Oh how I wish I had watched this before I sent my first shipment. I don’t feel the process for listing them is intuitive so you have made some things I was confused about, crystal clear. One thing that drives me nuts is why it takes 10-15 minutes to show up. I didn’t know that and ended up listing some books twice. Thanks a bunch.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. I am currently researching selling used books on Amazon FBA. So much to learn!!! Question for you...I don't understand the date and location purchased when you went to list the book. What is the significance of that info? And....the Bluetooth scanner, that populates what info on your listing? Thank you
No problem sulindajon! I hope this helps you in some way, let me answer your questions. Date & Location: I did this for my skus and for tracking which places are best for me to source. You do not have to do this. Bluetooth Scanner: I think this is a absolute need for sourcing and for listing items. All this tool does is act as a keyboard that reads the ISBN number. If you are using ScoutIQ and you connect it to your phone all you have to do is scan the book and ScoutIQ will show it to you without you having to manually type in the number. When you are listing items you need to type the ISBN into Amazon to tell it what book you want to sell. I connect the scanner to my computer and then I do not have to manually type in the long numbers... big time saver. The scanner is like $40 and I would not even try to do this gig without it.
Hi there. I’ve watched several videos on the topic and haven’t been able to find out how long Amazon keeps your books if they don’t sell. Also, if they don’t sell what additional fees are associated with that if any? Thank you! Also, love the purpose/mission behind your channel! 😊
Hi there Jimena, First off thank you for the encouragement with the overall purpose of the channel. I think it really matters. Almost every job I have done and also entrepreneurial ventures have revolved around the time vs work trade with time with family being the main focus. Now my entrepreneurial adventures have given me lots of time with my family but there has still been a big hole of purpose beyond my little crew.. Family Man Freedom was born out of trying to put a voice to the biggest WHY I do things the way I do. Obviously I can not just come on here an tell people that spending time with your family is important and that giving your wife time away to rest is important.. I need to try and teach a how to get there.. and that is where this comes in. Anyway, thanks for the encouragement. As far as your other questions. This is a great video topic and I need to research it better so I can better answer you. From what I see they have a couple of things you can use. You can just keep your books in but you will have fees over a certain number of days. You can basically give amazon the books and they will chose what to do. Or you can have them shipped back.
@@FamilyManFreedom Glad you felt encouraged. It’s a great thing you are teaching and encouraging other family men to do. But in general it’s just something anyone can benefit from! Do you know if they charge the seller to ship it back? I know you mentioned doing some research so no rush to answer. Just curious 😊. I am waiting on Amazon to send me my post card to then continue the process.
Im more into the high end books but i was thinking that thrift store shopping can really find ya some gems. I may do some of that. I need to get the income to afford scoutiq
I am sorry to hear that Renee. I do not have any suggestions for specific books.. that is why I use a tool like Scout IQ and just scan as many books as possible...
I have a question. Do I have to use my already existing one of two buyer accounts to open a new seller account? Or can I open new separate seller new account? Thanks for reply on advance....
Thank you for this great video! I am a beginner and When I list my book I am asked to choose the shipping. I don’t see the same window on your vid. Which should I choose? Thank you!
Hi Sabrina, I think you are talking about right after the product is listed. We are doing FBA so you do not have to pick anything, in fact after you list the product just go to the inventory screen and add another product. In the next video I mention more on the labeling and shipping. Thanks for the great question
Hi!!! I have some of my daughters college books that I need to list. Not sure if I’m going to continue selling books or not. Would you still recommend that I buy the scanner just to load it quickly and my main reason for writing Is why do t you ship them yourself??? it looks like a pretty big fee to send them to Amazon and then they get a cut for shipping. Thank you so much for your advice. Every other video I have seen has been to try that make it a full-time business and invest a lot of time and resources. Thank you! Great job on making your family a priority!!!!
Hi Bridgeview, thanks for the encouragement. If we are doing all of this just to miss the whole point of being with our family that would be a shame wouldn't it... Anyway, you definitely do not need to buy the scanner. Also, if this is just a 1 time thing unless you already have an Amazon Seller account setup I would probably look to sell them another way. Setting up your sell by merchant account or eBay might be better. To answer the question about shipping it myself. For me the biggest thing here is the time independence, I want to put in the work when I want to and then be able to forget about it. If every time there was a sale I had to get the book ready to ship and take it to UPS I would not be worth it to me. Also since we are using FBA and prime the books sell faster. Last, if you consider that Amazon is handling customer acquisition, marketing, sales, and shipping I don't think the fees are too out of line... If I had to try and get a customer for each of these books I would not be making a profit.
