The best thing to do is pay for shipping from thailand to amazon instead of having them ship to you, amazon gets discount on shipping but I also had my supplier ship it to them with my UPC code on product because if you buy enough shipping is free, but if its your first time, you might want to send some samples to yourself first to see how it looks before sending it straight to amazon
Anyone do fba on here?
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The best thing to do is pay for shipping from thailand to amazon instead of having them ship to you, amazon gets discount on shipping but I also had my supplier ship it to them with my UPC code on product because if you buy enough shipping is free, but if its your first time, you might want to send some samples to yourself first to see how it looks before sending it straight to amazon
amazon can restrict your account at any time though, better to use amazon to get the ball rolling and use shopify for your own website, and just pay for ads for your website, because you still have to buy ads on amazon if you want to sell anything
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Yeah. I know many ppl on that fukk amazon route that did that.
I was a lazy teenager so I wasn’t doing all that extra work. Some say it’s better to be the 15th best seller on amazon than it is to be the best seller on your own Shopify.
Ppl been debating that for a decade now. It’s up to each individual person and the time you want to commit imo
Yeah. I know many ppl on that fukk amazon route that did that.
I was a lazy teenager so I wasn’t doing all that extra work. Some say it’s better to be the 15th best seller on amazon than it is to be the best seller on your own Shopify.
Ppl been debating that for a decade now. It’s up to each individual person and the time you want to commit imo
Yeah until the water gets cut off, other sellers will sabotage your page, or amazon will under cut themselves and start selling the same product you are selling at a cheaper price you can't compete with
I’ll leave it at this. There’s a reason amazon shark charges $250 a month and others don’t.
I still know ppl in the weeds daily that have moved from their mamas basement to having multiple warehouses. Everyone says amazon shark is #1 and I agree
helium 10 is 400 a month with all the features, it does way more than amazon shark literally does every thing amazon shark does and has a ton more tools but whatever works for you works for you
I ain't gonna sell nikkaz dreams either, too make money with this shyt, you need at least 10 grand to start, I don't know about going from your mama basement to owning warehouses, but you can make an income stream, I mean at the end day you gotta find a way to compete, it ain't no blueprint
all them classes are scams
300 a month extra is good tho. I would not mind at all earning an extra 300 a month putting in 3 or 4 hours of my time.
My problem was you hear alot of stories of grand wins and I felt like people were just selling dreams. Whenever you meet someone who's been in this for a while they always say they used to make very good money but then stopped, and I'm just thinking ok then I'm meant to believe you were making 70K a year but decided to stop and go back to working a regular job?
Or they give you second hand accounts of someone they know of or a friend of a friend who made hundreds of thousands or millions. All sound liketo me. People love to mark up how much they really making when it comes to stuff like this.
Because it's not as easy as it sounds because a lot of people are doing so its hard to compete.
I can tell how to get some shyt for free and you can just try out flipping products you buy on amazon on amazon, sounds easy right, still not has easy, but its good practice.
At the end of day you're gonna have to create a unique product nobody else is saying your own brand give the design to one of those manufactures in china to make the mold, and then patent it, that why nobody else can sell your product on amazon. So thats a lot of work but its possible
AlwaysLurkin
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Yea can't lie..do feel like my mentor does some flexing lol300 a month extra is good tho. I would not mind at all earning an extra 300 a month putting in 3 or 4 hours of my time.
My problem was you hear alot of stories of grand wins and I felt like people were just selling dreams. Whenever you meet someone who's been in this for a while they always say they used to make very good money but then stopped, and I'm just thinking ok then I'm meant to believe you were making 70K a year but decided to stop and go back to working a regular job?
Or they give you second hand accounts of someone they know of or a friend of a friend who made hundreds of thousands or millions. All sound like
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That makes sense..gotta research that..I wanna get ungated for toys and dvds..guess that would be a good way to do it?
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What were you selling if you don't mind me asking? I've been researching fba for a minute but I don't know where to start myself as far as products I wanna push out.
I think @BlackPearl The Empress use to do this.
Yep. If you’re prepared to do so now. It’s quicker to pay for an account. Always have atleast one backup account once you pass 50k in total sales.
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I’ll gladly share. I started off on eBay.
I started off in t shirts with sayings on them.
Expanded into do it yourself kits to fix the Xbox red ring of death. Like this Xbox 360 Red Ring of Death Fix Kit
At the time these were going for $50 and cost $12 from China.
Then there was a craze within the skate board community for these short skate boards.Penny board - Wikipedia
After I researched some more and decided amazon was a bigger market. (Ppl back then thought eBay would eventually crush them lol)
My cousin who grew up in the country took me to a hunting shop, I saw knives that were like $50-$250 dollars.
Looked em up and realized i could sell off branded ones for half the price same quality. Found a company producing them for an actual us based knife company doing the same thing and just putting a logo on them when they got to America.
My cousin helped me understand what ppl wanted in knives.
Paid $200 for a small order. Flipped them within 4 hours on amazon for $1500. Reinvested $500 of that in an another order and the rest is history.
Small little niche that made me hundreds of thousands of dollars.
They cost me $20 and I sold them for $100-$150.
I broke off my cousin $1000 bc he helped me understand the market. He started selling off brand workout dvds that were the same types of workouts like p90x. He made about $20k but he wasn’t into like that.
I started fukking this hippy black chick and she had all these items she’d have to perform at festivals.
I sold performance wands like this
They sell for $40 and cost $5. You sell just 10 a day that’s $350 in profit before shipping.
I know a black girl that was doing it too selling silk colored Durags for $25 getting them for $3-4. Bought herself a high rise apartment cash. But she got loud stunting on Twitter
and told ppl what she did. They undercut her and now she’s gotta find a new product.Ppl think that they need to find an item everyone will buy. That’s not the case. The best people I’ve seen that have made tons of money starting from nothing find products for 1-5% of the population.
You gotta find a niche. Everyone’s not going to buy a knife or durag in their lifetime but those markets still make millions a year. Find a niche! Start looking at little stuff in your daily life that no one else would think about selling.
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