Dropshipping On Amazon

... of life for dropshippers on Amazon. Over the past two years... about the difficulty of doing dropshipping and meeting Amazon expectations. It was (and... the price for that decision. Amazon is NOT a 'forgive and ...

... from multiple ones? And does Amazon have all of the locations... as your business locations? If Amazon suddenly sees packages coming from... flag that might trigger a dropshipping complaint, even if the paperwork...

... and are just ordering from Amazon whenever they get an eBay... from Amazon. Stock photos is a good hint they are dropshipping. Sellers... set to private, probably dropshipping from Amazon or other retail sites. There's...

Dropshipping with amazon or shopify easy way

@kentuckygranny wrote: What, if anything, can I do about this? Check the sellers feedback, a lot of times there will be hints there they are dropshipping from Amazon or Walmart. Like: Order was delivered the next day. Order was delivered on Sunday. Order come in an Amazon package. Leave negative feedback for them.

@kentuckygranny wrote: What, if anything, can I do about this? Check the sellers feedback, a lot of times there will be hints there they are dropshipping from Amazon or Walmart. Like: Order was delivered the next day. Order was delivered on Sunday. Order come in an Amazon package. Leave negative feedback for them.

dropshipping？我都是买了然后线下卖 ebay 賣東西, 用 amazon 做 dropship 的問題點 Dropshipping from Amazon to an eBay store violates eBay’s Terms and Services.

... vs diye sallamış. aynı haltı amazon dropshipping diye bir kitleye daha yedirdiler...

... MC999 one of you other amazon / Temu dropshipping accounts? If so then...

Mon coup de gueule visait surtout les vendeurs obscurs sortis de nulle part sur Amazon ou Cdiscount, avec très peu d'avis, où le risque de contrefaçon ou de dropshipping est énorme. Il faudrait peut-être juste un tri plus strict de la part des modos sur l'ancienneté du vendeur tiers.

... boutique, better fits are: Wholesale / dropshipping partnerships (you sell inventory) Collab... influencers or brands Marketplace selling (Amazon, Etsy, etc.) Running your own...

.... Unfortunately you are done on Amazon. there are too many doubtful... - high suspicion of doing dropshipping You will never be able... all these requirements. Just forget Amazon.

Mais ça n'arrive a voir tu achète du Xiaomi sur ali express amazon ou encore Cdiscount et c'est pas du dropshipping ilf aut pas raconter n'importe quoi que tu note -1 car la promo tu la trouve pas ouf ok mais dire que c'est du dropshipping c'est n'importe quoi. Bref encore un monsieur je sais tout !

... trouvé à 15€ sur Amazon (sûrement du dropshipping), donc trouvable à même... pense sur Ali: - Amazon 15€: amazon.fr/dp/…SVQ - AliExpress...

... product. To make matters worse, Amazon is rewarding them with the... their response was the typical Amazon Seller Support line: they told... be fake! These sellers are dropshipping from my own FBA inventory... the product is technically "authentic," Amazon says there is no problem...

Dear Amazon, Hope you are doing great ... unknowingly violated the policies of amazon , as I donot have any..., I did not do any dropshipping , hijacking and my account has... health. it was fullfilled by Amazon (FBA) and the product did...

.... I have never engaged in dropshipping. I have attached the case... it and escalate it to Amazon for internal review. Case ID: ...

... after they are opened while Amazon verifies your information so unless... a Section 3 violation for dropshipping anyone responding needs to see... for IP, RA, OA or dropshipping you will NOT get the ...

... días hábiles** son típicos de dropshipping desde Asia, no de stock....) tienes PcComponentes, MediaMarkt, Amazon España con vendedor Amazon, El Corte Inglés. Pagas...

Cita de Danido Que harias con 40k en el banco muerto de risa cuando: - no es suficiente para meterte a una hipoteca tu solo en gran ciudad. - como esta el mundo y el valor tan alto en bolsa da miedo en invertir en esta o criptos. - no como mcdonals Ecommerce, primero mediante dropshipping, luego mediante almacenamiento propio y al final amazon

Expédié par amazon avec date de réception à jeudi, pas du dropshipping

I’ve been selling on Amazon for a while now sourcing products in bulk from China and selling them in the US. It’s been working but I’ve been thinking about just starting a dropshipping store instead and building something more on my own. I feel like it would be better for me and potentially be more profitable long term, but I’m not fully sure how different this is compared to what I’m doing now. What are the main things I should be focusing on when starting a dropshipping store? What changes the most when you move away from marketplaces and run your own store? submitted by /u/Cheap-Application143 to r/dropship [link] [comments]