Thanks for asking. Right now I do not since to upload in bulk you need to have a professional seller account which is $40 per month. I am not selling more than 40 books per month to make it worth it but I might do it just for the saved time. If I was not doing the $100 challenge and I was going all in I would definitely do this. I heard somewhere that a good reference is that you will sell 1% of your inventory per day so for me to get to 40 books a month I need a consistent 134 books in inventory.
I will have to look into this one... I know that the Amazon Seller app can recognize the cover of a book with a camera... that is the route I would start with but I do not know.
Thank you for this great step-by-step! I’m attempting to list my first book and I also get the same listing screen you get with a standard price and a list price? And below that the $3.99 shipping is checked? I thought if you ship FBA there’s no shipping charge to the buyer? When I went out and looked at my own listing it did not have Prime badge and had the $3.99shipping charge. I went into each setting in my account and I see nowhere to uncheck that $3.99. Thank you in advance.
Thank you for the encouragement It sounds like it is listed as merchant fulfilled. Did you ship the book in to Amazon? If it is listed in inventory you can transfer to fba I think on the box on the far right off the listing.
I’ve checked every setting and it’s FBA! It’s actually on your video that I noticed it as well. Under where are you put the listing price there is a grid with shipping and there’s a checkbox grayed out in the $3.99 box. Nobody knows what I mean by this LOL. I’ve reached out to Amazon seller and watched a bunch of other videos and I don’t see that grid anywhere? I have all these books I’m waiting to scan into my laptop so I can get started! Thank you for answering so quickly.
Not sure which video it was but you mentioned Amazon lost one of your shipment. Did you know you can file a claim for lost shipment and Amazon will reimburse you? Please make a video of your claim process for us newbies. Just in case it happens.
You are allowed to sell Amazon fba without professional account but you pay $0.99 per transaction. So as soon as you get close to 40 sales a month it is worth it monetarily but it also makes the process faster so it might be worth it earlier if you can afford it. For this challenge I am super bootstrapped so $40/month just for convenience won’t work.
Hi there Rhonda, a CSV is basically a spreadsheet that is turned into a text document. CSV stands for Comma, Separated, Values. When I say this what I am talking about is using a spreadsheet up upload all of the details instead having to click through one thing at at time. Thanks for the great question
Hi Brooke Smith thanks for the question. I am going for a small move box worth of books. Or somewhere between 30-45 pounds. This can be anywhere between 25 and 40 books it seems. But, the main focus is getting a mostly full box of books to send. Hope this helps
Thanks for the question born2perform26. It seems that in some very specific cases you can use the the manufacturer barcodes. I have never had a book allow me to use the manufacturer barcode. I always use the amazon barcodes that I print onto stickers in the next video in the series.
@@FamilyManFreedom so its okay to just go back in the browser like you did and print them out when your all done with the rest? I am only having this show up when listing a book i was auto approved on. And its making me frustrated!!! Thanks sooo much for replying !
It seems that 1 can get automatic re-pricing in Amazon seller “automate pricing”, is this the same service as re-price it, etc. that 1 pays for? Thanks.👍🏻
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Oh how I wish I had watched this before I sent my first shipment. I don’t feel the process for listing them is intuitive so you have made some things I was confused about, crystal clear. One thing that drives me nuts is why it takes 10-15 minutes to show up. I didn’t know that and ended up listing some books twice. Thanks a bunch.
Thank you so much for the encouragement!
good luck. I too have just started out on this road.
Thanks for the encouragement!
Enjoying your videos. Watched a few
Thanks for the encouragement Timothy!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. I am currently researching selling used books on Amazon FBA. So much to learn!!! Question for you...I don't understand the date and location purchased when you went to list the book. What is the significance of that info? And....the Bluetooth scanner, that populates what info on your listing?
Thank you
No problem sulindajon!
I hope this helps you in some way, let me answer your questions.
Date & Location: I did this for my skus and for tracking which places are best for me to source. You do not have to do this.
