Guides
Guides for sellers with stock they cannot move
Written for the question you are actually typing at eleven at night. No gatekeeping, and no pretending consignment is the answer when it is not.
Amazon FBA consignment: how the split actually works
What comes off the top before a consignment split, a worked example, what happens on returns, and the questions to ask any program before you ship.
What to do with your inventory after an Amazon suspension
Deactivation, suspension and a funds hold are different problems. What happens to your money and your FBA stock, and how to get the inventory out.
Gated on Amazon? How consignment gets your books sold anyway
Why brand and category gates exist, what ungating actually takes, and how consignment moves gated stock without waiting on an approval.
How much do book buyback companies actually pay?
Why buyback offers are low, where the gap is small and where it is enormous, and what to do with the books that fail the buyback test.
Free scanning software for Amazon: what is actually free
What a scanner genuinely needs to tell you, which free options are useful, an honest look at the paid ones, and the gate problem none of them solve well.
What happens to my FBA inventory if I close my Amazon account?
Get the inventory out before you close anything. Removal orders and what they cost, storage fees that keep running, and what happens to money still in the account.
How much money can you actually make selling books on Amazon?
An honest answer in ranges: what a book nets after Amazon takes its cut, the difference between revenue and profit, and where most sellers stall.
Selling books on Amazon for beginners: what nobody tells you first
Account types, FBA versus merchant-fulfilled, your first sourcing trip, the fees that decide what is worth buying, and the mistakes that cost most in month one.
Do CDs and DVDs still sell on Amazon in 2026?
Most sellers assume discs are dead and stopped checking. Which categories still hold value, the gating situation, and which discs are not worth handling.
How to read a Keepa chart before you buy a book
Keepa guides are written for private-label sellers. This one is for media: what the rank line means, reading a 365-day window, and what no rank tells you.
Selling your college textbooks: buyback sites versus consignment
For most textbooks a buyback site is fine and faster. For some it is a poor deal. How to tell which you are holding, and when a textbook is worth most.
The consignment service that still takes CDs and DVDs
Media consignment has quietly become a books business. What happened to disc consignment, what we accept, and whether your collection is worth sending.
MaxX Access vs Restricted Inventory: an honest comparison
A straight comparison of the two programs, including where we lose: disc acceptance, who pays inbound shipping, payout timing, and what to ask either of us.
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