Feature

Amazon Sourcing Picks — Top ASINs to Buy and Resell

Daily-refreshed list of the highest-scoring ASINs in every Amazon category, ranked by a 6-dimension composite Sourcing Score. Skip the spreadsheet — start with the picks.

How it works

We score every tracked ASIN every day, then surface the ones worth your time.

Sourcing on Amazon is a numbers problem. Roughly nine million ASINs sit inside the top BSR ranks across the catalog, and the slice that actually makes sense for a third-party reseller is small — buybox not locked by Amazon, not brand-gated for new accounts, healthy seller distribution, stable price history, an honest margin once fees and inbound shipping are subtracted. Filtering that universe by hand means hundreds of tabs and a spreadsheet that goes stale the moment you stop refreshing.

Sourcing Picks runs that filter for you, every day. We pull fresh Amazon data on every tracked ASIN, run each one through the six dimensions of our Sourcing Score — demand, margin headroom, buybox stability, seller competition, brand control posture, and price-history risk — then publish a ranked list of the top opportunities in each category. The list refreshes overnight so what you see in the morning reflects yesterday's close, not last month's snapshot.

Every pick links straight to a deeper view: a per-ASIN evaluation page that breaks down each score component, a Walmart counterpart match where one exists, and the full seller history so you can see who else has been on the listing and how long they've held the buybox. You can move from list to verdict in a few clicks instead of jumping between five external tools.

Why a curated list

The bottleneck isn't finding ASINs. It's finding the right ones.

Most sourcing tools give you a search box and a download button. You end up with a CSV of ten thousand SKUs and no way to tell which ten you should actually buy. The tools that try to score products usually use a single metric — sales velocity, or estimated margin, or seller count — and miss the interactions that decide whether an ASIN is profitable in practice.

A picks-first approach inverts that. Instead of asking you to filter, we publish the short list. The score behind each pick is transparent and decomposable, so when you disagree with a ranking you can see exactly which dimension dragged it up or down and form your own judgment. The list is opinionated by design — it's easier to reject a pick than to build a shortlist from zero every morning.

Who it's for
  • New resellers building a first SKU list and trying to skip the months of pattern-recognition that experienced sourcers take for granted.
  • Established Amazon sellers diversifying into adjacent categories where their gut isn't calibrated yet.
  • Sourcing teams running daily buying decisions who need a single ranked list rather than a research project per analyst.
  • Wholesale and distributor reps targeting Amazon resellers and wanting to know which of their SKUs the market actually wants.
Per-tier availability
PlanWhat you get
Scout (free)Top 3 picks per category, 1 category at a time
SourcerFull ranked list, 1 category, daily refresh
Brand OwnerUp to 5 categories, full Sourcing Score breakdown
PortfolioUnlimited categories, API access, custom score weights

See the full pricing breakdown for limits and add-ons.

FAQ

How often does the picks list refresh?

Every 24 hours. Amazon's daily observation run lands overnight UTC and the score recomputes for every tracked ASIN before the morning. You see yesterday's close, not a stale snapshot.

Can I see why a particular ASIN was picked?

Yes. Every pick links to a per-ASIN page showing each of the six score dimensions and the inputs that drove them. If you disagree with the rank, you can see which inputs to challenge.

Are gated brands excluded?

By default, yes. Brand-restricted ASINs and Amazon-as-buybox listings are filtered out before the ranking. You can flip those filters off if you have approval to sell those brands and want them included.

Does it cover all Amazon categories?

The eight largest US categories at launch — Beauty, Health & Household, Grocery, Pet, Baby, Home, Kitchen, and Office. We add categories as our monitoring footprint expands.

Is there a Walmart equivalent?

Yes — see Walmart cross-marketplace match. Every Amazon pick that has a Walmart counterpart is linked, so you can compare both sides before sourcing.

Try it

Free during beta. Start with one category.

Sourcing Picks is included in the free Scout tier — pick one category, see the top three picks today, upgrade if you want the full ranked list.