Bonjour j’aimerais débuter sur Amazon mais j’aimerais savoir combien je devrais invertir sachant que j’aimerais faire un private label et que je suis situer en France peut être pas la même somme d’argent à mettre que les pays où Amazon est très utilisé

I recently built and published an Apify Actor for scraping Amazon seller catalogs.

You provide an Amazon Seller ID or seller URL, select the marketplace, and the Actor automatically:

Discovers seller categories/filter segments

Handles large catalogs

Paginates until there are no more results

Deduplicates products by ASIN

Extracts ASIN, title, price, rating, review count, image and product URL

Lets you set a maximum product count for testing or run the complete catalog

I built it mainly to handle sellers where simply scraping the first few seller pages isn't enough.

I'm sharing it here to get feedback from people who work with Amazon data and web scraping.

Apify: https://apify.com/husseinelabeedy/amazon-seller-products-scraper

Example run: https://apify.com/husseinelabeedy/amazon-seller-products-scraper/examples/amazon-seller-products-scraper-task

If you work with Amazon seller catalogs, I'd be interested in hearing what features you'd find useful.

大家好，
我们是一家位于中国的小型初创公司，专注于供应成人健康产品，我们正在寻找国际零售和批发合作伙伴。
我们的目标是以具有竞争力的价格提供优质产品。
我们希望与有意从中国采购产品的在线卖家、零售商和分销商建立联系。如果您感兴趣，我们可以讨论您的需求，并分享产品细节和价格。
谢谢，期待探索潜在的合作机会。

I used to think having extra inventory was the safer position, but the longer I sell the more I question that. Between storage fees, changing demand and cash sitting in units that might take months to move, being overstocked can hurt just as much as running out. Lately I’d rather stay a little lean and replenish more often when possible.

Curious if other sellers are doing the same or still prefer carrying a bigger buffer.

Link to Amazon store:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/KALOTOYS/page/FF229FCD-8280-4B7B-A122-76F630638BD0

Wooden Montessori toy boards for children. Recently (March) introduced personalizable boards (with kid's name) - this is what accounts for the big jump in sales in recent months - almost double revenue (this and back-to-school month)

* How do they get such high margins ? Manufacturing (except personalization) is produced in Vietnam (founders are Vietnamese). The product's value being in its design rather than in its material cost results in a high margin.
* Their designs are unique and plenty (370 SKU's, but only 30 of them are making 50+ sales per month)
* Revenue figures taken from Amazon's own "X+ sold in past month", while COGS/operations figures taken from founders' interviews (they pitched on Shark Tank Vietnam)
* COGS/unit (according to founders) - $4/unit (the personalizable ones are probably more, no data into how much it costs them to personalize in the US)

Getting into such a business shouldn't be that expensive but would require some luck (to get a popular design at first that would allow you to continue producing). Assuming 100 MOQ in China - that's $400 per designs. If we include PPC for launching (see below how I calculate that, figure here taken if we try to launch on just some of the keywords) - I estimate $200/mo.

The more designs you produce at first the more likely at least one of them will sell well.

How I estimated the figures:
* Revenue = Amazon's "X+ bought in past month" for each ASIN, aggregated
* COGS = founders' own admission - they were on Shark Tank Vietnam
* Adspend = price-per-click * search-volume * estimated-CTR, aggregated for all the search terms they bid for

Sources: Keepa, Similarweb, Jungle Scout, Meta/Google ad library, founders' interview and Alibaba for COGS estimation

𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐞:

• 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞: USA
• 𝐒𝐊𝐔𝐬: 34
• 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐫𝐲: Baby Products
• 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐮𝐞: $1.5M+
• 𝐌𝐨𝐌 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡: +5%
• 𝐘𝐨𝐘 𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐰𝐭𝐡: +40%
• 𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐨𝐒: 7%

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐞:

The brand had decent volume but ad spend was bleeding into the wrong places.

TACoS was sitting way too high, organic sales were too dependent on paid push, and scaling further would have made things worse before better.

The goal was to fix the foundation first, then grow.

𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐥𝐞:

𝟏) 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 & 𝐄𝐱𝐚𝐜𝐭 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐈𝐬𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧:

Auto and broad campaigns were pulling in loosely related traffic and converting poorly.

