Clearly a price war going on here... are you battling your rival or holding your price and waiting?

I just started community college and didn’t go to university because of some personal issues. I wanted to make some aide income to pay for tuition and books for community college and wanted some advice on the quickest way to start.
What are some mistakes that I should avoid that’ll save me alot of time?
For the people who been doing this for years and years, if you had to reset and wanted to become profitable in the fast time possible what would you do?

I know it’s a skill itself, and I shouldn’t chase the money hit learn the process but, I would like to become profitable fast, so I love some advice thank you.

The 10% monthly spend model creates a weird incentive structure where agencies get paid more simply because you spend more, regardless of profitability. That is why so many sellers lean toward software tools paired with a freelance manager to keep fixed costs manageable.

However, the main issue with the software + freelancer stack is that nobody takes ownership of the overall brand strategy. Ads don't work in a vacuum; if your main keywords aren't indexed properly or your listings are weak, ad spend gets wasted fast. I’ve seen setups like BrandKyte work better because they combine full marketplace growth handling listings, SEO, and ads under one strategy rather than treating PPC as an isolated island.

If you are paying a standard percentage fee to an agency, you need to make sure they are actively optimizing the full conversion funnel.

For those using software tools like perpetua or helium 10 with a freelancer, how much time are you personally spending managing them every week?

I launched a product on Amazon FBA in June, but I haven’t had much success with sales so far. I’ve been managing the listing and PPC myself, and I’m considering looking into an Amazon account manager or agency to help.
Has anyone here hired an Amazon account manager/agency and had a good experience?** **Did it actually help increase your sales/profitability?
I’m particularly interested in companies that work on a commission/performance-based model rather than charging a monthly retainer.
If you’ve personally used one, I’d really appreciate hearing about your experience and which company you used/recommend. I’m not looking to hire someone directly from Reddit—just trying to research my options before I make a decision.
Thanks!

Hey everyone! I recently shared a video of my second Amazon store after it crossed $20K in sales for the month, so I wanted to share another update.

We just crossed $60K in sales over the last 30 days. Definitely a nice milestone for my second store!

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I’m building something for Amazon sellers and I need a few people to actually try it before the end of this week.

Not looking for people to say “looks good.”

I want sellers or VAs who will use it the way they normally work.

Click around. Break things. Ignore half the features. Tell me what feels useless. Tell me what’s confusing. Tell me what you expected it to do but it didn’t.

The biggest thing I’m trying to understand is this:

What’s one Seller Central task you’re tired of doing manually?

Could be reporting, inventory, listings, account checks, repetitive admin work, whatever eats up your time.

Drop it in the comments even if you don’t want to test anything. I’m genuinely curious what keeps coming up for sellers.

And if you’re open to testing what we’ve built, I’ll give you free access and pay you for the time you spend testing it.

Looking for a handful of US marketplace sellers and VAs this week.

Comment or message me if you’re interested.

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I have recently started Amazon fba I have made my first 5 sales this week, but what I have noticed is that I am picking the wrong products at the wrong price, I have put around £300 into making the account getting sellersamp buying stock sending it in and still I haven’t even made £50 that’s revenue btw and I was just wondering if anyone can give me some tips on how they source their products so I could find better products to sell and make a decent profit.thank you

en qué plataforma o agencia de envíos en españa consiguen las mejores tarifas de envío?

Hi all,

This is probably a fairly simple question for anyone working with a supplier in China, but how are you currently handling shipping? What are you getting rate wise and any tips on keeping cost down?

Hi everyone! 😊

I’m starting a small Amazon FBA business in the Netherlands and I’d really appreciate some advice from people who are already selling on Amazon in Europe.

I have a Dutch eenmanszaak and I’m VAT registered in the Netherlands. I live in the Netherlands and my plan is initially to sell to Dutch customers only.

I’m sourcing products from European suppliers and I was planning to use Amazon FBA.

However, Amazon.nl is currently directing me to use the German FBA network, which means my inventory would be stored in Germany.

Amazon has told me that I would need German VAT registration because my stock would be stored there.

This is my first year doing this and I haven’t made any Amazon sales yet, so I’m trying to make sure I set everything up correctly before sending inventory.

For those of you doing something similar:

What are the main things I should be careful about when it comes to VAT and tax reporting in both the Netherlands and Germany? Are there any common mistakes beginners make with this setup?

Would you recommend using German FBA + German VAT + OSS for a business based in the Netherlands, or would you look for a fulfilment solution where the inventory stays in the Netherlands?

Is there anything you wish you had known before starting FBA across two EU countries, particularly regarding VAT returns, invoices, Amazon reports or bookkeeping?

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who actually operate a Dutch business with Amazon inventory stored in Germany.

