Selling Lego on Amazon.com

[exciter1]

  On 12/15/2020 at 4:04 PM, Darth_Raichu said:

It is so annoying to have orders that have been pending for 4+ days.  I'd rather have the ability to cancel these because if these go through, from buyers POV the shipment are going to be late, ie. "I placed order 4 days ago and you ship a week later ?"

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I'm in Vacation Mode, good luck ya'll.

[redcell]

  On 12/15/2020 at 4:04 PM, Darth_Raichu said:

It is so annoying to have orders that have been pending for 4+ days.  I'd rather have the ability to cancel these because if these go through, from buyers POV the shipment are going to be late, ie. "I placed order 4 days ago and you ship a week later ?"

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4 days isn't bad.  I have around 75 orders that have been pending for at least a week and 15 that have been pending for at least 3 weeks.

[zmnnch]

  On 12/15/2020 at 4:21 PM, exciter1 said:

I'm in Vacation Mode, good luck ya'll.

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Me too! All remaining FBM will be out of the door tomorrow Wed before the East Coast Storm (hopefully)

[Darth_Raichu]

  On 12/15/2020 at 4:21 PM, exciter1 said:

I'm in Vacation Mode, good luck ya'll.

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That explained the sudden uptick in sales  

[Brick625]

  On 12/15/2020 at 3:47 AM, cobrakai said:

No, it was not SFP.  I only had this happen once so I was kind of reading between the lines about why the A to Z was originally granted to the customer.  Same thing has happened on Ebay.  I have never won a claim on Ebay unless the order shows delivered (even if shipped/scanned on time.)  

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Ebay is a different type of animal. Lost in transit equals full refund to customers per ebay rules.

Amazon if not SFP, you should've file a dispute. 

[landphieran]

I really wish Amazon more aggressively filtered out post Christmas buy box delivery times.

It takes a 4$ undercut from FBM with an infinitely far future date to snipe it. I don't know if people are still buying they FBM's (they may). But I do know it kills traffic to "hidden" FBA listings. Also purchasing anything through the phone, you can't see the delivery timelines.

[Bold-Arrow]

  On 12/15/2020 at 8:45 PM, landphieran said:

I really wish Amazon more aggressively filtered out post Christmas buy box delivery times.

It takes a 4$ undercut from FBM with an infinitely far future date to snipe it. I don't know if people are still buying they FBM's (they may). But I do know it kills traffic to "hidden" FBA listings. Also purchasing anything through the phone, you can't see the delivery timelines.

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my FBM orders aren't what they were compared to two days even though my BB % has doubled. if that helps . 

[landphieran]

Interesting, my FBM throughput has stayed pretty rippin' hot. I am in the midwest so the entire U.S. is still deliverable by Christmas on standard shipping. I'm wondering if the listings will drop off going into the weekend.

Either way, doing more FBM next year on some targeted sets. It was easily worth it. I think the buy box used to be much more severe against FBM then it is now. the 4$ difference is negligible considering storage and transit.

  On 12/15/2020 at 8:54 PM, Bold-Arrow said:

my FBM orders aren't what they were compared to two days even though my BB % has doubled. if that helps . 

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Amazon clutched the Tree House listing at 199.99. RIP.

Edited December 15, 2020 by landphieran
Treehouse RIP

[Bold-Arrow]

  On 12/15/2020 at 9:03 PM, landphieran said:

Interesting, my FBM throughput has stayed pretty rippin' hot. I am in the midwest so the entire U.S. is still deliverable by Christmas on standard shipping. I'm wondering if the listings will drop off going into the weekend.

Either way, doing more FBM next year on some targeted sets. It was easily worth it. I think the buy box used to be much more severe against FBM then it is now. the 4$ difference is negligible considering storage and transit.

Amazon clutched the Tree House listing at 199.99. RIP.

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my first year using FBM had def been a success overall . Will look into growing that arm of the business next year for sure.

[cobrakai]

I have MF orders picked up by USPS on 12/7 that have still not been delivered to customers (some haven't left my state yet.)  Meanwhile, I have FBA shipments that were picked up at my house by UPS on 12/10 that have already been checked in and sold to customers.  I'm not wasting my time doing MF right now.  Most of my stuff is first class and the added cost of using UPS or Fedex would kill my margin. 

[gmpirate]

  On 12/15/2020 at 9:03 PM, landphieran said:

Interesting, my FBM throughput has stayed pretty rippin' hot. I am in the midwest so the entire U.S. is still deliverable by Christmas on standard shipping. I'm wondering if the listings will drop off going into the weekend.

Either way, doing more FBM next year on some targeted sets. It was easily worth it. I think the buy box used to be much more severe against FBM then it is now. the 4$ difference is negligible considering storage and transit.

Amazon clutched the Tree House listing at 199.99. RIP.

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Ouch!  If I hadn’t gotten busy with other work I would have sent a bunch in this week.  Now I have a bigger decision to make.  Maybe I’ll wait first to see if Amazon sells through.

