Remove Filter

Separating the wheat from the chaff.

Introduction

This article describes the tools available in the Remove panel.  

The Remove panel contains filters that omit items from search results based on the criteria you enter into a field. In that sense, filters can be a powerful, time-saving tool.

Based on our experience, you shouldn't activate too many Remove filters on a search. If heavily filtered, you could miss out on some worthwhile items.

What is over filtering?

An example of over filtering may be - Remove Ranks over 50,000 and also using Remove Gross Profit of less than $5

Just these two filters alone, you would never see a 60,000 rank item that returns $19 profit each, and you would never see a 1,000 rank item that returns $4 each.

Both extremely good products.

What should I use?

For the majority of product searches, use no more than two or three filters here. Your searches will from this section, will probably include at least the Remove Ranks Over filter.

Organization

The Remove panel has 30 filters.

Using Remove Ranks Over

Remove items from the search that don't meet your product rank threshold. 

This will skip products that rank poorly on Amazon.

There are three ways to enter a threshold.

1. Click the box beside Remove. A drop-down menu displays. Select a time period: Current, Average 30 day, or Average 90 day.

2. With the toggle switched to the left side, enter a figure in the Ranks Over box. Rank measures product sales compared to other items in the same Amazon category.

3. Toggle the switch to the right side and then click the AS PER SETTINGS button . The Set Sales Rank Filter Values page displays. This page has default threshold values for a wide range of products. 

• Note: If you select the AS PER SETTINGS option, no number appears in the data field.

Set Sales Rank Filter Values

You can customize the values on the Set Sales Rank Filter Values page. Once set, use these values for every search.

1. Open the Set Sales Rank Filter Values page.

2. Select your base country by clicking a flag.

3. Click the box beside Country Product Count - Top. A drop-down menu displays. Select 4, 7, or 10%. Choose 4% if you want a high threshold that targets top ranked products (and generates fewer search results) or 10% if you want a low threshold that includes less popular items (but generates more search results). Or, choose 7% because you like the middle of the road.

4. Inspect individual line items that interest you and make sure the auto-generated threshold figures make sense to you. 

5. Click SAVE.

Remove bidding price

Enabling this filter will remove bidding prices for LIVE eBay scans. 

For Rank Filter multiply rank by number of product variations.

Default sales rank is based on accumulated sales across all variations.

Only select this option to calculate estimated sales rank of each individual item in the variation for the rank filter above. Example: For an item with 5 variations and rank = 500, each variation rank = 2,500. If your rank filter is set to remove anything above 2,000, current item will be removed.

Remove if Number of Rank Drops for the last 30 days is less than

With this filter you are able to skip the products, which have low number of recent sales. Simply input the number in the field highlighted below:

Remove 3rd Party Sellers from Results 

Enabling this filter will remove 3rd party sellers from results. Only available with scans for walmart.com, target.com and amazon only for now.

Remove Oversize Products

Oversize Products can be profitable, but they can also be a shipping nightmare, depending on just how oversize and heavy. Select this is you would prefer to remove. Oversize Products from your results all together.

Remove Out of Stock Products 

Selecting this will work hard to avoid showing you items currently out of stock online. If you are heading on a retail arbitrage road trip, or are happy to track these in your Saved Data folder until they come back into stock, you may like to leave this unselected.

If you are getting ideas for a retail arbitrage road trip, you may like to leave this box unticked, but otherwise, it's better to select this checkbox and filter out the sold out items. 

Remove if Amazon contains no Weight or Size Data

Some products in Amazons system have been entered with no weight or dimensions, which makes calculating an accurate FBA return difficult and inaccurate. To avoid seeing these inaccuracies, you can remove these products from results, by checking this box. 

Remove if Amazon is also a Seller and Now In Stock 

If you select this filter, we'll try to check if Amazon is also a seller on the listing and currently in stock, and remove the product from results if you like to avoid these kinds of scenarios.

Remove Hazmat Products

This filter can be helpful if you want to stay away from hazardous materials products.

Remove if Buy Box is Suppressed 

This filter can be helpful if you want to stay away from Amazon Products with Suppressed Buy Box Price.

Remove if Buy Box is not Suppressed

This filter can be helpful if you want to get Amazon Products only with Suppressed Buy Box Price.

Remove if Restricted for My Account

This filter can be helpful if you want to stay away from Amazon Products which Require Approval via Seller Central.

Remove if Already Saved

This filter can be useful if you want to stay away from Products which are already in your Saved Folders. 

Check by Amzozon ASIN

In conjuction with Remove if Already Saved, use this filter if you want to remove already saved ASINs from the scan.