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I'm gonna save some of you months of wasted effort. Between 2024 and now I tried basically everything this sub recommends. Dropshipping, print on demand, affiliate blogs, YouTube automation, crypto staking, selling courses, selling templates, KDP books, Etsy digital products, stock photography, and a few I'm probably forgetting. I tracked every single one. Hours spent, money in, money out. No rounding up, no "potential revenue," just actual dollars that hit my bank account. Here's the honest breakdown. COMPLETE WASTE OF TIME Dropshipping. Spent about $2,400 on ads and product testing over 4 months. Made $900 in revenue. Net loss of $1,500 not counting the 200+ hours. The margins are a lie unless you find a winning product fast and most people never do. Every guru showing Shopify dashboards is selling you the course, not the method. YouTube automation. Hired freelancers to make faceless videos. Spent $3,000 on editors and voiceover. Channel got monetized after 8 months. Monthly revenue settled at about $120. Would take 2 years to break even. Cancelled everything. Stock photography. Uploaded 300+ photos to multiple platforms over 6 months. Total earnings after a year: $47. The market is flooded and AI image generators killed whatever was left. Affiliate blog. Wrote 60 articles targeting low competition keywords. Got decent traffic after 6 months. Made $400 total in affiliate commissions over a year. Then a Google update wiped half my traffic overnight. Never recovered. BROKE EVEN (not worth the effort) Print on demand. Made about $2,200 over 8 months on Redbubble and Merch by Amazon. But I spent easily 300 hours on designs, listings, and keyword research. That's roughly $7/hour. Minimum wage is better and you don't have to stare at Canva. KDP low content books. Published 15 journals and planners. Made about $800 over a year. Most of it came from 2 books. The other 13 made almost nothing. The winners were ultra specific. The losers were generic. Crypto staking. Put $5,000 in various staking protocols. Made about $600 in a year in staking rewards. But the tokens I staked dropped 30% in value. Net loss when you factor in the price decline. "Passive income" that loses money isn't passive income. ACTUALLY WORKED Etsy digital products (specific ones). This is the only thing that consistently made money relative to the time invested. But here's what nobody tells you: 90% of digital products on Etsy make zero sales. The ones that work are insanely specific. My first 8 products were generic. Meal planners, budget trackers, habit journals. Total sales in 3 months: 4 units, about $30. Then I made a symptom tracker specifically for people with Hashimoto's thyroid disease. Sold 12 units in the first month at $17 each. Made another one for IBS meal planning with FODMAP categories. Sold 8 units first month. The difference was not the design, not the price, not the SEO. It was that when someone with Hashimoto's searched Etsy and found a product made specifically for their condition, they bought it immediately because nothing else existed. I now have 6 products in specific health and parenting niches. Monthly revenue is between $400 and $700 depending on the month. Time spent maintaining: about 2 hours a month updating tags and responding to the occasional message. That's the closest thing to actual passive income I've found. WHAT I LEARNED The stuff that works has three things in common. First, low creation time relative to revenue. If it takes 100 hours to make and earns $500 a year, you lost. If it takes 5 hours and earns $200 a year, you won. Second, a specific audience that feels underserved. Generic products compete with 50,000 listings. Specific products compete with 3. The math is obvious but most people still make generic stuff because it feels safer. Third, a platform with built in traffic. Etsy, Amazon, Gumroad. You don't need followers, you don't need ads, you don't need a personal brand. The platform brings the buyers. You just need to be there when they search. The biggest lie in the passive income space is that you need to "scale." You don't. Six products making $80 a month each is $480/month for basically zero ongoing work. That's not life changing money but it's real money that shows up every month without you doing anything. And you can build that in a few weekends if you pick the right niches. Stop trying to build the next big thing. Find 5 specific problems that specific people have and make a simple structured product that solves each one. That's it. That's the whole strategy. What's worked for you guys? Curious if anyone else landed on the same conclusion or found something different. *Edit: Since many asked in comments and DMs how I find specific niches, I posted my approach in a comment below. submitted by /u/Existing-Ice221 to r/passive_income [link] [comments]

Here is the list of business ideas that actually work right now. Tiktok Shop for trending products. This is the latest dropshipping variant for people 18+ in the US. You create your store dropshipping on tiktok’s platform and sell by creating content or spending on ads. UGC Creator. There are a lot of businesses paying creators to market their business on TikTok, Instagram, and they pay you by the number of views you get. If you are good at being on camera, this is a solid way to make some extra money. AI Website Themes. Use Claude or Wiz and design websites using AI. You don't need coding knowledge as AI is getting really good at design, but copywriting skills are needed. Personalize the website to a business and sell it to them. If they decline, put it on Shopify theme's or tweak it for another business. Niche language tutor. If you’re fluent in uncommon languages you can sell tutoring and conversation practice on your own website/business or on preply or another tutoring platform. Podcast/Long-Form Repurposing. Find a podcast without a channel that posts short videos or isn’t good at short video creation. Edit the videos and post them on youtube, tiktok, instagram reels, and other social media platforms. Make money by charging a fee for the amount of shorts and by getting commission on the revenue the short generates. Pinterest affiliate. Choose a niche and repurpose/mock up images from other social media accounts and post it on Pinterest. Drive traffic to an affiliate offer or your own website. Online newsletter for your city. Write about your local city or area and events and important information for people living in your city. Get sponsored by local businesses and run ads that geo-target your area on Facebook or Instagram. Ultra-specific how to E-books. Write it with a semi-professional in that niche and use AI to help make the outlines and structure. Rank your book on the long keyword on google and Amazon so you get warm leads seeing your book. Repeat for many different e-books in the same niche. E-learning packs for teachers. This isn't new but still has potential. Teachers buy pre-made worksheets and slides. Use TeachersPayTeachers or Etsy. If you can make aesthetic slides in Canva and create informative and interesting worksheets this is a great option. Closing Thoughts These ideas may not work for you, but I have seen it work for others. Execution > Idea. If you want my LIST of 150+ Business Ideas and info on growing your business, then upvote this post and let me know in the comments by saying "interested" and I'll DM you it. This list has 150+ of the latest side hustles and business that work sorted by type, startup cost, difficulty level, money potential, and growth factors. Now go start!! submitted by /u/Flashy_Point_210 to r/BusinessDeconstructed [link] [comments]

