hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video today i am just out here sourcing to
replenish some of the stuff that i've been selling and just look for new stuff i don't really have
any like big plans for the day honestly it's cold here in oregon and they say it might snow tonight
so my whole plan is to just make it back before the snow because where i'm from in oregon there
is not a whole lot of snow that ever happens and everything shuts down and so thus i do
not know how to drive in the snow so that's my whole goal today is to get home by five or six
and just keep watching the weather alright my first store as always is walmart because
that's where i get my boxes because they have the best boxes i think home depot also does
even though if you buy boxes at home depot make sure the longest side can't be over 25
inches and i think they started making 26 inch boxes there so just keep an eye out on that
it's too close to valentine's day so i'm gonna head into and look for hopefully easter stuff
but since valentine's day is like four days away or something it might not actually be
out yet but if it is i will be scanning it so let's head into walmart and see what we find
so so i went to walmart and then i just hopped over to target because it was right across the
street i spent about 150 at walmart and 100 at target i didn't get a whole lot of stuff
at either store but i did get some great items so i got a couple cookie bundles i shared one in the
bolo group and then i have another one that i got for myself also so i got those a lot of times if
you're scanning something that is like a grocery item that obviously amazon sells so you're not
going to be able to compete with that but if you scan the front of it like you're taking a photo
it will pop up different bundle options and those are where the real money is because
you're taking the extra effort to bundle them together and you can charge more and get more
profits here's another crazy one i grabbed and i just wanted to tell you about it because it's
a calendar and it makes good money and we're in february people are still buying calendars but
i just wanted to share it because someone shared a calendar not this calendar just another calendar
last year in the ebola group so guess what i still today scan calendars so i found this winner and
then i also found toys right now since the whole spring reset is coming out there's a bunch of new
toys so anything that is new that says new like these all said new something was new about him
or it's just new to you like i've scanned a lot of things and i go down the aisle and i'm like
oh that's new i've never seen that before so i scanned it and lo and behold profit and then you
just can't scan you know the first one if it's something that has a bunch of different colors
or a bunch of different characters but it's all in the same thing so like wwe has all the
different characters but they're all on one peg so i scan all of them and just really quickly
because there's a little bit of miscommunication out there so if your app is ever running slow
make sure you're either connected to the wi-fi or disconnect for the wi-fi so when i was in walmart
it was going really slow so i just disconnected from the walmart wi-fi and then it worked faster
on my cell and it could be vice versa if you don't have good cell coverage go ahead and connect
to the store's wi-fi now the miscommunication comes because there's people who are saying oh
amazon will shut you down if you're using you know that ip address or that wi-fi it'll really
mess with it and i have contacted amazon and they told me no it no longer matters like if you
and your roommate have an account totally separate accounts like business accounts on amazon you can
use the same computer because they no longer look at the ip address as a red flag if you're in the
situation where you and your roommate are going to sell as two separate accounts i would still email
amazon just to make sure but what they told me is it no longer matters so that hope that helps you
if you are scared to use the store wi-fi if you don't even know what i'm talking about don't worry
just use the store's wi-fi and while we're talking about phones not working if you're having trouble
in the store literally i will put a bunch of stuff in like the upper part of the shopping cart
it usually happens more often at marshalls but it did happen at walmart and target and i'll just go
to like a different area of the store usually the front of the store i'll scan them all and
then i'll go put them back because sometimes you got to do what you got to do if your phone's not
working right that or unfortunately i just leave the store i've done that a few times as well
at target i found another hot item and a toy so it's brand new to me it costs 7.99 it's selling
for 38.99 and i'm gonna make 21 dollars and it's a lightweight item so that was a real
winner and that is kind of all that really big happened at target also just wanted to note that
whatever store you're at it happens at kohl's target walmart if you ever see these tags where
it's like only available at target i always scan those because usually those will go up
in price and last little tip before i take off for grocery outlet if you do online arbitrage
oa go ahead and look at target for hearth and hand kitchen stuff because they didn't have it in store
and i kind of did a quick search on the target app but there's a lot of kitchen stuff by hearth and
hand which is the magnolia brand that's going for money on amazon so just a little tip for you and
i'm going to head over to grocery outlet where i hope to fill the truck out let's see how i do
okay slight change of plans because the threat of snow and ice was becoming more eminent
i just went ahead and continued shopping so i'm at my last store right now i'm gonna fill you in
on what i found from the other stores so the first thing is to check expiration dates and you should
