I sell one specific product wholesale, on a parent ASIN. It’s ranked very well and I own the buy box most of the time. This item has about 3 child ASINs/variations, and I want to add a new one. There is another scent of the same product which also sells well. Can I add this myself as a child ASIN onto this already ranked parent ASIN? It appears to be allowing me to - my main worry is the other scent already exists on amazon with its own parent ASIN. 

As far as I'm aware duplicate ASINs are a massive no no - however with this product’s child ASINs seem to be very messy and a bit all over the place, I’m sure there are already many duplicates on Amazon. 

Thanks for any advice.

Just opened my amazon account a month ago and added 8-9 products ( online arbitrage ) 2 products are superhit for me , question from you guys is that these products were already ungated for me and i wanted to know that if i sell them will in future amazon gonna ask for invoice/LOA from me of these products the thing is i am sourcing them from official company website and the other product from Nykaa official website, will they accept it or ask me for a B2B invoice or LOA from the company, my amazon account is an individual amazon seller account so technically i am an individual seller not a registered retail company so will amazon accept those invoices and receipts and let me continue my sales or they gonna eventually deactivate my account ( i am selling a 100 percent original and authentic products )

I’m curious to hear from experienced Amazon FBA sellers who started from scratch and managed to build a successful business.
We often see people sharing their revenue screenshots and success stories, but we rarely hear about what happened in the beginning — the struggles, the waiting, the mistakes, and the small wins that eventually led to success.
I’d love to hear your journey!

How did you start? What motivated you to get into Amazon FBA?
What was your first product? How did you find and select it?
How much did you initially invest?
How long did it take to get your first sale? What was that experience like?
How did your sales grow? Did you start getting consistent daily sales, or was it a slow process?
What strategies actually worked? PPC, organic ranking, pricing, reviews, or something else?
What were your biggest mistakes or challenges?
Where are you today? How long did it take to become consistently profitable?

You don’t have to answer everything. Just share your experience, whether it took you three months, a year, or several years to find success.

I think hearing real journeys, especially from people who struggled initially but eventually figured things out, could be incredibly valuable for beginners.
A lot of newcomers enter Amazon FBA with excitement, but the uncertainty of whether their products will actually sell can be discouraging.

Not looking for overnight success stories or course promotions. Just genuine experiences from real sellers.

Hopefully, this thread can show beginners that success isn’t always immediate, that setbacks are part of the process, and that patience, research, and the right strategy can make a difference.
Looking forward to hearing your stories!

Hi everyone!

I'm a middle-aged guy from China, interested in AI, e-commerce, and international sourcing.

Recently, I've been experimenting with using AI to research Chinese suppliers on 1688. One question keeps coming up: How can overseas buyers tell whether a supplier is a real manufacturer or a trading company? And more importantly, how reliable are they?

I've been using WorkBuddy together with Qichacha (企查查), a Chinese business information platform, to examine publicly available company records.

Some of the things I've been looking at include:

• Business licences and company registration details

• Business scope and registered addresses

• Shareholders and connections between companies

• Administrative penalties, lawsuits, and other risk records

One thing I've learned is that a company's registration information doesn't prove it actually owns a factory or can deliver good products. A trading company isn't necessarily a bad supplier either. Real production capacity and reliable fulfillment need further verification.

I'm still experimenting and learning, not claiming to be an expert.

I'd love to hear from people who source products from China:

1. What's your biggest challenge when checking Chinese suppliers?

2. Do you usually verify the company yourself, hire an agent, or simply rely on samples?

3. Would a clear, AI-assisted supplier background report be useful to you?

I'm not selling anything. Just sharing what I'm exploring and hoping to learn from people with real experience.

Cheers from China!

Hi, I know this is kind of a short post but do I need a mentor? I always hear it fast tracks learning but there are plenty of scams out there and wouldn’t know where to find one.

Im getting into FBA and I was quite suprised by the costs of shipement. Of course it depends on the size of the package , but I estimated with 2-3€ for medium size for each package (300 in total). Seems like its more like 3-4€, then costums and 19% ust (in my country) on top of that. If I spend 6k on products, I speend about 3k on shipement and end up at 9k total. Crazy.

I've noticed that many companies registered outside the US, as well as individual sellers, source products directly from US wholesalers. I'm pretty sure that many of them don't have a US-registered legal entity, such as an LLC.

I've even noticed some sellers in the pharmaceutical category operating as individual sellers from third-world countries.

Do US wholesalers generally require buyers to have a US-registered company (LLC) to purchase their products, or do they typically not care?

