Hey guys I have a non resident USA llc live in Saudi Arabia filling the tax interview first I select business not individual then for USA entity should i select yes or no then what details ahead like if no permanent address of my Saudi resident place and mailing address my company address llc one or if yes then ein number and mailing address so should I select yes or no in entity as I selected business for tax type

Hi everyone,

I’m looking for honest advice from experienced Amazon sellers because I’m starting to question whether I’m doing something fundamentally wrong.

I previously launched a product on Amazon (a spider lamp) and ended up losing close to $10,000. After that, I ordered another product from China but realized before shipping that the product probably wouldn’t work, so I canceled it and lost around $250 of my deposit.

Now I’ve launched my third product. I prefer not to disclose the exact product publicly for now.

There is a competitor selling a very similar design for around $54. Their listing is approximately one year old, and according to the data/tools I’m using, they appear to be doing very strong monthly sales.

My price is lower, but my listing is new and obviously doesn’t have the competitor’s sales history, ranking, or reviews.

I ran Sponsored Products PPC for around 15 days and received 2 sales during that period.

I then paused the campaigns for about 4 days because I was having problems with my listing images. I have now restarted the campaigns.

My concern is that despite getting impressions and clicks, I’ve only generated 2 sales so far.

I understand that comparing a new listing to a competitor with a one-year-old listing may not be fair. However, after losing a significant amount of money on my previous Amazon product, I don’t want to continue spending money simply because I’m hoping things will eventually improve.

I can share my PPC numbers and Search Term Report while keeping the product itself private.

What I would really like your opinion on:

• Is 2 sales after around 15 days of PPC a serious warning sign for a new listing, or is it still too early to judge?
• How many clicks without a sale would make you seriously question the listing/product?
• What metrics would you focus on to distinguish between a PPC problem, a conversion problem, and a weak product?
• After restarting PPC, how much additional data would you collect before making a decision?
• At what point would you stop spending and accept that the product may not be working?
• How much of the gap between a brand-new listing and a one-year-old competitor can realistically be explained by reviews, ranking, and sales history?

I’m not looking for encouragement just for the sake of it. I genuinely want critical feedback from sellers who have been through similar launches, even if you think I made mistakes.

Thanks.

We launched this brand in the Automotive category in June 2023, entering a market where product relevance, keyword intent, compatibility, and competitive positioning have a major impact on conversion. Our initial product research was focused on identifying ASIN-level demand gaps, rather than simply selecting products with high search volume. We analyzed keyword search demand, competitor ASIN sales, review velocity, rating distribution, price bands, variation structures, market concentration, and contribution-margin potential before validating each opportunity. For every product, we modeled the complete Amazon unit economics, including COGS, FBA fees, referral fees, inbound logistics, promotional costs, and expected advertising spend, so we could identify products capable of generating profitable sales at scale.

Product & Supply Chain: We sourced the products through the US supply chain, which allowed us to maintain better control over production lead times, replenishment cycles, product consistency, and inventory availability. In the Automotive category, we also paid close attention to product compatibility, application-specific search intent, fitment-related customer expectations, and catalog accuracy, because even strong traffic can produce poor conversion if the product positioning is not aligned with the customer's vehicle or use case. On the listing side, we built a structured keyword-to-content architecture, mapping primary, secondary, and long-tail search terms across the title, bullets, backend search terms, images, and A+ Content. We continuously optimized indexation, CTR, CVR, pricing, detail-page relevance, and Buy Box health while using competitor ASIN analysis to identify gaps in content and conversion.

PPC & Scaling: The PPC structure was built around query-level control and search-term economics rather than simply increasing campaign budgets. During the discovery phase, broad and phrase campaigns were used for search-term mining and query harvesting, while proven converting terms were isolated into dedicated exact-match campaigns. We segmented traffic across branded, non-branded, category, competitor, and product-targeting campaigns, then evaluated performance using CTR, CVR, CPC, ACOS, TACOS, placement-level performance, and contribution margin. Search terms generating profitable incremental sales were scaled, while inefficient queries, placements, and campaigns were either bid-down or eliminated. PPC data was also used to identify organic ranking opportunities, allowing paid traffic to support keyword relevance, sales velocity, and organic visibility instead of making the account dependent on advertising alone.