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I scraped 33k+ comments from YouTube, Reddit, X, Tiktok, and hundreds of smaller websites to find the best business ideas in 2025. Service Business Ideas AI Website Themes. Use Claude or Wiz and design websites using AI. You don't need coding knowledge as AI is getting really good at design, but copywriting skills are needed. Personalize the website to a business and sell it to them. If they decline, put it on Shopify theme's or tweak it for another business. Niche language tutor. If you’re fluent in uncommon languages you can sell tutoring and conversation practice on your own website/business or on preply or another tutoring platform. Podcast/Long-Form Repurposing. Find a podcast without a channel that posts short videos or isn’t good at short video creation. Edit the videos and post them on youtube, tiktok, instagram reels, and other social media platforms. Make money by charging a fee for the amount of shorts and by getting commission on the revenue the short generates. Niche Pinterest affiliate. Choose a niche and repurpose/mock up images from other social media accounts and post it on Pinterest. Drive traffic to an affiliate offer or your own website. E-Commerce Ideas Online newsletter for your city. Write about your local city or area and events and important information for people living in your city. Get sponsored by local businesses and run ads that geo-target your area on Facebook or Instagram. Tiktok Shop for trending products. This is the latest dropshipping variant for people 18+ in the US. You create your store dropshipping on tiktok’s platform and sell by creating content or spending on ads. Ultra-specific how to and E-books. Write it with a semi-professional in that niche and use AI to help make the outlines and structure. Rank your book on the long keyword on google and Amazon so you get warm leads seeing your book. Repeat for many different e-books. E-learning packs for teachers. This isn't new but still has potential. Teachers buy pre-made worksheets and slides. Use TeachersPayTeachers or Etsy. If you can make aesthetic slides in Canva and create informative and interesting worksheets this is a great option. Closing Thoughts If you want my LIST of 150+ Business Ideas and info on growing your business, then upvote this post and let me know in the comments by saying "interested" and I'll DM you it. This list has 150+ of the latest side hustles and business that work sorted by type, startup cost, difficulty level, money potential, and growth factors. Now go start your business. submitted by /u/Flashy_Point_210 to r/BusinessDeconstructed [link] [comments]

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I’ve been dropshipping products profitably from amazon to ebay for about 2 years now. i have 2 ebay stores, each produces about 10 sales daily. I have 3 amazon accounts (all of which are on the same IP address). the one amazon account i've been ordering most heavily on lately, lets call it account A (this past week i placed about 12 orders daily, monday to friday on this amazon account) all of a sudden, there's a $10 to $15 delivery charge on all items from prime. My other two amazon accounts -- lets call these accounts B and C-- still are enabled for free prime shipping. for now, i could place the orders on accounts B and C, but is it just a matter of time (maybe even after placing just a couple more orders) that amazon will start charging for shipping on these two accounts as well? What should i do? stressed out right now. submitted by /u/More_listen to r/dropshipping [link] [comments]

Amazon wants you to spend 20 minutes browsing through slop, give up, and buy something more expensive than you originally planned. Seeing a bunch of ads and shiny trinkets to excite your lizard brain is a bonus. Here are some ways that Amazon had gotten deliberately harder to use: Removed the "People who browsed this item eventually bought..." carousel from product listings. Removed search operators. You used to be able to type "Pixel 5 phone case -leather" and it would remove leather, or put keywords in quotes to only show listings with that exact keyword. Created tools to make it easier for sellers to dropship from Aliexpress to Amazon. It's encouraged. Injected shorts, sponsored listings, "pick up where you left off" carousels and other fluff to distract you from your actual search. Amazon allows sellers to list products with incomplete data. It would be easy to require anyone listing a bin to include the dimensions of that bin, thus allowing search filters to work, but they don't. There are some ways around it. Firefox + uBlock Origin can block parts of the site. Ebay has fantastic filters. There are bots that repost Amazon listing to Ebay with the exact title, so you can search Ebay, use the filters to find the exact product you want instantly, and Google search the title to find the original item on Amazon. submitted by /u/Ajreil to r/Anticonsumption [link] [comments]

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Most business ideas and side hustles are either saturated or outdated. So I decided to scrape 54k+ total comments from YouTube, Reddit, X, Tiktok, and hundreds of smaller websites to find the best business ideas in 2025. Service Business Ideas Niche language tutor. If you’re fluent in uncommon languages you can sell tutoring and conversation practice on your own website/business or on preply or another tutoring platform. Custom Shopify/Website Themes. Create a website based on a theme for their business. Reach out to them and show them what it would look like and the data that backs the decision to buy it. If they don’t like it, sell the theme on Shopify so others can personalize it. Podcast/Long-Form Repurposing. Find a podcast without a channel that posts short videos or isn’t good at short video creation. Edit the videos and post them on youtube, tiktok, instagram reels, and other social media platforms. Make money by charging a fee for the amount of shorts and by getting commission on the revenue the short generates. Sports Photography/Videoing. Targets teenagers and young adults playing sports especially ones that need highlights to show to college coaches or film to watch. Gain a reputation for videoing locally and expand by getting referrals and asking other people on the same team to take photos. E-Commerce Ideas Niche Digital products. This is the next big business model replacing dropshipping. It includes templates, courses, ebooks, and software that you deliver online. You can sell instant access guides and tools with no overhead and scalability without having to remake products multiple times. Online newsletter for your city. Write about your local city or area and events and important information for people living in your city. Get sponsored by local businesses and run ads that geo-target your area on Facebook or Instagram. Tiktok Shop for trending products. This is the latest dropshipping variant for people 18+ in the US. You create your store dropshipping on tiktok’s platform and sell by creating content or spending on ads. Ultra-specific how to and E-books. Write it with a semi-professional in that niche and use AI to help make the outlines and structure. Rank your book on the long keyword on google and Amazon so you get warm leads seeing your book. Repeat for many different e-books. E-learning slide packs for teachers. Teachers buy pre-made worksheets and slides for all kinds of classroom activities. Use TeachersPayTeachers or Etsy. If you can make aesthetic slides in Canva and use AI prompts for informative and interesting worksheets this is a great option. Closing Thoughts With whatever business/side hustle you choose, personalize it to your strengths and stick with it. Always chasing the newest and shiny idea will bring you little success. If you want my DATABASE of 150+ Business Ideas for reference, then upvote this post and let me know in the comments by saying "interested" and I'll DM you the whole thing. Processing gif o6j6ni5le9zf1... Now go and make some money! submitted by /u/Flashy_Point_210 to r/DigitalIncomePath [link] [comments]

