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▼ PB345 |
Light-up rubber duck, 3-pack |
6 of 7 |
1,298 |
$19,819 |
$2,321 |
$8,349 |
$5,426 |
$3,723 |
18.8% |
one shop is losing money inside a profitable product |
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├ Amazon US |
$16.99 each |
47% |
612 |
$10,398 |
$840 |
$4,387 |
$2,558 |
$2,613 |
25.1% |
PPC launch — day 14 gate on 31 Aug |
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├ Amazon CA |
$16.61 each |
7% |
96 |
$1,594 |
$120 |
$709 |
$401 |
$364 |
22.8% |
— |
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├ Amazon MX |
$14.20 each |
3% |
38 |
$540 |
$46 |
$241 |
$159 |
$94 |
17.4% |
price is 50c above its floor here |
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├ Walmart |
$16.99 each |
11% |
143 |
$2,430 |
— |
$809 |
$598 |
$1,023 |
42.1% |
best margin — 8% fee, no ads running |
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├ Target+ |
not listed |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
two rivals sell there at $17.99 and $19.49 |
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├ Temu |
$11.49 each |
30% |
388 |
$4,458 |
$1,315 |
$2,105 |
$1,622 |
−$584 |
−13.1% |
under its floor, and the labels cost $4.30 |
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└ Shopify |
$18.99 each |
2% |
21 |
$399 |
— |
$98 |
$88 |
$213 |
53.4% |
— |
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18.8% is not this product’s margin, it is the average of seven of them. The duck clears 25% on Amazon US, 42% on Walmart and loses $584 on Temu, and the total is the only number that never happens to anybody. The Temu line is under water twice over: the price sits below the floor that shop’s own fees imply, and the shipping figure behind it is stale — the labels really cost $4.30 against $2.78 collected. Closing that one line is worth more than a percent of margin on everything else.
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| ● |
▶ PB224 |
Therapy putty, 4-pack |
7 of 7 |
1,846 |
$21,340 |
$1,980 |
$9,120 |
$4,227 |
$6,013 |
28.2% |
cost of goods rose 5c on Tuesday |
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▶ PB106 |
Slant board, adjustable |
5 of 7 |
214 |
$9,742 |
$612 |
$3,410 |
$3,514 |
$2,206 |
22.6% |
returns went 5.4% → 14.1% after the title rewrite |
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Cost of goods is a moving number, and it moved on the receiving dock. The putty went from $2.24 to $2.29 landed when eighty units were written off wet and the freight spread over fewer sellable units. Five cents is nothing on one order and it is $92 across this month — so every line on this board is priced from landed cost as it stands today, not from the number that was true when the shipment left.
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| ● |
▶ PB038 |
Coil spring walking toy |
6 of 7 |
908 |
$8,124 |
$1,460 |
$4,290 |
$2,125 |
$249 |
3.1% |
$1,460 of ads on $8,124 of sales |
| ● |
▶ PB211 |
Sensory bin scoops, 6-pack |
4 of 7 |
322 |
$6,114 |
$410 |
$2,240 |
$1,307 |
$2,157 |
35.3% |
missing from Temu and two Amazons |
| ● |
▶ SW043 |
Baby scale weighing tray |
6 of 7 |
188 |
$4,012 |
$286 |
$1,540 |
$831 |
$1,355 |
33.8% |
Temu is 27% under the US price |
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▶ PB512 |
Christmas light-up snowman |
2 of 7 |
34 |
$859 |
— |
$318 |
$294 |
$247 |
28.8% |
seasonal — five shops never had it |
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Advertising is inside this margin, which is why the coil spring is the problem row and not the snowman. It sells more than the scoops and keeps $249 of it, because $1,460 of ad spend sits on a $9 product. A gross margin would have called it healthy. And the Shops column is the other half of the story — four of seven, two of seven — because the cheapest growth on this board is a shop a product is not in yet rather than a price somebody has to cut.
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