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📣 FBA Lead List Memorial Week Promo: 30% Off Mars 44, 7/10 Seats Left
If Q1 left you with cash stuck in dead inventory and doing 3 -4 hour sourcing marathons, our Memorial Week “Reload and Reset” promo on Mars 44 is built for you.
Join Mars 44this week and you’ll get:
- 30% off your first 4 weeks(you pay $129.50 instead of $185)
- Daily Mars 44 emails with 10+ mostly ungated, pre‑vetted OA leads (Mon–Fri)
- A live 60–90 minute call with our COO, Brian Elfstrom, to autopsy your Q1 dead inventory, build your 30-minute Mars routine, and map out a reusable OA lead pipeline
- Our Buy Like a Pro and From Leads to Intel guides
- A 5‑day / 2‑lead guarantee: if you don’t see at least 2 usable leads in your first 5 days, we extend your first month by an extra week at no cost
We’re on Day 4 of the promo and 3 of 10 seats are already claimed, so there are 7 spots left before we switch to a waitlist.
Grab a Memorial Week Mars 44 Seat Here
🍔 This Week in Seller Snacks:Your May Q2 checkpoint, building a DD+7-proof cash flow system, the most expensive assumption in arbitrage, meet our sourcing team, a perspective change for struggling sellers + our Flip of the Week last week’s lead list results and more…
On Today’s Menu:
🥨 Memorial Week Is a Natural OA Reset Checkpoint
🍪 The Most Expensive Assumption in OA, Building a DD+7-Proof Cash Flow System and more…
🍄 A Perspective Change for Struggling Sellers
🔥 What a Mars 44 Lead Looks Like
📊 Last Week’s Lead Lists’ Results
🍿 Meet the FBA Lead List Sourcing Team
🥣The Dip Bowl – Headlines You Don't Want to Miss
Let's eat!
🥨 Crisp Intel
Bite-sized insights to help you sell smarter.
📦 What’s Happening: Memorial Week Is a Natural OA Reset Checkpoint
For a lot of OA sellers, late May ends up being an informal “checkpoint” each year. Q1 results are clear, Q2 is in full swing, and Memorial Week sits right between “reacting to what happened” and “setting up the rest of the year.” We’re hearing from more sellers who are using this window to clean up slow inventory, tighten their buy rules, and rethink how they’re spending their daily sourcing time.
📈 Why It Matters: Inventory Decisions & Habits Compound
When you don’t deliberately reset, two things quietly compound:
- The kinds of inventory you keep buying (good or bad)
- The sourcing habits you run every day (structured or chaotic)
If Q1 and early Q2 were full of “just this once” exceptions on ROI, rank, or brand risk, those decisions can echo for months in your cash flow. Sellers who intentionally pause to review what’s working and what isn’t tend to course-correct faster and avoid repeating the same patterns all year.
📋 What to Do: Turn Memorial Week into a Short Reset Window
Instead of treating this week as “just another cycle,” you can use it as a short, focused reset window:
✅ Do a quick inventory pass:where is capital most stuck, and what patterns do those ASINs share?
✅ Update your sourcing rules:write down clear thresholds for profit, ROI, demand, and risk you won’t cross going forward.
✅ Define a time-efficient daily sourcing routine: whether it’s using lead lists as your starting point or refining your sourcing methods and strategy, it’s important to figure out how not to get stuck hunting and evaluating leads 3 -4 hours a day.
✅ For the next 30 days, track one simple metric: how quickly capital comes back compared to earlier this year.
This is the thinking behind our Memorial Week Reload & Reset focus around Mars 44: using a defined window to review, simplify, and install a healthier OA routine going into the rest of Q2.
📌 Bottom line:
You don’t have to overhaul your entire business this week. But giving yourself a clear reset checkpoint now makes it much more likely that June, July, and August look different from January through April.
🍪 OA Munch
Bite-sized tips to boost your flips.
🔗The Most Expensive Assumption in Arbitrage Isn’t about Sourcing
In this post, Brian and Robin Joy Olson break down how a single bad assumption about Amazon-Optimized Shipments and the 5-box rule quietly drains your margins. They show you how to structure multi-ASIN shipments so most of your units ride the no-fee tier, and only true “stragglers” pay placement fees.