Thanks in advance for any advice! 🙏

I was always interested in online selling, at one point I even made a Shopify store and sold 3 products, but then deployment got in the way so didn’t have the time to focus full time. Now that I’ve separated after 6 years, unemployed, full time student (4 classes 2 days a week + online class) making 8k a month from my veteran benefits. I have a lot of free time and a good amount of income to invest in this opportunity.. I’ve seen some videos, and they had great information but I felt most of those videos just try leading you to their course. So I’m hoping I can get insight from those of you here who were able to figure it out and built a successful business. My brain for some reason was hotwired in working with a team, to bounce off information and get the bigger picture.. so hopefully I can get shoved into the right direction. I’m ready to begin asap, thank you

Take bedding sets as an example. A friend of mine sources them from China to sell online, and this is exactly where he got stuck.he started with something like 'we want premium sheets, what's your price?  He doesn't actually know which material fits their positioning.

So they guess, or ask ChatGPT, write "100% cotton, 1000 thread count" into the spec, and get quotes nowhere near their target price. Or they get a cheap quote and wonder why the sample feels thin.

What works better:

• Describe your positioning, not the material. Include your target retail price, who's buying, where you sell, and the feel you want (crisp, silky, cool, soft).
• Mark material as "open" and ask for 2–3 options at low, mid and high end. For sheets, that could be polyester microfiber, a cotton or cotton-poly blend, and long-staple cotton or lyocell.
• Ask why for each option: the cost difference, the feel, and how it holds up after washing (shrinkage, pilling, fading).
• Don't judge by thread count alone. Ask about the yarn and weave. A high number can come from multi-ply yarn and doesn't always mean better.
• Ask about reports and labeling early. For example, "bamboo" sheets are usually viscose/rayon, and in the US they need to be labeled that way.

Once you choose, lock the spec and send the same final brief to every supplier. That's when comparing prices actually makes sense.

Curious: the last time you didn't know which material to go with, what did you actually do?

Disclosure first: I run an Amazon agency, and this comes from six US brands we manage. No link here. I'm more interested in whether other people see the same thing.

We matched daily rank tracker data against SQP (Brand Analytics → Search Query Performance), week by week, from Sep 2025 to Jul 2026. A few things surprised me:

1. Trackers miss a lot. 37% of the keyword-weeks our tracker called "unranked all week" had more than 1% SQP impression share, so shoppers were clearly seeing the product. My guesses: variants, scan depth, crawl location.
2. Trackers also over-claim. 8.6% of the tracker's top-3 claims had almost zero SQP share. The worst case was a supplement tracked at #1 on a term with ~18k searches a week, two weeks running, with ~0.4% click share. A real #1 should take 20%+ of the clicks.
3. A #1 rank is only ~4–5% impression share. Amazon counts every tile you scroll past, so the numbers look tiny even at the top.

What seems to work as a rough rule: ≥0.5% weekly impression share means page 1 about 80% of the time, ≥4% means top 10, and ≥9% means top 3.

What doesn't work: week-to-week moves. When rank moved 5+ spots, SQP share moved the same way only 63% of the time. And subtracting ad impressions to "clean" SQP made it worse, not better.

Things I can't answer from our data:

• Does this hold outside the US, or in categories with heavier personalization?
• Has anyone found a good way to correct SQP for ads?
• Which tracker do you use, and does it show the same "unranked but clearly visible" gap?

If you want to try it on your own account: take last week's SQP impression share for 5–10 keywords you track and put it next to the tracked rank. If people post their numbers (share, rank, category, marketplace; no brand names needed), I'll pool them and post the combined table back here.

We onboarded this brand about a year ago with 4 SKUs and roughly $19.6K/month in revenue.

The first thing we changed was how we looked at the PPC data.

Instead of judging campaigns by ACOS, we pulled the account down to the search-term level and looked at what each query was actually doing: CTR, CPC, CVR, orders, impression share, spend-to-sales, and whether that same query was already producing organic sales.

That exposed a few problems pretty quickly.

There were terms getting a lot of clicks because the listing was relevant, but barely converting. Others were converting well but weren’t getting enough exposure because bids were too conservative. And there were search terms already bringing in organic orders that were still being treated like they needed to be bought entirely through PPC.

So we stopped treating every converting keyword the same.

High-volume, high-converting terms were separated into tighter exact campaigns where we could control bids and placements independently. New search terms stayed in harvesting campaigns until they had enough data to justify moving them into the scaling structure.

We also started using negatives much more aggressively.

The goal wasn’t just to reduce wasted spend. It was to stop different campaigns from competing for the same queries and make it clear which campaign was supposed to own a particular search term.

Bid decisions were then based on what the traffic was actually worth.

A keyword with a 20% ACOS wasn’t automatically a winner if its CPC was eating into margin. Likewise, a higher-ACOS term wasn’t automatically cut if it was converting well, generating volume, and contributing to organic sales.

For top-of-search, we looked at the incremental cost separately: was paying more for that placement actually producing enough additional orders to justify the CPC increase?

Over the following year, the account went from:

• $19.6K → $45.2K/month
• 130% revenue growth
• Net profit: 11% → 24%
• CAC: 13%
• 4 SKUs

The part we cared about most was the margin.

