welcome back to my amazon selling videos this week i'm doing a video that is probably my most
requested but hardest to shoot how to pack up an amazon shipment so let me just finish
unpacking the truck and i'll be right back with you some of the stuff is personal items
okay so you've probably seen this in some of my other videos but this is my
office the dining room slide because i just brought in all of these uh bags they're right
here but generally if i'm bringing them in at night and packing the next day they'll be like
packed back in there overnight you don't need a lot of space to sell on amazon this
is literally where everything i use is so i've got all my scale my little supplies my scanning
tool all in this little cabinet and i'll show you where i keep the boxes which is outside under the
rv but first we have to see what size we need so let me get the scanner out and let's get to work
so i'm filming this in november the reason i'm doing this is because i don't see what
i'm selling so by the time you see this this stuff will be sold out and also you can get a feel for
what i'm selling for q4 for the holiday to take price labels off i usually use a hair dryer i did
not use a hair dryer in the beginning and it was a pain in the butt so use a heat gun or a hair dryer
for labels and a scottie peeler and they come right off if you want to know what i'm selling
right now things start to slow down january february if you want a list of profitable items
think about joining my bolo group i'll put the link right here every month we're sharing items
that are profitable that have a good rank and that you can find in store right now so check
that out so to start you open your amazon account and click add a product you don't need a scanner
i also have a link below to all the supplies i use you do not need a scanner you could manually enter
the upc's but the scanner is so much more helpful so i have a little christmas napkin scan it comes
up from here you click see detail page just to make sure it's actually the product you want
currently unavailable which is great because i'll be the only seller so i can list it at whatever
price i want if you use kipa and you have the plugin it'll show up right here and it'll tell you
what it was listed at so 16.50 is the price i'll probably list it at but i'll see normally when i'm
scanning in stores and i find something that i had to scan it from a photo not the upc i'll just hit
favorite just so i can find it later from here you just hit create listing it's all yours
my little hack for making skus so that i know later on when i'm in my manage inventory how
low i can take the price without losing money is i'll do okay i found this from marshalls 2.99 but
i paid tax so let me just calculate that 319. so i do ms 3 19 be for break even and then i go back
to the page i have the rev seller plug-in which is i think it's 99 i'll put the link below i highly
recommend it because this is how i use it every time so here you say okay i bought it for 319. i
want to sell it for 16.50 so i'll be making seven dollars and 58 cents on every one what i want to
see is the break even price so i just go back i'll say okay if i sold it for 7.99 almost there 6.99
i'm trying to get it as close to zero as possible so i'm going to say 6.99 is my breakeven price
for these and then amazon will ship the item for me when it sells so i'm sending all my inventory
because i sell fba i'm sending it all in to amazon and then when it sells they will ship it out so
customers get prime and if they return it i don't have to deal with the returns which is
awesome when you're in an rv and you're all over the place so amazon's dealing with the return and
any other customer service issues that have so now this pops up yes amazon barcode is fine it's not a
dangerous item if it did have a battery you just input the battery information so they say double
a and whatever ones it comes with if it just takes better so it doesn't come with them then you don't
have to put anything [ __ ] from a new address i'm adding addresses all the time because i'm
changing where i'm at all the time so let me pause here while i look for a ups store this is actually
a question news sellers have all the time is do you put your own address or like the ups store
i always i could do the campground that i'm at but you can just do the ups store of where it
should be from it doesn't really matter just has to be like around where it's shipping from so that
amazon knows which warehouses to send it to okay so i've got the address all put in and now i've
created my shipment you just put in how many units i have i have to go count them and then you keep
going the difference is so the first one you're creating a new shipment from here on out you're
going to be adding to the shipment so instead of pretty new you just add to shipment shipment date
i'm going to continue adding all these in and i'll catch you back and it's time to remove the prices
so another app i use that i really love is receipt bank it's just an app on your phone
this is how you log your receipt take a photo of it you want to make sure the date's in there
the date the store and the total take a photo submit and done so now it's all in there it'll
figure out where it's from the date and it'll put it all in my file and then i can pull the excel