🔗How to Build a DD+7-Proof Cash Flow System for Arbitrage
Amazon’s DD+7 payout delay is already baked into your deposits, quietly stretching how long your cash is locked in inventory. In this article, we show you how to map your real cash conversion cycle, use a simple A/B/C “speed bucket” system to fund fast movers first, and redesign your weekly buy rhythm so you can keep sourcing aggressively without waking up to a dry bank account.
🔗ICYMI: Why Experienced OA Sellers Source for Next Month’s Demand – Not Today’s
Most newer sellers chase whatever looks hot on Keepa today and end up buying right as margins start shrinking. In this article, we break down how experienced OA sellers factor in 6–8 week inventory cycles, map demand ahead of time, and plan buys around next month’s velocity instead of this week’s hype so they’re selling into the wave while everyone else is still scrambling to catch it.
🍄 Mental Snacks
Quick Bites. Sharper Decisions.
If you struggled in Q1, here’s something important to keep in mind:
Your Q1 was tuition, not a verdict.
If Q1 felt rough, it’s easy to look at your inventory page and think:
“I’m bad at this.”
“I shouldn’t have bought that.”
“Maybe OA just doesn’t work anymore.”
Here’s a different frame:
All of those mistakes were tuition. You already paid for the lesson with time, money, and stress. The only real waste now is not using what you bought.
Instead of judging yourself on Q1, use it to power a 30‑day reset:
1. Separate identity from data
Your bad buys are not a verdict on you. They’re just evidence about categories, brands, price points, and Keepa patterns you shouldn’t repeat.
2. Run a quick “tuition audit”
Look at your worst Q1 buys and ask:
- What did I miss on Keepa?
- Was I overconfident on demand or price?
- Was I ignoring brand / IP risk or gating?
Write the answers down. Those are your new rules.
3. Trade guilt for rules
Every painful ASIN should turn into a rule:
“No more X% ROI without Y sales/month.”
“No more buying this brand.”
“No more ignoring IP warnings.”
4. Commit to 30 days of disciplined inputs
For the next month, measure success by inputs, not emotions:
- 30 focused minutes/day reviewing vetted leads
- Every buy must pass your new rules
- Weekly check‑in on how fast capital is coming back
That’s the real “reload and reset”: not pretending Q1 didn’t happen, but squeezing every drop of learning out of it and then giving yourself a clean 30‑day window to operate differently.
You already paid the tuition. This month is about cashing in on the lesson.
🔥 Flip of the Week: Deep Dive
The numbers, the Keepa read, and what makes this a scalable OA buy.
This week, we’re spotlighting one of the strongest Mars 44 leads our sourcing team pulled last week and why it fits the Memorial Week Reload & Resettheme so well.
The Lead: NGK CR9EIX – Iridium IX Spark Plug (4‑Pack)
- Buy: $13.94 at RevZilla
- Sell:$35.99 on Amazon (Buy Box at time of sourcing)
- Net Profit: $13.37
- ROI:95.91%
- Estimated Sales: ~500 units/month
What the Keepa chart tells us:
The Keepa read on this ASIN is… boring. And that’s exactly what we like to see for a “reload” lead:
- Buy Box pricing has been stable in the mid‑$30s for months, not spiking up and crashing down.
- Sales rank and drops indicate steady velocityin a niche (auto/moto) that tends to attract fewer hype‑driven sellers.
- Competition and price behavior have stayed controlled enough that the spread between ~$14 buy and ~$36 sell has held up over time.
You’re not betting on some temporary pricing anomaly. You’re stepping into a listing where the market has already “voted” for consistent demand at this price point.
Why this is a great Reload & Reset example:
For a lot of OA sellers right now, the problem isn’t “no leads” – it’s stuck capital and chaotic sourcing:
- This lead gives you ~$13 profit on a ~$14 buy‑in, which is exactly the kind of high‑ROI flip that helps dig out of dead Q1 inventory.
- With ~500 sales/month and a boring, stable Keepa chart, you’re not trying to time a hype wave – you’re plugging into an existing, repeatable demand stream.
- It’s the kind of “unsexy” replen that, over time, does more for your cash flow than chasing flashy, unstable ASINs.
This is the type of lead our sourcing team puts up in our Mars 44 list: stable, high‑ROI, mostly ungated opportunities that help you reload capital, reset risk, and run OA in a focused 30‑minute routine instead of 3–4 hour sourcing marathons.
