#453 - Stay Far Away From These Types of Products on Amazon

Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder

Amazon, Business, Amazonfba, Selling, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Personalbusiness, Productbusiness, Ecommerce, Onlinebusiness

4.9 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, I’m breaking down the types of products you don’t want to sell on Amazon—specifically, items that customers treat like rentals. These are the “use it once and return it” traps that kill margins and crush seller morale. I’ll share why these products create constant headaches, including behind the scenes from my weekly internal meeting and coaching call with my students.

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0:00.0	There's a growing trend being more and more accepted by our society.
0:05.9	And this is something that didn't even exist 10 years ago.
0:10.9	It was unheard of to do this, in fact.
0:13.5	But with Amazon's liberal return policy and pressures on the economy and wages and inflation, more and more people are becoming
0:24.5	open-minded to Amazon rentals.
0:32.6	Yesterday was a busy day for me. My Tuesdays are usually very, very full of internal team meetings,
0:45.4	meetings with clients, meetings with account managers. And this week, it just happened to also fall on
0:51.3	the same day as my coaching Q&A call. And normally I don't try to
0:56.8	schedule my coaching Q&A call the same day as my meeting days because, again, it gets to be
1:02.3	quite a lot. But I had a lot of good conversations yesterday related to the topic of Amazon
1:10.5	rentals.
1:12.0	And in today's episode, we're going to get deeper into that.
1:14.4	I'm actually going to share exactly what I shared on my coaching Q&A call yesterday.
1:19.5	But before we get into that, I do want to bring you guys up to speed on all the Amazon
1:24.5	news and updates.
1:26.1	So again, instead of repeating myself on what I said in my coaching Q&A call,
1:31.3	here are the most important Amazon updates to be aware of.
1:36.0	Okay, I think we're good.
1:36.7	All right, some Amazon News and Updates from the last couple of weeks.
1:41.1	You can register now for the Amazon New Cellar Summit on July 24th. Amazon will be holding
1:47.5	their inaugural, inaugural, I almost said inaugural. That is not a word. In inaugural. Amazon New Seller
1:54.5	Summit at the J.W. Marriott, Los Angeles, LA, live to bring you and Amazon experts together for a day of learning,
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