How hard is it to make good money as Amazon seller?

how hard is it to make good money as Amazon seller?

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git gud at dropshipping first
aliexpress+shopify+facebook ads
get in on the next fidget spinner and make bank

Really hard. I had like 10k sales on one item and am pretty good at selling things in general, but your competition is usually the same wholesaler you're buying them from and amazon itself who if your item does do well, will copy it exactly, slap an amazon basics logo on it and sell it for half your price just to drive you out of business (they're also losing money at that price, they just don't care).

Im not attempting it again until I'm in a position to sell unique merchandise that I hold a patent for

where else do you sell stuff?

I guess I should add on. Just be prepared to have to fight and claw literally every step of the way. If you get a winner, be prepared for it to only last a week or so until you get copied. No ideas are original and nothing sold on Amazon has any sort of a moat. Amazon can destroy your business with the snap of their fingers.

Shipping delays will fuck you. At the beginning of the pandemic I had 150 orders stuck in some random warehouse in LA. They never got shipped. They're still fucking there to my knowledge. The extent of it from the USPS was "lol idk, too bad *shrugs shoulders*" when I asked why the fuck all the packages were just sent to one massive warehouse to sit forever and not get shipped out. This resulted in 125 returns/chargebacks that destroyed my cashflow and caused massive stress.

One of my products had several parts of its creative and copy copied by a competitor, they bought all of the product from the 3 wholesalers that had all the current stock (being manufactured at only a single facility, with a 3-4 week lead time) and then they threw $100k at Kylie Jenner to advertise it for a week. My sales dropped off a cliff, I couldn't get more inventory, and now I was burning thousands of dollars every week on ads. I couldn't compete with Kylie Jenner, got completely out-businessed, and was unable to regain my momentum afterwards.

Honestly though, id still recommend trying, it's really fun and you'll learn a lot really quickly. But ya, be prepared for nothing to come easy. The easiest niche right now seems to be pandering to right wing retards (I am conservative, but god damn, some of these people are dumb and will buy anything that says the right trigger words)

I had my own online store, and also listed things on FB marketplace and ebay. When I would get sales I'd just route it all through my online store's order fulfillment. If you don't know how to set up your own, shopify is actually a pretty good platform with excellent customer support. Woocommerce isn't that bad either and way more customizable, but I just checked it out and made some demo stores, I didn't actually run it live.

The simpler your store, the better though, it doesn't really matter much as long as it doesn't look like a blatant scam or something from 1995, people have usually made up their mind to buy from the ad

it's not hard, but it's difficult to take a break unless you move your whole store with you when you stay over the weekend with friends and family in case some fag decides to buy then

I guess if you use it to sell goods you manufacture yourself or are very close to the manufacturer, It can be a decent way to sell your goods. If you do drop shipping, it's extremely difficult nowadays, you're always at the mercy of some Chinese manufacturer, you can go from a lot to zero relatively quickly, if for instance there are massive shipping problems from the manufacturers side.

Impossible to compete with chinamen/big sellers. If you can somehow find a product that has more demand than supply and at a correct price to be profitable and competitive, you still get fucked. The same chinamen shipping to you at a premium overseas will be selling at prices you can't compete with. Talking about uk but same applies everywhere from what I've seen. Impossible for soneone alone with nlt that much money to start out. Ebay/amazon same shit, run by chinks who always find a way to screw you.

Is there any money is targeting collectable goods like out of print Lego sets and Magic the Gathering draft boxes? Seems money to be made if you can store items until the supply starts drying up after print runs.