I'm 29(M) and pack boxes in a warehouse outside Tracy, California. Been on four 10s for the past year - decent pay, bad back, long drives. From Mar–Oct chased "passive income" (lol nothing about it was passive). What flopped: Dropshipping: 2 chargebacks, $64 ads, net –$118. Etsy: 9 orders, 3 returns, AI template subs ate the tiny margin. Domains: $212 spent, 0 inquiries. Crypto: almost aped into a telegram "gem," nephew yelled at me, backed off (ty nephew). What actually paid (small but real): YouTube (packing tips): 17 vids, 1.3k subs. Last 4 months $103.47 (RPM ~$2.1). ~5-6 hrs/wk filming/editing. Turo (2022 Prius): 9 days booked last 3 months, gross $358 → after Turo fee/insurance/cleaning, net $237; minus a $35 tire patch = $202 take-home. Spent ~25 minutes scrubbing a stale coffee smell out of the Prius before a pickup - renter no-showed anyway. Task monkey (chrome extension) - funny enough, I tried it on Amazon October Prime Day last week and it got me like $138 back from price drop. Probably the only thing I'd call "passive income."no link/ not affiliated. Half a year in, I don't buy the "work hard and it’ll click" thing anymore. Most of this stuff is the same tricks with a new label. You put in hours, spend a little cash, and it stalls out. The only money I saw was small and hands-on. Not passive - just extra shifts on a different screen. If you've got something that really pays without babysitting, I'm listening. submitted by /u/Wild-Answer-2044 to r/passive_income [link] [comments]

Most business ideas and side hustles are either saturated or outdated. So I decided to scrape 54k+ total comments from YouTube, Reddit, X, Tiktok, and hundreds of smaller websites to find the best business ideas in 2025. Service Business Ideas Niche language tutor. If you’re fluent in uncommon languages you can sell tutoring and conversation practice on your own website/business or on preply or another tutoring platform. Custom Shopify/Website Themes. Create a website based on a theme for their business. Reach out to them and show them what it would look like and the data that backs the decision to buy it. If they don’t like it, sell the theme on Shopify so others can personalize it. Podcast/Long-Form Repurposing. Find a podcast without a channel that posts short videos or isn’t good at short video creation. Edit the videos and post them on youtube, tiktok, instagram reels, and other social media platforms. Make money by charging a fee for the amount of shorts and by getting commission on the revenue the short generates. Sports Photography/Videoing. Targets teenagers and young adults playing sports especially ones that need highlights to show to college coaches or film to watch. Gain a reputation for videoing locally and expand by getting referrals and asking other people on the same team to take photos. E-Commerce Ideas Niche Digital products. This is the next big business model replacing dropshipping. It includes templates, courses, ebooks, and software that you deliver online. You can sell instant access guides and tools with no overhead and scalability without having to remake products multiple times. Online newsletter for your city. Write about your local city or area and events and important information for people living in your city. Get sponsored by local businesses and run ads that geo-target your area on Facebook or Instagram. Tiktok Shop for trending products. This is the latest dropshipping variant for people 18+ in the US. You create your store dropshipping on tiktok’s platform and sell by creating content or spending on ads. Ultra-specific how to and E-books. Write it with a semi-professional in that niche and use AI to help make the outlines and structure. Rank your book on the long keyword on google and Amazon so you get warm leads seeing your book. Repeat for many different e-books. E-learning slide packs for teachers. Teachers buy pre-made worksheets and slides for all kinds of classroom activities. Use TeachersPayTeachers or Etsy. If you can make aesthetic slides in Canva and use AI prompts for informative and interesting worksheets this is a great option. Closing Thoughts With whatever business/side hustle you choose, personalize it to your strengths and stick with it. Always chasing the newest and shiny idea will bring you little success. If you want my DATABASE of 150+ Business Ideas for reference then let me know in the comments or DM me and I’ll send you the link. This is my personal Business Idea Database. It contains the latest side hustles and business that work. If you think it’ll help, let me know; I’ll DM you the whole thing. Now go and make some money! UPDATED EDIT: I hit the DM limit so if you want the database, message me a quick "hi" and I'll send it to you :) submitted by /u/Flashy_Point_210 to r/OnlineIncomeHustle [link] [comments]