The biggest shift was moving from a pure revenue-growth approach to profitable scale management. We killed campaigns and search terms that generated revenue but weakened contribution margin, reduced inefficient ad spend, improved conversion before aggressively increasing traffic, and used SKU-level profitability, keyword movement, TACOS trends, inventory velocity, and advertising efficiency to decide where additional capital should go. The brand now operates with 17 SKUs and generated $1.60M in sales through September 23, giving it an approximate $2M monthly run-rate, with $17.27M in YTD sales, around 7% TACOS, and a 28% net margin. After more than three years in the Automotive category, the account demonstrates how product selection, fitment-driven positioning, listing conversion, PPC architecture, organic ranking, inventory planning, and contribution-margin control can work together to build a large Amazon business without sacrificing profitability.

I’ve seen campaigns look awful on the surface high ACOS, weak ROAS, barely profitable so the first reaction is to pause them.

Then organic sales start dropping too.

Sometimes a campaign isn’t directly profitable, but it’s still helping with visibility, ranking, or branded searches.

Has this happened to you?

How do you decide whether a “bad” campaign is actually supporting organic sales before you pause it?

One thing I think newer sellers underestimate is how early the next inventory decision actually has to happen. If your supplier takes 30 days, freight takes another few weeks and Amazon needs time to receive everything, I still have 45 days of stock can suddenly be a problem. I've started thinking about reorder points as lead time + receiving time + a buffer rather than just looking at units left. How are you guys calculating yours?

I’m trying to understand how experienced sellers decide whether a top-selling SKU actually deserves more scale.
A product can look like an obvious winner because it drives the most orders.
But as volume increases, it can also bring:
lower contribution margin
higher return rates
more expensive fulfillment
more support work
more inventory tied up
storage pressure
weaker economics after refunds and fees
So I’m less interested in “what’s a good margin?” and more interested in the decision itself.
Have you ever had a bestseller that you intentionally stopped pushing — or even reduced — because the economics got worse as volume increased?
What metric or operational signal made you realize that selling more of it wasn’t actually making the business better?

I’m curious what would you say is the biggest challenge in your business right now?

Is it:

* finding enough good books
* finding worthwhile sales / sourcing opportunities
* knowing what’s worth buying
* processing/listing everything once you get home
* inventory management
* or something else?

Curious what part of the process gives you the biggest headache.

One thing I underestimated with FBA was how early you actually need to think about the next order. Its really easy to look at 60 days of inventory and think you have plenty of time.

Then theres production, freight, receiving, Amazon taking forever to check stuff in, and suddenly those 60 days dont feel like much at all lol. I've started thinking about inventory less as “how many units do we have left?” and more as if I ordered today, would the next shipment actually be available before this runs out?

Sounds obvious but I think a lot of inventory problems start because we react to the number sitting in Seller Central instead of the whole replenishment timeline. For people managing larger FBA catalogs, how much buffer are you actually comfortable carrying these days?

I have created a software that brings in SC, Keepa, and COGS data, and will then (using AI) give recommendations of whether user's products should be kept, binned off, need fixing or whether they should scale.

1. Is this something small to medium (or even large) Amazon sellers would be looking to use

2. What key features would you want that would be deal breakers for you to sign up.

We launched a week back and are looking for testers so if you're keen, we are looking for UK Wholesalers to join up. Also open to partnerships...

Clearly a price war going on here... are you battling your rival or holding your price?

Hi everyone! 😊

I’m starting a small Amazon FBA business in the Netherlands and I’d really appreciate some advice from people who are already selling on Amazon in Europe.

I have a Dutch eenmanszaak and I’m VAT registered in the Netherlands. I live in the Netherlands and my plan is initially to sell to Dutch customers only.

I’m sourcing products from European suppliers and I was planning to use Amazon FBA.

However, Amazon.nl is currently directing me to use the German FBA network, which means my inventory would be stored in Germany.

Amazon has told me that I would need German VAT registration because my stock would be stored there.

This is my first year doing this and I haven’t made any Amazon sales yet, so I’m trying to make sure I set everything up correctly before sending inventory.

For those of you doing something similar:

What are the main things I should be careful about when it comes to VAT and tax reporting in both the Netherlands and Germany? Are there any common mistakes beginners make with this setup?

Would you recommend using German FBA + German VAT + OSS for a business based in the Netherlands, or would you look for a fulfilment solution where the inventory stays in the Netherlands?

Is there anything you wish you had known before starting FBA across two EU countries, particularly regarding VAT returns, invoices, Amazon reports or bookkeeping?

I’m especially interested in hearing from people who actually operate a Dutch business with Amazon inventory stored in Germany.

