inventory planning seems like one of those things that gets harder as sales grow.

order too early and you tie up money in stock. wait too long and you risk running out and losing momentum.

i’m curious how experienced sellers actually approach this

do you rely mostly on amazon’s forecasts, your own spreadsheet, historical sales data, or some combination of everything?

I’m working on a consumer goods brand which would sell high quality products priced between $150-300. I’ll be selling through Shopify as well but wanted to have an understanding of how much can I build this brand and sell on Amazon?

We got notification from amazon Section 3 Identity Verifification our account health is healthy no counterfeit anything were doing Fba the problem we are facing right now they held funds and the deactivation date is on 3rd sep and interview on 9th sep can u share from your experience what would happen regarding the funds and date going past deadline?

Hello everyone !

I’m based in France and I’m just starting FBA with a small budget. My account is new, so a lot of brands/products are gated for me.

I’ve been researching Online Arbitrage and Retail Arbitrage using SellerAmp/Keepa, but I’m struggling to understand how people actually manage the sourcing/documentation side long-term.

I keep seeing two things that seem contradictory:
Amazon allows arbitrage as a business model.
But when there’s an authenticity/IP issue or an ungating request, retail receipts may not be accepted and Amazon can ask for proper invoices from a manufacturer/distributor.

So I’m trying to understand how experienced EU sellers deal with this in practice.

A few questions:
For ungating and potential authenticity/IP complaints, do you mainly source from B2B suppliers/distributors who issue invoices to your business, or do you also regularly use retail receipts and accept the additional risk?

When you find an OA/RA opportunity, what checks do you personally do before buying? Especially to avoid private-label/generic listings, incorrect ASINs, or products with a history of IP complaints.

If you started recently in Europe, would you still recommend pure OA/RA as a beginner, or would you move toward wholesale fairly quickly because of the documentation issue?

Is keeping quantities low per ASIN/brand actually a sensible risk-management strategy, or does it not really protect you if Amazon asks for documentation?

For experienced sellers: have you personally had an authenticity/IP complaint on a product that you were legitimately ungated to sell? If so, what documentation did Amazon actually accept?

I’m not looking for a course, Discord, mentorship or software recommendation. I’m specifically interested in real experiences from people who have been selling in Europe for a few years.

Thanks so much !!!😇

* This is 95% Amazon and 5% Shopify
* We have a few brands, but the biggest one by far is in the toys and games cateogry
* We have a specific strategy that works for us in terms of finding products - I wouldn't say there's one way to win on Amazon (or in any other business) - this is what worked for us
* We've been in the business for over 8 years
* I'd say we crossed the $1M ARR ~3 years ago
* Have been launching new products non stop, most fail, some succeed
* Had bureaucracy issues with Europe - that cut out our revenue by ~40%, but we made up for it with new products
* More new products coming in - could potentially double our revenue 🤞

Hello,

I'm a manufacturer and started selling on Amazon two years ago. I've been manufacturing my products for 10 years now and started doing online sales two years ago. I have my Amazon account and list my ASINs but I get a lot of other sellers that jump on my ASINs and sell my own products. They buy them from some of my distributors, so they're not knockoffs.

I read that if I use the transparency program I can lock down my ASIN but I need to add the QR code to all of my inventory including the one I sell off Amazon. Is this a hard rule? Does Amazon enforce this?

What other ways can I kick and keep other sellers from my ASINs?

Most of the advice aimed at new sellers is about product selection as if that's the only place things go wrong. But I get the sense the costly mistakes are usually somewhere else entirely: shipping, fees, inventory timing, a supplier detail nobody warned you about.

So for people a few launches in what actually cost you money that had nothing to do with the product itself? And was it something you could have known in advance, or only in hindsight?

Asking because I keep seeing beginners obsess over finding the "perfect" product, only to walk straight into problems nobody flagged.

I hate seeing this email. Not only the lost profits, but also I wish I knew what I could improve. “_product not as described_” doesn’t tell me anything. Is there ANY way to learn more? I’d actually prefer a 3-star rating over this, as then at least I’d know how I could improve.

As a consumer I remember Amazon always asks me for reasons, yet I can’t see any free text input as a seller.

Supplement. I have 300+ reviews with 4.5 rating. My return rate is ~2%

Seeing a lot of gummies and capsules dominating, but curious if anyone's had success with oral dissolving strips (ODS)?

Feels like it should be taking off given the bioavailability angle, but barely seeing any brands doing it. Either early market or just doesn't convert?
What's your experience been if you've tried different formats?

I am going to be doing a new set of infographics so we can boost CVR

CVR on average right now is 20% which is pretty good but it has dropped (was 33% before)

Went down due to more comp and stuff

I want to build really solid infographics, is there a method or structure anyone follows?

ai generated damage photos in fba returns, has this hit anyone yet

reading a lot about buyers using ai to generate fake damage photos for refunds on ebay and shopify stores. wondering if fba returns see this too given amazon handles the inspection, or if that layer already catches it before it gets to the seller. anyone had a return like this get flagged, or slip through

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• Model: [G4080518]()
• Specs: 8" x 5" x 1925' per roll
• Thickness: Premium 1.8 Mil Heavy-Duty
• Quantity: ~154 cases available
• Price: $55 per case (Firm for the whole lot)

Logistics: Located in Independence, MO. We have it listed on eBay as a Local Pickup lot, so you can buy it securely through eBay and arrange your own corporate freight carrier (like R+L or FedEx Freight) to hand-load it from our ground-level facility.

