Question for Large Inventories

[RosieTosie]

Originally Posted by guitarca18

We do that too on our other brands. I counted our sales channels yesterday. I'm actively running 16 amazon accounts, 5 ebay accounts, 11 bonanza accounts, and 5 websites. Of those we have a mix of millions of products, to some with only 30 products for that niche. We run a ton of our own internal tools to manage everything and some third party tools. Focus is on low overhead, low customer maintenance, good profits, and quality products.

It works for us.

BLIMEY guitar18 you sourced and listed 700,000 items in 8 hours!, did you really say that?, how on earth did you manage it, I mean what are you an automaton or something. I know you said you have a ton off internal tools to help you but when I sit down and work out how much stuff I can list in 1 hour it is not even remotely any where approaching 100,000 which it would need to be to get near you listing pace.

[GhostOfAmazon]

Hmm...seems like I'm not the only one who finds this story fishy.

[guitarca18]

Originally Posted by GhostOfAmazon

Why precisely do you need 5 Bonanza accounts?

Bonanza booths have a 75,000 item limit.

[guitarca18]

Originally Posted by Taking The Micky

Yes but in his post (17) he said he had 5 amazon accounts and 4 minutes later he has 16 accounts (post 18). Ask me he another talking ****

Those particular 700,000 products were set up over 5 accounts. My other brand lines, including accounts in the 3 million sku range, which I've also mentioned in this thread around post #4, make up the other amazon accounts. Diversify right and reduce risk? All I care about is spreading the money made over multiple accounts in case they get suspended, reviewed or whatever else Amazon comes up with to mess with us.

Not sure why you're so negative to me but to each his own I guess. If I'm not mistaken the OP was asking for help with large inventories and I offered up my experience. You guys can take it with a grain of salt if you like but what I've written is my experience.

[guitarca18]

Originally Posted by dealagreeproceed

took the words right out of my mouth. I currently have -1 bonanza accounts

Yes sales are not good on there at all. We tried it out recently and it was fairly easily to convert our product information from our Amazon spreadsheets to Bonanza's CSV format so it didn't take much work. I like that they load their products all into Google Shopping and they have a 3% transaction rate. There's no upkeep so its worth it for me. The only hang up was setting up the 11 accounts but we re-used the same information, per their community documentation. Had a slight hiccup with it but then they let us slide once we verified our feedback from ebay.