always check expiration dates especially at places like grocery outlet or ollie's or any kind of like
discounted food area place if the product doesn't have one sometimes beauty does it and amazon will
ask for it that's totally fine i just make up a date so there's a couple different things with
the expiration dates on amazon so i think amazon actually requires you to label them
i have literally never put an expiration date on the product my theory is that if they wanted it
on there it would be on there so i'm not going to add them on there i've never gotten into trouble
and it's never been a problem but you always want to check expiration dates it has to be 90 days out
i do 120 days out so right now it's february and i'm shopping the closest stuff i'm shipping in is
june so i really quickly wanted to share this item and why it's so important to if you have the time
or you want to take the extra step scan the front of the product because at grocery outlet i found
this item and it doesn't make money it's literally like four dollars for a single one but if i bundle
it three or two packs suddenly i'm making a lot more money i've flirted out because i shared it
in the bolo group and so i don't want to share it here you definitely want to check into bundles
because you can make a lot of profit there this is a little freebie for you from grocery outlet
i have a few more coming up it's lamisil it's like a i don't know athlete's foot thing but i want to
point it out because while it doesn't make five dollar profit so i didn't buy it you can since
there's no fba sellers right now you can literally just name your price so it is going for 14 i'd
probably do 15.99 and in that case it probably would make money because it's only missing what a
dollar fifty but it's just something to know that if it's no fba sellers that's always a great thing
that means your fba product will get the buy box and you can charge a little more for it so
i would probably do 15.99 16.99 just play with it and see so that's a grocery outlet so i'm not 100
sure how many of this item i bought but i bought a lot of them and normally i would say i test with
four to six items so i got some toys at target that i actually tested and i'm like there was
i think i could have got 12 but i just went ahead and got six because i'm not sure and i
don't want amazon to come on the listing and just totally drop the price and now i'm sitting there
with stock not making money this one here's why i bought a lot of it one it was inexpensive
and it was really light so it was 349 for it i've sold the brand in the past
and it always sells so that's like something i know so if i have a history with it like it's sold
before it always does well jurassic park right now i mentioned in a couple videos ago how i got
those walmart hidden clearance for a dollar you literally if you can find jurassic park right now
buy it because it is probably hot you i've been looking for it all day today and i can't find any
so it's like things like that when you know the brand is hot so this one it's a beauty product i
know the brand is hot i've sold it before for years so i know and i just went ahead and got
i don't know how many i got it's probably like 20 something okay two more freebies for you if
you're watching my channel then you already know this but i don't sell if amazon is selling it so i
didn't buy this one but it's at grocery outlet if you want to come and get it it's got a great rank
and then i also do five dollar minimum profit so this one is 99 cents and it makes 328 but it's not
five dollars and so i just said hey i'll just give it to you so there's a freebie at grocery outlet
they've actually seen him for a while so they're probably still gonna be there for a little bit
okay so that was just the one grocery outlet and i was there for three hours and then around noon i
saw like the winter warning literally everyone in the stores was talking about the snow coming the
radio is like portland's gonna get six inches i'm closer to salem than i am portland so it wasn't
i'm i don't think it's still rain right now so i think it'll be all right we might get some snow
who knows but anyways people are worried about me out driving so i figured i might as well just
cut the store so i didn't go to any tj maxx's home goods or marshalls which i really like going to
but honestly grocery outlet has been so good to me i just went straight to another grocery outlet
i just prioritized with the limited time so if you have limited time don't go into
a store that is going to take forever and you have to scan i'm going to grocery outlet
because i already know what i'm looking for and it's super easy and fast to go in and out
so once i did three hours at the one the next grocery outlet took me maybe an hour
okay so back to a new target so at this target i was looking for toys again someone in the bolo
group gave me a bolo to look out for so i went and i actually found it and they were on sale there
it's a board game and board games are buy two get one free so i got three of them and then when i
went to another target i got another one but i just wanted to point out really quickly that
most of the toys i'm sourcing i mean people source all different things but for me personally
i'm mostly sourcing boys toys right now it's a lot of action figures and that kind of stuff so
definitely you know just scan anything if you need help with un-gating and toys i can definitely help
you out with toys i can help you out with grocery otc topical all the big brands so star wars lego
hasbro marvel all that kind of stuff definitely check out the guide they are new seller specific
you don't have to have sold a single thing and you can get ungated so check those out i went to
one more walmart where i was able to get big boxes they had them there and then i got the same stuff
the same toys that i got at the other walmart so that was awesome and now i went to one last target