[gmpirate]

  On 12/15/2020 at 9:13 PM, Bold-Arrow said:

my first year using FBM had def been a success overall . Will look into growing that arm of the business next year for sure.

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I didn’t have time to prepare for it this year but I plan to at least be ready next year.  Although I worry about all these packages in limbo you guys are talking about.  I hate having to deal with that sort of thing.  Takes up so much time responding to customers 

[Bold-Arrow]

  On 12/16/2020 at 12:09 AM, gmpirate said:

I didn’t have time to prepare for it this year but I plan to at least be ready next year.  Although I worry about all these packages in limbo you guys are talking about.  I hate having to deal with that sort of thing.  Takes up so much time responding to customers 

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I am at 100% delivery on time metric. plan early and organize, you will do just fine. 

[exciter1]

Plan late and disorganize, you still might do fine.

[Bold-Arrow]

  On 12/16/2020 at 12:59 AM, exciter1 said:

Plan late and disorganize, you still might do fine.

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That explains why you still have a link to yoyo in your signature ?

[exciter1]

  On 12/16/2020 at 1:03 AM, Bold-Arrow said:

That explains why you still have a link to yoyo in your signature ?

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Procrastinators are optimists too.

[Bricklectic]

Tried listing Triceratops Rampage for 93$ FBA and got a price too high delisting message from amazon. Strangely there are many listed for higher, in fact 93$ would be the lowest. Anyone experience this?

[landphieran]

  On 12/16/2020 at 4:30 AM, Bricklectic said:

Tried listing Triceratops Rampage for 93$ FBA and got a price too high delisting message from amazon. Strangely there are many listed for higher, in fact 93$ would be the lowest. Anyone experience this?

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Yeah I ran into this as well. I tried deleting the listing for a while but still no dice. I'm wondering if they have seed prices setup on each person's selling account. 

This is rather adorable, I ain't even mad. Also 30k in three years... Alert the presses!

https://grow.acorns.com/amp/how-to-sell-lego-online/

[Bricklectic]

  On 12/16/2020 at 4:34 AM, landphieran said:

Yeah I ran into this as well. I tried deleting the listing for a while but still no dice. I'm wondering if they have seed prices setup on each person's selling account. 

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Thanks. I'm a little new to the Amazon game, been on eBay mostly for a while. Is there any account metrics at risk for repeat high price listings? Like can I keep trying at 92...91....90 till I hit an acceptable price to the bots, or do I risk my account getting flagged or suspended. 

[gmpirate]

For FBM is there a minimum size or dollar amount that makes sense?  I.e. I would think selling Brickheadz & small Speed Champions might not make sense because of shopping costs whereas it really doesn’t matter with FBA.

[exciter1]

  On 12/16/2020 at 4:56 AM, gmpirate said:

For FBM is there a minimum size or dollar amount that makes sense?  I.e. I would think selling Brickheadz & small Speed Champions might not make sense because of shopping costs whereas it really doesn’t matter with FBA.

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Selling small Speed Champions or Brickheadz for $50 - $60 and paying $5-$8 for shipping sounds good to me.

[landphieran]

  On 12/16/2020 at 4:56 AM, gmpirate said:

For FBM is there a minimum size or dollar amount that makes sense?  I.e. I would think selling Brickheadz & small Speed Champions might not make sense because of shopping costs whereas it really doesn’t matter with FBA.

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  On 12/16/2020 at 5:06 AM, exciter1 said:

Selling small Speed Champions or Brickheadz for $50 - $60 and paying $5-$8 for shipping sounds good to me.

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Honestly most things are good FBM. As I mentioned previously, FBM is winning buy box undercutting 4$. That is a freaking steal of a price this time of a year. You would have paid a ton in storage fee's, uncertain transit times, and thus uncertain prices. FBA causes people to have this urge to move inventory and drop prices due to the storage expense.

1. You have a decent unit count (20-30).

2. You have a bundle of boxes for them.

3. Surging price you don't want to miss on

Or

1. Large Set

2. Case Packed Lego

3. Slow to Medium volume Sellers (avoid fee's).

Or

1. Time sensitive flip

I sold through 40 Kessel Runs I got at Costco in individual cases in two days at 290$. (The price is 290 FBA right now). Shipping was 10-13 dollars. Nice and easy. Toy Planet and Toys N Tech are heavily using FBM this year and I'd guess they will continue to do so moving forward.

 

[gmpirate]

In my mind at least, I have always looked at FBM for quick flipping because if its a set that has been aging/retired it's going to sell anyway at a fairly stable price.  FBM to take advantage of moments in time with current sets that have temporary  shortages.  Otherwise I don't see the point in going to the extra effort.

[gmpirate]

In 45 days Amazon will have the Cupcake.  So, they'll just take the buy box until then . . . nice

[Darth_Raichu]

Holiday shopping stress is getting to Amazon.  My selling account has been up for a few years and this morning I got this email: