Do I need to sell the product to simulate it?

No. Paste the ASIN of any Amazon product: yours, a competitor's or one you only plan to sell.

Does the simulation change anything in my account or on Amazon?

No. It is only a simulation: nothing is saved or sent to Amazon, and the Apply button does not appear.

Why was the selling price not filled in?

Looking up the current price on Amazon is best effort and does not always return a value. In that case the screen tells you and you type the selling price to calculate.

Is the margin shown the real one?

Only after you enter your own cost. Without it, the screen uses the account's default COGS as an estimate, so the margin is not inflated.

Simulate Pricing for Any Amazon ASIN

Want to know whether a competitor's product, or something you have your eye on, is worth selling before you buy the stock? In EcomVision's Pricing, the Product (ASIN) field now accepts the ASIN of any Amazon product, even one your account does not sell. The calculator shows what is left from each sale across the 4 fulfillment methods: FBM, DBA, FBA Onsite and FBA.

What changed

Before, Pricing could only simulate the products already in your Costs list. To test a new product, you had to build the math in a spreadsheet. Now you paste the ASIN and EcomVision runs the simulation, with the same 4 fulfillment cards as the calculator.

How to simulate an ASIN you don't sell

In the menu, open Finance › Pricing, Calculator tab.
Click Product (ASIN) and paste the product's ASIN (or type it).
Below the field, Simulate ASIN B0… appears, with the caption a product you do not sell. Click it or press Enter.
The field now shows the ASIN with the tag product outside your catalog, and the calculator fields open.
Fill in what is missing (selling price, cost and dimensions) and read the FBM, DBA, FBA Onsite and FBA cards.

Pricing Product (ASIN) field with a pasted ASIN and the Simulate ASIN option below it, captioned a product you do not sell — When you paste an ASIN your account does not sell, the Simulate ASIN option appears, with the caption a product you do not sell.

Product (ASIN) field with the tag product outside your catalog and the simulation notice, which says there is no Apply button because the product is not in your Costs — A product outside your catalog comes with a simulation notice. In this demo, Amazon did not return the current price, so the screen asks for the selling price (demo account, fictional data).

Where the numbers come from

Selling price: EcomVision looks up the product's current price on Amazon. If it cannot, the screen tells you and you type the price.
Referral fee and FBA fee: estimated by Amazon for that ASIN at that price. If Amazon does not estimate the fees, the screen warns that the lines that depend on them stay partial.
Weight and dimensions: come from Amazon's catalog. If it only has the dimensions of the unpacked item, not the shipping package, the screen warns you: correct them if the product compresses for shipping.
Cost (COGS): since the product is not in Costs, the screen uses the account's default COGS as an estimate. Enter your own cost to see a real margin.

Fees, logistics, tax and margin are calculated just as for your own products.

What does not exist in this mode

Since the product is not in your Costs, there is nowhere to save the choice. So:

The Apply button does not appear.
Change on Amazon does not either, because it only exists for products in your account (see Change your Amazon price straight from the Pricing calculator).
Nothing is saved or sent to Amazon: it is only a simulation.

When to use it

Before buying the first batch: compare FBM, DBA, FBA Onsite and FBA at the price you plan to charge.
To understand a competitor: see what would be left for you selling a similar product at their price.
To choose between candidates: simulate several ASINs, one after the other, and keep the one with the best margin.

To decide what to simulate, also see how to validate a product before manufacturing it.

Simulate pricing for any Amazon ASIN, even a product you don't sell