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hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video if you're new to my channel my name is nikki
kirk and i'm out today retail arbitrage sourcing for amazon i do fba but today i'm doing a lot of
fbm because it is december 7th and it's that weird kind of time where it's too late to be sending in
christmas holiday themed stuff fba but there's still plenty of time to get it to the customers
for fbm so i listed quite a few products in my first store today since it is december all the
stores are finally on holiday hours i thought it happened more in november but apparently not
so i mean walmart always opens at six a.m so i hit the walmart first at six a.m but
i saw targets open at seven which it already is 7 30 at this point and home goods is open at eight
which is awesome because all those stores are right here and the last time i was in this area
i was so early that home goods wasn't open yet so i'm excited to go to home goods today
what is your favorite time to go sourcing i love going in the morning i absolutely love it as
like noon rolls around there's more people in the store and it's like it's kind of crazy especially
in stores like tj maxx and ross there's just a lot of people always wondering what you're doing
so walmart was my first store of the day and i went straight to toys specifically one toy a hot
bolo that someone shared uh maybe not even a week ago and like everyone in the bolo group is going
out and grabbing it listing it fbm here is the screenshots i am blurring it all out of course
but it is in the bolo group in december so anyways i got six of them and then from there i just went
ahead and scanned some more toys now i will say this about the bolo group i've been this is
probably my third q4 with the bolo group running typically people kind of leave during q4 because
everything's selling you don't really need that list of leads as much right however i am pretty
much only going in and looking for bolos so since q4 is so like crazy it's so helpful to be like
here's the list of stuff i'm looking for go and replan go to the next store go to the next store
hit as many stores as you can and you just have the list and so it's been really awesome for me
personally so thank you bolo group as always if you want to join you can the link is below
and yeah so anyways that's happening and that was exciting so i just wanted to share that one thing
that happened in toys is a great reminder of why you have to poly bag so this item needs to
be poly bag because as you can see there's a hole in it where you can touch and i don't know if he
makes noise or something but you can see someone with cheeto fingers touched it and that's why
you can't just grab stuff and throw it in your cart you still need to look at it i had it in
my cart came out of the bathroom and it was like right on top of my cart and i was like oh my gosh
there's cheeto fingers on it so i went and put it back and just a reminder to myself and to you that
you need to one polybag if the product is showing and two inspect every item just don't go throw it
in your cart so here at walmart i got a lot of toys the bolo item like i said and i also got
some replans and i listed a bunch of stuff fbm so if this item i sell out of i will share it
with you but this video is coming out so close to when i film it that it might be blurred out
if i haven't sold them all i really think that they're probably all going to sell today and i
will of course fill you in as it goes next up i'm going to go to target i'm really just running in
for toys again the hot bullet toy and then i will be back out and then i'm heading over to homegoods
and i'm real excited that one might take a little bit longer i will fill you in after home goods
okay so at target i went straight to toys and i found some really good toys and i also found some
small kitchen appliance type items while in toys because they didn't have a whole lot of toys like
that i was looking for i did scan some other stuff so i ended up on the our generation doll which
i used to sell a whole lot of back in the day because you're generally ungated if you're ungated
in toys the category you can sell our generation even though there's an app glitch going on right
now so you have to like go to seller central on your on your phone but the desktop version of it
put in the thing like add a product like you're going to get ungated as frontgated and then you
get approved and then when you go back to the app it will now be uh approved in the app you
can see that you're already audio approved so in general you don't really need to do this if
it says you're approved when you get home you'll have to do it again but you'll still be approved
in the bolo group uh you do have to do it just so that we can see that you're actually
ungated in it but anyways so that is an ongoing glitch that's going on and at target i
went and scanned our generation again and i did find a couple outfits and then these
dogs these are not the dogs that i used to sell but they used to have little tiny i think they
were in little boxes or no they weren't but they were like literally this big and i was for two
years in a row i was selling them i don't think they make them anymore but i used to joke that
i was having a little puppy mill because i would sell all those little things they were like
three or four dollars each and they were selling for like 15. so those were great definitely you
want to scan our generation you have to type it in but it's super easy just leave the word