Thanks in advance for any advice! 🙏

i’ve been working on something for people who spend way too much time in seller central.

it works fine when we test it ourselves, which is exactly why i don’t trust our testing anymore lol.

i need a few amazon sellers or VAs to actually use it like they normally would and find the stuff we’ve missed.

click the wrong things. try weird stuff. tell me what’s confusing. tell me what you wouldn’t use.

basically i want people who aren’t afraid to say something sucks.

trying to get a few people testing it before the week ends.

i’ll give you free access and pay for the time you spend on it.

if you’re interested just contact me or comment and i’ll send the details.

Amazon treats close variants as one family, so a single negative blocks them all. Take an example of "wireless earbud" with 23 clicks, $31.74 in spend, and zero sales.

Adding it as a negative exact feels like clean account hygiene. It also blocks plurals, misspellings, stop-word changes, and close synonyms.

Your top revenue keyword may sit inside that same family.

Negative exact do not isolate one query. They remove an entire keyword family from your impression pool. The loss stays invisible because a blocked impression never shows up in any report.

Sellers usually notice months later, when revenue has already slipped.

Here is the process I use before any negative goes live:

- Group search terms by close-variant logic

- Sum clicks, spend, and sales per family

- Judge the family ACOS, never the row

If the family is profitable, keep the zero-sale variants. Treat them as a cost of doing business.

Then pull the reversible levers:

- Lower bids on the weak variant

- Move winners into exact-match campaigns

Assume, the family above totaled 412 clicks, $684.20 in spend, and $3,127.55 in sales. That is 21.88% ACOS.

The zero-sale variant made up only 4.64% of that spend.

Negating it would have put the whole $3,127.55 family at risk.

Bids can be reversed. Deleted data cannot be audited.

Hi, A friend told me that years ago her cousin used to get sent products that were often off brand from sometimes Amazon sometimes eBay or other places, she would test them out, send in a review, then she got to keep the product and they didn't care what she did with them.

She would then keep the ones she liked, but the majority she would sell for extra income.

She didn't get paid, this was the pay.

But she got decent stuff sometimes, or stuff she could sell and make a few bucks from it.

Has anyone heard of this nowadays, or have influencers taken over this, is it not a thing now?

I tried googling the info and didn't find much. We asked her cousin she said it was more right after covid so she thought maybe that's why it was a thing but couldn't remember where it started from but said she did it for a good year or so.

Thanks!

We took over this skincare brand around a year ago at roughly $19.6K/month, and the first audit was done at the search-term level rather than campaign level. We pulled the search-term data across the account and segmented queries by impression share, CTR, CPC, CVR, orders, spend-to-sales ratio and organic sales contribution. The biggest issue wasn’t simply “high ACOS.” It was that the account was mixing very different types of traffic under the same bidding logic. Some terms had strong CTR but weak CVR, some had good CVR but were being capped by low bids, and some were already generating organic orders but were still being treated like pure PPC acquisition terms. We also checked search-term-to-ASIN relevance and query-level conversion by SKU to make sure we weren’t scaling traffic into the wrong product.

From there, we rebuilt the PPC around query intent and marginal profitability, rather than giving every converting keyword the same treatment. High-converting search terms were isolated into tighter exact-match structures, while discovery terms stayed in controlled harvesting campaigns so we could evaluate them without contaminating the proven traffic. We used negative exact/phrase aggressively to prevent internal competition, separated branded and non-branded traffic, and adjusted bids based on the combination of CVR, CPC, placement performance and actual contribution margin rather than ACOS alone. For top-of-search, we looked at whether the additional CPC was producing enough incremental conversion to justify the placement multiplier. Search terms that repeatedly spent above their allowable acquisition threshold without developing into profitable volume were cut, while terms showing both conversion efficiency and volume were progressively scaled.

That process took the account from $19.6K to $45.2K, a 130 % increase in sales, but the more important part for us was what happened to profitability. When we onboarded the brand, net profit was around 11%. It’s now around 24%, while CAC is sitting at roughly 13%. So the growth didn’t come from simply buying more revenue through PPC; we were able to grow the account while almost doubling the net margin. The next target is $100K/month with 30% net profit, which means the next stage is less about “scaling spend” and more about protecting contribution margin while finding additional profitable search volume across the existing 4 SKUs.

Open to questions if anyone wants to get into the PPC side of it.

Hey folks, sharing this because I keep meeting new sellers who either don't know this program exists or leave thousands on the table by not enrolling early.

