A lot of beginners look at a Keepa chart like it can tell them exactly what is going to happen next. It cannot. It gives you the best story based on what already happened. That matters a lot when you are deciding how deep to go on an Amazon Canada OA lead. If the chart says the product sells, the price is stable, and sellers rotate, cool. Maybe a small test buy makes sense. But if you are trying to buy 30 to 45 days of inventory, you have to remember the listing can change while your products are still moving. A new seller can jump in. The price can drop. Your retailer shipment can take a few days. Your Amazon shipment can take a few more. By the time your stock checks in, the exact chart you trusted might not be the same anymore. That does not mean you avoid buying. It means you stop treating the chart like a guarantee. Use Keepa to make the best decision with the data in front of you, then size the buy so one surprise does not wreck you. Simple rule: the less stable the chart is, the smaller the first buy should be. When you are checking a lead right now, what usually makes you hesitate most? Price drops, seller count, low volume, or not knowing how many units to test?

This is one of those beginner traps that feels too boring to matter. You find a product. The price looks good. The Keepa chart looks decent. The listing says 2 pack. Then you look closer and the image only shows one bottle. That is where people get smoked. Because if you buy it thinking one unit from the retailer matches one unit on Amazon, but the Amazon listing is actually a 2 pack, your whole buy decision is wrong before you even start. Not because you are bad at sourcing. Because you trusted the listing too fast. Before buying, check all three: Title. Images. Description. If one says 2 pack and the other two look like a single unit, slow down. Search the reviews. Check other sellers. Look for the UPC if you can. And if you still cannot prove what the customer actually receives, pass or track it until you can. Amazon Canada already has enough weird friction. Do not let a pack size mistake be the thing that kills an otherwise good lead. What catches you more right now, pack size, variations, or matching the exact product?

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A lot of beginners ask: “What’s the best category to sell in?” Beauty? Grocery? Toys? Clothing? Electronics? Home and kitchen? Honestly, the category matters less than people think. A bad lead in a “good” category is still a bad lead. And a boring product in a category nobody talks about can still be a great buy if the data is there. That is especially true on Amazon Canada. We have different retailers, different competition, different fees, different inventory depth, and different buy box behaviour than the U.S. So don’t just copy what American sellers are doing. Use categories as a starting point. Then let Keepa, profit, seller count, buy box history, and your actual sourcing data make the decision. Curious where everyone is at right now. What category are you spending the most time sourcing lately? And what part is giving you the most trouble?

One boring Canadian Amazon FBA habit that will save you a headache later: Download your Amazon tax documents and keep them in Google Drive. I know. Not sexy. But when you sell in Canada, you are dealing with HST, GST, QST, PST, Amazon fees, fee taxes, refunds, and all the little accounting stuff nobody wants to touch until it becomes a problem. On one coaching call, I was showing how some Amazon fee taxes can be tracked and refunded properly when your books are clean. The lesson was not "become an accountant." The lesson was this: If your documents are messy, you make your accountant's job harder and you make your own life harder. If your documents are saved every month, the business feels way less scary. Simple action step: Create one Google Drive folder called Amazon Canada Taxes. Inside it, make folders by year and month. Then once a month, download your tax docs, fee docs, and any reports your accountant asks for. Do not wait until tax season. Do not wait until CRA asks you for something. Do it while it is boring. That is usually when it matters most. Question for the group: Are your Amazon Canada tax docs organized right now, or are they living in the "I'll deal with it later" folder? 😅