KSA/Amazon.sa sellers — sanity-check my first toy import + SABER/MOQ questions?

I've been selling on Amazon.sa for about a year — mostly low-ASP items (puzzles, small gifts). Margins are razor-thin and I've realized higher-priced products are where the money actually is, so I'm sourcing my first "real" product: a magnetic building/road toy set from Alibaba.

Frankly, I feel like a failure.

Talking to a few suppliers and could use guidance from anyone who's imported to Saudi:

1. SABER/SASO — is it worth insisting on a supplier who handles SABER as part of DDP, or is it easier/cheaper to get it myself through a Saudi conformity body? What did you actually pay/do?

2. MOQ — suppliers quote 500 because of custom printed boxes. My plan is to start at ~200 with a standard box + logo sticker to test demand, then go custom on the reorder. Is that a normal way to get MOQ down, or am I missing a trick?

3. Certs for magnetic toys — anything beyond EN71 (with the magnet flux test) I should insist on for KSA?

4. Aged-inventory auto-removals nearly wiped out my best product — any FBA-KSA gotchas like that you wish you'd known early?

Anything you wish you'd known before your first import would help a lot. Thanks 🙏Title: KSA/Amazon.sa sellers — sanity-check my first toy import + SABER/MOQ questions?

I've been selling on Amazon.sa for about a year — mostly low-ASP items (puzzles, small gifts). Margins are razor-thin and I've realized higher-priced products are where the money actually is, so I'm sourcing my first "real" product: a magnetic building/road toy set from Alibaba.

Talking to a few suppliers and could use guidance from anyone who's imported to Saudi:

1. SABER/SASO — is it worth insisting on a supplier who handles SABER as part of DDP, or is it easier/cheaper to get it myself through a Saudi conformity body? What did you actually pay/do?

2. MOQ — suppliers quote 500 because of custom printed boxes. My plan is to start at ~200 with a standard box + logo sticker to test demand, then go custom on the reorder. Is that a normal way to get MOQ down, or am I missing a trick?

3. Certs for magnetic toys — anything beyond EN71 (with the magnet flux test) I should insist on for KSA?

4. Aged-inventory auto-removals nearly wiped out my best product — any FBA-KSA gotchas like that you wish you'd known early?

Anything you wish you'd known before your first import would help a lot. Thanks 🙏