where i got a few more stuff and i was like okay remember before i said okay i'm not gonna take any
risks after that whole debacle of my massive risk taking on a nana whatever doll from target over
christmas and that failed i lost money i think all together i lost 150 on that risk so i said i'm
not going to take any more risk i literally just said that yesterday and now i've got some points
that i'm taking risk but i'm taking calculated risk or that's what i'm telling myself because
it's brands that i've sold before so i know that they'll sell the risk in it is that amazon is not
selling it right now and they're newer and so i'm not sure if amazon's going to sell it and really
the best way to play anything that's new so like when easter candy comes out as soon as you see
it on shelf is when it's going to be the highest profit because it's just coming out and everyone
else hasn't seen it yet same thing with toys when they're just coming out amazon doesn't have it yet
you may never get it but you just never know so you want to get in quickly and then just know when
to get out if amazon starts coming or you start to see more sellers and the price starts to go down
that's when it's time to maybe stop sourcing it so i got one more store fred meyer where
i'm gonna look for those jurassic park things that's really it and then i'm gonna get some
groceries and head back home before my mom freaks out because the snow is coming so i will fill you
in after i pack up the shipment and if there's any snow i will take a quick video and input it here
so i made it back before any of the snow or ice happened actually thursday night was just
a little bit of snow it's a nice little dusting and it melted off but then friday the freezing
rain happens and we actually ended up losing power friday evening all the way for four days we just
got power back a day ago so that was an adventure normally losing power wouldn't matter in an rv
because we boondock which is camping on freeland but also without any amenities so we're only using
our own battery power anyways but unfortunately because we ripped up the rv for the renovation
there was no sinks attached and i had ripped up the stove so that we could do the countertops
underneath it so there wasn't even a place to cook so we were literally using our solar power
from the rv to generate a heater and power charge things in the house which was kind of funny and
then everyone in the area moved into their rvs because you know it's easier to keep it warm when
you don't have electric power in the house but we got our power back on so anyways that was just an
update again i'm in oregon i am not in texas where it's still ongoing there i did pack up the whole
shipment without power i used the rv ran a cord charged my laptop i had to do it in a little bit
of stages so it took me the normal time it wasn't a huge shipment so quantity rise it was 236 items
and you'll see here my total profit estimated again because nothing has sold yet i've just sent
it in so the estimated profit i expect to make on it is 1986. it'll really probably 1 900 after the
shipping i did send to three different warehouses one here in oregon all the majority of it went to
california and then one in texas which now that i'm saying that now i'm worried about my shipment
probably luckily it was only one item but i wouldn't expect that it'll get there anytime soon
so as always i'm just gonna quickly run through the breakdown of categories and what was
profitable like what my most profitable category was and then i also went ahead and broke it down
by replen and bolo so replan is items that i'm replenishing obviously i'm replenishing them i'm
going to get more i've sold them before and then i also included branch replans because i was like do
i really call it a re-plan when it's not the exact same item but it's a branch so it's the same brand
or it's a like item different color different flavor all that kind of stuff so that's how i
broke them out the same with the bowler group it's either a direct bola lead or it's a branch lead
something i found because i was looking for that brand or that item so those are the branch leads
so yeah let me just jump into it so my most profitable category was grocery
and that is entirely because i am shopping grocery outlets so like i mentioned i really
prioritized grocery outlets and the reason why it was because health beauty and grocery are all
there and so i got a lot of great finds the toys really came from walmart and target almost 600
30 of my total profit was from grocery health 545 77 units 27 beauty 36 units for 200 profit
and then toy was the other big one so i did find some toys that were new toys so they're
still holding their price which is awesome 63 for another almost third of my shipment and then we
have here the replans so the total that i consider replans are 119 4 000 of profit 53 of my total
shipment the branch were quite a few and normally that's normal you would have more branch because
there's more variety in branch the ebola group helped me find 48 items for the shipment
for 433 and that's why i'm always saying the bolo group pays for itself total roi is 111
i'm going to assume that it's going to come out to about 80 so if i'm guessing i'm gonna say that
while i'm saying it's going to make me thousand nine hundred dollars in estimated profit it'll
probably be closer to fifteen hundred dollars for this shipment which is not bad when i had a
cut short my shopping day so that is really all i have for you for this video i hope it was helpful
if there's anything you'd rather see or want to see when i'm outsourcing
please let me know because i really enjoy making the videos while i'm outsourcing
even though sometimes i have to like pause and get to sourcing because that's its own whole thing
but let me know what you want to see and i will make sure to cover it in a future video
thank you guys so much for watching and i'll see you back here for another amazon selling video you