By default, we check the source product URL / code and match this to an Amazon ASIN. However, with this filter, we will not check the source URL if the equivalent ASIN is already in your saved list, thereby removing the results from showing up again in your search.

Remove if Product has Multiple Quantities

Use this filter to remove multi-packs (Quantity >1).

Remove if Estimated Sales is less than

Here's a tool to remove products with insufficient monthly sales.

Enter a number in the field.

This is the minimum number of sales per month you need to consider a product viable. If Amazon's monthly sales are less than this figure, the product is not included in the search results.

Remove if Estimated Sales per Variation per Seller less than

Estimated sales per product, calculated as Estimated Monthly Sales (Based on trailing 30 day data) / (Competitive FBA Sellers + 1) / # of Product Variations. 

Remove if the Number of Product Variations is more than 

Use this to remove items that have over your specified number of variations. Sales information is aggregated across all variations, so items with less variations will have less diluted sales figures.

Remove if the Number of Competitive FBA Sellers is more than 

This filter can be helpful if you prefer to avoid results with a lot of Competitive FBA Sellers. For Competitive FBA Sellers each FBA Seller Offer will be compared with Competitive Range from the Buy Box, which you can set on Settings or View Data pages.

Remove if Number of Reviews is less than

This filter can be helpful if you prefer to sell items that have a history of selling on Amazon. You may fill this in with any number you choose but remember that the higher number of reviews you may significantly lower the results you receive. Especially in certain categories.

Remove if Rating is lower than

This filter can be helpful if you want to stay away from poorly rated products. For example you may want to choose products with 3 stars or more. You may also use a decimal point. E.G. 3.2.

Remove if the Number of Sellers is less than

Omit items based on the number of people who sell that product. You might want, for example, to avoid any product sold by 100+ vendors. Too much competition, perhaps.

Leave the first field blank. Or add a small number if you want avoid products sold by too few people.

Remove if the Number of Sellers is less than  

If you don't want 50 or 100 sellers competing with you for the Buy Box, you may want to add a threshold amount here, you are willing to accept, such as 50 for example.

Remove Products with a Source Price of Less Than

Use this filter to set minimum and maximum product prices.

• Can you make money selling a $7 product on this channel? Probably not.
• Do you have the budget to buy $500 items? Oh yeah? You're crushing it, but not everybody is playing at that level.

Use this filter to set a price range that matches your business plan and budget.

1. In the first field, exclude source products priced lower than your floor target.
2. In the second field, exclude source products priced higher than your ceiling target

Remove Products with an Amazon Price of Less Than

Use this filter to set minimum and maximum prices for products sold on Amazon.

This filter is similar to Step 12 above. The difference here is that you are setting a sales price range. 

1. In the first field, exclude products sold on Amazon priced lower than your floor target.
2. In the second field, exclude products sold on Amazon priced higher than your ceiling target.

Remove if current Amazon price is outside the price range of % of Average of Trailing Days

This option is great if you're looking for items with relatively stable pricing. You can choose to remove items priced outside of historical ranges.

For Seasonal Buy Box Prices in Calculations, use Average Price Date Range

For Calculating Seasonal Trends - such as what books sold for last May, for example. 

Remove Products if Amazon Title Contain The Word(s)

Sometimes a search based on UPC will generate juicy results with mouthwatering profit margins on a single product. Then reality hits you like a hockey puck. The Amazon price is for a product bundle or a 3+1 item. Ouch.

A good way to avoid this type of pain is to filter out a few keywords in the title. Good keywords to filter include:

• bundle
• pack
• set
• count

1. Enter a keyword in the field.
2. Add new word separated by a comma or space.

Remove Products Containing The Brand(s)

This filter works well when you're doing a promo search. Say, for example, a toy store has a 20% sale on kid's toys excluding Lego.

Your interest is finding hidden gems, so you run a search and exclude Lego products. You already know it's not part of the sale. Your search will run a bit faster and you'll save time by excluding Lego items in the search results.

1. Enter a brand name in the field.
2. Add new word separated by a comma or space.

Remove Product if Amazon Buy Box Is Not At Least 

This filter tells the algorithm you need a minimum ratio between the source buy price and the sell price in Amazon's Buy Box.

Say, for example, the target buy price is $10 and you set a factor of 1.7 in the Remove field. That means the search results page will include products with an Amazon Buy Box price of $17 or higher. If the Amazon Buy Box price is less, that product is not included in your search results. 

Like all algorithms, and every person with a Manichean worldview, there is no gray area. As a result, a product that sells in the Buy Box for $16.99 (i.e. one cent under the $17 threshold) is removed from the search results.

Remove if Amazon has Been in Stock % or more, over the Last Days