What a day on amazon

[Sandy D]

Originally Posted by jeffweico

I'm glad you are doing well, but you MUST be careful on Amazon. Competitors are absolutely CUTTHROAT. They create buyer accounts and report you for selling counterfeits, even without ordering from you. Worse, sometimes they will order and then complain to Amazon directly. it makes little difference that your inventory is legitimate.

I would say keep EVERY RECEIPT for your merchandise handy and if there is any question, scan them and send them to Amazon. Of course you want to wait until the situation comes up, but my guess is that it will. If an accusation comes up, the quicker you can send them the information, the better off you will be.

Disney items are among the most counterfeited in the world - not just the DVD's, but nearly everything. This has caused me to shy away from selling Disney ANYTHING on Amazon. But if you can navigate this, there are some serious profits there.

I'm NOT trying to discourage you, I'm just trying to give you an FYI about the competition on Amazon. I sell a lot of lower priced generic items on Amazon, but I always attach my own pictures and UPC Codes to prevent the competition from trying to get me booted. It sucks that it has to be this way, but some sellers on Amazon are downright NASTY!

Kind protected from the knockoffs as those knockoffs dont have the wording EXCLUSIVE ITEM FROM THE DISNEY PARKS on them with their logo etc.

Issue is unless you are close one of the two Disney locations you cannot get the exclusive items.

[Sandy D]

Waiting for the Nike store to fill racks with Johnny Manziel jerseys.

Call every day to see if they have stocked yet.

[Sandy D]

SOLD OUT on this item on Amazon.

Just checked and sold the entire lot in one day.

Now I need to see if I can buy more.

I see a couple on ebay not selling at all. None on Amazon at all.

[Gamefreak]

nice, banked like 7k in a day nicely down on amazon...

[yankee]

Originally Posted by Sandy D

SOLD OUT on this item on Amazon.

Just checked and sold the entire lot in one day.

Now I need to see if I can buy more.

I see a couple on ebay not selling at all. None on Amazon at all.

Sounds like you could have been a good bit higher priced if you chose to be. I like a good mix of velocity and margin, but when things go much faster than expected, I always have to wonder if I should have charged more.

[GreenBean]

I used to think the same.

If they sell without issues, then I like the choice.

Might be the easy way out.

But money is money

[rsot]

Exclusive to Disney and Legoland is amazing...very nice find - you're right, I wish I lived close to go and grab tons. I had missed the exclusive part which, of course, makes it very hot for people who want it and aren't in Florida.

Occasionally there is stuff proprietary to Montreal only that I pick up.

I do know of the Star Wars weekend and my brother and I have always wanted to go - sucks to be far at times.

As for the most popular thing/item going on today...I am not on the trends so I can only guess movie-related toys...I always do well selling my 80s, 90s stuff.

As for Toys R Us...it works a bit differently up in Canada - some stuff from the USA never makes it up here...and worse in Quebec where everything has to be bilingual FRENCH

[KDavis]

Awesome! Sounds great!

[Sandy D]

Originally Posted by yankee

Sounds like you could have been a good bit higher priced if you chose to be. I like a good mix of velocity and margin, but when things go much faster than expected, I always have to wonder if I should have charged more.

Dead on Yankee.

Once the first group sold I went in and re did the pricing and raised them up much higher. Still sold out.

[Sandy D]

Originally Posted by rsot

Exclusive to Disney and Legoland is amazing...very nice find - you're right, I wish I lived close to go and grab tons. I had missed the exclusive part which, of course, makes it very hot for people who want it and aren't in Florida.

Occasionally there is stuff proprietary to Montreal only that I pick up.

I do know of the Star Wars weekend and my brother and I have always wanted to go - sucks to be far at times.

As for the most popular thing/item going on today...I am not on the trends so I can only guess movie-related toys...I always do well selling my 80s, 90s stuff.

As for Toys R Us...it works a bit differently up in Canada - some stuff from the USA never makes it up here...and worse in Quebec where everything has to be bilingual FRENCH

People everywhere dress in Star Wars outfits. Amazing. Will get some pictures this weekend and post them.

[yotano211]

@Sandy, You kinda gave me the idea to maybe find some Las Vegas exclusive things. Maybe there isn't much compared with lego or Disney items but. But that "welcome to Las Vegas" sign might be a start. Find things with that on.

[zoneout]

Do you have to pay a park admission fee to get to the souveneir shop?

[yotano211]

The Disney in Cali, you do. My mom had to pay even though she didn't go on any rides.

[Sandy D]

Originally Posted by zoneout

Do you have to pay a park admission fee to get to the souveneir shop?

Yes. Pass is needed to get from the parking lot to the park.