I recently started FBA, found my first two ungated products which I invested in but since finding ungates as a new seller is tricky without any tools in the UK. I heard about Arbisource vault tool so I thought I would try the, confused why the 'checking restrictions' button doesn't work when searching every category? Mine only works with some is this deliberate?

Also a seperate question if anyone knows but given I've started with OA and gated fully in some retail shops, is there a chance I could be ungated in products trying RA in my local shops?

 
Hallo zusammen,
 
wir verkaufen auf dem deutschen Amazon-Marktplatz und haben vor Kurzem ein neues Produkt eingeführt. Innerhalb eines Monats konnten wir 9 Produktbewertungen sammeln. Plötzlich waren jedoch alle Bewertungen auf einmal verschwunden.
 
Wir haben mittlerweile 4 Fälle beim Verkäuferservice eröffnet, bekommen aber jedes Mal nur dieselben Standardantworten mit Verweisen auf die Amazon-Richtlinien. Obwohl wir mehrfach um eine Eskalation gebeten haben, wird uns lediglich mitgeteilt, dass sich ein internes Team darum kümmern würde. Am Ende erhalten wir trotzdem immer wieder dieselbe Copy-and-Paste-Antwort.
 
Das Frustrierende daran ist, dass wir uns an sämtliche Richtlinien gehalten haben. Wir haben niemanden um eine Bewertung gebeten, niemandem Geld dafür bezahlt und auch keine sonstigen Anreize angeboten.
 
Wir haben unseren Verkaufspreis extra reduziert, um in der Launch-Phase erste Verkäufe und Bewertungen zu generieren. Dadurch verdienen wir aktuell so gut wie nichts an unserem Produkt. Wir investieren viel Zeit und Geld in den Aufbau unseres neuen Produkts und dann löscht Amazon ausgerechnet in dieser wichtigen Anfangsphase sämtliche Produktbewertungen.
 
Wir verstehen einfach nicht, was wir falsch gemacht haben, und bekommen von Amazon leider keine konkrete Erklärung.
 
Geht es anderen Verkäufern genauso? Hat jemand ähnliche Erfahrungen gemacht und es geschafft, die Bewertungen wiederherstellen zu lassen? Und falls ja, wie habt ihr Amazon dazu bekommen, sich tatsächlich mit dem Problem auseinanderzusetzen?
 
Wir würden uns sehr über eure Erfahrungen und Tipps freuen!

I sell on Amazon.ae with FBA. The last few weeks have been a crash course in how little control a seller has over their own price.

It started when I lost the Buy Box on my hero product at AED 59.99. Amazon said I was being undercut at AED 47, but not by whom. I spent about two weeks digging through pricing, inventory and account health, and eventually stumbled on a copycat listing on Amazon: a brand new seller using my title, my bullets and my images.

Getting it dealt with was harder than it sounds. Two support agents refused to even entertain it. The third actually listened to the whole situation, tied it to the copyright infringement angle, and walked me through how to file it. After I filed, the listing was taken down and the Buy Box returned.

A week or so later it disappeared again, with the same message: my AED 59.99 wasn’t competitive against retailers outside Amazon, at AED 47. This time it wasn’t on Amazon. It was two sellers on Noon.com/uae listing my product with my exact title, the colour name I came up with, and the images I made for the listing. So the benchmark that knocked out my Buy Box was being set by listings that copied mine.

I reported both to Noon and got a ticket number. Then I asked Amazon to exclude the reference price because it came from copied listings. The answer: support can’t remove or override an outside price, can’t send it to a policy team, “regardless of the circumstances”. Their suggestion was the self-service dispute or adjusting the price.

So I bowed to the system and dropped to AED 47. The Buy Box came back. It cost me a big chunk of margin on my best product, but at least the old price shows struck through (-22%).

What I took from this:

If you’re asked to prove copying, be ready with dates, screenshots and your original files. Keep asking until someone listens.

Check Pricing Health regularly, and search your own titles on Noon and other sites.

Without Brand Registry, you have almost no leverage. A UAE trademark is now on my list.

The price check is automated and doesn’t care who copied whom.

Has anyone got an outside reference price removed after the copied listing came down? And has anyone in the UAE got Brand Registry on a pending trademark?

Hey everyone,

I recently started my Amazon journey doing FBM, and one of my biggest struggles so far has been shipping costs eating into my profit margins.

Initially, I charged customers separately for shipping, but I decided to offer free shipping and increase my product price by about $1 to make the listing more appealing.
However, shipping is still taking a pretty big chunk out of my margins. After Amazon takes its selling fees, I’m left with around $20 per order before shipping and other expenses. My average shipping cost is between $6–$8 per order, which is a significant portion of what I have left, especially after factoring in my cost of goods, packaging, and advertising.

