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 doing amazon retail arbitrage for five years coming up on
entering my sixth year which is just crazy but i love it so much and i have no plans to stop
anytime soon today in this video i'm going to be telling you the five reasons that you should be
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before i jump into why you need to be fbming i just want to let you know that if you're totally
new to amazon you've been watching some youtube and you're kind of interested but you don't know
where to start i got you covered i created the beginner fba amazon selling course where it walks
you through step by step how to get started to do retail arbitrage online arbitrage fba and fbm i
had a student recently review it post in the group she said it was like having a friend with you
step by step along the way and that is the best feedback i could have possibly gotten because that
is literally how i created the course and why it created it to be right there with you as you start
and continue on to your selling journey telling you how to source what to look for how to send it
in how to prep your packages plus the community of sellers the facebook group where you'll see
that post and many other posts of sellers who are asking questions and celebrating all of their big
wins and little wins and everything on the way of your amazon journey so definitely check that out
at beginner fba if you want to get started if you are not currently doing fbm i hope by the end of
this video you are excited to give it a try even if you're scared to do it if you're not familiar
with what fbm is it stands for fulfilled by merchant or as i like to call it fulfilled by me
it means that we are individually packaging the customer's orders and sending it straight to the
customer whereas amazon fba is fulfilled by amazon so that means i'm packing up all my different
inventory and sending it to amazon and it hasn't yet sold when it gets to amazon or sometimes on
the way to amazon is when it'll be available for sale so fbm it's available as soon as i list it
fba it's available when amazon gets it and makes it available most sellers start doing fba just
because it's a little bit easier but some do start doing fbm and if you're one of those i am super
impressed because i was super fearful of starting doing fbm i had actually done amazon fba for
probably two years before i ever listed my first fbm order and i was terrified like you might be so
reason number one why you should be fbming right now is because it is the summer multiple months
what that means is the amazon warehouses for fba get hot and amazon's not going to take
the responsibility to make sure that the items don't melt so things like gummies and chocolate
even if it says chocolate in the name hello powdered cake mix that they wouldn't let me
send in because it's meltable anything amazon deems meltable they won't let you send fba and
the price usually goes skyrocketing for fbm so you can make really good profits if you want to
do fbm multiples we're talking things like gummy candies gummy vitamins uh chocolate protein bars
all different kinds of things those are just examples of what i've sold so they're on top
of my head but there's all different things that are considered meltable that if you want to fbm
you can make a lot of profit here's an example of something i've sold in the past and already
you can see it has doubled in price of what you're going to get it at walmart at 6 48.
so this one's probably not going to really make any money fbm however look at these bundle options
so here's a bundle of three of them going for 38 and then there's this other listing here that i
quickly found that has three different items two of each so a six pack bundle for sixty dollars
all of these are just things i really quickly found to pull an example for you so as you're
out scanning and you see something that's meltable go ahead and test fbm it's never going to hurt and
you might just find a really high ticket profit item reason number two why you want to fbm right
now is lower selling fees so recently amazon sent out an email i think it was in april that the fba
fees are going up five percent due to the fuel increase costs now fuel is continuing to go up
so who knows if that's going to go up even more there are two different fees associated with
fba but there's only one fee with fbm so here's an example i want to show you of the different
breaks down so this item in all likelihood is probably going to cost four dollars to ship
it's lightweight i can put it in a padded mailer and it's not going to cost me a lot to send it
first class usps now here on the fba screen you can see it's going to be 665 for the total fees
to list the fba that's the referral fee and the pick and pack fee and that pick and pack fee
is what we're paying amazon to do right we're paying them to ship the order to the customer
we're paying them to handle all the customer service so that's the fba fee but when you pop
over to the seller fulfilled or merchant fulfilled or fbm screen they go by lots of names um you'll
see on that one that it's only that referral fee so you're cutting out that basically four dollar
pick and pack fee and now you're four dollars to ship so that's reason number two there's
lower fees that you're paying to amazon to sell something fbm when you take over that shipping
