February 2025 Inventory Report
Inventory update
Here’s the inventory for the short month of February 2025.
If you’re interested in reading the first inventory report I’ve done, you can check it out here:
And the February income report is listed here
Inventory Breakdown
Units purchased: 238 (161 OA, 77 books)
Units sent for FBA: 199
Cash spent: $2,680.38 (I haven’t yet reconciled a majority of my book buys yet so this is much higher)
Thanks to some inspiration from some other top notch sellers, I started developing my own python tool to find good book deals from Amazon.
I was excited to use the tool and spent more time looking for books than I expected. I didn’t source any OA deals for about 10 days in February.
Despite sending 199 items in to Amazon for FBA, there are 69 (not nice) items that are still waiting to be checked in. I’m trying to be patient, but I have a feeling those items were lost or damaged. Worst case I’ll have to submit receipts to get reimbursed.
When I sent in textbooks for FBA, I had a really good run of 100% check in rates for shipments. Maybe I need to use the heavy duty moving boxes to send in my OA inventory. Right now I have been using the boxes that my inventory gets delivered in and resending that back to Amazon.
Strategies
I’ve been working at manufacturing margin. Find an item that’s profitable or close to profitable, use the reseller exempt on sales tax, find a discounted gift card and a coupon code and create a profit margin that didn’t easily exist before.
This is the meta for reselling right now. I read about this strategy a lot from the big guru sellers. We’ll see how long it remains a viable strategy. But for now it has been working for me so I’m gonna keep doing it.
Coming up
Next thing I need to do is build a UI for the scraping tool and improve the price history comparison.
There are a ton of sale opportunities coming up (St patricks day, Easter, Mothers Day, Memorial Day etc.) Lots of opportunities out there.
So far into March I’ve been trying to FBM more products. It’s more time consuming for me but I want to try and churn faster returns. We’ll see how that goes in the March income report.