What's up, A few months ago, I've posted on this r/dropshipping my Brandsearch chrome extension (I'm the founder btw) to spy on competitors and do some product research. You guys loved the first version, even though it was a bit clunky 😅 So we gave it a full redesign. The UI/UX is way smoother now, and we’ve added useful upgrades: You can now see each store’s estimated 6-month growth trend (same logic as revenue estimates. Trend growth is accurate but traffic and revenue is estimated, and works better for more established stores/brands than quick dropship stores.). Still includes their best-sellers, newly published products, country of origin, target markets, product count, launch date, and more. Plus, we’ve added Amazon insights: Daily and monthly revenue estimates and avg. rating. I use Amazon a lot to check demand, competition, and identify high-potential SKUs, so I wanted a fast way to spot top-rated, top-selling products. Now it’s built in. The Chrome extension is FREE forever. But full transparency: we do use it as a lead magnet for the paid app Brandsearch (and this post is also a promotion for the app and extension). That said, it’s genuinely useful for market research & competitor tracking. You can: Find all (4.1m+) Shopify stores that are scaling with Meta ads & ad growth Track their winning creatives and funnels (like foreplay/atria) Build your own ad library with up to 50 direct and indirect competitors for daily inspiration Save ads from Meta ad library & Tiktok, forever And soon on Spectre, concept and funnel AI analysis to discover desires, beliefs, frameworks etc.. used and visualised on the whole funnel (ads*landing pages). Paid app isn't a tool for beginners, by the way. And it's not a "spy tool". We're only targeting brand builders, advanced dropshippers and creative strategist/agencies. If you're a beginner, you should be learning marketing fundamentals instead of looking for "winning products". Read breakthrough advertising as a start, and for ads/funnels, the guys from Evolve (Spencer Pawliw) on YouTube do great content about it, and I hope the extension will help you with ecommerce. You can get the chrome extension here: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/brandsearch-ecommerce-dro/fjoigefjdlinileegfbkkbfjjfeldbgb As always, let me know if there's anything cool we can add on the extension. There isn't much I need personally on the chrome extension, but if there's something you'd need, let me know and I'll consider it. submitted by /u/Tragilos to r/dropshipping [link] [comments]

I will not promote Started this back in 2017 with $200 and no life lol. Was just dropshipping random stuff on Amazon because that's what everyone was doing at the time. Made like 6k profit over a few months and thought holy shit maybe I can actually do this. Met this dude in some Facebook group who had 20k sitting around so we teamed up and launched our own garden tool brand. For about 2 years everything was going amazing. A Good supplier from China, Amazon PPC was just printing money for us. Peak month we hit $800k revenue with like 25-30% margins which felt absolutely insane. We had over 29k orders just from our ad campaigns alone. Then I literally wake up one morning and our entire account is suspended. Patent enforcement bullshit they said. The whole category just got nuked overnight and there was nothing we could do about it. 3 years of grinding just gone in 2 days. Been trying to make a comeback for the past year. Same general idea but way simpler product with zero patent risk this time. Starting way smaller too because I learned my lesson about going all in. Problem is I'm basically broke now and don't have the capital for a proper relaunch yet. Been grinding random side hustles - started a YouTube channel, flipping random crap on eBay, doing freelance work when I can find it. Thought making money would be easy again but damn was I wrong. Going from $800k months to barely scraping together a few thousand dollars feels like shit. Everything takes 10x longer than you think it will. The hardest part honestly isn't even losing all that money. It's having to rebuild everything from scratch when you know exactly how good it can be. Plus now I'm paranoid about literally every little thing that could go wrong which probably isn't helping. Anyone else been through something like this? How do you get back to trusting your own instincts after getting completely blindsided like that? Also wondering if people here are still doing Amazon FBA or if everyone moved onto other stuff. Platform keeps getting harder but I still think an opportunity is there if you're smart about it. submitted by /u/Nifty_Grower to r/startups [link] [comments]

Posting this because most people don't know that when they are buying from amazon or ebay they are paying too much for the product they could get for a lot cheaper basically dropshippers order the product when they get money from you. They use platforms like aliexpress, samsclub, wallmart etc to order these products that they have listed on their stores. This is a massive level scam considering you are paying more than 20% for the product you could have purchased at a cheaper rate i get it that everyone can not order in bulk but i think still buying products locally instead of online will make a lot of difference. Dropshippers make entire companies essentially scamming people like this because of the profits it's one thing to sell a product that isn't on the market and is good but selling the already being sold products and making them more expensive is highly unethical I know you guys can list more platforms than me that people use to dropship products from kindly list them in comments so people can directly buy from those sellers instead of amazon and ebay submitted by /u/rszdev to r/Anticonsumption [link] [comments]