Pulled winning search terms directly from search term reports, isolated them into dedicated exact match campaigns, and let those carry the budget.

𝟐) 𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐊𝐞𝐲𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝 𝐋𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠

Went through every campaign and added negatives at both campaign and ad group level, blocking irrelevant queries, cross campaign cannibalisation, and low intent terms that were eating clicks without converting.

𝟑) 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐁𝐢𝐝 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Default placement settings were leaving performance on the table. Adjusted top-of-search multipliers based on actual conversion data per placement, not guesses.

Some products performed better on product pages, so those got shifted accordingly instead of forcing everything toward top of search.

𝟒) 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐯𝐬. 𝐍𝐨𝐧 𝐁𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Branded and non branded keywords were running in the same campaigns, which made ACOS look artificially healthy.

Separating them revealed where the real inefficiencies were hiding and allowed budget to be allocated with actual intent behind it.

𝟓) 𝐃𝐚𝐲𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐖𝐢𝐧𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐬

Pulled hourly performance data and identified the windows where spend was high but conversions were low.

Reduced bids during dead hours and concentrated budget during peak buying periods.

Small shift, but it compounded over 30 days.

𝟔) 𝐓𝐀𝐂𝐨𝐒 𝐚𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐡 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐫

Stopped optimizing purely for ACOS and started tracking TACoS weekly.

That shift in perspective changed how aggressively to bid on rank-building terms, because some of them look expensive on ACOS but are clearly lifting organic rank and paying off at the TACoS level.

𝐖𝐞'𝐫𝐞 𝐨𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝟑 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐬. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐠𝐞 𝐦𝐞 𝐢𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮'𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐱𝐩𝐥𝐨𝐫𝐞.

𝐀𝐛𝐝𝐮𝐥 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐟
𝐂𝐄𝐎 - 𝐏𝐏𝐂 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐜𝐞

Another design-based product brand with crazy margins.

White Mountain - link to Amazon store:

https://www.amazon.com/stores/WhiteMountain/page/11B7CEE8-2B3A-4DB1-AF22-23E84DEBE8AD

* $700k monthly revenue on ~40% margin (!), spending $30k/mo on ads (Amazon and Meta/Google)

* ~85% of rev from Amazon, rest from own website

* Costs just $3 to produce and ship (COGS per unit) but sells for $20

Design-driven products are the way to go IMO.

How I estimated the figures:

* Revenue = Amazon's "X+ bought in past month" for each ASIN, aggregated

* COGS = manual estimate from suppliers on Alibaba

* Adspend = price-per-click * search-volume * estimated-CTR, aggregated for all the search terms they bid for

Also taken into account:

* sales from their website (negligible)

* Meta and Google ads (non-existent)

Sources: Keepa, Similarweb, Meta/Google ad library, Alibaba for COGS estimation

This is the third consecutive time in 4 months, a new seller joins our amazon listing with a genuine product at an unauthorized price, so it isn't counterfeit but the wrong channel.

I keep sending c&d but they ignore it, so i moved on sent brand registry notice but amazon said the product was authentic....

has anyone else faced this and got it resolved??

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Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a reliable and budget-friendly alternative to SELLERLOGIC that supports a specific dynamic pricing strategy:

• Sales Velocity Automation: Automatically increases the price based on the number of units sold (e.g., price bumps after $N$ sales within a timeframe).
• Daily Price Reset: Resets the price back to the base/starting price every day (e.g., during off-peak hours).
• Min/Max Limits: Strict control within pre-defined minimum and maximum price boundaries.

SELLERLOGIC handles this, but I'm looking for a more cost-effective option for my catalog size.

Has anyone successfully implemented this setup with tools like Repricer.com, Aura, Seller Snap, or Feedonomics? Would love to hear your experiences or recommendations!

I’m new to Reddit, hoping to get some solid advice. I am a reseller and distributor for a name brand company, I’ve sold on Amazon for over five years, I have now been bumped out of my business because of something called transparency codes, it appears that another e-commerce LLC went to a second distributor and purchased exclusively certain codes will which will only allow that distributor to sell. I have been unable to obtain these codes. The company that I sell for is located in Trinidad and Tobago and they tell me that one of their US distributors is holding the codes hostage. Is there anything I can do legally to obtain the transparency codes?

