#63 - Does Selling Out of Inventory Ruin Your Ranking on Amazon?
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Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder
4.9 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 5 July 2021
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Summary
Selling out of inventory is a common concern among sellers but it's not necessarily as big of a deal as it can be. I'll share our own experience of selling out over 8 times in the past year and how we recovered.
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| 0:00.0 | Selling out is a great problem to run into. |
| 0:03.4 | It means people like your product. |
| 0:06.0 | So there's a lot worse problems out there that you could be dealing with than selling |
| 0:10.4 | out of a product that people are loving. |
| 0:13.3 | Yes, selling out will drop you. |
| 0:15.5 | When a skew of ours sells out, once it gets back in stock, within a matter of, again, |
| 0:20.7 | this depends on the skew, within a matter of, again, this depends on the skew, |
| 0:22.6 | within a matter of days or weeks, we're right back where we were. |
| 0:32.9 | Welcome back to another episode of selling on Amazon with Andy Isam. |
| 0:37.4 | In this episode, we're going to talk about a hot topic, a question that's asked questions, Welcome back to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam. |
| 0:37.5 | In this episode, we're going to talk about a hot topic, a question that's asked quite |
| 0:41.7 | a bit. |
| 0:42.7 | Does selling out of inventory ruin your ranking on Amazon? |
| 0:47.2 | There's a lot of different opinions out there on this coming from other Amazon sellers |
| 0:51.9 | like myself. |
| 0:52.9 | I'm just going to give you my opinion on this |
| 0:55.2 | based on my own personal experience. So I'm not going to base my answer to this question on |
| 1:00.5 | what Billy or Johnny or some other person says. In our experience, selling out of inventory |
| 1:07.6 | does affect your ranking, but only temporarily. |
| 1:11.9 | I think a lot of people get really nervous when they're trying to order inventory for their |
| 1:16.9 | brand, whether that's their first order or multiple orders down the road. |
| 1:20.7 | They get really nervous about selling out, about stocking out, running out of inventory. |
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