After my last couple comments on r/sidehustle brought in a lot of questions, I decided to make this post to share some of the ways I found success earning side income. Me: I test side hustles to determine if they're any good, then post the results. My ultimate goal is to save up enough money just from side hustles to buy a fixer-upper house. I have about $21,000ish in the slush fund now, and could buy a house with that. However, I am looking for a liiittle better than that $21k can get me. You can learn more from my Freeloader Challenge series. This link is the most recent episode: https://youtu.be/RwLvxdhunQg Couple caveats: Please do NOT message me for more information. My inbox is filled with 20 people asking the same questions after the last comment. Post your questions here and I will try to help. You can also find an expanded guide on my own profile page. Focus on a job first. Side hustles are SIDE income for beer money, hobbies, and to make ends meet while you work on improving your career. If you do not have a career at all, side income won't change much for you. The methods ------------------------------ Shit tier (not worth doing): - Dropshipping AliExpress - AI art print-on-demand - selling wooden pallets - flipping used mattresses, any goofy YouTuber side hustle BS like that Almost all the people making money off these are the YouTubers making videos about them and the people selling courses on them. If you yourself make money doing any of these, the amount will be negligible. There are very few people making money actually doing these things, and they have extensive experience and a network behind them. If you're here, you do not. ------------------------------ Low tier (maybe worth doing in the beginning): - Online questionnaires: You CAN make money on these, but it is rarely worth the effort unless you have $0 and have no other source of money. This will only be used to seed other methods. If you absolutely must do this, use Attapoll. They pay you $0.01 if you get rejected by the questionnaire which happens frequently on almost every survey site. I made about $30 in a month before I gave up. Not recommended for anyone serious. - Silly crypto games: Most of these are complete trash, but I have cashed out about $50 from apps like CoinApp in which you get paid XYO token for driving. If you typically drive long distances and have a second phone, this might be worth it. Otherwise, skip it completely. I made about $50 over a month doing this. - Dumpster Diving for metal: Check and see if there is a metal recycling plant near you. Most suburbs and cities have something. Ask about prices on metal. Copper will fetch you about $3/lb, and aluminum about $0.50/lb. Brass is up there too. Communication wire (like CAT cables) are among the best. Don't bother with steel. The secret is to go to constructions sites where their dumpsters are out in the open and therefore are considered trash (not behind a fence, closed, or anything like that). Jump in and take metal out, then bring it to the recycling center. Check your state laws first and make sure that it is legal to dumpster dive. I am not familiar with any states where it is NOT legal, but check. I've made a few hundred off of about 10 dives like this. Average dive at a construction site yields $30. ------------------------------ Mid Tier (worth doing): - Focus Groups: This is the best low barrier to entry option for most people. I don't think I've gone a single month since 2022 in which I haven't made at least $100 for an hour doing a focus group. Companies want feedback on a product or service for their target market. You give them this feedback and they pay you. It's simple, and you get to influence a product that you might use in the future. I prefer the website User Interviews. Make a profile there with your hobbies and career skills, and you'll get connected with focus groups that are more likely to need you. In addition to User Interviews, try Hivemind. I have made a few thousand, probably $3,000ish, over 2 years. - Get-paid-to sites: These are the lowest barrier to entry options that are worth your time. These are websites where you get paid to play a game or use an app. It's the apps way of getting users without running marketing campaigns- they just pay you outright to use the app. You've already heard of Swagbucks. I prefer Freecash myself. The games may only pay you $20 for 10 hours of gameplay, so they're only worth it if you like mobile games. The real money is made from downloading and using banking or finance apps where it is common to get paid $100+ for a few minutes of work. I have made about $5,000 over 3 years. - Flipping free items: I use a Discord server where you get free items from Amazon merchants. Sometimes they require a review, sometimes they refund you on delivery. You get to keep the item and get refunded. They're usually not high quality items, but you can get as many phone cases and chargers as you want for no review. Higher end items will require a review to get refunded. If you are okay with inventorying, you can flip these at 100% profit. I only made about $30 flipping, but I got tons of free stuff to free up income for other things. - Broker churning: Most brokers will give you money to invest with them as a new account. Webull is a very good one. Deposit $0.01 and they'll give you $60 of shares. You can hold them or sell them. Then, do the Schwab Starter Kit promo. Deposit $50 and they'll give you $101. Just those 2 brokers and you're up $150. There are others, but the next best is Fidelity's Starter Kit which is deposit $100 get $100 of shares. That promo is suspended but may come back. Moomoo is a distant 4th pick, which usually gives about $70 on a $1,000 deposit. There are a few others. I made about $1,000 off these, but $500 was from an expanded Moomoo bonus that is no longer active. This could still easily net you $500. ------------------------------ Top Tier (do it): - Bank Churning: Tons of banks are willing to give you a bonus for direct depositing to them. You can do this every time you get a paycheck and never run out of banks and credit unions. PNC was an easy one- deposit $5,000 over 90 days and get $400. Use Doctor of Credit and you'll find a huge number of options with lower DD requirements. Change your DD bank often. Either make your Human Resources girl with a bachelor's degree in psychology earn her paycheck by changing your payroll for you, or deposit your other side hustle income to Chase Business bank accounts and pay yourself from those. I made about $800 so far this year doing this. - Credit card churning: Similar to the banks, credit cards offer bonuses. "Spend $5,000 and get $500 back" is a common one. Change credit cards often to take advantage of this. You can also profit off this by "spending" money on things that get refunded like the Amazon items above, or some other means that will wash the money for you. I made about $1,100 doing this so far this year. - Selling blood plasma: Every college town has a place where you can sell plasma. I sold mine for 3 years. This is actually a HEALTHY activity that puts money in your pocket. I used to make $20-$30 per plasma visit in 2013. Now, it's more like $60-$80/donation. If you are in good health, this is an obvious move. You can do it twice per week and make $400+ in a month. Look for a Biolife, Biomat, or CSL plasma center. I did this for years and made thousands, but can't do it anymore because I live far from plasma centers. Counter-gambling: There are about 22 social casinos in the US. You've heard of ones like Stake. They're horrible institutions that use loopholes to make themselves "sweepstakes" instead of casinos so that they can skirt casino regulations. To be a sweepstakes, you have to be "no purchase necessary" to enter. To effect this, the “social casinos" just give you money each day to log in, adding up to about $14 total. All you have to do is log in, take the money, and log out. Don't ever actually gamble. Some of the names are Pulsz, Stake, Chumba, Luckyland, and Modo. There are more and you'll have ads for them quickly. The cons are that you have to play through the free money before you can withdraw. Achieve this by playing baccarat, blackjack, or roulette. You'll lose some of the free money, but walk out with more than 90% on most occasions. Gamble the absolute minimum required and make your withdrawal after. Most sites do gift card withdrawals around $20 and cash at $50 or $100. Stake has no playthrough requirement and you can withdraw the ~$50 minimum without playing at all. Do NOT attempt this strategy if you have had a prior gambling addiction. I don't know exactly how much I made doing this in the past 2 years, but it's over $10,000 easily. ------------------------------ Those are the top methods I've used and expect to continue doing. I'm aiming to invest it all in crackhouse refurbishment by the end of the year. submitted by /u/Kamikaze_Cash to r/sidehustle [link] [comments]