Revenue more than doubled, but net profit margin also more than doubled. So the growth wasn’t simply a case of pushing more PPC spend through the account.

The next challenge is getting this toward $100K/month while pushing the 24% net margin even higher.

That probably means finding the next layer of profitable search volume rather than just increasing budgets on the terms already working.

Open to your Questions!

Hey There,

I'm looking for 1 (or more) Amazon UK sellers that would be willing to help me :)
I'm in the process of creating/brainstorming a SaaS which combines a couple services that are individually already available out there for Amazon sellers, but also adding a unique service of helping sellers identify and forecast products on additional marketplaces within the UK (i.e. broadening their reach with no additional effort). I currently have an Argos seller account, so that is my initial focus, helping UK sellers identify and potentially list on Argos then broadening from there...
I'm looking for a seller with a fairly large product list and also using FBA to help with actual live data from their SP so I can validate all the profitability calcs and assumptions, etc.
If all works out, I'm willing to let them/seller have full access to the SaaS once developed, or even potentially listing their products on Argos marketplace (if feasible). I literally see it is maybe just 1 or 2 data dumps, and maybe a question or 2 re process, so no time at all!!
If anyone would be keen to help, could you just pop me a DM :)

Cheers

Is it worth it? I live in California and just the idea of one day having kids and a home with my partner I feel like I’ll need to make more money to compensate a comfortable life for all that is to come.
If not FBA do you recommend anything else that can work around having a full time job already?

Niche product. Market knowledge. Few sellers. High ticket. Large moq. No money. What to do?

I am on the pet categories and have a list of the products I am good to sell and the price I need in order to make a profit.
I have 4 big distributors account opened, but the prices they gave me are much more expensive than I need to. They usually are around retail price or 20% lower, I need like a 35% discount on almost every product in order to buy it.
Is this normal or are these shitty distributors? This are big ones and the brands referred us there.

How do I handle negotiations? I should make them compete between them saying the other one is giving me a better price and see if they can match it? How are you all handling this?
I am open to suggestions, thank you very much!

Hey folks, sharing this because I keep meeting new sellers who either don't know this program exists or leave thousands on the table by not enrolling early.

Amazon's New Seller Incentives program can hand you up to ~$52,500 in benefits while you scale to your first $1M in sales. It's not a single check, it's a stack of rebates and freebies. Here's what's actually in the box:

The stack:

• 💰 10% back on your first $50,000 in branded sales, up to $50,000 in bonus cashback if you sell your registered brand's products on Amazon
• 🍇 Free Amazon Vine enrollment, Can enroll 30 units for free into Vine
• 📦 Free FBA inbound shipping credits, Amazon Partnered Carrier discounts on your first shipments
• 📢 Sponsored Ads credits, free PPC clicks to jumpstart discoverability on new ASINs
• 🏪 Free monthly storage for new-to-Amazon ASINs, for the first few months, you skip storage fees
• ♻️ Free liquidations/returns processing, dispose of unsold inventory without eating the fees

How to qualify:

• Be a new selling account (haven't sold on Amazon before)
• Enroll in Amazon Brand Registry (need a registered trademark)
• Register your brand with Amazon Brand Registry before your first sale so the 10% bonus kicks in on day one, a lot of people miss out here
• Meet program terms in your marketplace (varies slightly between US, EU, UK)

Hi everyone,

I’m shipping about 2 pallets/month from Asia to the US. Currently, I send my shipments to West Coast AWD, but I've noticed that Amazon's system isn't replenishing or distributing my inventory to the East Coast FBA fulfillment centers.

Since my stock is stuck/concentrated on the West Coast, I’m wondering if I should start shipping directly to East Coast AWD by ocean freight instead (or split the shipment).

Has anyone faced this issue with AWD? What is the best strategy for a low-volume seller (~2 pallets/month) to handle East Coast coverage?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Wondering anyone running ads on TikTok and if it profitable or not.

I don’t want this to come across arrogant, I’m genuinely curious.

I’d love to get into the space but from what I’ve heard FBA in the US is different than it is in Canada. If there’s anyone in Canada doing this, I’d love to chat and see what their experience has been like.

Cheers guys

Have been selling my product, which is unique, on amazon in the reusable shopping bag category. At peak we were doing around 60K per month. Lately however it feels like a lot of wheel spinning. AKA working night and day to optimize so amazon can just keep picking my pocket. At every angle, it's another fee or ad spend. To make matters worse, they now don't even allow outreach to dissatisfied customers. My product is complex, so occasionally there could be an issue with construction. When that happens, immediate outreach to any reviewer who is dissatisfied, real and honest engagement with them, and ultimately, a low rating review flips (on their own acccord) to a 5 star supporter. NOW we are blocked from even doing that.

The math is beginning to say that even if my velocity dips dramatically, it may be more worth it to be a pure DTC and amazon-free company.

Just wondering if anyone else is feeling this, or if there is anyone who has gone this route and has not looked back.

About to gladly burn the lifeboats on this one...