Last July, I had a couple crazy FBA book sales. One book sold for $969 and the other sold for $395. The kicker is that the lowest merchant fulfilled price was low (very low). Meaning that the customer could have saved a lot of money buying the merchant fulfilled book. Here are the books: Title: Beyond Read More
Pricing and Re-pricing
Repricing Strategy for Books on Amazon FBA
Here’s my latest repricing setting using Repriceit. In short, I match the low FBA offer for my sub-condition or better. If there are no FBA offers, then I price my items 25% 50% higher than the low merchant fulfilled offer. In order to do this, I set up two templates. The first template matches the low Read More
How to Use Amazon’s “Match Low Price” Feature
Here’s a video on how to use Amazon’s “Match Low Price” feature. Here are some quick benefits. It’s free. No need to pay for an automatic repricer. It actually matches the low FBA price. Remember 3rd party re-pricers and scanners can’t see all the FBA offers. With the Amazon API change in 2012, 3rd party Read More
Repricing Settings for Repriceit.com
I get a lot of questions regarding my repricing settings. I currently use Repriceit.com which is affordable and does most of the things I would like. Here’s a screenshot of one of my settings. In this case, I’m matching the low price for my condition (whether they are FBA or not). If Amazon is selling Read More
FBA Price Spreads in September – Pricing Higher with Amazon FBA
Here are the top four FBA price spreads in September 2014. In other words, FBA items that sold for a much higher price than the lowest merchant fulfilled price. 1. Enduring Vision. Sold on FBA for $45.60. The low merchant fulfilled price is $7.06. 2. Nicholas Copernicus: And the Founding of Modern Technology. Sold on Read More
How Would You Price this Book?
I drove up to Charlotte to visit an unadvertised book sale at the Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC). There were about 5 branches of their libraries that were having sales, however, I only made it to two of them. I spent $35.50 on 38 books, and I found this gem: A book titled, Rock Recall: Annotated Read More
Making Money on Penny CDs?
An Amazon seller fee changed a couple months ago, and I’m surprised I haven’t heard many people talking about it. Last April, the shipping reimbursement for CDs and DVDs went up from $2.98 to $3.99. The variable closing fee went up from $.80 to $1.35 for merchant fulfilled. However, the fees for FBA will not Read More
What’s your FBA Pricing Strategy?
FBA Pricing Strategy I’ve sold over 140,000 Books, DVDs, and CDs on Amazon FBA over the last 5 years. During this time, my pricing system has been pretty basic. I usually just match the lowest-priced seller and add the shipping costs. However, with more and more FBA sellers entering the game, I think dynamic pricing Read More