EBay does a similar money back policy to Etsy/Amazon for items that don’t match their description. Both eBay and Aliexpress have image search functions and you can filter by product rating. submitted by /u/fairyfloss17 to r/LifeProTips [link] [comments]

​ https://preview.redd.it/twfvaippj4t71.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c036d7a0d17f3f1c8f96530b88cb62822ad5adc I had my eyes set on buying the Switch for the longest time. However, I am also a cautious buyer. I wanted to make sure the product I was buying didn't come with any faults. And then I heard about the subpar kickstand, the cracking plastic, and of course, the JoyCon drift. Besides JoyCon drift, I was still pretty much sold on the Switch. But I never pulled the trigger, as I always worried Nintendo would announce some sort of pair of improved JoyCon that didn't drift, probably alongside a Switch Pro or whatever. So I just kept waiting. Then in mid-April 2020, I stumbled across a Vice article about some guy who built his Switch using parts he found online. Maybe you saw this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/g1hzq2/how_to_build_your_own_nintendo_switch_to_starve/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 I decided I wanted to try the same thing, because even though stock wasn't super limited here in Canada, I didn't want to buy a new one just to have the JoyCons drift on me prematurely. I'm not a wasteful person. I wanted to take it a step further though. I had been buying plenty of tech beforehand on AliExpress, and I knew it was a good marketplace to go to for spare parts, as they were often cheaper then going to eBay. So, I wanted to use this project as a testament to how effective AliExpress parts really were. Over 3 quarters of the parts in my Switch were not OEM. I aimed for getting both the motherboard and battery as OEM parts, motherboard for obvious reasons, and battery for safety reasons. All other parts I would try to avoid OEM as much as possible. At the end of the day, the motherboard, metal shield plate, and iron middle frame were the only OEM parts used. I couldn't even get an OEM battery, but I trusted the parts shop enough (one of the rare instances where I bought outside of AliExpress for this project) that I just went with the battery. I believe the motherboard and iron middle frame are really the only parts you have to get OEM now, as I even started seeing listings for brand new, non-OEM metal shield plates. Every single part besides the motherboard, battery, and kickstand, was purchased on AliExpress. Did I save money doing this? Nope. AliExpress tends to have really slow shipping if you cheap out, so I tried to spend around $5 or so on every part being shipped in. If you're buying on AliExpress, ePacket is a good shipping option that usually has your order arrive in 2 weeks and comes with tracking numbers. A lot of the cost also went towards the motherboard as I was specifically looking for a V2 motherboard that wasn't banned from online and also had better battery efficiency. This one seller on eBay has a monopoly on the motherboard market with verified V2 motherboards, and charged $179.99 USD (it was originally $189.99 USD but we negotiated a $10 discount since I was in Canada). It hurt harder with the import fees. In the end, I might've spent closer to $600 CAD on everything, but I have very few regrets about that given the gratifying experience and the fact I was buying $50 worth of parts at a time besides the motherboard. Speaking of the gratifying experience, I gained a much deeper understanding for the inner workings of the Switch, and I'm currently plotting to make further modifications such as a larger battery and an improved kickstand, which hopefully I can somehow mod the OLED one in. I'm currently using a Nyko kickstand for now, as it comes with additional storage space for microSD card storage. I'm really looking to make this handheld my own improved version, better than any stock V2 Switch out of box. And I'm really glad that I have a deeper understanding of the hardware now, because if I run into any hardware issues, then as long as I don't need to do microsoldering, I can probably fix it myself. Did I run into any issues? A lot of it was finding the right screws to fit in the right places, and making sure the screw holes in some of these parts were large enough for that. I recommend taking precaution towards looking for any plastic parts in particular that need to be screwed into position. Read customer reviews and take a look at customer pictures as well, to make sure you're getting the right parts. I also had trouble with the touchscreen, as I bought the wrong cartridge slot at first. Certain cartridge slots are only compatible with certain digitizers, but I luckily found a cartridge slot made by a 3rd party that worked with both V1 and V2 digitizers, and got my screen working perfectly. As for the initial reason I wanted to do this, the JoyCons, I did extensive research online for a good pair that at least had gyros, NFC, and of course analog sticks that didn't drift prematurely. I found a pair of DOBE TNS-0163 JoyCons that did just that. They unfortunately didn't have connectors that directly connected the JoyCons to the Switch, so I could only connect via Bluetooth. They also had turbo buttons, which I dislike, so I opened them up to remove them and got some plastic epoxy putty to fill in the holes. While I got them opened up, I was able to confirm that they used full-size analog sticks, so they won't drift as early and I could get them replaced with ALPS sticks if I wanted to. I ended up splitting up the D-pad in the left JoyCon into 4 buttons that could all be independently pushed, to help further mirror the original JoyCons. As for how the JoyCons function, the gyros work as expected and they feel ergonomic in the hands. It's also capable of waking the Switch up from sleep, and I was able to find a NFC antenna in the right JoyCon. I haven't tested NFC yet since I don't have Amiibo, but I have confidence that it works. They both charge via USB-C ports in the bottom. Besides the future plans of possibly expanding the battery and improving the kickstand, I do plan on getting a ClearPlex screen protector (Best Buy Canada makes custom ones) and a Skull & Co Maxcarry case. I also don't have a dock yet, and will be buying an OEM dock as well as the Myriann/Basstop dock shell to put the dock board inside. I also don't have a microSD card yet, so I'm planning to buy a 512GB one as I want to commit to digital purchases. I've only been playing Asphalt 9, Pokemon Cafe Mix, and Arena of Valor so far given the limited internal storage I have. This project took me a lot of patience as I was budgeting with other important financial matters as well, hence why I was mainly spending in $50 increments. I started ordering parts in late May 2020, only to finally finish closer to mid-September 2021. My job has been a decent distraction from stressing over finishing the project. In hindsight, would I have still splurged on shipping? I could've saved around $100 CAD if I cheaped out on shipping, but I would've paid up anyways for peace of mind. Would I recommend anybody else try this project? Only if you have a decent amount of experience assembling electronics. My prior experience was really just grabbing a bunch of broken Samsung Galaxy S4 phones and making a functional phone from those broken phones. I benefitted from the fact that Nintendo worked to make this console super repairable. I could argue that this is probably the most repairable Nintendo console in 15 or 16 years. Unfortunately, the OLED model's eMMC chip is soldered to the board, I hope not to see that for the Switch sequel as well. Is AliExpress a website you can trust? I've been buying stuff from AliExpress for a few years now, as a lot of their stuff is priced competitively lower than eBay and Amazon, and a lot of the folks on eBay and Amazon are just dropshipping from AliExpress anyways. If shipping time is your concern, just pay $4-5 for shipping, it'd still probably be cheaper than eBay or Amazon anyways. AliExpress is for the most part, a safer marketplace than people paint it to be. I just recommend practicing common sense by looking at how many people ordered the product, checking for product images uploaded by customers, etc. Any time I have had a bad experience on AliExpress, I just file a dispute on the order. I've never lost a dispute (but don't abuse that feature just because the product you received is subpar). They also accept PayPal now if you're worried about your card information getting stolen. If you would rather be fleeced on eBay or Amazon, be my guest. Anyways, feel free to ask me anything, especially about right-to-repair :) Edit: some typos I found and additional info re: AliExpress submitted by /u/sw1tchup42 to r/NintendoSwitch [link] [comments]

