Just sent off my first few packages to a fulfillment center. Have any of you guys had success or failure with FBA?
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Benjamin Sanchez
Austin Thompson
tried it once,had some very mild success. probably needed way more money and time but if you find the right product, you can definitely make money out of it.
Landon Wilson
How much money did you have to put into it? What were you selling?
Ryder Miller
I resold textbooks. I had go go through a middle man to receive the books in USA and send them to FBA. I probably bought like 500-700 dollars worth of books. If i scaled and picked the right books, I would have definitely made money out of it.
Benjamin Anderson
$10k or so. Working with my brother so potentially double that
Jacob Hughes
Mind sharing your supplier? Currently fucking with home & garden stuff as well as electronics but would be stoked on getting into books
Ryan Watson
this might sound crazy but i mostly bought books on amazon and resold them through their fba. prime members pay much higher prices for the convenience of an amazon fulfilled product, with the free and priority shipping. if you notice, the difference in the used textbooks can be pretty big. i would buy the book, send it to a middle man who would check the conditions of the book, repackage it and send it to the fba.
If you live in usa i would recommend you check anywhere that sells used textbooks and check the difference of price with amazon. its a very good product because a) its expensive, so the difference can be big b) kids buy a shitload of used ones because the difference to new ones is quite big c) there's certain seasons where they sell a shit lot.
there's a lot of info and tools about book flipping online.
Michael Long
Shit, will definitely look into this.
Any reason you sent them to a middleman instead of just checking and repackaging them yourself?
Henry Collins
I don't live in USA and wanted to use amazon-us fulfillment centers. No way for me to a) get packages internationally and b) send them back. I suppose you can make it cheaper. The only big advantage of the middle man would be to never worry about physycal stock management.
Gavin Brown
Might be able to shave some costs off if I just get it all sent to my apartment. FVA fees are just fucked up expensive, gotta run the numbers. Any textbooks/publishers that sold well? Or your gotos?