Avoid this as a new Amazon FBA seller

This is a brand new Amazon seller that spent $3,000 on inventory that they cannot sell. If you don't want that to be you, here the key things to look out for whenever you're buying inventory. One of the biggest red flags is any Amazon seller that is brand new to the platform, brand new to selling, you should not be trying to do wholesale. And I'm saying this as someone that's completely wholesale myself. If you don't have the experience for it, it is higher risk and you are going to put money on the line on inventory that you cannot sell and the invoices won't work for you to get ungated. Now, there are cases the invoices should work, but it is not a guarantee anymore, which is my point. This brings me to my second point, you should be doing online arbitrage. It doesn't even have to be for that long. You could do it for a month or two, just to bring up your account score health in order to put your account in a position to where wholesale is not that much of a risk. The key things to look out for on anything that you're trying to ungate and you really shouldn't be trying to ungate anything to start out is make sure that there's new sellers on that listing. The easiest way to do this, scroll down on Keepa, go to data, buy box statistics, and make sure that you see storefronts that actually have zero stars on that listing. If there's new people on that listing and you're trying to get ungated, you have a higher likelihood of getting that ungated because it's friendly to new sellers.