I got my Scanpower newsletter yesterday and they had a nice piece on Restricted Items on Amazon – Not many folks know about these as Amazon doesn’t push this information out.  Here is the article: There are items that are Restricted by Amazon, and this is not well-documented. Here are some known restricted items: * [...]

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This isn’t my story. This morning, Chris Green of FBA Power, shot me an email alerting me to an article in the Channel Advisor Blog about the release of the Kindle Fire I wrote about yesterday.  This article was written a day or so before Amazon’s release, but contains a really interesting analysis of Amazon [...]

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OK – What is  FBA and “Net Payout” and why do I care? FBA stands for Fulfillment By Amazon.  This is a program where Amazon essentially becomes your personal dropshipper.  You send your inventory to Amazon and when it sells on Amazon they will collect the money, communicate with the customer, pack and ship the [...]

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I just got an email from Jim Cockrum.  Because of the slowing economy and because he wants to give more people the chance to get started –He has just cut the price of The Proven Amazon Course from $189 down to just $89.  That is even cheaper than the introductory price when the course was [...]

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Many of my readers have already enrolled in our  best selling ProvenAmazonCourse.com and are reporting great results. FBA success stories have been pouring in from our members One of my top coaches at SkipmcgrathCoaching.com is Suzanne Wells. Suzanne is both a top rated eBay seller and an accomplished Amazon FBA Seller.  She has just written [...]

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The two new challenges for Amazon FBA Sellers are Long Term Storage Fees, which affect all FBA Sellers.  The other challenge only affects media sellers and is potentially really bad for anyone who lives and ships from West of The Mississippi River.  Lets take that one first: Amazon relocates media warehouse to Pennsylvania Here is [...]

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The Online Sellers News is the oldest and largest FREE newsletter for eBay and Amazon sellers.  Published since April 2000 You can subscribe for free at: http://skipmcgrath.com/newsletters In This Issue: Musings from eBay, Amazon, and beyond How To Sell Antiques & Collectibles on eBay Using Amazon FBA to Increase Your eBay Profit Margins Summer Toys [...]

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Hundreds of my regular readers took advantage of the PROVEN AMAZON COURSE when Jim Cockrum and I launched it back in March.  We had to limit the numbers as our coaches and experts only had so much time to devote to it.  But now that most of the folks have been completely through the course [...]

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Let me list the reasons: It happened slowly, but my Amazon business is now equaling my eBay business. Although Amazon’s fees are somewhat higher than eBay, they do most of the work for me. Amazon’s warehouse service, Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA), allows me to go on vacation without taking down my listings.  They will even [...]

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Amazon reported financial results yesterday that shocked Wall Street Analysts. They were so good that although  the Dow is down over 100 points today, Amazon stock is up over 5%. Some highlights: Amazon net sales in the 4th quarter increased over 36% over the same quarter last year The 4th Quarter was Amazon’s first $10 [...]

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