Coli Brehs Who Need A Side Hustle: Let Me Put You Up On Game With Amazon FBA

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good post bro... I dropship on eBay & Amazon and do a little FBA as well... My thing with hitting retail/liquidation stores on FBA sometimes its a shyt load of scanning before you find shyt for good profits. How many hours do you put in scanning and sourcing products and all that?
 

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I don't understand how this works. So you go to the store, and scan a UPC, and then it shows up that it is wanted on Amazon, you buy it and then ship it?

Cause I don't want to buy a bunch of shyt I am not going to use.
 

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Tried it, since reading on misc bodybuilding forums. Haven't made much profits.

Haven't tried in over a year. It is straight forward tho. Maybe I had a bad few items.
 

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Ok so let's say we just want to sell stuff period, not necessarily doing the FBA thing.

How much money would you have to save to start getting inventory and selling products on sites such as on eBay and etsy?

I'm thinking that gently used clothes bought from a thrift store could be a good hustle.
 

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good post bro... I dropship on eBay & Amazon and do a little FBA as well... My thing with hitting retail/liquidation stores on FBA sometimes its a shyt load of scanning before you find shyt for good profits. How many hours do you put in scanning and sourcing products and all that?
Only a couple hours a week, on Thursdays. You're right, sometimes you go a long time without getting any wins. And sometimes you hit a bunch of wins. It all depends.

Hitting up manufacturers for wholesale lots of their product might be my next move, I'm still mulling it over.
I know. I found out last year. I was literally sending 4 boxes in everyday and as soon as it was checked in it was all gone. It was bananas.
What category were you in? I got an email from AMZ today talking about their requirements to sell Toys/Games in Q4.

Ok so let's say we just want to sell stuff period, not necessarily doing the FBA thing.

How much money would you have to save to start getting inventory and selling products on sites such as on eBay and etsy?

I'm thinking that gently used clothes bought from a thrift store could be a good hustle.
I do a little bit of that myself, you can get started with that for less than $100. The grind of reselling thrift store finds is that you have to go through a lot of bullshyt to find sellable shyt but I have grown to enjoy the hunt of it. It's also a little tedious measuring/photographing/storing everything but it can definitely be worth it once you start getting sales.
 

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Only a couple hours a week, on Thursdays. You're right, sometimes you go a long time without getting any wins. And sometimes you hit a bunch of wins. It all depends.

Hitting up manufacturers for wholesale lots of their product might be my next move, I'm still mulling it over.

What category were you in? I got an email from AMZ today talking about their requirements to sell Toys/Games in Q4.


I do a little bit of that myself, you can get started with that for less than $100. The grind of reselling thrift store finds is that you have to go through a lot of bullshyt to find sellable shyt but I have grown to enjoy the hunt of it. It's also a little tedious measuring/photographing/storing everything but it can definitely be worth it once you start getting sales.[/QUOTE
I sold a ton of groceries, toys, books, games, electonics and household goods. I am still selling stuff from last Christmas.:pachaha:
 

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E commerce is the move. IMO its the best side hustle, once you get flowing with it and find some good products to sell its damn near like passive income. I've sold stuff on Amazon before but I mainly fukk with Ebay, Instagram and Etsy. On a bad month I may pull in a rack, a good month maybe 3. I couldn't live off of it, but its really good side money and it doesn't take up a lot of my time. You gotta stay with it though, I crapped out a few times on there--got burned by buyers, had accounts shut down, Paypal issues...etc. But a nikka stayed on the grind and after about a year I got the hang of it. I don't care if you got a 9-5 or if you a hustler like me, everyone should fukk with some form of ecommerce. Too much money on the internet not to
 

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I would recommend Terapeak if anyone wants to do really good product research. I use it for my Ebay account and it has been invaluable. You can also research competitors which has helped immensely.

GoDaddy has really good book keeping software that automatically keeps track of your Ebay and Amazon sales. It makes doing your taxes a breeze.

Also if you wanna to build your social media accounts up check out Mass Planner. You can thank me later for that one.

You can also get business loans for PayPal and they base it off the income of your business. I would look into it if you are serious about 4th quarter.
 

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Only a couple hours a week, on Thursdays. You're right, sometimes you go a long time without getting any wins. And sometimes you hit a bunch of wins. It all depends.

Hitting up manufacturers for wholesale lots of their product might be my next move, I'm still mulling it over.

What category were you in? I got an email from AMZ today talking about their requirements to sell Toys/Games in Q4.


I do a little bit of that myself, you can get started with that for less than $100. The grind of reselling thrift store finds is that you have to go through a lot of bullshyt to find sellable shyt but I have grown to enjoy the hunt of it. It's also a little tedious measuring/photographing/storing everything but it can definitely be worth it once you start getting sales.
are people just buying name brand clothes?
 
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