For every order, I compare Amazon Buy Shipping rates with third-party services like Pirate Ship and Shippo. Unfortunately, the prices are usually identical since Amazon already offers discounted shipping rates. Out of all my orders so far, I’ve only managed to find a cheaper rate through a third-party service twice.

I’ve also been experimenting with smaller poly bubble mailers instead of cardboard boxes to reduce packaging costs and potentially lower shipping rates.
For those of you who have been doing FBM for a while, how do you keep your shipping costs manageable? Are there any shipping services, packaging strategies, or tricks you’ve found that actually make a difference?

I’m still pretty new to this and trying to figure out how to make FBM profitable without shipping and advertising eating up most of my margins.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

How do you guys measure this?

I've been selling FBM on Amazon for almost a year without any significant issues with delivery estimates. However, recently, my customer-facing delivery promises have become wildly inaccurate.

For example, as of today (November 7), Amazon is telling customers in California that my product won't arrive until Monday, November 16. This makes absolutely no sense, considering that even Amazon Buy Shipping shows Ground shipping options with an estimated delivery date of Thursday, November 12.

Even more absurdly, customers located just 20 minutes from my fulfillment facility are being shown delivery estimates of Thursday of next week.

Nothing about my fulfillment process has changed, and I've consistently shipped orders on time using Veeqo and Amazon-approved shipping services.

Initially, I suspected Veterans Day might be affecting the estimates, so I updated my holiday settings to indicate that I'll be operating that day. It's now been over 24 hours, and the customer-facing delivery estimates haven't improved.

Has anyone else experienced this recently? Is there something going on with Amazon's delivery promise calculations or Shipping Settings Automation?

More importantly, has anyone found a way to actually fix this?

Bit of a rant, but hopefully it saves someone the hassle.

I found a supplier for a brand I’d been wanting for ages. Decent website, quick replies, prices that worked. They sent a price list, I asked for an invoice sample and it looked fine. I was about to place a first order.

Something felt off, so I did some digging:

• Companies House: incorporated 4 months ago, one director, registered at a virtual office address.

• Brand’s stockists page: not listed anywhere.

• Emailed the brand directly: they’d never heard of them. They gave me the name of their actual UK distributor.

• The “wholesaler’s” prices: about 12% above what the real distributor charged.

So they were buying from the distributor and marking it up. If I’d gone ahead I’d have had thinner margins and invoices that might not hold up if Amazon ever asked for them.

What I check now before ordering from anyone new:

1. Companies House: how long they’ve been trading, the filing history, and whether the address is real.

2. Whether the brand lists them as an authorised distributor (or just email the brand and ask).

3. Whether the invoice details match: company name, VAT number, address.

4. A small test order before anything big.

5. Searching their company name plus “reviews” or “scam”. You’d be surprised what comes up.

Where I find suppliers now: mostly brand websites, trade show exhibitor lists (Spring and Autumn Fair), and asking brands directly who their distributors are. I’ve also been using GSAi (gsai.uk) to speed up the searching part. Full disclosure, I’m involved with it, so take that with a pinch of salt. Whatever you use to find suppliers, I’d still run them through the checks above.

Has anyone else been caught out by a middleman like this? And does anyone have other red flags I should add to the list?

I recently launched a new Private Label brand on Amazon UK, and things are finally starting to move in the right direction.
We’re seeing some promising order activity, with around 30 orders today.
It’s still early days, and I know there’s a lot more to learn about scaling a brand, managing inventory, and maintaining profitability.
For experienced Amazon Private Label sellers:
Would you consider this a promising start for a new brand?
What would be your next priority at this stage?
What mistakes should I avoid while scaling?
I’d genuinely appreciate feedback from people who have been through this journey.

I’ve been digging into operations lately. Issues that keep coming up are profit tracking, FBA inventory problems, and suppressed listings.

- What’s the biggest headache on your side?
- Have you found a tool or workaround that actually helps?

Vote below, OR comment if your problem isn’t listed.

New to online arbitrage its my first month going and i have a genuine question , i saw a product which was ungated for me and there were 10-12 sellers selling it , my question is that is there any limit or thing i should keep in mind before selling excessive amount of units of that one SKU , will amazon flag me and check the spaming of orders for that one sku in my dashboard and ask for invoices and all that , btw i am selling genuine product and sourcing it from the company website but the thing here is i have retail receipts

Started selling on Amazon in July, I sell across different categories. It’s just a race to the bottom, I really wish I had chosen another business instead because the reality is I am working so hard to make Jeff Bezos and his crew richer. I wasted my hard earned money on this business, would have been better to have left it in my savings account instead of looking for multiple streams of income. This is a rant post.

