Amazon FBA reselling / online arbitrage

Chris on Craigslist scraping to spot opportunities, connect buyers and sellers and build businesses — one of which ended in a multi-million-dollar exit; Oxylabs as the make-large-scraping-accessible tool; flipping, lead-gen, arbitrage, scalable side hustles.

Ben Levy joins Sam and Shaan to discuss a Wordle copycat app that made $10M after topping app-store charts then lost everything, plus Shaan and Ben's Milk Road project and how to pick projects; cloning or adapting a viral game quickly, riding distribution while it lasts.

Guest Mindi Reinke buys school book pallets for as little as $1 and resells them on eBay for ~$5,000, using ChatGPT to sort and list inventory; homeschool curriculum is the money-maker, book arbitrage, live selling via Whatnot, minimal upfront cost.

Solo episode on finding profitable Amazon FBA products with data instead of guessing — scraping Amazon best sellers with Oxylabs, analysing review counts, BSR and pricing to find strong-demand/weak-competition products, sourcing equivalents on Alibaba; example: $1.55 to manufacture, ~$30 on Amazon.

Chris brainstorms with listeners — turning a product idea into an Amazon bestseller, finding niche products or fixing pain points in existing ones, FBA and retail arbitrage for passive income, growing a college student's tutoring business through Facebook groups, two AI business ideas he recommends starting.

A traveling family sources housewares overseas and resells them in the US through Amazon FBA, clearing about $40,000 in profit that funds their travels.

A civil engineer learns Amazon FBA, builds a software extension for product research, and grows a business in Bali employing 100 people and serving 100,000 users.

A petroleum engineer sources a coffee grinder and resells it on Amazon, moving $300,000 worth. The episode covers retail-arbitrage-style reselling via Amazon with a single winning SKU.

A civil engineer in Florida started by selling hooded baby robes on Amazon, then built a product-research app now employing 80 people and serving about 100,000 users. The app is an Amazon FBA product-discovery tool born from his own selling experience.

Shannon Jean on reselling with zero upfront cost — pallet liquidations, GovDeals/B-Stock sourcing, Costco/IKEA arbitrage, auto-parts liquidation, store-return niches, high-ticket auctions; tactics for finding local buyers, wholesaling to discount stores, using your personal story to close sales.

Sam and Shaan sit down with Chris Camillo, who built an $80M+ portfolio around social arbitrage — spotting early consumer trends from niche online communities (Needohs, nerd-culture toys) before they hit Amazon; he sources theses, concentrates 70% in one name, contrasts social arbitrage with information asymmetry.

Shannon Jean demos starting reselling with zero dollars — flipping free Facebook couches to a $100K+ business; researching what sells before buying, spotting overlooked boring products like rugs, books and parking meters; a weatherman making $40K flipping couches, $17K/month pressure washers.

Sam Parr and Shaan Puri riff on a Hacker News comment about the highest-value thing to sell, a Diet Coke negotiation tactic, 'saving lives as a service' as a business frame, Bernard Arnault's revenge letter, the economics of Magic: The Gathering as a resale market, Bryan Johnson as Dana White of longevity.

Jamie Siminoff (Ring founder) on selling Ring for $1.15B to Amazon, getting sued by ADT, working with Jeff Bezos, the wire moment and his three rules — start with the problem, little solution/massive market, snowball approach — plus a 'Modern bug control ($5-10B idea)' recommendation and last-mile marketing.

With tariff turmoil in the news, Chris pitches sourcing research with Import Yeti and Jungle Scout, becoming a sourcing agent, launching a reverse-engineering newsletter, chasing Made-in-America opportunities; Shopify arbitrage as one play.

Episode #240 follows a Canadian tea sommelier whose tea brand grew to $30,000+ per month selling primarily on Amazon. The episode covers packaged product development and scaling an Amazon storefront into six figures monthly.

A first-time FBA seller researched the Amazon catalog and settled on plant holders and pots as her resale product. The segment covers her approach to product research and launching on Amazon.

Holly the Hula Hoop Hustler earns up to $2,000 a month selling hula hoops on Amazon, reflecting on the seasonal nature of hoop sales. The segment covers an Amazon FBA-style ecommerce approach to her first $1,000.

A petroleum engineer started reselling coffee grinders on Amazon FBA and scaled to roughly $300,000 in sales of that single product, walking through his sourcing approach.

Holly the Hula Hoop Hustler earns up to $2,000 per month selling hula hoops on Amazon, tracing back to her first $1,000 and the seasonality that surprised her.

Shaan's rich neighbour's COVID PPE/mask business, an Emory professor giving A's for going viral, Sam's short-lived attempt to work at Airbnb, Jupe (disaster shelter startup), 'Blue Collar Side Hustle: Smash My Trash' (a franchise mobile trash-compaction service), Parcast (Spotify-acquired podcast network).

Shannon Jean walks through liquidation-pallet flipping, including a student turning $1 of government-auction books into $5,000 in a month, alongside his 3,000-member Reseller Mastermind.

Kelan of TheSavvyCouple.com describes how a supplier issue triggered a permanent Amazon ban that ended his early eBay and Amazon reselling side hustle, illustrating platform risk in reselling.

The co-founder of TheSavvyCouple.com shares a Failure Friday lesson about getting permanently banned from Amazon after a supplier issue derailed his eBay and Amazon reselling. The episode warns about platform risk in marketplace selling.