hi and welcome back to another amazon selling video as promised last sunday i'm going to walk
you through all my fbm orders today from the last 30 days and tell you a little bit about them i'll
show you a couple of the items and just give you a better idea of what to expect as far as shipping
and profits and all that if you're new to my channel my name is nikki kirk and i'm sitting
in my rv office i am currently out in indiana and i have been selling out of this rv for the last
three years i think we're officially at three and a half now and up until this year it was how i was
making my full-time income living my main source of income all from an rv so it has been part-time
hours and i've been making full-time income and coming from los angeles that is awesome because
you know you have to work a desk job and go nine to five and a job you hate pay a lot of money for
an okay department but anyways that's besides the point so before march of 2020 i had done maybe 20
total like fbm orders if you don't know what fbm is it's fulfilled by merchant and normally
i do fba which is fulfilled by amazon so i pack up all my stuff and i send it in boxes
to amazon's warehouse amazon will then fulfill the orders for the customers and warehouse all
the stuff so i don't have to which is super ideal when you live in an rv so in march there
was an opportunity posted in the bolo group and i happened to stumble across it and i was like okay
this is too good of a profit to not just try fbm because if you are not familiar with fbm
it is super intimidating i have learned a lot is no longer intimidating and it's actually kind of
fun but i'll get into that a little bit later so i just jumped on the opportunity said i'll figure it
out like let's just do this and i ended up doing i think it was like 160 orders or something all
through the month of march and it was crazy i made a ton of money so then the rest of the
summer i kind of like didn't really do a lot of fbm because it is intimidating and then finally
through the help of the bolo group members who are a lot more familiar with fbm they kind of
showed me how to do the shipping templates and all that so i did a full video breaking down step by
step how to do fulfilled by merchant and i will link it here if you want to check that out it's
a longer video because it's literally step by step because i now know how to do it it's not
intimidating anymore so these are my numbers for the last 30 days of my fbm profit and you'll see
it's all over the place because i was learning if you are not familiar with selling toys during q4
you have to sell 25 fbm orders in general it does not have to be toys between i think it was august
15th to october 5th 14th so the time has already come and gone so if you're watching this right now
it's already passed so sorry but anyways you had to do 25 orders and so some of these numbers while
you're seeing i'm either taking a loss or making like 70 cents it's because i was trying to hit
those 25 orders i did not anticipate that i would love it so much and keep going otherwise i would
have found more profitable items all right so let's just jump into the spreadsheet and i'll
show you all together i sold 17 different items and it was 54 orders overall so that was pretty
good i thought these orders are all from september 14th until october 8th i'm going to show you a
couple of them but most of them are items that were shared in the bolo group or i shared in the
volo group and so i don't want to give away the secrets of the bolo group so i won't be sharing
with you what they are but just the general categories i filtered them right here in total
profit so the first one was a grocery item they actually bought two of an item i was selling so
i'll get into that in a little bit but the total roi was 42 percent it cost me from the store
including tax 4120 and then it cost me 13 to ship them 15 and amazon fees because the more the item
is the more amazon fees are going to be because this is the percentage of the total the packaging
cost was zero and that is because i shipped them priority so if you're shipping prior you can just
use the priority usps postage so they have boxes i actually found this at a little tiny post office
and i thought it was a flat rate but it's not and so it took me a little digging but you can
actually use this box and just print the regular priority you don't print the flat rate labels you
just print priority and you can ship it because it's priority bucks the other way to get zero
packing is of course this bubble miller if it fits in this bubble mailer it is 775 to 850 on amazon i
think amazon gets a little bit of discount so if you want to mail it from the post office it would
be like eight something 850 i think but if you do it from amazon it is 7.75 so if you're outsourcing
and it is over a pound but it will fit in this you'll know it'll cost eight dollars roundabout
so this grocery item i did go ahead and ship in a box like this priority so free packing supplies
then i had a costume i actually did quite a bit of halloween items i did halloween decorations i
did halloween grocery items and i did halloween costumes so depending on when you're watching
this and how ballsy you are you can probably still go outsourcing and get some costumes if
they're selling well and make a profit i am a little bit too scared to do it at this point so
i'm not going to but if you find them and you want to flip them and get them to the customer in time
you can definitely do that so this costume i sold for 74.95 it cost me only 26 at the store
the shipping was nine dollars because altogether it was over a pound amazon's fees packing cost
13 cents now let me show you why that was polly mailers so this was 13 for a hundred of them so
each one cost 13 cents and that's where i got that so these huge high ticket items that i was selling
that was only costing 13 cents for the packing materials which is awesome so that one i profited
all together 26.15 so on this one i mean rory-wise as far as i purchased it was almost 100 but when
you take in all the fees and cost of shipping it takes it down to 53 roi which is still pretty good
so here we have another costume 62 another this is the same costume i sold them for different prices
probably because someone came on the listing so 59 cost the same price obviously and this one was
under a pound so it fit in the poly mailer it was under pound so it cost even less to ship because
if it's under a pound and it's lightweight you can either fit in a poly mailer or a bubble mailer
then it's gonna cost at most five dollars to ship first class usps so on those ones you can see
i paid 21.36 for them and i made 25.22 after all the other associated costs and fees came out to 70
and almost 60 roi here we have a halloween decoration i sold for nine dollars again it
was about it was 19.99 at stores so with tax it was 21.36 shipping it was a larger like bulkier
item so i had to put it in one of those walmart small boxes which i think are like 14 by 14 by 12
and so that one it costs about 17 to ship so it was a little more to ship
all together i mean i made 19 on it so that was pretty good the fun thing about fbm is like it's
fast-paced and you're seeing it so fba is a really fun long game because you send it all in there and
it just sells over time but fbm is those quick flips where you feel like you're getting that