[Sandy D]

Originally Posted by yotano211

@Sandy, You kinda gave me the idea to maybe find some Las Vegas exclusive things. Maybe there isn't much compared with lego or Disney items but. But that "welcome to Las Vegas" sign might be a start. Find things with that on.

You should have already been all over this.

I sold many cups, license plate cover, match book covers, casino chips, shot glasses etc over the years with Vegas on them.

I sold many items I found from the now torn down casinos.

My parents went to Vegas many years back and all they brought me home was a lousy shirt.

And on the shirt it states:

My Mom and Dad went to Vegas and all they brought me back is this lousy T Shirt.

Vintage Vegas items sell Yotano. Get out and about looking.

[pmtrump101]

I dont post alot here but reading ur success stories makes us work harder and its an inspiration. Thanks for the updates. I dont need to know the items just reading this give me a kick in the b*tt to go out and work harder.

[Callidus]

Originally Posted by Sandy D

Really rsot?

These items are EXCLUSIVE TO DISNEY AND LEGOLAND.

You cannot buy them anywhere else. How many times have you been to either one of these places?

Why not piggyback off the backs of Disney? The hottest item in the world going right now is making me a killing and every time I go to Disney I clean the shelf off. They only put out so many of several items at a time and since I am close I have been going 2-3 times a week to get these items.

Also, you can sell anything Disney kitchen. People fly into Orlando to go to Disney and cannot take items home on the plane so they want them and buy them once they see them at the Park.

LMAO- I sell Disney toys for kids by the box fulls. Mom and Dad cannot buy a ton of items if they are on a plane and go home and look on ebay or amazon to find it for their kid.

As you stated in the past you have not been to Disney World for years and neither has many other people. Certain collectibles are sold only at Disney Parks and you and other cannot get them.

Without giving away my exact product, lets say this.

Legoland exclusive only. Paid 49.99 plus tax for this item. Sold on Amazon for 129.99.

Disney World exclusive baseball cap with torn design look and a certain logo on it, buy at Disney for 14.99 and sell on ebay for 29.99 over and over.

Disney World exclusive item. Only can be purchased at the two parks.
Purchased 78 of these items at 24.99 each. Took them all off the shelves.

Woke up this morning to 11 more sold. Almost sold out in 2 days.

74.99 sold price.

Now to teach you how things are done and what you do not know.

Disney has what is called a STAR WARS WEEKEND. Exclusive limited edition items only can be purchased on that weekend at Disney. Now if you are a Star Wars collector you will want some of these limited edition items.

Without giving away the product, and I did not mention these yet, we made 4 trips to the van over the weekend with nothing by NUMBERED and LIMITED EDITION Star Wars weekend items.

Think outside the box. LOL I buy retail items all of the time right in the stores and re sell for crazy profits.

Another hint. There is a candy made exclusive to Florida and I sell 5-6 boxes of this candy every single day as people who come to Florida and leave cannot get it again as they do not ship. I purchase it by the case.

I have not tried it on Amazon yet but if time permits I will.

Also dont forget I am close to the Lego mega store at Downtown Disney. Exclusive items to this store only come in and people go crazy over the certain items. I was late for this one but was able to buy 6 of these 199.99 certain Lego items. I have sold 4 of them for 349.99 on ebay so far. I missed one day of being able to get far more.

Think outside of the box rsot. See a need, fill the need. Keep up with the trending popular items right now and you will understand.


Question for you rsot--- What is the most popular item/thing going today?

Frozen DVD is probably the hottest as of a day or so ago. Saw someone sell well over 200 in less than 24 hours...

[Callidus]

Originally Posted by yotano211

@Sandy, You kinda gave me the idea to maybe find some Las Vegas exclusive things. Maybe there isn't much compared with lego or Disney items but. But that "welcome to Las Vegas" sign might be a start. Find things with that on.

So many people in the UK either have the LAS VEGAS sign mounted in frames, on canvas etc. good idea it could sell well

[kockedoff]

Originally Posted by Callidus

Frozen DVD is probably the hottest as of a day or so ago. Saw someone sell well over 200 in less than 24 hours...

dont you need to be approved for that?

[Sandy D]

Originally Posted by Callidus

Frozen DVD is probably the hottest as of a day or so ago. Saw someone sell well over 200 in less than 24 hours...

Issue is these cannot be from Disney World as they are selling DVDs on Amazon for 5.00 less then you can buy them from Disney itself.

Something suspicious about them doing this.

[zoneout]

Selling new DVDs is just begging for trouble

[Sandy D]

Originally Posted by zoneout

Selling new DVDs is just begging for trouble

I agree.

Also no profit in the Disney ones.

Those who are selling them below cost are selling knock-offs.