Letter to Greg Mercer of Jungle Scout

Hi Greg and Jungle Crew,

 

I'm writing to let you know that you may be saving the tiger, and other beautiful creatures of the jungle...and I know how much you love the jungle. By saving the wild cats of our planet's jungles it saves the entire eco-system for all wildlife there.  Those jungles, in turn, provide the oxygen we all need to survive; so maybe I should start by saying you saved my life ;-)

 

Here's how you are doing it:

 

Through the amazing tools, like Jungle Scout and the Chrome extensions, Jump Send, and others that I want to use, like Splitly and Fetcher you are providing tools that will make it easier for me to raise funds to protect, and awareness about, the plight of tigers (who have seen a decline in wild populations of 96.8% in just the last 20 years).

 

I've hungrily devoured every podcast, google hangout, or line of text I could find about your products and am up to episode 15 in the #MillionDollarCaseStudy Your excellent content, delivery and guests have made it possible for me to navigate areas of SellerCentral that I didn't even know existed even after watching every one of the Amazon University videos.

 

Big Cat Rescue is the leading 501c3 non profit sanctuary in the efforts to end the trade in exotic cats as pets, props and parts.  There are only a handful of accredited sanctuaries that rescue lions, tigers and other wild cats; mostly from the pet trade.  Those cats end up in the pet trade when they hit 12 weeks of age and are no longer cute and cuddly photo props.  We are home to about 70 such cats, but we can't rescue our way out of this crisis.

 

Ending the captive trade is critical to saving the cats in the wild, because the legal (yes, it's actually legal in most places to pay $40 for a USDA exhibiter permit and have a tiger) trade provides a smokescreen for illegal poaching.  In the U.S. if someone is caught with tiger teeth, or skins all they have to do is say it was their pet.  End of investigation.

 

What sets Big Cat Rescue apart is that we are part of a Big Cat Coalition that is leading the efforts to ban the private possession of big cats via the Big Cat Public Safety Act HR 1818.  See BigCatAct.com

 

So, what are YOU doing to protect tigers?

 

You are helping me create another revenue stream, and a way to reach people on Amazon who might not have any idea how dire the situation is for big cats.  We have to raise almost 4 million dollars a year to take care of our 70+ cats and fund our efforts in education and advocacy.  We've done that for the past 25 years through a combination of donations, visitor revenue and sales from our onsite and online gift shop at BigCatRescue.biz  There is no government funding for this work.

 

My goal is to build the Amazon business, using all of your grrrreat (could not help myself) advice.  I just had my first shipment from China to FBA initiated and am working on my second.  A bit a of hiccup on the second one as Amazon decided that Tiger's Eye bracelets are fine jewelry, so they are requiring a $5000 application fee.

 

I think they will waive it though as we are one of the 13 charities they are featuring on Prime Day tomorrow in their Smile.Amazon push.  We get about $3500 a month from a large number of our 2.2 million FB fans using Smile.Amazon.com on our behalf.

 

If I can grow the Amazon FBA business large enough, then I intend to duplicate the efforts for my other business at CatRescue.biz  It is a for profit business so that I can take all of my after tax profits there to donate to the politicians who can push our federal bill through and into law.  The bill will end 99% of the abuse in this country and hopefully in time to save the last remaining tigers in the wild. Non profits can donate to advocacy, and we spend the limit allowed by the IRS each year, but non profits cannot donate directly to politicians, so that's why I started up CatRescue.biz this year.

 

I've owned a multimillion dollar real est