Hi @Anthony Mancini How would you suggest that OA sellers manage their capital to avoid potentially irreversible losses attributable to sudden gatings, lowball reimbursements, etc? Would you suggest, for example, that such sellers allocate no more than 10% of their capital to ASINs in any one brand or category?

I know most beginners think Amazon Canada = send everything to a prep center, wait for it to hit FBA, then hope the math works. And listen, prep centers are useful. I used one. A lot of Canadian sellers need one because they have jobs, families, small apartments, or they just do not want boxes taking over their life. But there is one downside people forget. Every mistake gets more expensive. If you buy 40 units and the price drops, you still paid the prep fee. If the product moves slower than expected, you still paid the prep fee. If your ROI was already tight, that extra $1 to $1.50 per unit can turn a decent Amazon Canada lead into something barely worth touching. That is why I like beginners understanding both FBA and FBM. Not because FBM is better. Because FBM gives you options. If you have the product in your hands, you can list it faster. You can test demand. You can decide if it deserves to go deeper into FBA next time. If everything goes straight to a prep center, you lose some flexibility. So the next time you source a lead, do not just ask: "Is this profitable?" Ask: "Is this still profitable after prep, shipping, delays, and a price drop?" That one question will save you from a lot of dumb buys. For the sellers here using prep centers, do you calculate prep fees before you buy, or only after the product is already ordered?

In the past few weeks, two of my cohort 1 students got hit with Section 3 emails from Amazon. Both got their accounts back. I want to walk you through what we actually did because Section 3 doesn't sit on the "pillars of pain" lessons. It's not supposed to happen. But it does. And how you handle the first 24 hours basically decides the outcome. What Section 3 actually is It's a verification email. They want to verify your identity, your inventory, and how you do business. It is NOT a suspension. It's a temporary pause so a real human can interview you. From everything I've seen, it's random, there's no specific action that triggers it. Just Amazon's numbers game on this new wave of sellers. The verbiage is aggressive on purpose. Don't let it scare you. The trap word: "brand authorization" This is where most people panic. In the interview, they'll ask: "Do you have authorization from the brand to sell these products?" Your gut says "yeah, I'm ungated." Don't say that. Ungated and authorized are not the same thing. The truth: nobody has brand authorization. My mentor doesn't doesn't have it. Wholesalers don't get it from the brand either. Amazon knows this, third-party selling is part of their game. I think the question is in there as a scapegoat, just in case they need a paper reason to remove an actual fraud. Just answer honestly: no, you don't have brand authorization. You're fine. What you need ready (today, even if your email hasn't come) When the email shows up, they'll list a few ASINs: usually 3 to 5. Sometimes your most recent. Sometimes from 6 months ago. You need: 1. Order confirmation email from the supplier for each ASIN 2. Bank statement showing the matching transaction 3. Credit card statement showing the matching transaction 4. Real ID: passport or driver's license, clear photo 5. Supplier name + full address for each ASIN ← this is the one that trips people up. They ask randomly in the interview, not in the email. Pro tip from walking my students through it: highlight every matching transaction in the bank/CC statement. Color-code by ASIN. Make sure your name and shipping address are consistent across every document. You're not just answering,you're overloading them with proof.

New CanFlip update is live and it's the biggest one yet. I just shipped a "Google It" button directly inside Keepa Product Finder. One click and it pulls up the product on Google so you can find a cheaper supplier in seconds - without ever opening the Amazon listing. Combined with the gating overlay (green = sellable, yellow = need approval), my sourcing speed has roughly doubled since I built this. I just recorded a live sourcing video using the new feature, found a 26% ROI Milwaukee impact wrench in the first 5 minutes and a 30% ROI lead later in the run. The whole video is ~17 min: https://youtu.be/qbvCAVlEvys If you want to try it, CanFlip has a 3-day free trial, cancel anytime: https://canflip.ca What's the longest you've ever spent sourcing without finding a single profitable lead? Drop your worst session below 👇

Most people start OA by randomly browsing retailer websites hoping to find a deal. That works sometimes. But it is painfully slow and there is zero consistency to it. What changed everything for me was building a seller ID database. Once you have one, you are not guessing anymore. You are working from a list of products that REAL resellers are already selling profitably. Here is exactly how I do it. STEP 1: FIND CROWDED LISTINGS Open Keepa Product Finder and set the minimum FBA offers to something like 8 or 10. You are NOT looking for a good listing to sell on. You are looking for a listing with a LOT of resellers on it. The more sellers, the better for this step. Those sellers are your goldmine. STEP 2: EXTRACT THE SELLER IDs Once you find a crowded listing, scroll down to the Keepa chart. Click the Data tab, then the Offers tab. You will see all the sellers listed there. Copy their seller IDs one by one. Yes it takes a bit of time. That is the point. You are building an asset. STEP 3: VALIDATE EACH SELLER Paste each seller ID into the Keepa Product Finder seller ID section. Check how many products they carry. If they have 15 to 20 or more products listed, they are probably a reseller just like you. Add them to your spreadsheet. If they only have 2 or 3 products, skip them. They are probably just clearing out their garage. STEP 4: TREAT THIS LIKE A SOURCING SESSION Here is the mindset shift that most people miss. Do not try to build your database AND source leads at the same time. Separate the two. Spend a dedicated hour JUST collecting seller IDs. No analyzing products. No checking margins. Just building the list. Then later, you use the list. STEP 5: USE THE DATABASE WITH KEEPA PRODUCT FINDER Once you have a solid list, take 20 seller IDs at a time. Format them as a comma separated list (I just paste my spreadsheet into ChatGPT and ask it to format them). Drop those 20 IDs into Keepa Product Finder and it will pull up every product those 20 sellers carry. That is usually around 1000 listings. Then you apply your filters to narrow it down to a realistic batch you can actually analyze in one sitting.