hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video if you're new to my channel my name is
nikki kirk and today i'm going to walk you through eight amazon seller hacks some that i learned from
members of my community some that i learned on my own just randomly and today i'm gonna walk you
through them because some of them you might know and some of them you might be like mind blown like
i was all of these eight seller hacks are items that i just figured out in the last year in 2021
some of them like within the last couple of months so hopefully you don't go five years of selling
like i did before you start using these and now you can just know them because they will make your
life a little easier so if you've been selling on amazon you probably know about keepa and keepa is
a must-have tool honestly you just have to have it if you can do the free one but you're really
gonna save yourself a lot of headaches if you get the paid one and with the paid subscription
you get buy box statistics and what that is is it tells you if amazon shares the buy box so
if you are listing a product and you see amazon is selling it now if you know me i don't sell
if amazon is selling it but if you do happen to notice that they're selling it and you do
kind of want to maybe take a chance this buy box statistics will really help you know if amazon
shares the buy box now it used to only be on the desktop version but they recently added it to the
app so i'm going to walk you through it on the app so i found an ace in the amazon selling just to
show you and it actually ended up being a really great one because normally amazon shares the buy
box like five percent of the time eight percent of the time but this one you'll see they share often
so it's a princess styling head that i recently scanned at ollie's over here at the bottom is buy
box statistics you go ahead and click that and then you can see here the seller maximus deals
which is a pretty big seller it looks like 42 of the time they are winning the buy box then
we have amazon is winning at 33 of the time this philippians let me try this again this philippians
4 19 enterprises 10 of the time prime boost six percent latoya's products
four percent fun calm three and then all these other ones less than one percent so
it's just helping you know like if buying it even though amazon is selling it is going to be a good
gamble really it's making helping you make an educated fact driven
choice so on this one it looks like amazon may have a deal with this other seller because i've
never seen them give someone 42 percent of the time so between those what is that 75 of the time
those two sellers amazon and the big one are getting it so it's just information to
help you in your sourcing journey it's very loud here in this campground i am out traveling again
which is awesome but it is kind of loud here that's florida over there and that's some kind
of something where they're cutting up trees so it might get loud okay seller hack number two
when you're scanning something and you want to look it up in keepa or in my case when i'm trying
to list it in the bolo group but there's no acin on the app so when you're scanning something on
amazon and you're searching a product like this so it's johnson johnson oil and again something
i scanned all these recently so when we open it you see it doesn't have this normal features
and details area down here where you would be able to click through and get the ace in
but what it does have is if you go ahead and hit list right here voila there's the acen at the top
so you can just go ahead and copy it for there for whatever you need it for again like i said
i usually am trying to share something in the bolo group or if you want to go
ahead and copy it and put it over into keepa to look into it further seller hack number three
so everyone is always worried about counterfeit and ip complaints and the difference between the
two is ip is intellectual property meaning whoever made that product owns the intellectual property
writes over it and then there is counterfeit which honestly these days seems like just about
anyone can submit a counterfeit complaint to amazon which is super annoying i actually got
one recently and now i'm going to show you how you can identify them before you ever buy it
or one of the reasons it's not foolproof but this will really help you out i noticed it for
this item that i actually got a counterfeit for and i also notice it on pokemon here's what it
looks like so i'm gonna look up the morris plush which is what it was and you see here this top one
says by mattel that's correct mattel made this toy but these other listings by holoquin i'm
not even going to pretend to say him haifan ganda gifts quick i don't know what these are those are
sellers who made the listing and what happened was i listed on one of those sellers listings
and they issued it as counterfeit immediately i don't know if it's some new rule that amazon's
doing if you actually make the listing then you can say everyone else's counterfeit i don't know
it really sucked but i was able to send my plan of action into amazon and i got it off of my account
it's nothing like it's just it's annoying to deal with but it's not the end of the world for your
selling account as long as you deal with them quickly so like i was mentioning on pokemon i
think pokemon has fixed almost all the listings because it was a little hard for me to find it
but i did find this one to show you so you can see this pokemon sport and shield limited gold steel
case only plus character charm it says it's by pikachu when really it's by pokemon is the brand
so those are different things that you want to look out for again this one is the nintendo switch
it says it's by nintendo and then this one under it says pdp so you want to make sure it's by the
brand that it should be so if a disney item it's a disney princess it should be by disney or disney
princess if it's ever by some random thing that is your clue that it's probably gonna get hit with a