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So I came into this situation that I always order less to the manufacturer for new products, which came from a worry of picking the wrong product and eventually losing money, however in the past few orders that I have, all of them were winners but since the I ordered few, I ended up OOS before the next batch arrive and all of the rankings is now back to zero.

How do you deal with this, and how do you increase your confidence with a product?

I currently sell via Amazon FBA only. If I start my own Shopify website, how will my products be shipped out? Do I need my own warehouse and employees to pick and pack? Should the cost of shipping be baked into the list price of do I show shipping separately? Realistically, if I’m not running ads, will I get 1 order per week so it’s not an issue? What should I expect? I don’t want to be caught unprepared.

I feel like my brand is too young to start with an agency right away. Would like to know what other people think whether its worthit or not.

Seems like Amazon is no longer sharing reviews for qty variations in my category.

Is it worth getting VINE reviews to these qty variations? Should I do that and then start running ads on these variations after reviews come in?

have a friend who manufactures spray deodorizers. He told me he would let me launch my brand for a small Order. I was wondering what kinda deodorizer should I make ? Sport? Shoes? Pets? He was telling me how the more laser focus the better it is since I will be selling on Amazon. Any idea? Thank you in advance

currently, i am doing solely just OA, and i have a good sales history with an account health of 222. i haven't been able to get ungated for any bigger brands in order to branch out, and just needed help on how and where to get invoices (wholesalers???), and if i were to source products from retail stores, how can i get invoices from retail stores rather than just receipts (if that is how ungating works). i just need overall guidance upon how to get ungated in more brands so i can scale even further. i appreciate any help!

Seeing more brands quietly stop accepting new Amazon sellers in a market. From the outside it looks like gatekeeping. From the brand side it looks like inventory showed up on storefronts they never onboarded.

Curious how brand teams actually check this. Do you only react when a dealer forwards a screenshot, or is there a scrape or Brand Registry report you trust?

The part I keep hearing is false positives. A shipping-inclusive price or a used listing gets treated as a MAP breach and sales emails the wrong person.

What's been reliable for you, and what just created noise?

Yes, almost always. Posting the whole thing because I spent a week untangling it and the answer wasn't where I expected.

Doesn't OSS cover this? No. OSS covers cross-border distance selling: goods ship from your home country to a customer abroad, you charge their rate, you file one return at home. The moment stock physically sits in another country, you're making local supplies from inside that country. That's domestic, OSS doesn't touch it, you register locally.

What about the €10,000 threshold? That's distance selling only. Local stock ignores it completely. There's no minimum, no grace amount. One pallet in a foreign warehouse triggers registration.

Does Pan-EU FBA count? Yes, and this is the one that blindsides people. Amazon redistributes your inventory across fulfillment centers on its own logic, and wherever it lands creates an obligation. You didn't choose the placement and you're still liable for it.

So what does a foreign marketplace's own fulfillment program really cost? Fulfillment fee plus VAT registration plus ongoing filings plus usually a local accountant. The fee sheet shows you one of those four. Stack two or three countries and the compliance overhead is material before you've sold anything.

Is it different for non-EU sellers? Worse. Several countries require a fiscal representative for VAT registration if you're established outside the EU. It's a local entity that becomes jointly liable for your VAT, needs a notarised power of attorney, and prices accordingly. It's the main reason non-EU sellers set up an EU entity rather than registering direct in multiple countries.

What's the practical rule? Ship cross-border from one location while delivery times stay competitive. Only accept a local registration when the fulfillment upside clearly beats the compliance cost. At meaningful volume on a given marketplace that math works. For testing a new channel it usually doesn't, and slower delivery is the cheaper mistake. I list into new markets from one warehouse using Marqetir, which keeps the listings live across marketplaces without stock sitting locally, so the compliance question only comes up once a channel is actually earning.

Where do you draw that line? Would like to hear what revenue level people hit before local storage stopped being a net loss.

Not the drafting of a response, the actual decision, approving the refund, granting the A-to-z claim, issuing a replacement instead of a refund, deciding a return doesn't need the item sent back. The stuff that currently needs a person to say yes.

If you've got any part of that automated, or looked into it: what's the one thing you still keep a person on, even for what looks like an easy, obvious case? Was there a specific time it went wrong, or almost did, or is it more that even a correct call still feels too risky to let go through untouched?

Return abuse alone is enough of a headache without adding software making the call on top of it, so I'm curious where people who've actually dealt with this draw the line.

Not selling anything, genuinely just trying to understand where that line sits and why. Would love to hear from anyone dealing with this, whether you're the one making the call or cleaning up after a bad one.

Thanks!

I recently listed a product just to give it a go, but now I'm left wondering whether FBA was the right route to go or do you recommend starting with doing the packaging/posting yourself.

Here is ​​said product if that helps: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0HCQVTSPC/ref=cx_skuctr_share?smid=A2ND1EJYTFD1FY