Bluetooth Scanner: I think this is a absolute need for sourcing and for listing items. All this tool does is act as a keyboard that reads the ISBN number.
If you are using ScoutIQ and you connect it to your phone all you have to do is scan the book and ScoutIQ will show it to you without you having to manually type in the number.
When you are listing items you need to type the ISBN into Amazon to tell it what book you want to sell. I connect the scanner to my computer and then I do not have to manually type in the long numbers... big time saver.
The scanner is like $40 and I would not even try to do this gig without it.
Hi there. I’ve watched several videos on the topic and haven’t been able to find out how long Amazon keeps your books if they don’t sell. Also, if they don’t sell what additional fees are associated with that if any? Thank you! Also, love the purpose/mission behind your channel! 😊
Hi there Jimena,
First off thank you for the encouragement with the overall purpose of the channel. I think it really matters.
Almost every job I have done and also entrepreneurial ventures have revolved around the time vs work trade with time with family being the main focus. Now my entrepreneurial adventures have given me lots of time with my family but there has still been a big hole of purpose beyond my little crew..
Family Man Freedom was born out of trying to put a voice to the biggest WHY I do things the way I do. Obviously I can not just come on here an tell people that spending time with your family is important and that giving your wife time away to rest is important.. I need to try and teach a how to get there.. and that is where this comes in.
Anyway, thanks for the encouragement.
As far as your other questions. This is a great video topic and I need to research it better so I can better answer you.
From what I see they have a couple of things you can use. You can just keep your books in but you will have fees over a certain number of days. You can basically give amazon the books and they will chose what to do. Or you can have them shipped back.
@@FamilyManFreedom Glad you felt encouraged. It’s a great thing you are teaching and encouraging other family men to do. But in general it’s just something anyone can benefit from!
Do you know if they charge the seller to ship it back? I know you mentioned doing some research so no rush to answer. Just curious 😊. I am waiting on Amazon to send me my post card to then continue the process.
Im more into the high end books but i was thinking that thrift store shopping can really find ya some gems. I may do some of that. I need to get the income to afford scoutiq
Sourcing in Fla sucks. Any advice on books people actually will buy ?
I am sorry to hear that Renee. I do not have any suggestions for specific books.. that is why I use a tool like Scout IQ and just scan as many books as possible...
I have a question. Do I have to use my already existing one of two buyer accounts to open a new seller account? Or can I open new separate seller new account? Thanks for reply on advance....
I am sorry that I did not get to this earlier!
My understanding is that you can open a new account to sell under.
Wonderful video!
Thank you for the encouragement! 😁
Thank you for this great video! I am a beginner and When I list my book I am asked to choose the shipping. I don’t see the same window on your vid. Which should I choose? Thank you!
Hi Sabrina, I think you are talking about right after the product is listed.
We are doing FBA so you do not have to pick anything, in fact after you list the product just go to the inventory screen and add another product.
In the next video I mention more on the labeling and shipping.
Thanks for the great question
@@FamilyManFreedom Thank you for your help!! I Really like your videos!!!
@@FamilyManFreedom Looking forward new videos! You are so good at showing us this. I am so hoping for some family flexibility 🙏🏻.
Awww.. thanks for the encouragement!
Hi!!! I have some of my daughters college books that I need to list. Not sure if I’m going to continue selling books or not. Would you still recommend that I buy the scanner just to load it quickly and my main reason for writing Is why do t you ship them yourself??? it looks like a pretty big fee to send them to Amazon and then they get a cut for shipping. Thank you so much for your advice. Every other video I have seen has been to try that make it a full-time business and invest a lot of time and resources. Thank you! Great job on making your family a priority!!!!
Hi Bridgeview, thanks for the encouragement.
If we are doing all of this just to miss the whole point of being with our family that would be a shame wouldn't it...
Anyway, you definitely do not need to buy the scanner. Also, if this is just a 1 time thing unless you already have an Amazon Seller account setup I would probably look to sell them another way. Setting up your sell by merchant account or eBay might be better.
To answer the question about shipping it myself. For me the biggest thing here is the time independence, I want to put in the work when I want to and then be able to forget about it. If every time there was a sale I had to get the book ready to ship and take it to UPS I would not be worth it to me.
Also since we are using FBA and prime the books sell faster. Last, if you consider that Amazon is handling customer acquisition, marketing, sales, and shipping I don't think the fees are too out of line... If I had to try and get a customer for each of these books I would not be making a profit.