Hello, I'm 18 years old and have just done over 65,000 revenue in the last 3 months, that's around 30% profit after tax/vat etc. I have been into business since as young as I can remember, I used to live in a poor European country where you could return specific empty beer bottles in shops to get some pennies back, being a little kid - I collected these everywhere and that's how I got my first taste of making my own money, upon moving to the UK due to poverty in my home country. In the UK - I started buying/selling everything I could, begun with electronics, phones, game consoles etc. Then slowly started selling other products online (ebay mainly). In my first job as a washer-upper in a pub, as a joke I was asked if I could sell them clingfilm cheaper as they're current supplier was expensive. They were more or less trying to take the piss out of me (I was seen as the typical overly optimistic kid thinking he can take over the world due to a few sales), but of course - I went home and searched all night until I found a much cheaper supplier. So I started selling them clingfilm/tinfoil at roughly 15/16 years old...... To this day I still sell them that, and personally deliver it to them every time. I also used to check out different opportunities @ 16 and found a decent buy where I bought 100 boxes of smoking papers (Rizla, blue king size). On Amazon they were going for £14 or so a box, wholesalers had them for £12 or so.... I bought the boxes for £2.50 each, I was running around every corner shop in my area after school selling these for £8 each a box. I also build a connection with a friend from my home country, who'd send me over branded second hand clothes (surprisingly they were authentic believe it or not). This was between the ages of 15 until I stopped earlier this year due to Amazon keeping me busy. I felt bad for stopping but the profits of the clothes were tiny compared to Amazon and didn't have time, I felt bad because I was paying him around 2x the average wage a month for around 2 hours work a day so I seriously helped him out. He got married and bought a car with the money he earned from me. There's tens of other stories I could tell.. But anyway, feel free to ask me any questions. [EDIT: I have never used any marketing for amazon sales, I simply listed the items and they sold. That's how I made my revenue] [EDIT: I'M SHOCKED BY THE AMOUNT OF COMMENTS. I'M TRYING TO ANSWER EVERYONE, MOST QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN ANSWERED BEFORE, CHECK COMMENTS] submitted by /u/jkg2001 to r/Entrepreneur [link] [comments]