hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video if you're new to my channel my name
is nikki kirk and i've been selling on amazon going on five years now doing retail arbitrage
so it is january 5th today and we are going to head out to the dollar tree and see what we can
find i'm specifically looking for valentine's day stuff but i'm gonna just search the whole
thing and give you a rundown of dollar tree now by the time you're watching this video it will be the
time where you now have to fbm valentine's day stuff because we really only have this one week
maybe a week and a half in january to do fba just because it takes you know you sending it
to amazon then it going around the warehouses to amazon and then of course the customer wants to
get it before valentine's day but valentine's day is a great holiday and you should not sleep on it
i think depending on when easter falls i did not look at the calendar but
this might be our last opportunity to send in um multiple candies and those always do really great
because you can't send in multiples after april 15th i believe it is the date sometimes changes
but amazon will let us know anyways all that to say definitely don't sleep on valentine's day
i mean you could sleep on the actual day if you want to but don't sleep on the holiday selling on
amazon alright so dollar tree is really big with new sellers and i think obviously it's
because everything's a dollar right or i think they changed it to where it goes up to 1.50 now
but because stuff is so cheap it's a great way to stretch your small funds in the beginning
to get a lot of inventory the reason why i don't necessarily shop it all that much
is because you do have to scan a little more like you can't just scan the upc's you have to scan
the fronts you have to look for bundle listing and it's a little more intensive that i care to
do most of the time anyways but as a new seller it's really great i think new sellers find books
they also find toys and like i said holiday stuff so usually all the categories are
open to a new seller as well so let's head into dollar tree and see what we can find
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okay so the first thing i did obviously was valentine's day because it was right there and
i did find a couple of things so right off the bat there's these junior mints when i scanned
it regular it's like a 12-pack and also gated but when i scan the front like taking a photo i found
a three pack listing right here that is not gated and then i just went ahead and started scanning
stuff like i'm taking a photo of it i also scan the upc some stuff does come up but i just want
to show you these valentine's day light because i scan the front like a photo as you see here
and they keep up i mean they don't make any money that's really worth it but they did come up i went
ahead and i just copied the name of it and like searched it again just to see if like there was
another listing of maybe two or three that does work now if you want to shop at dollar tree i'm
about to give you a life-changing tip you want to search greenbriar international plus whatever word
you're looking for so greenbrier international is who makes everything at dollar tree basically i
maybe there's some stuff they don't like the name brand stuff but pretty much almost all of it
is that brand so all i did was i searched greenbrier international valentine and here we go
voila doilies so this three pack of doilies is worth it it's here they have all the colors
there's actually multiple sizes i found the 10 inch one as well but it didn't quite make enough
profit or it didn't have a rank i can't exactly remember either way it wasn't good enough but
that three pack of eight inch was so that's your tip i was using that all throughout so i was going
down the school aisle and i would type school um i think they call them teacher tree like the teacher
supplies which did not know they had so many teacher supplies that's awesome and then i went
through toys search toys and you can kind of see stuff it's cool because even if you just do it
sitting at home anything you just want to scroll and look for the rank so if you can find the good
rank then just go ahead and favorite it or make a list of asins or whatever you want to do and then
you can come and look at dollar tree so you can do that kind of research beforehand because my back
was starting to really hurt in there after a while i've been sitting there for a long time i don't
think i've ever spent that much time in a dollar tree they did also have some easter stuff so
here is a peeps bundle there was there's probably a lot of different peeps bundles in there they
even had some funky flavors but i looked up and couldn't find any that was the only one i did
fine you do want to make sure that you're noting if it's a set so this one i almost missed the fact
that it's a set of four at first i was like oh wow this one makes money and then i saw oh it's
a set of four so it really only makes two dollars cost four dollars makes two dollars while i was in
there i did talk to one of the managers really he was started to talk to me because i'm not someone
who talks to people with the stores but anyways he was telling me oh about the price increase so
most stores are going to go to a dollar 25 i mean some stuff will still be a dollar but mostly it'll
be dollar 25. and he said there's going to be something called dollar tree plus which will be
everything up to five dollars apparently so i haven't seen any of those yet i think there's
also some stores it might be depending on what area you're in that'll be a dollar fifty so
just something i learned today they also have fbm packing supplies so if you ever need any envelopes
for something pretty small and you know not breakable or anything like because they are i mean
they work but they're a little flimsy but anyways they have fbm shipping supplies so all in all i
mean there's a lot of stuff at dollar tree i went down the grocery aisle you couldn't find a lot
of stuff that has a hundred percent or better roi meaning i will spend a dollar and make two dollars
three dollars four dollars but it doesn't quite meet my minimum five dollar profit and i really do
stick to it unless it's something that's a dollar that makes four dollars then i will not do it
and the reason i stick to it is because i don't want anything to tank on me right i don't want to
lose money doing this so that five dollar really creates a buffer because if you sell on amazon i'm
sure you're aware the prices change all the time and so i want to buffer in that room for if the
price goes down i bought something a couple weeks ago it was supposed to make over five dollars it
was really great item and now i'm making two dollars on it and you know what that's fine
because i buffered in that price if i had bought it and i was only gonna make two dollars and now
it went down three dollars now i would be losing money and that's definitely not what i want to do
so that's why i do mine but if you are new this is a great place to start and just test
it out see if you buy that rank that's too high and it doesn't really sell well you're only out
a dollar at that point right hopefully hopefully you're not losing any extra money on top of it but
it is a good place to start i did scan the books and they didn't really find anything
um i thought i found one but it was actually a paperback that made money and the one i had in
my hand was a hard cover go figure but anyways party supplies you want to look for bundles so
especially the kids type stuff so here's an example this mermaid plate and napkin set
it costs two dollars makes a couple dollars there is some lego lego looking stuff that also makes
money but they were out of a lot of it here so all the different dollar trees obviously their stock
varies another thing i learned the manager told me since there's a new dollar tree down the road here
they get too much inventory and everyone shops this one is must be more popular here and so they
don't have enough inventory and so they're like constantly shipping it to each other
but all that to say that all the dollar trees have different inventory here's some other examples
so these baskets this dollar tree didn't have all different colors it only had two colors so
i wouldn't necessarily do it because it does show three different colors but it does say assorted
so the listing is open to you know interpretation they also have this egg holder set costs a dollar
it makes two dollars they had some pudding three pack bundle cost three dollars makes four dollars
and then this apple pie filling costs two dollars makes 380. so i mean there is stuff here if you're
willing to try and the food items do have good rank so i guess it's all up to you honestly i
don't think i'll be adding dollar tree to my rotation except for holiday which i will still
continue to do it doesn't take very long to scan through the holiday stuff they had a lot of candy
they had all these like palmer's candy which to me is the gross candy but whatever it was making some
money it cost a dollar obviously and then they were making like two or three dollars so there
might be some bundles there i totally didn't look all that far into it i was trying to see you know
relatively quickly what can i find so all that does say if you have the time and you are a hunter
dollar tree is probably where it's at i know a lot of people do really good at dollar tree
clearly i'm not hunting deep enough anyways i hope this video was helpful for you if you want
to see me do another store let me know i'm open to doing these single store shopping trips it
makes the videos easier and funner for me it's fun real weird anyways i'm getting tired it's
time to go grab lunch i will see you next time on another amazon selling video you