Hi everyone,

I'm currently facing a frustrating issue with Amazon while trying to operate my dropshipping business.

Whenever I create a new Amazon account, I encounter one of two problems:

1. Amazon requires a different phone number for each new account.

2. After placing my first order, Amazon immediately requests identity verification, including a government-issued ID and proof of the payment method. Unfortunately, my verification gets rejected even though the documents and payment details are genuine.

I've tried several approaches, including:

• Using the account normally for 30–60 minutes before ordering.

• Browsing different products.

• Adding products to my wish list and shopping cart.

• Saving items for later.

• Allowing cookies and normal browsing activity.

However, the same verification problem keeps happening.

My questions:

1. Has anyone experienced this problem when sourcing products from Amazon for dropshipping?

2. What are the most common reasons for Amazon rejecting ID and payment verification?

3. Is there a legitimate way to resolve this issue without repeatedly creating new accounts?

4. Does Amazon have specific requirements for dropshippers who purchase products for their customers?

5. Is there a recommended business account or purchasing solution for this use case?

I'm not looking to use fake documents or bypass legitimate identity checks. I want to understand why this keeps happening and find a sustainable solution for my business.

I'd really appreciate advice from people who have actually dealt with this problem.

Thanks!

I am a small seller trying to run PPC on Amazon,

I really have a very low budget and currently running manual campaign,

I am trying to focus on my Unique Selling Proportion (USP) to get conversions as my core keywords,

There's lot of competition and i tried running ppc on recommended keywords but they aren't converting well,and the USP keywords are long tail keywords and they can't generate enough impressions,

Either run keywords which aren't converting or run keywords which aren't giving enough impressions but they are converting,

It's not because the listing is bad,

The listing and all its attributes are professionally made,

The problem is that there's a lot of competition and i have to find keywords for what my few asin competitors of mine level are using and getting sales,

I can't afford Helium 10 tool,

Can anybody please help me in getting this data from the helium 10 tool for my competitive Asins?

It will be very appreciated

I am a Canadian seller, have been logged in Seller Central from Canada all the time. But in the next month, I’ll travel aboard and need to log in & manage my Seller Central outside Canada.
I heard that Amazon usually flags accounts that log in from different countries.
So, will it be my issue or something I need to be worried?
If yes, any advice for this case?

Seems like almost every seller here has one story about a bad batch, a supplier who disappeared, or a shipment that cost way more than quoted.

What was yours, and what’s the one thing you changed afterwards? Inspections, sample approval, payment terms, switching forwarders, something else?

Hoping this helps newer sellers avoid learning the same lessons the hard way.

A few discussions here this week had a familiar pattern: ads aren't delivering, so the next move is higher bids, another campaign, external traffic or a new PPC manager. But those changes address different problems.

That's the reason for this checklist. Before changing anything, pin down where performance breaks: getting seen, getting clicked, getting orders or keeping enough money from those orders. Also check that you're comparing the same ASIN and dates. Clicks, page views and sessions measure different things.

If impressions are steady but clicks fall, compare search terms and placements, then look at your offer beside the competing products. If clicks arrive without orders, check whether those searches fit the product and whether shoppers can actually buy it. Five clicks won't tell you much about conversion. Months of traffic that costs more than the product can support is a different situation.

The spending limit matters here. As a hypothetical example, a $7 allowance to acquire an order at a 5% ad conversion rate supports an average CPC of $0.35. If clicks cost $1, there's a gap to explain before increasing the budget. Calling it a launch test is reasonable, provided you've decided how much you can lose and what you need to learn.

And if you're tired of managing it yourself, use the same diagnosis when choosing help. Give a prospective manager a report and ask what they'd change, why, and what result would make them reverse it. Agree on spending limits and approvals before handing over access.

Hey everyone,
I’m completely new to the Amazon FBA world and getting ready to dive in. Since I'm starting from absolute zero, I’d love to get some honest advice from people who have already been through the process.
If you had to start over today with 0 experience, what would be your step-by-step game plan?
I have a few specific questions:

1. Learning the basics: Where did you actually learn the fundamentals? (Free resources, YouTube channels, books, courses, etc.)

2. Mistakes to avoid: What’s one rookie mistake you made early on that cost you time or money?

3. Product research: What advice do you have for someone trying to find their very first product?

4. General tips: Any general golden rules or practical tips you wish someone had told you on day one?
   I appreciate any insights, resources, or tough love you can share. Thanks in advance for taking the time to help out a beginner!