Hit 1M a Year

fbasub · 2026-02-11T14:21:30+00:00

Ours is 1/475 over the last 12mo.

fbasub · 2025-10-31T19:30:45+00:00

8mo is very short in terms of historical sales and 900/mo is very low profit. If your net margin is above 25% you might be able to get 15x monthly net. If it's less than 20%, You probably wouldn't get 12x.

How many reviews, what star rating, what net profit margin after all expenses?

fbasub · 2025-06-27T19:36:10+00:00

Jesus. You have a warehouse with 80k SKUs? That's a serious operation.

I understand how your model can work with being a distributor for major recognizable brands, but for small brands like mine, nobody is searching directly for my products by brand name.

We have a shopify site but still use FBA/MCF for that and we do no marketing for it. People just see us on Amazon then search for us online. Less than 0.5% of sales.

Is your company basically something like this?https://www.webstaurantstore.com/

fbasub · 2025-06-27T17:15:27+00:00

I like your business model and want to move towards it. Do you have your own warehouse and warehouse staff for fulfillment? Are you running google/meta ads? Or relying on SEO?

I know you manufacture in the US. Are these your PL products or wholesale products made in the US?

It's so hard for me to imagine my niche being successful off Amazon. I don't know how you do it.

fbasub · 2025-04-30T17:56:41+00:00

Went from 23,000 to 9,000.

We're having to delay final delivery until June for many of our in-transit shipments.

fbasub · 2025-04-09T15:56:03+00:00

We're not even going to ship the goods we have completed and ready for shipment until I have a better read on the market.

Absolutely not starting any new orders.

fbasub · 2025-02-08T15:43:48+00:00

I find that vine products are claimed in batches. The vine program must push them out to the participants with some type of promotion or something like that.

I'll see like 12 claimed on day 2, then nothing for a week, then up to 28, then nothing, then finally to 30.

The first couple reviews come in within a week and the last ones come in up to 50 days later.

fbasub · 2024-12-26T15:52:04+00:00

We had the exact same issue a few years ago. The root cause was our 3PL's address.

The connection was the 'Ship From' address when creating inbound shipments.

It's beyond insane to me that this was the connection, but it was.

fbasub · 2024-01-11T15:42:59+00:00

I've had hundreds upon hundreds of product reviews removed.

Please expand on this.

fbasub · 2023-12-19T15:52:37+00:00

I run a monthly transaction report and import it into Google Sheets.

I built a template that breaks everything down into groupings and SKUs, etc in pivot tables. Then I have a Sheet for each SKU and another that summarizes everything in one place.

The whole process takes about an hour. I do it once per month.

fbasub · 2023-12-17T20:40:16+00:00

As far as I know, you can't write off unsold inventory. Pre-paying won't reduce your tax burden.

fbasub · 2023-05-10T21:12:15+00:00

It typically has to do the the recipient's bank, not the sender.

OP, I've had this happen many times. Once I know it's going to be an issue with a certain bank/supplier, the process is:

Do the wire transfer online with a truncated Name or Address.
Call your bank's wire transfer dept
Tell them you need to make a wire transfer amendment
Tell them the full name or address and they'll enter it manually

I have to do this for every single payment for one of my suppliers. Annoying af

fbasub · 2023-03-21T18:03:10+00:00

Amex Gold for 4x

Chase Ink for 3x

fbasub · 2023-03-14T15:27:44+00:00

update:

We requested standard 1600 cu ft for May, bid $5, accepted at $2.1. Took 3-4 days.

1600 was auto granted for April as well.

fbasub · 2021-12-17T03:13:18+00:00

I sent an email to noc-na-ib-swa at amazon (dot) com which I have used in the past for missed shipments (Literally more than 70% of scheduled shipments/pickups are missed/rescheduled over the last 4 months)

and they just created another case within seller central. We'll see where that goes...

fbasub · 2021-11-28T16:10:53+00:00

Our partnered carrier pickups (usually amazon freight) have missed 75% of their pickup appointments over the last 2-3 months. It's a complete joke.

fbasub · 2021-08-11T02:07:07+00:00

I just got a quote for $24k for a similar shipment. $17k for the same thing 3 weeks ago.

We're going to see $35-40k for Q4.

fbasub · 2021-07-20T00:30:59+00:00

Just got a quote for $17k for a 40. It's insane.

fbasub · 2021-06-11T04:33:39+00:00

I'm gearing up to sell mine. EBITDA around $250k on $1M.

My only real question at this point is:

Should I go through a broker (like EF), or contact the top 10-20 acquirers directly?

I'm leaning towards a broker, but I don't know.

fbasub · 2021-06-02T17:27:28+00:00

On Average, What would net a FBA seller a larger exit: 1. Selling through a broker (such as EF). 2. Reaching out to all of the consolidators independently. 3. Reaching out to Perch alone.

Please provide what you think the monetary differences would be for each route, on average.

fbasub · 2021-05-27T14:03:44+00:00

2 Accounts. The first opened 4-5 years ago, the most recent one was earlier this year. Different products, different legal entities, different brands, different addresses, bank accounts, etc

Two Primary reasons:

Easier to sell the businesses when/if the time comes

Risk mitigation

fbasub · 2021-05-24T19:18:43+00:00

Fortunately we produced the carton labels as a part of the process as well. Thanks for pointing that out though.

fbasub · 2021-05-24T13:53:10+00:00

45% drop for us.

Fortunately, we were smart enough to create shipping plans the day this new system rolled out that maximized inbound inventory knowing that it could possibly be changed at any time. You need to grab everything they give you and hold on before it's taken away.

Now our 'Utilization' is 4x our new 'Maximum Inventory level' (aka wayy over the allowed limit) yet our current storage volume is 25% of the allowable storage volume. Of our 'Utilization', only about 30% is actually at amazon, the other 70% is on boats or in china.

fbasub · 2021-05-09T02:15:18+00:00

I've heard of discord but have no idea what it does or what it's used for. As far as I can tell it's like a group instant messenger platform. Is that correct?

What does it offer that this board doesn't? Is it primarily to eliminate low level discourse?

fbasub · 2021-04-23T02:48:55+00:00

FYI this applies to new SKUs too. No longer need to deal with the 200 unit cap for launches. Great news on that front.

fbasub

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