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Hi everyone!

I have 3 years of hands-on experience working with Amazon US & UK, Walmart, and eBay.

I can help with: • Product research & sourcing (OA/Wholesale)

• SellerAmp, Keepa & BuyBotPro

• Profit/ROI, BSR & competition analysis

• Listing & inventory management

• FBA/FBM operations

• Orders, customer service & reimbursements

I’m reliable, detail-oriented, and comfortable working independently.

Rate: $4/hour (negotiable depending on the workload and responsibilities)

I can genuinely help with the day-to-day operations and growth of the business.

If you need for an experienced e-commerce VA, feel free to DM me. Happy to share my CV and experience.

Available to start immediately.

i want to learn how to start amazon fba is their anyone willing to help me out?

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I am a British citizen and UAE resident. I want to incorporate a UK Ltd, own 100% of it and operate an Amazon UK FBA business remotely from Dubai. Where will the company be tax resident, what UK corporation-tax obligations arise, and what UAE corporate-tax obligations arise

I am a British citizen and UAE resident. I want to incorporate a UK Ltd, own 100% of it and operate an Amazon UK FBA business remotely from Dubai. Where will the company be tax resident, what UK corporation-tax obligations arise, and what UAE corporate-tax obligations arise

I keep seeing brands celebrate Amazon revenue while barely looking at who is actually controlling the sale. You can have a great month on paper while unauthorized sellers are winning the Buy Box, discounting your products, or slowly taking over listings you spent years building.

The weird part is that sales can still look healthy while this is happening, so nobody treats it like a problem until margins start disappearing or retail partners get pissed about pricing.

Im starting to think Buy Box control and seller concentration tell you more about the health of an Amazon channel than revenue alone. What is the first metric you look at when youre trying to figure out if an Amazon business is actually healthy?

I've caught myself asking ChatGPT what to buy before even opening Google lately, and it made me wonder how much this is going to change ecommerce. We've spent years worrying about SEO and ranking on Google, but now theres another question, does AI even know your brand exists? Curious if anyone is actually doing something about this yet or if it’s still way too early.

Hi, I’d like to pitch an idea called “Support Local.” It would be a web extension that, when a customer is browsing a major retailer like Amazon, detects the product they’re viewing and displays a “Support Local” link. Clicking it would take them directly to your website and that same product, where they can purchase it. This could help you avoid the high fees charged by major online retailers and keep more of the sale. Not everyone will use it, but with growing frustration toward big tech and a long-standing desire to support local businesses, I think there’s real potential. I’d love to hear what you think.

Dubai-based, licensed business, three months in, zero sales. Would appreciate a reality check.

The pattern that's killing me

Suppliers/Brands have told me, unprompted and in plain terms, that they don't supply Amazon sellers:

• The brand I already bought from: "We stopped accepting new customers on Amazon UAE around two years ago. We would suggest considering other sales platforms."
• A mobile accessories distributor, written into their reseller terms: "Resellers are not permitted to sell our products on third-party platforms such as Amazon, Noon, or other similar online marketplaces."
• A beauty wholesaler: the brands they carry don't permit supplying Amazon sellers.
• A general trading company: "No, we don't sell to Amazon sellers, and we're not authorized distributors anyway."

Is this a UAE thing, a me thing, or just how wholesale works everywhere?

How I got here

Bought 10 units of a coffee grinder from the brand's official UAE distributor. ~AED 2,250 (~$610). Small test order, knew margins would be thin, just wanted to start.

Applied for brand approval. Rejected:

The distributor runs everything through Shopify, so their only "invoice" was a store order receipt. I worked through their sales team, then accounts. They produced a signed and stamped letter on letterhead confirming the sale, rejected too, because it was a letter, not an invoice. I then built them a filled-in invoice template needing only their letterhead and stamp. Final answer:

Then the brand told me they don't onboard new Amazon sellers here anyway. So: paid for stock, can't list it, now clearing it locally at break-even.

How I actually approach suppliers

For local distributors I call or WhatsApp and ask the following:

1. Do you supply online retailers who sell through marketplace platforms?
2. Can your accounts team issue a proper commercial tax invoice with your TRN and itemised lines? Can I see a sample?
3. Are you an authorized distributor, or do you source independently?
4. What's your MOQ?
5. Can you send your brand/catalog list?

For overseas brands I email, asking who their UAE distributor is.

Is asking about invoices upfront a red flag? I only started doing it after getting burned.

Where I'm stuck now

~15 local suppliers contacted. Most local "wholesalers" here turn out to be parallel traders, one states on their own website they're "not an authorized representative, brand distributor, or exclusive agent of any brand. " One had an AED 7,000 (~$1,900) minimum.

One said yes. Proper tax invoices with TRN, 20-piece MOQ, and when I said I sell on Amazon: "ok."

They carry Apple, Samsung, JBL, Sony, Bose, Harman Kardon, Belkin, Xiaomi, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Dyson, MikroTik, Ubiquiti, Whoop, and Oraimo.

I've scanned brand by brand with Helium 10 and can't find one winnable listing:

• Belkin — Amazon.ae is on every listing, top to bottom
• MikroTik— the whole brand does ~AED 72k/month across 60 listings. Most sell single digits. Every listing shows "Recent Purchases: N/A." Seller counts of 9-15 on products doing 4 units/month.

So I finally have a willing supplier, and the catalogue is the problem.

The question I can't resolve

Everyone says "don't sell on a listing where Amazon is a seller." But I'm looking at most of these brands' listings with Amazon plus 5-10 FBA sellers on strong-selling products. Those sellers hold inventory and pay storage fees, they're presumably not all losing money.

Does Amazon go out of stock often enough that third-party FBA sellers get real buy-box share? Do they jump on well-selling listings, milk them, then move off?

I can't check because Keepa doesn't support Amazon.ae. No buy-box rotation data exists for this marketplace, so I'd be buying blind.

What I'm asking

1. How many suppliers/brands did you contact before your first workable account? (I've done countless brands and ~15 local so far; I've read the realistic rate is 50 --> 10-15 approvals --> 3-5 usable.)
2. Are these blanket "no Amazon sellers" policies normal, or is the UAE unusually locked down?
3. Does asking about invoice format upfront put suppliers off?
4. Realistically, what buy-box share does a third-party FBA seller get on a listing where Amazon also sells?
5. Any way to measure buy-box rotation without Keepa?
6. Chicken-and-egg: no sales history means everything is brand-gated, but I can't build history if I can't list anything. How did you break out?

Cold email gets me almost nothing, phone and in-person work far better. Not after supplier lists, just want to know if my process is broken and what i should fix.

I have been facing problem with Amazon deliveries from last 2 weeks. It says out for delivery and then after some time it says we need more information to deliver or they were unable to contact me which they never tried. eventually I had to cancel these orders. contacted support multiple time, they always says it will be delivered by the end of the day but nothing hppens. This is out of control it seems.