hour generation and then put in whatever the next thing is and the next thing and the next thing and
it went pretty fast i did find like i said two things and they were on sale so even more profit
like i mentioned i did find more bolos at target from the product list on the bulla group so i
would grabbed both of these of course i'm not going to show them because i'm not the one who
shared them someone else in the group shared them and i would not show them on youtube
plus i'm going to go buy more of them so here at home goods i also did well i found
some items that i'm always looking for i found a couple more bolos and then the app crashed so
when you're watching this it probably would have been last week if you happen to be outsourcing or
doing anything in your app suddenly the fees just went away literally as i was scanning so it says
you can't it doesn't know the fees and it was kind of working at first because the front screen shows
what the fee would be and you could do the math in your head and then it just totally went kaput and
so i ended up using scoutify 2 a little bit for the very first time it's part of inventory labs
program you get the scoutify 2 app so i was using it learning it for the first time it did help but
like i'm not used to it and you can't scan the front like a photo and i was scanning napkins and
you have to scan the front like a photo so anyways one other glitch that's going on in the app not
the whole app crashing today another glitch is that the ranks are disappearing on some products
so here's a perfect example this one was weird and i thought i might as well just tell you about it
if you you might already know this but maybe you don't know so ranks are disappearing
and i could see it here on this screen you can see like the rank is below but when you
tap through there's no rank at all and then i went to keepa to see because this is where you
really want the paid keepa version because you can see the ranks and so you can see it had his rank
actually looks like it still has a rank but for whatever reason amazon got rid of it or something
something's going on so if the rank is missing and you think the product typically is toys
is a hot seller go ahead and go to keepa and check and see if it did have a rank if did
i drink it's still selling i'm selling quite a few toys now that have no rank even though
they're selling so i don't know what's going on with that home goods has valentine's day stuff
already it's not a whole lot but it's never too early to scan you guys so definitely already like
at the end of this month as soon as you start seeing it actually you want to start scanning it
because that is going to be our next holiday from here now i'm going to go over to costco
because again there's another bolo i'm going to look out for it is open now earlier it wouldn't
have been open but it's 10 now so i'm going to head over there and after that i'm going to go
to another walmart another target and pretty much since the app is crashed i'm just going
to go ahead and do a re-plan run and you know scan here and there as i do but it might just
be a quick day of a lot of replans so anyways i will check back in with you in a little bit
okay so sometimes shooting in the car is a lot of technical difficulties like i can't
hopefully i brighten this in the edit because it seems super dark which is i guess a good thing
because there's a lot of stuff right there that i just got at costco i ended up spending twelve
hundred dollars in there um i don't know if that's a lot or a little compared to how i normally spend
but it seems like a lot to me anytime i spend over a thousand dollars in a store if you are
running into payout issues with amazon where they are holding back a lot of your money and you
just can't wait those two weeks for them to pay out again there is payability instant access
so payability will send you next day payouts on anything that you've sold so anything you
sell on monday you can get paid for on tuesday with payability instant access
they do hold some stuff back just like amazon does right so they're going to hold back 20
for any kind of charge racks and returns just to be safe so your account is good
but say you sold 500 on monday you could get paid out 400 on tuesday with payability so if you are
running into cash flow problems with your business and you could just really use that money today to
go sourcing you can check out payability they have given me a link where if you click it and sign up
you will get a 250 sign-on bonus payability approves your account based on your account
health so there's no credit checks you do have to be selling for three months however i have heard
that some people have been able to get approved before that so if it's something you're interested
in you can always just go ahead and apply but you there's no obligation that you have
to sign up even if you apply so you can check it out again the links below and you get a 250
sign-on bonus so in costco every once in a while i will scan books i really only went in here
for one thing and i ended up getting a lot of the one thing i did find it so that's awesome
and i also found some other stuff that i wasn't necessarily looking for i didn't scan a whole lot
most of my time was spent at the customer service desk which i will tell you about in a second
but basically i got all the stuff so here is a couple items that are freebies for you so this one
amazon is still having their problems so i think it makes money i don't think it makes a whole lot
