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Sales Rank: What It Is and How To Use It
Reading Time: 4 minutes Editor’s Note: Originally published on Sep 3, 2019, updated on June 1, 2023. It’s the one way Amazon sellers know what sells and what
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Scan any barcode in 5 seconds. Use a bluetooth scanner for even faster scanning.
Live lookup using Amazon’s API ensures you have up-to-date offer and pricing data, every time you scan.
An offer highlighted in a brown box lets you know if you’ll be competing against Amazon themselves.
An asterisk next to an offer shows you who has the Buy Box. It’s not always the lowest price!
Over 15 factors, including weight, Amazon fees, your cost of goods, shipping rates and more go into calculating your estimated Amazon profit.
Profit Bandit warns you when an item you scan can’t be listed on Amazon (you must be signed in to Amazon to enable this feature).
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Tap your estimated profit and see how it was calculated, down to the penny.
1: Scan button – scan items using your phone’s camera.
2: Manual Keyword Search – useful if the item doesn’t have a scannable barcode
3: Special Search – Once an item has been scanned or selected from the search results, clicking on the title & category header allows you to find additional information on the product from various other 3rd party sources.
4: Rank – represents Amazon’s current sales rank for the item
5: Sell It button – it can be used to go to your Seller Central account and list the item currently loaded in the app or it can be used to add the item to the Buy List
6: Buy Cost/Sell Price – you can fill in the amounts for buy cost or sell price that will be used in the profit calculation.
7: Profit/Loss calculation – includes all Amazon fees
8: Browse on Amazon button – it will take you to the scanned item’s product page.
9: Scanning History – shows a list of all items previously scanned
10: Provides instructions on how to pair a Bluetooth scanner with Profit Bandit
11: Item condition – it activates a dropdown with all available conditions that can be assigned to the scanned item
12: Restriction alerts – if you are not authorized to sell specific items or items that belong to a category in particular, then this restriction notice will show up to let you know not to buy the item.
13: This is the list of all the competition info available from Amazon for the scanned item. You can select any of the prices from the list to see how you’d compete against them and what profit you’d make if you were to sell the item at a matching price.
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Whether you’re hunting for inventory at trade shows, big-box retail stores, library sales, thrift shops or anywhere else, Profit Bandit will become the Amazon assistant you can’t live without.
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Reading Time: 4 minutes Editor’s Note: Originally published on Sep 3, 2019, updated on June 1, 2023. It’s the one way Amazon sellers know what sells and what
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