hi and welcome back for another amazon selling video today we're talking polybags and shipment
prep if you don't know me my name is nikki kirk and i sell on amazon doing fba and i've done it
all from my rv one of the questions i'm asked most often from new sellers who are just nervous to get
started and they don't want to do anything wrong and i totally get it i've been there the question
is shipment prep like do i polly bag this does this need a poly bag what do you do so i thought i
would just go ahead and make a real quick video of should you polybag this so before you get excited
all this stuff is just stuff i have around the house it's not something i'm actually selling
i went and tried to grab examples so first thing let's talk polybags and this is something i just
learned like i think i ordered these bags two weeks ago so for three years i've been doing it
wrong these are the uline ship bags i'm not sure it's like a red they're super easy to take off and
seal the problem is that they're repositionable so what happened for me was i had sent in a pack
a set of something in one poly bag and i don't know if something happened in amazon
and something got opened and it fell out and the customer only got one of the items
and then i got a bad review and unfortunately amazon wouldn't take it off because they
can't investigate if they did something wrong because the customer already got it anyways
so i figured that these bags weren't actually holding the ceiling and i've actually had it
where i'm packing a shipment and it'll like come undone after i've just done it so i went online
and i found these on amazon it's a little bit more hard to take off but it is a permanent so it won't
open and so now i'm using all these i have some of these left over from previous order
but once those are gone i'm not ordering those anymore also it has to have a suffocation warning
on it for amazon so if you get a bag that doesn't have it you can still use it you just have to put
on an additional sticker with the suffocation warning i use six sizes of bags i've got
four of the smaller size and then two larger size the largest one i use i really only
use it around back to school for backpacks and stuff and then holiday for bigger toys
so i've ordered i think 100 of them and i've had them for a year and a half so they last a while
i'm going to link to all the bags and supplies i recommend below it's my amazon store so you can
just click it and see all my amazon supplies but i've updated it so that the polybag and this kind
of prep label stuff is all at the front in case you're interested all right so let's jump in so
this is just a tani lotion ps if you like to self tan this one's really great it's like an
everyday one anyways so it's open you can see the actual product there so i would poly bag this if
it had a seal i still would probably poly bag it because you just never know if that steel's going
to open and create havoc for the customer and shipment so this would need a poly bag
this item it really depends if it had a seal it doesn't have a seal on this one it's open
so you can get the product if it had a seal on it i probably would just stick a label on it and send
it like this you can always poly bag everything literally you could probably pack everything
like you you can't do it wrong the only problem is if you don't poly bag something that needs it
and what needs a poly bag is if the product is ever showing so like these kitchen towels
this is how it comes from the store this i could touch the product so it needs to be
poly bag if you can ever actually touch it poly bag it books if you sell books
some people don't poly bag i do i actually would put the label right over the barcode and then i
would poly bag it that's another question i get a lot is where does the label go and for me just
for that example exactly like if the polybag opens i'd rather have the label on the product now for
clothing that's harder so i usually just stick the label on the poly bag it's really up to you
here's another example so this the packaging it's already sealed itself but this packaging could
come off so for this i would probably poly bag it it wouldn't hurt or if you have these labels
they're just plastic little circles you could just stick a circle on it so that it doesn't come off
so the reason i got these circles are for beauty products because i got a review that someone was
like that's used and it wasn't used but i was like whatever let me just get a circle
and seal it so that the customer thinks it's brand new because it is brand new anything that
beauty products that come in a box like this i just stick a little sticker on top and bottom
and put a label on and it's good to go i've had these for quite a while i use
the smaller ones more often because usually i sell beauty products that are like this
if you're bundling anything it needs a poly bag and then a label so these are this is not a set
when i first started selling i actually just printed out on the address labels that i
print my amazon labels on i did like red labels in a row this is not a set and then i was like that's
[ __ ] let me just buy them i think it's like eight dollars for two and they i just recently
bought another two pack so they last a really long time so if this was a set i was selling
together i would put them both in a polybag then i would put the amazon label on the bag and i would
put a this is a set i would put a this is a set label right on the bag and if you're using these
uline which are could come off i actually would also tape over it just to like really be sure just
because i had that experience and i don't want to have it again this product it's pretty sealed
kind of stands up this is honestly i don't usually poly bag this kind of stuff sometimes
i do sometimes i don't that's just kind of how i'm feeling if i'm tired i'm over it and i want
to get done with the thing i might not feel it but so it's just kind of up to you especially
if you add a circle like a a shrink wrap party i wouldn't poly bag i just stick the label on and
put in the box so i got a question about like shoe boxes and that kind of stuff and since i
don't have one i have this which this comes off and the products right inside i would stick one
of these big labels like seal the box or honestly a lot easier stick it into the holly bag this
poly bag it it's the actual product is there i know like the sticky part of it is sealed but
just polybag it i don't have a toy to show you but a lot of times toys will be in the packaging where
a part of it is open so like you could touch the little character's arm or whatever so imagine that
this part of it was open so it's in the blister pack but i could touch and turn and feel this part
polybag it if ever a part of the product is out polybag it so that's kind of it i hope this video
was helpful when in doubt just polybag it it never hurts if you're interested in joining my facebook
group bolo group definitely check out the link below where you'll see what i'm actually selling
again this is just stuff i had around the house but if you want to see what i'm actually selling
every month go ahead and check out that group where we're sharing leads and generating
lists of profitable items it's actually grown quite a lot and i'm very proud of it it's a really
helpful group i think we have over 100 leads this last month so definitely check it out if you're
struggling on what to find for your business and if you need help on gaining in beauty topicals
grocery otc toys because q4 is just around the corner check out my ungating guides
thank you guys so much for watching and i'll see you back here for another video