of money though then there's these crepes i found i they were right across from this i found a lot
of stuff in this one little area and they are 6.49 and they make like three something so i didn't get
them but they're here at costco if you want to i didn't even look for bundle listings because since
the app is down i was just trying to scan quickly i scanned that one of course with scoutify 2 which
is from inventory lab so i upgraded my membership because apparently they're pushing that and
it's a business expense so it's fine but um when i upgraded it i also asked about tax exempt
and you can do tax exempt they just have to like move your membership to a business membership and
then they will link your tax exempt you do have to have if your business name is not your name
like mine is a company name and then i'm the owner of it but it's like it's it has nothing
to do with my name so she's like do you have three forms that tie you to the business luckily i have
two credit cards and i was like well my id and like it's the same address as the business and
so that worked out at this point i've been there like 20 minutes since i have an out of state
license they couldn't get it to work or something and honestly i was there for 45 minutes before i
finally said do you need me that for this because they have all my stuff and they have the thing
so i don't know if they're bored or what they're gonna try and figure it out i don't know if it's
gonna work out or not technically what they're telling me is like i can't resell it in the state
i'm in because it's not the license i have which makes sense if i had a mom and pop store however
since i sell on amazon and amazon does all the sales tax collecting for me in the state
i can sell to people here because amazon's going to charge and pay them so it it makes sense in
theory but not for me practically in any ways i got more shopping to do so the app's still out
i think amazon worldwide is kind of down which is a horrible time of course i go sourcing today
but i'm gonna go just really quickly i'm gonna go to target walmart i'm gonna go to ollie's
and i'm running out of room because of how they packaged all the stuff here in boxes
i should have brought bags but anyways i'm gonna head up the rest of those i will probably check in
if i don't i will see you once i put it in and see how the profit shook out
okay so i went to another walmart got a lot of good stuff i found a bunch of pokemon tins so
that was cool and then i went to ollie's i didn't get a whole lot of all these uh one like health
and beauty item and another replan in the home category that i've been replanting for a few
months now and then i went to tj maxx where i didn't get a whole lot i got one item that cost
eleven dollars as a health and beauty item and i sold it two of the two i found i sold for 64.99
so i got two more and that was exciting there was actually three but one of them the package
was ripped and of course the packaging has to be brand new especially this was like a gift set item
so you really want it to be brand new as always but especially when it's literally a gift set
while i was at ali's i did find an item that made me remember this so i few videos ago i
talked about how keepa on the desktop you could see how much amazon actually shares the buy box
well now on the app they've updated it so you can also see it there so you can see this item they
it's a great it makes profit but when i checked how much amazon shares it they only share it five
percent of the time and i just i'm not going to type my money like that but if you want to it was
whatever it is here i can't remember i think it's thermoflu anyways is that ollies the app is still
down actually amazon like web services and all this stuff if you didn't know amazon actually
has like they do everything right they have like so many different things they do but they have web
services which host it's basically like a hosting platform um so companies will use it to store all
their images and all that kind of stuff so it's probably affecting a lot of websites and it's
still down i have been using scoutify too and i'll tell you that i don't like it i mean it's good to
have today especially when the app is down but like you can't search like you're taking a photo
you when you scan a upc you know how sometimes you'll get like a lot of different listings
come up it literally only comes up with the one listing and when you type in to search it like
if like if you typo or if you hit the wrong thing once you hit search it's gone like you have to
type it all back out again so i am not a fan of it i won't be using it unless i have to like today i
do love inventory lab don't get me wrong but the app not so much so the truck is full i was gonna
go to another walmart but literally i don't have anywhere to put it the front seat here is full
that costco run with the big boxes really affected how i was able to kind of organize and stuff is
falling on me it's getting dark i'm just gonna call it a day it was a good day so here is how
it all came out in inventory lab i'm gonna show you the screenshot from the shipment right here
because the app is still down i wasn't able to list stuff fbm but i am gonna list a lot so i
don't know if i'll be able to show the fbm update here anyways thank you guys so much for watching
i hope this video was helpful it is getting cold here in oklahoma and i'm gonna head back to the rv
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