well.
Now to find these suppliers,
what I did
and I don't really recommend this
buying products from these places,
but I used this to get ungated was.
There's a site called SALEHOO.
You pay a $60 yearly fee,
and it gives you - I was able to find a couple of
authorized suppliers on there.
The deals honestly weren't that great.
I really don't recommend it for sourcing products.
However, it did allow me to get ungated,
which was the whole purpose of me doing that.
So, in the particular categories I wanted.
So that is something you can do as well.
Now method number four,
and I marked this as the hardest.
Or the last, which is the hardest.
But I really don't think it is.
And that is getting 100k gross sales on your Amazon account.
Now that's just, it doesn't have to be yearly,
it's just all time, right.
So one you get 100k in sales,
you will automatically
be ungated in most everything.
I've literally talked.
That includes, you know,
Nike, Adidas, Converse,
North Face,
Panasonic, Philips, all these brands that are gated.
And I know personally, I've actually talked to sellers
that have done it immediately.
They've had over 100K sales, they click Request Approval
and been automatically approved.
So that is just something to keep in mind as well.
So once you reach 100k sales,
you pretty much don't have to worry about any of these.
So that's pretty much it guys.
If you need any further clarification,
or you have any questions,
reach out to me directly and I'll try to help you out.
I realize how important this is
for people's Amazon business
and I just,
you know, wanna get you guys ungated.
So feel free to let me know what you guys think,
and I'll see you in the next video.