sheet all right there really handy i also keep the receipts handy because sometimes you don't
remember what i paid for the thing if it doesn't have a price tag like at a regular grocery store
they're obviously not gonna have price tags so i go ahead and just keep it here i also couldn't
calculate the sales tax so i'm in north carolina and it's seven percent so now i have that for when
i'm going to input them my general rule for buying anything is it has to be over five dollars because
five dollars gives you a room in case the price should go down and that's just a good return on
most money i don't really spend over ten dollars on items most of the items i try to buy are ten
dollars or under there are some clothes and like protein powder where the return is worth it to pay
20 or 15 but in general under 10 i generally price my stuff higher than the buyback and then as it's
shipping i check to make sure if the price for whatever reason goes up i change it because
nothing is worse than your stuff getting into the warehouse the price has gone from 1390 to 15.99
but since i put it at 1390 when i sent it and i never touched it again now mine's gonna sell for
13.19 when i could have having two extra dollars if i would have known so that's just a little
tip hopefully that wasn't confusing another way if you've already got product you're just re-planning
you go to this little button here add product you search sweet these yup that's them and just
click add and then you'll quickly add this only works for products that you've already sold it
does not work for brand new products that you have to enter this item is actually an item that
was shared in the bolo group and then i found it and i found six of them and it's awesome because
it makes 26 on every single one so that was a great find and i found six of them so this is
where i sit to take the labels off because my hair dryer plugs in right up there and
i don't know it's just comfortable for me to sit here so the supplies you need
are scotty piller and goo gone so once you get the label off the goo gone takes all that sticky stuff
off and then a napkin for the goo gone i've had this bottle almost three years now so one bottle
lasts a long time tuesday morning labels if you don't have a hair dryer or heat gun are the worst
if you do they come off really easy the worst worst worst are burlington those are horrible it
has to really be worth it for me to buy it just because of the pain of taking the price tag off
so i've gotten all the labels off i've gotten everything put in to the system some things
need polybags so anything that is out where you can actually touch the product it's not hidden
in the package so like this totally fine doesn't need polybag napkins don't need it because already
wrapped but this where i can touch the product that needs a polybag so it doesn't get dirty
and transport in the warehouse so i'm going to go ahead and poly bag these items up i generally will
put the label on first so i'll put the label on and then the poly bag just so it's on the actual
product and it doesn't fall off so the labels just print on regular little address labels
where i took the label off is kind of sticky so i will usually put the label over the barcode but on
this one i'm gonna do the barcode and cover where the last label was so that way i don't have to
wipe it off because i'm just gonna cover it so i just restocked my poly bag so i get this pack
which has four different sizes in it and then sometimes if i'm doing backpacks or things like
that i need a bigger bag actually this might need a bigger bag so i'm gonna see if it'll fit
i don't think it will but we'll just try nope i gotta get a bigger one
poly bags for amazon have to have the suffocation warning so if they don't come with it you have to
have a sticker that you put on it if this was a bundle and it was two items like it's like a
bundle of two pans i just have two pans in the poly bag and then i have a sticker that says
this is a set you put that on there so that amazon doesn't mistakenly separate it when it gets to the
warehouse so it's ready to go let me get the rest of them and we'll see what shipments are going
right okay so i have these little clear labels they're just circles that are clear for beauty
products you just want to double check that it's sealed on the inside before you buy it you should
check that and then i just like to put it on there so that the people really know it's new
and i just have two sizes because sometimes it's a bigger box so you need a bigger label fat and done
oh another thing if you're selling groceries or beauty products that have expiration dates
they have to be 90 days out i tend to do an added buffer so the very minimum it has to be
four months out speaking of beauty items if you're a new seller and you're gated and you can't sell
brands like dove adidas pampers huggies topicals baby topicals i have a training for that it's an
ebook which you can grab link is below i've had sellers who just opened their account and a month
later they're ungated in all those brands which a lot of my products are beauty products if you
can't sell it it really opens it up i also have a training on how to get ungated for toys so if you
can't sell star wars lego melissa and doug barbie mattel hot wheels disney i have another training
for that helps you get ungated literally step by step so that you can sell those brands it really