This week, you can gain access to these types of leads without paying full freight.
30% off your first 4 weeks on the Mars 44 list. Apply code MEMORIALDAY30 at checkout.
Grab a Memorial Week Mars 44 Seat Here
📊 Last Week’s Lead Lists’ Results
While most sellers were manually sourcing, FBA Lead List Mars 44 subscribers were working with our pre-vetted OA leads. Here’s what last week (5/18/26 – 5/22/26) looked like:
Mars 44 numbers last week:
🔍 Unique Top Leads: 50
💰 Avg. Net Profit: $12.26
📈 Avg. ROI: 62.20%
🏷️ Avg. 90 Day Rank: 141,613
💸 Total Profit (Mars 44, buying 1 unit per lead): $668.53
Just flipping 1 unit per lead from the Mars 44 list can cover your entire month’s subscription. Plus change (cha-ching!).
Here’s what one of our valued long-time Mars 44 subscribers had to say about our list:
This Memorial Week, we’re offering 30% off your first 4 weeks on Mars 44 when you apply code MEMORIALDAY30 checking out.
Grab a Memorial Week Mars 44 Seat Here
We still have 7 seats left. When all 10 seats are claimed, everyone else goes to a waitlist that still locks in the 30% off if a spot opens in the next 30 days.
🍿 Snacktacular Spotlight
Each week we highlight a tool, strategy, or resource helping Amazon sellers snack smarter.
This week’s spotlight is on…
🕵️ The FBA Lead List Sourcing Team –meet the scrappy team behind our lead lists
Even before FBA Lead List existed, our sourcing team was in the trenches running Amazon OA day in and day out.
They’ve been sourcing since 2016 and were one of the main cogs that helped our original founders go from “is this OA thing even going to work?” to consistent six‑figure Amazon OA sellers. Same tools, same careful Keepa review, same sober look at whether each potential buy actually deserved our cash.
Today, that exact crew is behind our Mars 44 lead list. Every weekday, they sit down with one simple rule:
“Only put leads on this list we’d be willing to spend our own money on.”
That’s why Mars 44 isn’t just “10+ OA leads a day.” It’s eight years of pattern recognition on:
- Which brands/accounts tend to be auto‑ungated
- What real, repeatable demand looks like on Keepa (not wishful thinking)
- Where IP and account‑health landmines usually hide
The Memorial Week reload and reset theme you’ve been seeing from us this week is mainly this dedicated, highly-experienced team, pointed at your Q2: taking the same boring, unsexy sourcing work that built our own OA accounts and putting it to work for you in a 30‑minute Mars routine instead of 3–4 hour grinds.
When you open a Mars 44 email this week, you’re seeing the best of what we would feel comfortable buying ourselves. It’s our way of helping you turn a rough Q1 into a cleaner, more controlled next chapter for your OA business.
🥣The Dip Bowl
Click-Worthy Finds Served Fresh
🔗FBA Prep Center: Your Ultimate Guide for 2026
entre|resourcerecently published a guide breaking down how prep centers work, what services they offer, and how sellers can choose the right one for their business.
For newer OA sellers especially, this is worth learning early. As more sellers move toward third-party prep solutions over the next year, understanding prep center workflows, pricing, turnaround times, and compliance requirements will likely become a much more important part of running an efficient Amazon business.
🔗The Amazon FBA Perk You May Not Know About
EcommerceBytesrecently highlighted a little-known Amazon FBA perk: Amazon now automatically opens investigation claims for some missing inbound inventory instead of requiring sellers to manually file cases.
The catch is that this currently only applies to qualifying items over $50, but it’s still a good reminder for OA sellers to regularly monitor inbound shipments and reimbursement reports. A lot of sellers still leave money on the table simply because they never check what Amazon lost.
🔗Upgrades to Customer Service by Amazon Helps Sellers Save Time and Reduce Refunds
Amazon recently announced upgrades to its Customer Service by Amazon (CSBA) program, including fewer return-less refunds and automatic reimbursements for certain delivery issue claims and Goodwill refunds.
For OA sellers, the biggest takeaway is less time spent dealing with SAFE-T claims and fewer unnecessary refund losses. Sellers using Amazon Buy Shipping or Veeqo may now see more reimbursement protection handled automatically instead of manually fighting claims case-by-case.
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