@@FamilyManFreedom Thank you SO much for all that wisdom! It certainly helps me a TON!!!! Many thanks!
Do you have a video on how to upload your books by bulk, instead of one by one?
Thanks for asking.
Right now I do not since to upload in bulk you need to have a professional seller account which is $40 per month.
I am not selling more than 40 books per month to make it worth it but I might do it just for the saved time.
If I was not doing the $100 challenge and I was going all in I would definitely do this. I heard somewhere that a good reference is that you will sell 1% of your inventory per day so for me to get to 40 books a month I need a consistent 134 books in inventory.
How do you add books without barcodes? I have books from overseas that dont have an isbn or ein number
I will have to look into this one... I know that the Amazon Seller app can recognize the cover of a book with a camera... that is the route I would start with but I do not know.
if you wanted to label each book as you go can you do that? instead of make the labels all at once
I think you can but then you need to run them through the printer that many times. It would make more sense if you had a thermal printer
Thank you for this great step-by-step! I’m attempting to list my first book and I also get the same listing screen you get with a standard price and a list price? And below that the $3.99 shipping is checked? I thought if you ship FBA there’s no shipping charge to the buyer? When I went out and looked at my own listing it did not have Prime badge and had the $3.99shipping charge. I went into each setting in my account and I see nowhere to uncheck that $3.99. Thank you in advance.
Thank you for the encouragement
It sounds like it is listed as merchant fulfilled.
Did you ship the book in to Amazon?
If it is listed in inventory you can transfer to fba I think on the box on the far right off the listing.
I’ve checked every setting and it’s FBA! It’s actually on your video that I noticed it as well. Under where are you put the listing price there is a grid with shipping and there’s a checkbox grayed out in the $3.99 box. Nobody knows what I mean by this LOL. I’ve reached out to Amazon seller and watched a bunch of other videos and I don’t see that grid anywhere? I have all these books I’m waiting to scan into my laptop so I can get started! Thank you for answering so quickly.
Not sure which video it was but you mentioned Amazon lost one of your shipment. Did you know you can file a claim for lost shipment and Amazon will reimburse you? Please make a video of your claim process for us newbies. Just in case it happens.
You know I tried but they need wholesale purchase receipts and they were mostly from yard sales
Hi, How are you selling FBA without the professional account?
You are allowed to sell Amazon fba without professional account but you pay $0.99 per transaction.
So as soon as you get close to 40 sales a month it is worth it monetarily but it also makes the process faster so it might be worth it earlier if you can afford it.
For this challenge I am super bootstrapped so $40/month just for convenience won’t work.
what's a csv?
Hi there Rhonda, a CSV is basically a spreadsheet that is turned into a text document. CSV stands for Comma, Separated, Values.
When I say this what I am talking about is using a spreadsheet up upload all of the details instead having to click through one thing at at time.
Thanks for the great question
How many books do you need to have purchased before you can send them into Amazon?
Hi Brooke Smith thanks for the question.
I am going for a small move box worth of books. Or somewhere between 30-45 pounds.
This can be anywhere between 25 and 40 books it seems. But, the main focus is getting a mostly full box of books to send.
Hope this helps
why does that choose your barcode screen show up?
Thanks for the question born2perform26.
It seems that in some very specific cases you can use the the manufacturer barcodes. I have never had a book allow me to use the manufacturer barcode.
I always use the amazon barcodes that I print onto stickers in the next video in the series.
@@FamilyManFreedom so its okay to just go back in the browser like you did and print them out when your all done with the rest? I am only having this show up when listing a book i was auto approved on. And its making me frustrated!!! Thanks sooo much for replying !
Sorry this reply slipped by, were you able to get this figured out?
Can you start a Pallet business with $100
What is a pallet business?
@@FamilyManFreedom sell used pallet it’s a new business I heard of love your video there extremely helpful
It seems that 1 can get automatic re-pricing in Amazon seller “automate pricing”, is this the same service as re-price it, etc. that 1 pays for? Thanks.👍🏻
I am not sure about this Lew, I will have to look into it...
You truly need to lower your sound effects. It should be in the background, not the same or louder than your voice.
I’m sorry, it’s just for fun. I will take note of that.
Did you miss anything with them bring too loud?