opens the world of what you can find doing retail arbitrage so i've got everything bagged labeled
and now we go to the next step where amazon will tell us where everything goes if you have smaller
shipments there's a advanced placement you can do so that it doesn't send like one item here
one item there and then you're basically paying and shipping what you would profit so it doesn't
make sense to do that so instead you can ship everything to one warehouse but they do charge a
little bit i think it's like 40 cents or something for every item because then they're gonna ship it
to where they need it after that it looks like my shipment is going almost everything to charlotte
north carolina but i do have one to virginia and one to wisconsin that's smaller units but it's
okay i have small boxes so i'll just go ahead and send them there i'm gonna go grab my boxes
and then we'll get these things shipped out so here's where i keep the boxes it's quite messy
but anytime i get a shipment i just keep the box i also buy boxes at walmart because they're really
cheap now watch me dig them out when i put this in here i didn't think i was going to be recording
i don't have really big stuff so i think all that one big box will fit in this box which
i got at walmart because they're only 1.42 for the big box definitely shop at walmart for these
and then i think these target boxes will fit for the other ones but if not i'll be back out
here to get more so how i generally do it is i'll do the two small shipments first and then
i know everything else is going in the big box i think this one box might work if you
have a lot of stuff it helps if you have a friend family member roommate whatever
read you off what goes on each box but since these are small i can do it on my own
so it does suck if you're sending all your stuff to different warehouses and it's like four things
but the one good thing is that as soon as it hits that warehouse it's going to be available
if you're doing them all like my big box is going to one warehouse that is gonna transfer around
so they'll still sell but they won't be in the buy box because it's going to say like back
order it'll ship it a little bit that part of it sucks it's good that these are going because
those will be right away that looks like it's it i'm going to just double count so there should
be eight things give it a quick count yep it's all good so for this box you can see can you see
i just arrange it as much as i can and then i'll put fill in the air if i feel like it needs it
honestly this is all lightweight stuff it probably doesn't need it but i will cut this box down to
be the height so that it'll fold flat and more condensed and not just like this going everywhere
so this box you can see how empty it is doesn't really have much in it this one i will probably
throw some air bubbles in just to be safe the boxes or shipments with more items better packing
than those two other boxes so i'm gonna put the big bulky things on the bottom the heavy stuff
so amazon has the whole list for you to go through so it'll tell me you know six of these four of
this it will ask for expiration dates on some of the stuff some of the stuff it won't so you just
put in the expiration date and then at the end of it i'll weigh the box and put in the measurements
all right so everything is in the box it's a little fluffy because of the air but i'm going to
put a little piece of paper over there i actually reuse paper bags from the grocery store i'll
rip them up and use them as the padding so i'll put that over there just so if they cut it they
don't cut the clothing and yeah we'll get these puppies weighed and out to the car oh speaking
of wayne one box cannot be longer than 25 inches the longest side it has to be under 50 pounds so
if you are over that you'll get an extra fee from amazon and a little ding on your thing which i've
had a couple of times they're just like don't do that again 25 is the longest side and can't be
over 50 pounds 49 perfectly fine can't be 50. all right so it says 3811 so i'm just going to call
it 39. the other reason i like the walmart boxes is they have the measurements right on the side
so if you're not cutting them down you don't have to take a measuring tape and measure them this 39
pound shipment because i'm in north carolina and it's going to north carolina it's only going to
cost me 7.97 to ship so if i do 797 divided by 66 items the shipping on this is literally costing me
12 cents so 12 cents an item that's pretty good and plus side it'll get there like in a
day so that's really it for the shipping labels i use these stickers you can use regular paper
and just tape it i put the stickers on i usually end up taping them anyway so they don't fall off
you'll get a label a regular ups label and then also what we'll print is a label that's for
amazon fba i've only ever had one ups store ask me what that is and like they even tried to take
it off i'm like no no that goes to amazon please leave it so i hope this was a helpful video i get
asked about packing it up so much pack it nice efficient use padding use free boxes use paper
bags from the store use anything to save money and make more profit for you let me know what other
kind of videos you'd like to see from me like comment subscribe until next time thank you for