counterfeit okay seller hack number four if you're ever packing up a shipment or you just need some
extra labels here is a quick way to print some extra labels for your products i'm talking about
fn sku labels so from your seller center account you just go to manage inventory and then over here
you click the items that you want to have labels for and then you would just hit print item labels
it's gonna ask you yes are these the ones yep and then you put over here how many you want
and go ahead and print them while we're in manage inventory i'll just go ahead and show you that if
you ever need to do a removal order you do that right here also you just select the items and hit
create removal order and then it'll take you and you just put in your address or wherever you want
them sent so that's all that you do that so that was a two-for-one but if you ever need to print
labels again i didn't know that until probably early last year and it has been a lifesaver okay
seller hack number five now this one is tricky because it's like you gotta use your you gotta
think a little bit and it's a little bit of a risk-taking but here we go so if you ever see
an item like this this elf on the shelf mermaid outfit so you can see here it says the low price
is 14 and the fba offer 14 new offer 14 however when you go through and you click and look at the
sellers and i normally do this just to kind of get a better idea of like is it only one seller
that's at 14 there's a lot of sellers anyways you can see up here that the buy box says it's 17.50
that means and this was screen grabs i did during the holidays but it still works now so what that
means is on the buy box right now on amazon for customers shopping it's saying the 1750 offer and
because of that i could actually potentially sell it at 17.50 also however you shouldn't buy it if
you're not comfortable with the 14 profit because there's no guarantee that you're gonna get it to
sell at that price it's doing that because maybe these 14 offers are in fc transfer and they're
moving around warehouses and so they're not ready available to ship but that 1751 is ready to ship
if a customer orders it today they can get it in two days whereas the other one it may say you
know you're not going to get until february and so that is how that works again it's like you have to
use your own judgment on it and i still recommend do not buy if you're not comfortable with that 14
selling price profit because it's a gamble and it's not expected that you will sell it for 17.50
but just wanted you to know azure sourcing that is something you can take into account seller
hack number six comes from olivia in the beginner fba selling course group it was asked like what do
you do about cell phone service if you don't have it in store and normally what i do is i'll just
go and i'll put stuff in the cart and then i'll go take it towards the doors because usually there's
doors that there's more service by the doors and i'll scan stuff there honestly most of the times
i'm just in and out of that store getting replants but what she suggested obviously if there's wi-fi
in the store like target or walmart connect to the wi-fi but in stores like tj maxx where there
isn't if you actually restart your phone it will connect to a cell tower that is closer to you
so for me sometimes i'm driving over an hour to get somewhere and so i want to connect to a closer
cell phone tower and possibly that will help your cell service so that is something to try out if
you ever run into the problem of no cell service is often asked like are different carriers better
and honestly nowadays they all are pretty much the same in your area you'll probably know which
carrier is better so maybe it makes sense to switch but i've been all over the country and
verizon has been fine there are just some stores that for whatever reason seems like they have some
kind of blocker in them all right seller hack number seven you should definitely whenever
possible nowadays instead of sending a help email just go ahead and call them and you just do that
right on the help ticket so at the bottom of the help ticket you put in whatever your problem is
and if it's trying to guess your problem and it doesn't let you send a ticket just say this is not
my issue even if it was your issue and then at the end you'll be able to see here it's like hey send
an email or you can press phone and it'll connect you right away someone will start calling on your
phone and it'll robo you to someone to talk on amazon you get a lot better help now sometimes you
might be on the phone for a while but it's faster quicker help than just the basically automatic
robot emails that we are getting back in response so whenever possible now i recommend calling
seller hack number eight do you ever find that you are using walmart boxes and your tape does
not stick because i've been doing that for four and a half years and finally someone said it's
the walmart boxes apparently there's something on the walmart boxes that makes any tape not stick
and i've gone through all the different kinds i've tried gorilla i've done duck i've done scotch i've
done them all i have uline tape none of it really sticks and i feel like i'm using too much tape for
my boxes so i got the lowe's boxes and guess what my tape sticks so i don't know what it is but it's
not your tape it's the walmart boxes i'm still gonna use the boxes in a pinch um but just know
that it's the boxes and not you and your tape because i was going crazy i hope this video was
helpful and hopefully you learned something if one of these hacks was like mind-blowing to you like
it was for me uh the one for me was the ace in like i could not it would just drive me crazy that
i'd have to type in the product and keep it to try to find the asin and then i learned oh my gosh i
learned it on my own in store i was like oh when i hit list it's right there and voila so let me know
which one was like that for you if any of them but anyways i hope you liked this video go ahead and
hit subscribe leave me a comment and i will see you back here for another amazon selling video