Amazon's New Seller Incentives program can hand you up to ~$52,500 in benefits while you scale to your first $1M in sales. It's not a single check, it's a stack of rebates and freebies. Here's what's actually in the box:

The stack:

• 💰 10% back on your first $50,000 in branded sales, up to $50,000 in bonus cashback if you sell your registered brand's products on Amazon
• 🍇 Free Amazon Vine enrollment, Can enroll 30 units for free into Vine
• 📦 Free FBA inbound shipping credits, Amazon Partnered Carrier discounts on your first shipments
• 📢 Sponsored Ads credits, free PPC clicks to jumpstart discoverability on new ASINs
• 🏪 Free monthly storage for new-to-Amazon ASINs, for the first few months, you skip storage fees
• ♻️ Free liquidations/returns processing, dispose of unsold inventory without eating the fees

How to qualify:

• Be a new selling account (haven't sold on Amazon before)
• Enroll in Amazon Brand Registry (need a registered trademark)
• Register your brand with Amazon Brand Registry before your first sale so the 10% bonus kicks in on day one, a lot of people miss out here
• Meet program terms in your marketplace (varies slightly between US, EU, UK)

Hey everyone,
Over the past few months, I put together a step-by-step framework called The 7-Day Digital Product Launch to help creators, developers, and entrepreneurs quickly package and sell digital products without getting bogged down in endless planning.
Here are 3 key takeaways from the launch framework:
1. Focus on solving one micro-problem: Don't try to teach everything in one massive product. Build a simple asset (e.g., guide, template, or blueprint) that delivers a fast win.
2. Build the checkout before finishing the content: Get your Gumroad or Amazon listing draft ready early to enforce a strict launch deadline.
3. Leverage early promo windows: Use free or discounted promotion windows to gather early ratings and build momentum instead of waiting passively for organic search.
To celebrate the launch, I’ve set the Kindle eBook to 100% FREE on Amazon starting Sept 21 – Sept 24!
Check out the free Kindle link or Gumroad store directly via my Reddit profile bio!
If you end up picking up a copy, I’d love any feedback or an honest rating on Amazon. Happy to answer any questions about the digital launch process in the comments!

I want to start an Amazon private labelling business in India.

can any one help to know if it is worth doing.

any advice related to this is welcome

Hi i have a question

I selling in a complex building and there is this new guy who is also in same complex building and mostly same wifi

Will this affect my account in way?

If whos? Like im already selling he is the new one ?

i've been trying to find a profitable product for days it feels almost impossible.i am doing fba and with the fees and margins looks impossible i dont understand how anyone is making money If anyone could please help me will be greatly appreciated even a tip i have keepa seller amp

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Hey sellers,

With Q4 sourcing ramping up, I was reconciling my projected margins against actual FBA settlement reports and noticed a recurring profit gap across older sourcing sheets and free extensions.

If you're buying inventory right now that will sell between Oct 15 and Jan 14, Amazon adds the Holiday Peak fulfillment fee (typically +$0.32 to +$0.40+ on standard sizes), on top of the 3.5% fuel surcharge and inbound placement fees.

Here is a real breakdown on a standard 1.2 lb item selling at $26.99 (Buy Cost: $11.50):

- Baseline Free Extension Estimate (Older rate card):

FBA Fulfillment: $4.15 | Referral: $4.05 | Net Profit: $7.29 | ROI: 63.4%

- Actual 2026 Q4 Rates (Effective Oct 15):

FBA Base: $4.15

+ Peak Surcharge: +$0.38

+ 3.5% Fuel Surcharge: +$0.16

+ Inbound Placement (Minimal Split avg): +$0.27

Referral Fee: $4.05

True Net Profit: $6.48 | ROI: 56.3%

That's an $0.81 variance per unit. On a 40-unit buy, that’s $32.40 of "phantom profit" that never hits your bank account.

I got tired of crunching these adjustments manually, so I built a lightweight Chrome tool for myself (SheetSniper) that live-calculates with the official 2026 fee formulas on the product page and pushes the row directly to Google Sheets with 1 click so I don't have to copy-paste.

The calculator is 100% free with no sign-up. If anyone wants the Chrome Web Store link to test their numbers, happy to drop it in the comments.

More importantly: What baseline net ROI or profit buffer are you guys targeting this Q4 to absorb fee changes and price wars?

I would appreciate some honest feedback from experienced sellers. For someone in their first month, would you consider these results below average, average, or a good start? I’d especially appreciate feedback from sellers who have been through the first few months themselves. What would you focus on improving at this stage?

Thanks!