Karin Weizel worked at a dealership when one day while out on a test drive with a customer, they got into an accident with a semi-truck. She knew this was no longer the life she wanted to live and began to search for ways to make money without having to work the typical 9-5.

She sold things on eBay here and there previously but she started to feel that life was too short to be stuck at her job.

Amazon FBA and Selling On eBay

Suddenly Karin was flooded with all kinds of information and content, but she found inspiration to sell on Amazon through Tik Tok. This brought her into the world of Book Flipping.

When she first looked into Tik Tok, Karin’s son let her know that it was mostly young people dancing on there, but a quick search showed her that wasn’t entirely true.

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“I wasn't seeing the 12 year olds dancing and that kind of stuff. I wasn't seeing that, what I was getting out of Tik Tok was immediately people that were sharing their life story and talking about selling on Amazon and eBay.”

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Karin is a big proponent of taking in as much information and content about Amazon FBA and selling on eBay before jumping into doing it yourself. When you go into a venture with the power of knowledge then it’s hard to stumble.

Amazon FBA Community

Karin found the community to be kind and helpful, but of course there are some things that members of the Amazon FBA community are not going to tell you right off the bat.

Everyone has their sources and to scale your own business you have to put in the work and do your homework for example: you probably won’t have anyone telling you where you can buy Gaylords.

But as far the community goes people are just mostly wanting to see others succeed in this business as well. As Karin states “There’s enough books in the world for everybody.” While some may hold onto information and have their well kept secrets, it’s mostly about a sense of community and to help one another.

Karin’s main goal is to be able to sell enough where she can end up traveling all while doing Amazon FBA. It’s her dream to use her book selling income to fuel her travels across the country in an RV.

She feels she can do online sales from anywhere, and being able to travel from place to place and picking up things here and there from thrift stores would be a perfect situation for her.

You can listen to Karin as a guest on The Sellers Corner here: https://podcast.accelerlist.com

Do you have a dream you’re trying to achieve while selling online?

[dropcap]B[/dropcap]y now you’ve probably all heard of the new FBA box content changes that are coming to our world on November 1st.  Amazon has been talking about it for some time now, or as some like to say…”threatening it” for some time now… but sure enough…it has finally arrived.  There timing is of course horrible, as is much of the timing of major process change rollouts from Amazon… but what’s good for Amazon will undoubtedly be good for the rest of us. Even if it’s not immediately apparent to us. Either way, however… rolling out a major process change like this can be VERY SPOOKY around this time especially since we’ve already entered into the 4th quarter.  This is the time where a lot of sellers take the chains off of their Amazon FBA business and “let it rip.”  Not double down on process and procedure and add extra barriers to the sales path?  None-the-less, FBA box content requirements are here and it’s time to take this Frankenstein head on.

What is FBA Box Content?

Amazon doesn’t make a move in their business unless they’ve crunched a million bits of data…three times over and twice on Sunday… before they roll out major changes like this, but this one was a real easy one for Amazon to come to quick terms with.  They’ve created a monstrous following with FBA sellers and because of that they are seeing record breaking volumes of inventory flowing into their warehouses each week. Especially during 4th quarter. It’s actually just too much for them.  There warehouses are bursting at the seems, their robots working double-time and their employees probably taking shorter breaks than usual.  In an effort to streamline more of their receiving process, they’ve introduced Box Content rules for you’re incoming shipments. Simply put, if you ship more than one box of items to the Amazon warehouses for sale…then they want you to create a “shipping manifest” that tells them exactly what items are in your cute little box.

What if I ship one box at a time?

Like me (I’m not that much a volume seller) you could be one of those sellers that only ships one box at a time.  If that’s you then you shouldn’t be “scared” of this latest change in process by Amazon.  If all of your items can fit into a box that doesn’t weight over 50lbs then you fine sir (or madam) are GOOD TO GO. Simply place your items in a box and send it off to Amazon.  They aren’t sweating it because your box has everything in the same box together and thus it’s easier for them to route your items within their warehouse.

What if I ship more than one box at a time?

There are lots of sellers that do, so you’re in good company.  Typically this happens for a variety of reasons but the main reasons why are:

• You are a high volume seller
• You want to save on shipping charges so you send as many boxes as possible in one “shipment”
• You send in larger items so naturally you need multiple boxes.

What solutions are there?

Right now, some 3rd party listing apps have some sort of solution to the problem to make your selling lives a little more comfortable.  Some of these solutions however are still in their infancy and can be more confusing then if you just did it manually yourself.  Some listing applications don’t have a built in solution at all.  And some are charging an extra fee to help you with this solution AccelerList has a built-in solution yet for FBA box content.   Right now you can list in both Private and Live mode within AccelerList and have a solution to your box content needs.  No reason to pay for a separate solution or use another listing application.  Our’s is easy to understand and easy to use within the application.