General words of advice/help needed
Am really just looking for general help and/or words of encouragement. I started FBA a few weeks ago and my first items have been on sale for just over a week. Since that time I’ve had:
- Stock going missing on two different items (sent in 8 only 7 scanned)
- Active stock suddenly changed to inactive (out of stock) even though they are still there as available.
- Stock sent back as suddenly I don’t have permission to sell it as I’m guessing the company has changed its mind
and overall generally poor sales even though my items range from 20,000-100,00 rank. Any words of wisdom that might help? how long in your experience did it take to start selling things consistently and is it always this much hassle? All help and advice is appreciated…rant over
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Seller_esvgLzKXw2YAl
If you have stock going missing when receiving, it’s not that big a deal.
Wait for the reconcile date and they will either find it, or reimburse you for it.
You just need to prove delivery and purchase.
Seeing stock going inactive, will more than likely be them moving stock around to different warehouses and it will come back active fairly quickly.
Not sure what you mean exactly by the third one. What exactly happened?
As to the ranking, it really depends on the category, to have meaningful idea as to how things will sell. At 100000, I wouldn’t expect to sell much more than 1 or 2 item a year!
Selling consistently, is just experience in what your buying and how well you can stock/price it.
It comes with time.
As to the hassle, get used to it. That’s a constant when selling online. Whether be Amazon or elsewhere. Customers are a pain the backside! 
Seller_77IcbQKVGdZo0
In addition to Neil’s advice here are some of my thoughts
This happens a fair amount of times. What often happens is that by the reconcile date the missing stock is located by Amazon. Other times you have to put a claim in for the stock which is fairly straight forward if you have the correct invoices.
Happens to me, normally it sorts itself out in a few days.
Did Amazon deny you the permission to sell it and do you require invoices to prove a valid supplier?
If it is the company that has said you can’t sell it and you brought directly from them then contact the company. Some companies don’t allow third party sellers to sell the stock. If the company said you could and you are blocked from the listing then the company maybe able to write you a Letter of Authority to allow you to sell on Amazon.
Whilst those sales ranks sound okay I don’t think they are high enough that you will get much volume. In my experience in the range of 10,000-20,000 gives you sales of typically 2-3 units a day, anything under 10,000 gives you considerably more. However it does depend on the category as well. It also depends on the competition on the listing if you are sharing it with other sellers then your chance of a sale diminishes more.
What you need to do is keep persevering and find those products that sell well that comes with time. Also look at the Amazon best sellers in your category to get some idea of what items sell well.
