Today
Online arbitrage
Retail is the supplier. The gap after fees is the product. If the gap dies on a reorder, it was never a business.
Online arbitrage → wholesale
BH North finds products priced wrong at retail and sells them where shoppers already are. Arbitrage pays for the learning. Wholesale is the business — invoices, repeats, fewer one-off carts.
Today
Retail is the supplier. The gap after fees is the product. If the gap dies on a reorder, it was never a business.
Next
Same categories. A brand or distributor invoice. A price you can buy again next month.
House rule
Under $3.00 or 25% ROI, we walk.
The model
01 · Hunt
Retail, clearance, mismatched packs. A product hits the sheet only if the sell price still works after referral fees, fulfillment, and a return buffer.
02 · Prove
Small first order. If it sells clean — no complaint, no crash — reorder. If it doesn’t, stop. Arbitrage is data, not a personality.
03 · Graduate
When a brand will sell direct, stop chasing carts. Buy on a purchase order. That is the handoff from arbitrage to wholesale.
The path
Arbitrage shows what moves and at what price. That history is the only pitch a brand should take seriously.
Resale certificate, EIN, a clean seller account, and a one-page sheet of what you already move.
Write with units sold, the price you can pay, and how you ship. Ask for a line sheet. Take the minimum even if it’s ugly.
Once a purchase order lands and sells through, stop hunting that item at retail. Arbitrage stays on for new products. Wholesale carries the repeats.
Lanes
Not everything with a coupon is a product. Pick a lane. The pass rule is the point.
Pass rule · Home
Pass on glass-heavy, oversized, or anything one bad review from a return spike.
The desk
Referral is the marketplace cut — 15% is a common default, not your category. Fulfillment is FBA or your ship cost, per unit. Returns, storage, and your time are not in this math.
After fees
Buy$7.59
profit per unit
Clears $6.00 profit and 40% ROI. Buy bar is $6.00 and 40%. Floor is $3.00 and 25%.
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Opening your sheet…
For brands
BH North is a reseller moving from online arbitrage into wholesale. We buy what already sells, at a price we can reorder. We are not looking for a coaching call.
We don’t take restricted brands we can’t get approved for, listing games, or closeouts that can’t be reordered. Those stay in arbitrage or they don’t get bought.
Opening the log…