I've been developing my own software for canadians specifically for finding ungated leads Stay tuned! You can see it in action for the live sourcing part of this video: https://youtu.be/G3RWTMjY8FM?si=18oVjyUYXOJh8m2d

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.

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You find a great product on a discount site. Good price, solid ROI. You buy 20 units, ship them in, start selling. Then you get an IP complaint or inauthentic claim. Amazon asks for an invoice. You send the one from your purchase. Rejected. Account at risk. Here's why: that "retailer" was actually a marketplace. The product page said "sold by [third-party seller]" in the fine print. That makes it a marketplace purchase, not a retailer purchase. Amazon does NOT accept marketplace invoices for appeals. They want proof you bought from a legitimate retailer or distributor. "Sold and shipped by" the actual company. Before you buy from any online retailer, check who's actually fulfilling the order. If it says "sold by" anyone other than the website itself, that's a marketplace. Your invoice from that purchase is worthless if Amazon ever asks for it. Sites like Frugal are notorious for this. Great prices. Marketplace invoices. Do you check who the actual seller is before buying from discount sites?

I want you to be bad at Amazon OA. Not forever. Just for a while. Because here is the thing nobody talks about in month one. You Are Supposed To Be Bad Think back to your first day at your current job. You sucked. Guaranteed. You did not know where the files were. You asked basic questions. You made mistakes that seem stupid now. That was normal. Expected even. So why do people quit Amazon in month three because they are not profitable yet? You have been doing this for 90 days. Of course you are not crushing it yet. The Six Month Wall In six months, you will laugh at how you thought about inventory in month one. In a year, you will not even recognize the seller you were today. It only makes sense that years one and two are when you gain momentum. Not week one. But everyone wants the result without the transformation. They see $5K month screenshots and think "I should be there already." No. That seller spent 18 months learning what you are learning right now. The Real Filter And if it was easy on day one, everybody would do it. There would be no opportunity left. Canadian OA is hard because it filters out the tourists. Currency conversion sucks. Duties eat margin. Volume is lower than the US. That is not a bug. It is a feature. The hard part is what keeps lazy people out. It keeps sellers who want passive income without work out. It keeps people who quit at the first Keepa headache out. What Makes It Easy The fact that it is hard makes it easy. Read that again. Because once you get through the hard part, you are competing against way fewer people than in any US market. Same products. Less sellers. More money per sale. The barrier to entry is what creates the opportunity. Your Paycheck Is Your Best Investor Something else from the coaching calls. New sellers always want to quit their 9-to-5 in month three. The ones who actually make it? They use their paycheck to fund inventory for 12 months. Your day job is not holding you back.