reward back right away which makes it a lot of fun which is why i actually really enjoy it right now
in fact if you've seen some of my other videos where i talk about the canning item which was
a like branch lead from the bolo group someone shared in the bolo group another canyon item and
so when i went looking for it i found this other item because i just scanned everything that was
there and it sold from my cart in walmart so i was going around to all the other walmarts i went to
into the aisle looking for this i found i can't remember how many i found let me count them up
i found seven of them all together and every single one of them made ten dollars and they cost
less than ten dollars so all together after all the fees it was a 50
roi which was awesome whenever the thing is selling from your cart in walmart or wherever
you're shopping it is so much fun it just is so exciting like i sold it before i even bought it
here's another toy i sold it was another branch laid from the bolo group
and i sold two of them with this order so it cost it was like 19 sell price so 40 altogether
they cost me less than five dollars at the grocery store and i used this envelope which when you
divide the pack all together it costs 48 cents per envelope so now we've got the total all-in cost
was 20 and i made almost 20 almost 100 roi including all the fees so that was a really
great one and then these i wanted to just highlight because this is a heavier item
it's a bundle bundles are a really great thing for fbm because they normally make more profit they're
higher in price so this was a grocery bundle and again i did it priority mail so i went with the
free priority packing so i saved on packing even though i'm spending a little bit more on shipping
the great thing is that when people buy multiple so when i sold two of those toys it really ends
up saving me on shipping so i make more profit when i first saw someone order two i was like oh
i don't have a box big enough for that but at the end of the day i figured it out and i made more
profit because the shipping combined owned one was less so here's another bundle it was a costume
and wig bundle so it cost me thirty two dollars because that's adding the two different prices
and putting them together so it cost me 32.29 including tax and then again i put them in one
of those poly mailers so it's 13 cents and i ended up making 12 on those not a great roi but you know
for as easy as it is to sell i mean i just go buy it i put it in a mailer print the label and
take it to the post office so that's kind of an easy 12 dollars all right so now i'm going
to show you one of the items i sold pretty early on when i was just trying to get the orders and
find anything that would sell and make a profit so these are zone bars i bought these at walmart
it was a three pack and here is the item if you're interested in seeing what it was
i sold them for 35.99 you see now that the price is 50 however the rank is really high so that
probably means they aren't actually selling but cost me 16 because i think they were 4.99 each
at walmart and then the shipping price was 8.23 so they were heavier and needed to go priority amazon
fees were 5.75 and again because it went priority it didn't cost me any money for the packaging
all in cost 29.99 and i made six dollars so it wasn't great but it did give me that order to hit
my threshold and then i've since i filtered them by profit you're seeing now all these ones where
didn't really make a big profit here's some other toys that i was selling early on to get my 25
orders in i mean i wasn't losing money altogether but i wasn't really making the money either
and then finally i wanted to show you this last one which was a fortnight item because
this was something i bought wholesale so i can get the invoice and get ungated in fortnight
and since then i have found so many fortnite items at retail which is why i knew i wanted to
get ungated in fact i just sent one in right now that makes twenty dollars and it costs ten dollars
so that's why i wanted to get ungated and this is exactly the process that my undating guides teach
so if you want to get ungated and topical grocery otc or toys and brands of toys that you see out
there that you're like wow that's crazy profit i wish i could sell it i can definitely help you
out getting ungated in that the links are below but i wanted to share this with you because what
was i gonna do with all these fortnite things so i just thought okay let me just go ahead and sell
them fbm to get my again 25 orders for the q4 toy thing and so i went ahead and sold them at a lot
so i actually ended up losing quite a bit of money on these it did help me get those orders which
in hindsight didn't really matter and that is one of the fun things about fbm it is a learning and
sometimes it's a little costly learning experience but when you do learn it you don't make those
mistakes again so i'm not selling them anymore because i don't want to lose money actually some
of them went up in price i went ahead and sent them an fba so i forgot to do this but let's just
go ahead and total everything so the total i spent in store like put it on my credit card was 789
the total cost of it all comes out to be a little more because it's taking on all the
fees and the shipping and all that but then at the end of the day i made 437 dollars so
about 50 roi doing fbm if you take the cost of like buying it from the store and the profit i
made off of it if i never sold it i wouldn't have all these other costs associated with it
so let's just see what that roi is so that roi if i'm taking the total cost after shipping and
amazon fees and all that would be 30 roi on fbm and i did all this 54 orders in a month
i only had one return and honestly besides those ones where i was just trying to do it thinking i
wasn't going to be able to do it in time the ones i've done since here where you're seeing all these
totally worth it would do it again in a heartbeat the ones where i'm obviously making a dollar
eh probably not worth it and so i'm really excited to go into q4 and start doing more fbm if you need
help on knowing what to fbm and all of that i have the other video that i did which i'll link here
that really will help you walk through when you should do it what's a good time but in general
like you saw most of these are halloween because it's too close to halloween to send him fba but
there's still so much profit to be made so i did him fbm as always i hope this video was helpful
and gave you a better idea of fbm and what how you can do it what you can do and the money to be made
doing it when you do it right it is definitely a learning experience and i highly recommend just
trying it and doing it because even when you're losing money which i didn't lose all that much
i mean 15 altogether but the learning experience you'll get out of it is really great and you'll be
able to get better at it this was probably besides march the first month i really did it like a lot
so i don't know i just i think it's fun and i like the rush of selling stuff and be able to ship it
right away because i also really like shipping stuff i'm weirdly fascinated with the post office
but anyways that's besides the point thank you guys so much for watching i hope this video was
helpful if you need help on dating or you want my q4 guide i have a bundle or you can check out
the guides on their own below until next time have a great week and happy sourcing
you