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Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

So paypal is blood type and amazon is shoe size. Seems legit!

Gamefreak - you came off pretty strong as a bashing type of a comment. Don't worry I could careless. I just read roll my eyes, and kinda laugh and move on to the next thread. :)

I'm in a large niche of a competition. As long as I make a few $1000's like the rest I'm fine with it. I plan on moving into other products cause nothing is forever and just waiting for my time to pass to move on to a larger project.

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

What many others have done, and I do think you should consider this first up.

Make a stealth account.

Avoid using your real info in case the account gets zapped.

Make sure you KNOW before that amazon deletes account without correspondence.
Please ensure you know these nasties up front.

Just my .2cents

:peace:

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

There are certainly risks with amazon but if the product works on amazon the sales will be crazy.Will easily overshadow ebay depending on the category of the product.
For the risk factors you may want to start slow with FBA since there are costs associated with it if the account closes but its a good way to build feedbacks and sell fast.You can also sell both FBA and sell the usual pro merchant.

though not related to the topic but if you see your sales picking up fairly well and you see potential in amazon then it would be prudent to open a few accounts in the beginning even if you take it slow.That way you can build up the accounts and they are old enough and will have passed 1 review atleast by the time the holiday season gets fast.That way you can capitalize on the season

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

I quite like Amazon, fairly new to it myself, but I like it a lot so far.

Anyhow, I thought you only worked 8hrs a week on your eBay, it was easy and you were giving it all up next year anyhow? :confused: What makes you fed up with eBay? :smash:

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8 Hours a month total. I don't need this money I get from ebay at all. I just do it not to touch my savings for another 15 months until my next project. Then am out. I'd have to be making $15k profits per month in order to stay here if I make less then not worth doing online no more. I'll try my best and push for it until the very end. Because you never know. I got really fed up with ebays lies on the phone and a customer last week. I know it was my first time in 4 years but this kind of stuff just makes me wanna say "screw it".

Just sick of the people in my category selling phakes and lying to customers and customers just wanna save a buck so they directly go to them with their ridiculous offers. I could just cut back and source everything cheaper and lower grade and do the same. But not my style.

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

Riiiighhht, clear as mud, thanks.

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And I don't ship my own stuff my family member in the USA does for me. So I don't deal with shipping and packaging.

If I was to sell lower grade stuff, I'd make money as my competition. But then my product would be phake.

So no idea what you mean by "Riiiighhht, clear as mud, thanks." I only relist daily for 10-15 minutes. All I do is relist my items and take in orders. Only takes about a minute to do one to upload to my site. What else is there to do??? IT took me a while to set it up like that.

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Can never get rid of the phakes - in fact, can only expect ppl to expand harder

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Man I swear ebay is startin to be the new alibaba or something. :smash:

I made up my mind. I'm switching over to Amazon and starting my own website and got a plan to get traffic to it. And starting with newer products also. And this is perfect.

I will start selling and send buyers to my site or facebook page. This will be repeat business product for sure. I know this works. Ebay can't be forever so many websites in this world that don't rely on ebay at all.

I got pissed off this month cause of 1 transaction, and it's like no respect. So if no respect I take my business else were. :ranger:

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

It's good to spread things out, Amazon and your own site is definitely the way to go,

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Yeah looking at a newer product over the weekend.

I will def build a website up and start selling on amazon within the next 90 to 120 days. I want to focus on a newer product line. I already got my plans drawn out in my head. I really like the sound of this FBA. I love the idea of it.

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

I have a US pro Merchant account and yes that is one of the many statistical figures you can get, along with charts ,graphs , and many statistics and alerts on your current listings

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

Go to Advertising - Campaign Manager und then click on the campaign

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

"US pro Merchant account" does this allow to view others or just your own? Also how much does this cost per month as a service? Directly from Amazon?

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I mean for someone else listings. Could I see how many they sold or is this only for mine?

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You can see both , ur own , and how many the listing

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It shows your sales but the traffic of that listing

There's a nice business report breakdown you get with pro merchant

It's 39.99 a month and it cleaned up the mess of my payment schedule, before I was getting paid a month later and I would see all 3 disbursement dates and the amounts, and after ever sale the numbers would change usually pushing the sales to the last date

One of the reasons I focused on eBay more

But with pro merchant the first week pulled all disbursements together and paid out, and now it's every 2 weeks, so I know exactly when I'm getting paid unlike before

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

Nope, you can't see how many were sold by others

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But your able to see the amount of traffic the listing gets

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

Can you see competitions? That's the most important one to see how many sold? I only seen 400 reviews but not everyone leaves a review on products just like not everyone leaves a feedback on ebay.

Re: The noob :) A few questions.
 

So I can view how much traffic competition gets? Will it also show where it's coming from?

No more questions after this. :)