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?
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An example of over filtering may be - Remove Ranks over 50,000 and also using Remove Gross Profit of less than $5
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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.
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Both extremely good products.
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What should I use?
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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.

The Remove panel has 17 filters. Each filter is described briefly below.
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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.

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

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.

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.

This handly little filter is great for if you want to avoid much competition. If there is more than a certain number of competitors jostling for position for the Buy Box within a set % range (set this on the View Data page), then it might be a difficult sell.
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However, using this filter and selecting a very low number means you should have a better chance of owning that Buy Box when you come to sell.

Some big retailers rely on third party sellers. The retailer lets other companies sell stuff inside their marketplace. Walmart, for instance, works with third party sellers.

Some Tactical Arbitrage users prefer not to deal with the quality control of third party sellers. This filter enables that choice.

Products are classified by size. Standard products fit into regular boxes. Oversize items are sometimes are hard to handle, expensive to send in to Amazon and prep houses usually charge more to deal with these.

If your preference is to only sell Standard size packages and don't like oversize, use this filter.  

Self explanatory, isn't it? 

However keep in mind, that an Out of Stock item can be Saved to a Save folder and tracked with the Auto Update & Alerts feature in Settings, so it can be useful to still see these.

On occasion, weight and size data are not available for Amazon products. 

Missing weight and size data is a chaotic. Without that information, we can't accurately calculate Amazon fees exactly, and we mark the cell in a red tint.

Here's you chance to avoid competing directly with the behemoth. Some people don't mind selling the same product as Amazon, while others get weak-kneed.
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Set the minimum number of product reviews. A low number of reviews might indicate a problem product. Does that interpretation apply in all cases? Probably not.

You might want to include this filter in your searches.
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Set the minimum product rating score. If products have a low rating - say 3 out of 5 stars or less - you could be looking at a dud. 

If you sell low quality products, you won't be delivering a positive buying experience, your rating could go down, and you might find yourself spending time dealing with customer complaints. Why bother?

Use this filter to set minimum and maximum product prices.

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

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. 

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:

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.
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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.

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