- Sales : $2,143.35 - Units ordered : 50 - Inventory Purchased : $2,877.68 - ASINS Purchased : 20 - Units Purchased : 144 Even though month 1 ended at a loss, I fully expected these results as i learn all the cogs in the system. There's still quite a bit to unpack but I'm starting to get a decent grasp on things and yesterday was my biggest day in sales. Here are some of the things I've learned so far : - Sourcing strategies using Keepa's Product Finder. - Setting up and learning how to navigate softwares like SellerAmp, SellerBoard, Aura's Repricer. - How to bookkeep documents and key data into organized sheets. My goals for the next 30 days are : - Increase ROI to at least 10%. - Increase sales. - Source 15 new ASINS next 30 days. - Post weekly reports on here.

For the first two and a half years of my Amazon Canada business, I was obsessed with reviews. Every product I looked at, the first thing I checked was "how many reviews does this listing have?" If the top seller had 10,00 reviews, I would skip it. No chance I could compete with that, right? I built my entire sourcing strategy around this. I would only go after listings where the review counts were low or where no single seller had a massive review advantage. It made sense in my head. More reviews = more trust = you get the Buy Box. Simple. Then I met a guy at a meetup who had started selling on Amazon about six months AFTER me. He was doing $300K a month. I was doing maybe $30K. Same marketplace, same model, same everything. So I asked him what he was doing differently. He looked at me and said "Why do you think reviews matter for the Buy Box?" I started explaining my logic and he just shook his head. He said "Bro, the Buy Box algorithm doesn't care about your reviews. It cares about two things. Inventory distribution and delivery speed." That conversation changed everything for me. Here's what actually matters for winning the Buy Box on Amazon Canada: 1. FBA vs FBM. If you're FBA, you already have a massive advantage. Amazon trusts their own fulfillment. If the other seller is FBM and you're FBA, you're winning that Buy Box almost every time, regardless of reviews. 2. Inventory availability. Amazon wants the Buy Box seller to actually HAVE stock. If you're consistently in stock and competitors keep running out, Amazon learns to favor you. They don't want to send customers to someone who might be out of stock tomorrow. 3. Price competitiveness. Not always the lowest price. But competitive. Amazon factors in the total landed cost to the customer. In Canada, this includes shipping and duties if applicable. 4. Seller metrics. Your ODR (Order Defect Rate), late shipment rate, cancellation rate. These matter way more than reviews for Buy Box eligibility. 5. Delivery speed. This is the big one most people miss. Amazon's algorithm heavily weights how fast you can get the product to the customer. This is why FBA sellers crush it. Same day, next day, two day shipping. That's what Amazon wants.

I keep having this issue where my amzon seller account. I am not able to sign in bcs it keeps like having sme rnadom letters and characters on the screen. Ive cleared my chache like 5 times and disabeled external extension and have no idea what is goin on with the site. If aynone has had this issu im open to try any solution

You still gotta eat s*** for a year to really prove to Amazon that you are a legitimate seller. And that's the only way out. The only way the light on the other side of the tunnel is showing up every day.

Everyone obsesses over ungating. I get it. You look at the big brands, Nike, Lego, whatever, and you think "if I could just sell THOSE, I'd be making real money." So you spend weeks trying to get approved. Submitting invoices. Getting rejected. Trying again. Getting rejected again. Meanwhile your actual Amazon account is sitting there doing nothing. I know because I did the same thing. Four years ago I decided to completely forget about gated products. Not temporarily. Permanently. I never ungated one product on purpose. I just looked at the brands I was already able to sell and I tried to use every single opportunity I had with those. Here's what happened. I focused all my sourcing time on products I could actually list. Found a brand that worked, went deep on it. Found cousins of that product in the same category. Built volume. Built account history. Proved to Amazon that I was a legitimate, consistent seller. Then something wild happened. Two and a half years later I woke up ungated in brands I never even applied for. Amazon just opened them up. No invoices. No applications. Nothing. Why? Because Amazon rewards consistency and history. They want to see that you're a real seller who ships on time, handles returns properly, and doesn't cause problems. That matters way more than a stack of invoices from a wholesaler. I've seen sellers try ungating 18 times before getting approved. 18 times. Most people quit after the third attempt and wrap up shop entirely. The energy they spent on those 18 applications could have gone into sourcing products they were already approved to sell. Building real revenue. Real account history. Your average new seller has $15-20K max to spend. With that money, I'm willing to bet you can find enough ungated products to keep you busy for months. Canadian retailers are full of resellable products that don't require any special approval. Walmart.ca, Canadian Tire, Shoppers Drug Mart. All fair game. The math is simple. Time spent chasing ungating = $0 in revenue. Time spent sourcing products you can sell right now = actual money in your account.