Online arbitrage means forty checkouts a week and forty parcels chasing you from ten different carriers. Point them all at our Medley dock instead: each box gets matched to your buy list on arrival, price tags come off, FNSKUs go on, and your scattered purchases leave as one consolidated FBA shipment — while you stay at your desk finding the next deal.
The economics of OA reward breadth. Software scans thousands of listings, and the winning sellers buy small quantities across many stores — six units here, nine there, whatever the gap supports. The purchasing side of this scales with a browser tab.
The receiving side scales with your hallway. Every store ships separately, every order can split into multiple boxes, and retailers cancel lines without ceremony. By parcel thirty, "did the Kohl's order actually arrive complete?" is a genuine research project — and prepping from a living room caps how many deals you can say yes to.
Routing everything to our dock replaces the hallway with a ledger. The buy list you share is the source of truth; arrivals post against it, gaps stay visible, and cancelled or short lines surface while retailer support can still fix them. Meanwhile units move through de-stickering and labeling — for the full label workflow see our FNSKU page — and wait for consolidation.
Small-parcel intake mechanics live on our carton receiving page; here's what the OA-specific layer adds on top:
| OA friction point | What our desk does about it |
|---|---|
| Parcels from 10+ retailers weekly | One address; every box logged to your account on arrival day |
| Order-vs-delivery mystery | Buy-list matching at order level — opens, partials and gaps all visible |
| Clearance stickers on retail boxes | Tags, security labels and price flashes removed before labeling |
| Scuffed retail packaging | Bagged, wrapped or boxed where legitimate — never passing off used as new |
| Twenty micro-shipments into FBA | Purchases pooled and sent as fewer, fuller consolidated shipments |
That backlog is capital asleep. Redirect future orders to our dock and the matching starts clean; ship the garage here in one batch and we'll reconcile it against your records box by box.
Open lines on your buy list don't fade quietly here — anything expected but never received stays flagged, so cancellations and lost parcels get chased inside the retailer's claim window instead of after it.
The fastest way to torch an OA margin is a customer seeing what you paid. Every unit crosses a de-stickering bench before it's labeled — tags, markdowns and security strips all come off.
Consolidation fixes the drip: units pool under your account until a real shipment's worth exists, then go in as one build with box content data — fewer check-ins, better per-unit inbound math.
UPS, FedEx, USPS, LaserShip — every carrier's drop logged to your account the day it arrives, whatever store it came from.
Arrivals matched to order numbers on your shared list; partial deliveries, overages and no-shows surface automatically.
Each unit eyeballed at opening — damage, missing pieces and suspiciously used "new" items photographed and held for your call.
Retail pricing evidence removed, your FNSKU applied and scan-verified so the unit sells under your listing, not the store's UPC.
Poly bag, bubble or fresh box for tired retail packaging — with a hard line at misrepresenting condition. Bag rules live on our poly bagging page.
Pooled units built into fewer, fuller FBA sends on your trigger or threshold — the antidote to five-unit shipments.
At checkout you enter our Medley address and drop the order onto your shared buy list — that's your whole job.
Boxes trickle in over days; each is matched, opened, condition-checked and its line marked received.
Stickers off, FNSKU on, bag or wrap where needed — units move to the ready pool as they clear the bench.
At your threshold or say-so, the pool becomes a consolidated FBA shipment and reaches the carrier inside the 24–48 hour window.
You buy from retail sites — Walmart, Target, Kohl's, clearance events, wherever the spread is — and set our Medley warehouse as the delivery address. Parcels arrive over days from a dozen carriers, each gets matched to your buy list, checked, de-stickered, FNSKU-labeled and held. When enough units accumulate, everything consolidates into one FBA shipment instead of twenty tiny ones.
Your buy list is the anchor. Share it — a spreadsheet or export with order numbers, retailers, ASINs and expected quantities — and every parcel that hits our dock gets matched against it on arrival. You see what has landed, what's still in transit, and what a retailer quietly cancelled, without opening a single tracking page yourself.
Tracking numbers help but order numbers matter more. Retail labels usually show the order reference, which is how we tie a box to your list even when the carrier's tracking was never forwarded. Best practice: add each order to your shared list at purchase time, and the receiving match runs itself.
Very common — one order for six units arrives as three boxes across four days. Because matching runs at the order level, partial deliveries post against the same line until it's complete. The line stays open and visible, so a missing third box gets chased with the retailer while a claim is still possible, not discovered at shipment time.
Yes — clearance stickers, price tags, store security labels and "online exclusive" flashes all come off before your FNSKU goes on. A customer who pays full price and finds a clearance sticker underneath leaves the kind of review that follows the listing around. De-stickering is standard on every OA unit we touch.
Where it's legitimate, yes: we can poly bag, bubble-wrap or box items whose outer retail packaging is scuffed, or whose box has a printed price. What we won't do is disguise a used or shelf-worn item as new — if the product itself isn't new-condition, we flag it to you instead of dressing it up. That honesty protects your account far more than one recovered unit ever could.
Received units accumulate under your account until you say ship — or until a threshold you set is reached. Then everything prepped gets built into a single shipment with box content data and handed to the carrier. Fewer, fuller boxes into Amazon means lower inbound cost per unit and fewer partial check-ins to babysit.
It gets photographed and flagged the day it's opened, and it does not go to Amazon. You choose the move: return it to the retailer within their window, sell it another way, or have us dispose. Catching a used "new" item at our bench costs you one refund request; letting it reach a customer can cost the ASIN.
No minimums and no monthly commitment — OA volume swings with the deals, and billing is per unit, so a slow week costs you nothing. A three-parcel week and a hundred-parcel week run through the same receiving desk at the same per-unit rates.
Send the form with a sketch of your operation: roughly how many parcels a week, typical retailers, and whether you list before or after buying. We reply within one business day with per-unit pricing and your receiving instructions — then your next checkout just uses our Medley address.
Tell us your weekly parcel count and the stores you source from. Within one business day you'll have per-unit rates and a receiving address that scales with your deal flow — so the next flip is limited by your capital, not your floor space.