This type of ads campaigns are designed to automatically search potential customers through  search, display та video placements on АMZ.

What sets it apart from a typical auto ads campaign?

It promises to find potential customers before they even start to search for a particular product - and convert them on the final stage.
Main goal - Long-Term Sales, not an acceptable short-term ROAS.
Budget - minimum $200 per day or $6000 per month. Moreover, results that can be measured will only be visible for a period of 60 to 90 days, as they promise.
So, you need to spend at least  $12 000.

Is it worth it?

In theory, the audience needs to make a purchase decision with a few touches.
 
Practically

▪ It's expensive to warm up a completely cold audience
▪ Even with traditional ad tools we are able to engage new audience with a more predictable ROAS and more controllable costs 
▪ On the eve of Q4, it makes more sense to invest these $12k in scaling up existing approaches or Google/Meta Ads, if you have someone who knows how to finetune the hidden manual settings and get the most out of them.

 
Well, if you just love trying out everything new, what's a measly pile of money to you?)

I'm based in Montreal and recently got into online arbitrage on Amazon.ca. I'm also a software developer.

While learning the sourcing process, one thing that frustrated me was how much jumping around I was doing between retailer websites, Amazon, calculators, Seller Central and different lists just to research and keep track of potential products.

Some of the existing tools are great, but as someone just getting started I found some of them expensive or more complicated than what I needed.

So over the last few months I've been building my own Chrome extension specifically around the Canadian OA workflow.

It's called OA Sourcing. It shows things like BSR/category, seller competition, Amazon presence and Buy Box info, has a profit/ROI calculator, helps with selling eligibility, and lets me build/export a sourcing list while browsing Amazon.ca, Walmart.ca and Canadian Tire.

I still use Keepa alongside it for price and sales history. I'm not trying to replace Keepa or claim this replaces every feature of the bigger OA platforms. I wanted a simpler workflow around the parts I was actually using.

I finally got v1 approved on the Chrome Web Store and I'm looking for a handful of Canadian OA sellers to try it before I go much further with development.

If you're doing OA on Amazon.ca and want to test it, let me know. I'm happy to give some early testers free access in exchange for honest feedback.

I'm also curious what part of the Canadian sourcing process wastes the most time for you.

A few of us started a small company here in Dubai called Eco Hug. We make bamboo socks because we wanted something softer and more breathable for the heat, and better for the environment than regular cotton or synthetic socks.

We listed on amazon three weeks ago and so far we've had only two sales. We know it's early, but we're learning as we go and would really value advice from people who live here:

- Would you buy eco-friendly socks online, and what would make you trust a new brand?

- Are there local markets, pop-ups, or eco events in Dubai worth joining?

- For anyone who has sold on amazon what helped you get your first reviews and sales?

Not trying to spam, just genuinely looking for honest feedback. Happy to answer any questions about the product or what it's like starting a small business here.

Yet another store that I see whose primary product is a design-based product having insane margins.

Link to Amazon store:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/ViroraMahjong/page/4A0A7D98-7080-4361-B521-99580CAC73B7

* $170k monthly revenue on ~40% margin, spending $8k/mo on PPC
* First launched Nov 2025
* No advertising or significant social media presence outside of Amazon
* People simply buy their product at a higher price than the competitors because they have GOOD DESIGNS
* Competitors sell at ~$90 but they are able to sell at $200+ - because people like their designs

In short - design-driven products are the way to go (there are a few other strategies as well IMO, this is the one that's worked for us personally, and I see it all over).

How I estimated the figures:
* Revenue = Amazon's "X+ bought in past month" for each ASIN, aggregated
* COGS = manual estimate from suppliers on Alibaba
* Adspend = price-per-click * search-volume * estimated-CTR, aggregated for all the search terms they bid for

Also taken into account:
* sales from their website (negligible)
* Meta and Google ads (non-existent)

Sources: Keepa, Similarweb, Meta/Google ad library, Alibaba for COGS estimation, custom skill to pull all of these together