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July 2023. I'm camping with the in-laws. I woke up, amazon notification First sale! $115. Inflatable swimming pool. I'm pumped. This is the moment. I'd already dropped money on coaching, software, inventory, and here it was — proof of concept. The beginning. Next morning I wake up and check my phone. Customer refused delivery. Refund issued. My first sale... wasn't a sale. It was a refund. Welcome to Amazon. Here's what nobody tells you about that first purchase: it's the scariest one. You have zero track record. No proof this works. You're spending hundreds or thousands on inventory with no profits yet. It's a leap of faith. And that first "win" turning into a refund? That's not a bad omen. That's just the game. once that first box ships, everything changes. You stop questioning if it works and start optimizing how to make it work better. You stop hoping and start building. I still sold that pool eventually. But I'll always remember the refund. Because it taught me something important: Amazon doesn't care about your story. The market doesn't care about your first win. It's just data. It's just business. And the faster you treat it like business instead of personal validation, the faster you grow.

If I could only give you one piece of sourcing advice, it would be this. When you are scanning leads on Amazon Canada, the very first filter you should set is Amazon out of stock. Every single time. No exceptions. Here is why. When Amazon is selling a product directly, they have basically infinite inventory. They control the listing. They set the price. And they win the Buy Box roughly 90% of the time. You are not going to out-compete Amazon on their own platform when they are actively selling the same product. I learned this the hard way back in 2022 when I was just getting started. I found what I thought was this amazing lead. Great margins on paper. I bought 20 units, sent them in, and then just sat there watching Amazon hold the Buy Box for weeks. My units collected dust in the warehouse while I paid storage fees. I think I ended up breaking even after everything, which honestly felt like a loss considering the time I put in. After that I made it a rule. If Amazon is on the listing and actively in stock, I move on. Period. There are thousands of other products where Amazon is NOT competing with you. Why would you pick a fight you are almost guaranteed to lose? Now there is one exception. If you have solid data showing Amazon is going out of stock soon or they tend to go in and out on that ASIN, that can actually be a great opportunity. But you need the data to back it up. Keepa is your best friend here. Look at the stock history, see if there is a pattern, and only then consider jumping in. For everyone just getting started, keep it simple. Filter for Amazon out of stock and focus your energy on leads where you actually have a shot at the Buy Box. You will save yourself so much time and money. This one filter alone probably saved me from dozens of bad buys over the last few years. And when you are doing $1.8M in total sales like I have since starting in July 2022, those saved bad buys add up to tens of thousands of dollars. What about you? Have you ever gotten burned buying a product where Amazon was the main seller? Or do you already filter them out? Drop your experience below.

What's up everyone We're doing our FIRST offical livestream in this community. Sunday March 22nd at 5pm EST Here's what's going down: - Live sourcing (you'll see exactly how I find products in real time) - Live Q&A (bring your questions) - A special announcement 👀 You can watch it on my YouTube or right here in Skool. Drop a 🔥 if you're pulling up. See you there 🫡

Everyone talks about finding leads. Scanning. Keepa. ROI calculators. Cool. But nobody teaches you how to actually buy the stuff efficiently. And that's where most new sellers leave money on the table. Here's what I mean. You find a product at a Canadian retailer. Great ROI. You want 20 units. But the site has a limit of 3 per order. Most people either give up or just buy 3 and move on. I don't do that. There are ways around order limits. Different addresses. Different payment methods. Timing your orders across a few days instead of all at once. I've been doing this for 4 years and never once had an issue. Never had an account flagged. Never been at risk. The key is not being greedy about it. Space things out. Be smart. Retailers care about resellers buying 200 units in one shot. They don't care about someone placing a few normal-looking orders over a week. Here's my approach when I find a solid lead: 1. Test order first. Always. Buy 2-3 units and confirm the product matches the listing, condition is right, no weird surprises. 2. If the test checks out, scale up. Place multiple smaller orders over a few days. Different shipping addresses if you have them (home, office, family). 3. Track everything. Every order number, every unit cost, every retailer. This feels boring now but trust me, 6 months in you'll be glad you did. 4. Know when to stop. If a deal is good, other people found it too. Don't over-order thinking you're the only one. Check Keepa offer count before going heavy. The sourcing part gets all the attention. But the purchasing part is where you actually make or lose money. Get good at this and you'll scale way faster than someone who finds better leads but can't execute. What's the most units you've ever ordered of a single product? Drop it below.