customer service aspect reason number three why you want to be fbming if you're not yet is quicker
sells have you ever heard me or another seller say that they sold something right out of their cart
well that is always fbm because as we mentioned fba it has to get sent to amazon before it can
ever sell but fbm i'm telling you i have sold stuff out of my cart before i even purchased it
it's still in my cart i'm still shopping and the item sells so you can sell those high hard to find
or like high-end demand items like hello sriracha those kind of things you can sell like that
out of your cart before you ever check out and so those mean obviously quicker sales mean you're
making that profit back if you've done fba i'm sure you know that everything gets like
sent to amazon so you have to wait that week about where it's got to go from the ups store
to amazon then you've got the fc transfer where it's moving around and that's after amazon checked
it in right they have like three or four weeks of it sitting at the warehouse before they have
to technically check it in now not it's not normal that it would take that long but sometimes it does
so with the fbm you're able to flip it quicker by selling it quicker whereas fba it's going to
take two or three weeks possibly before it's even available to sell reason number four why
you want to be fbming right now is less risk so because you're not sending it into amazon
you have the option to list it and then return it if it doesn't sell right so maybe you're shopping
and you're thinking this item seems a little risky for whatever reason maybe amazon's on the listing
maybe you're thinking the price might tank or maybe it's just kind of a high rank that you're
not comfortable with you can go ahead and list it fbm and if the thing doesn't sell just return
it to the store you have less risk in where when you send it to amazon now you've got the time it's
taking to get there and then it's not selling and then the price is tanking or whatever the reason
and now you have to pay to have it sent back to you and i don't know if you've ever had stock sent
back from amazon i very rarely ask for something back because when it does come back it honestly
looks like they kicked it across the room down the stairs and then rubbed it across the ground
it's awful and i it's only when i order stuff on amazon like personally it never looks like
that but my seller returns always are just awful so i don't know what's going on over
there amazon but get it together so that is one perk that you don't have to then return something
crumped up and just like after you paid to ship it and paid to have it come back so and reason number
five why you want to be fbming right now is q4 is coming it is so close now i can taste it and you
really want to master fbm now because believe me when i tell you you will find something that you
want to fbm during q4 and you will make crazy profits when you do but do you want to learn it
at that time it's already stressful do you want to be learning that so why not learn it now it
happens all the time in the community people are like oh my gosh i'm learning fbm right now i can't
like there's just hot items that you just can't pass up so you're gonna learn on the fly however
if you spend the time now just pick one item make a shipping template list one even if you have 10
only list the one and then see how it sells when it sells see if that shipping template worked out
or if you need to adjust it if you lost money at least you only lost money on one and not all 10
selling like that so those are reasons like you can dial in your shipping tablet you can get super
comfortable so that when q4 comes and you've got that hot item and the orders are literally rolling
in you can get hundreds of orders in a day you guys when that is happening you don't want to be
overwhelmed and learning and possibly losing money on shipping you want to have all your information
dialed in so that is my main reason like there's so much profit to be made on fbm right now
amazon is no longer preferencing fba because it is taking them so long they are actually giving
the buy box to fbm sellers more than ever before and that's like a bonus number six of why you want
to be fb i mean get it out there test it don't be scared try one and let me know how it goes i hope
this video is helping you just get over that fear i know what it's like because i was also scared
so i totally understand you don't know what you're doing and it's kind of scary so just list one and
test it out so those are the five reasons why you should be fbming right now it's multiple season
there's less fees you can have quicker sales there's less risk in it and q4 is coming and
then we have the bonus number six which is amazon is actually giving preference to fbm
just the same as fba so definitely you want to get out there find something that is lightweight and
fits in the padded envelope i have an older video where it goes over how to fbm
i will link it here it's still relevant it's just the amazon background kind of changed
they updated so it might not look the same but all the functions are still there if you
want my help in starting your amazon business how to do retail arbitrage online arbitrage
fbm and fba definitely check out the beginner fba course it's there to help you if you're already
selling on amazon and you need help on gating or you want to know what we are selling right
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