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Alex Kilka

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192 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Um, and also, um, so a little bit of machine learning where we can, um, create a score of how similar the titles are and how similar the pictures are.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

And at least weed out the ones that are clearly not fits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Maybe it's like an accessory, that product of Amazon.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Well, we certainly had to look at on the eBay side, you know, other quantity limits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Are there only like 10 of these products available?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

And that was also one challenge is like, you know, they're constantly selling on eBay as well.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

So how do you keep the inventory counts in sync?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Um, across the marketplaces.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

And so we had to write a script that not only adjusted the quantities as they started to sell out on eBay, um, but also, you know, the prices might float in both marketplaces and how do you adjust for that in as close to real time as you can.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Oh, gosh.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

That's an easy answer.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Power tools.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Power tools.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Power tools.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Which one?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Milwaukee power tools.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

Why?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

It's interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

So some of the biggest challenges we had, again, were vendors not shipping properly, customers being uneducated, trying to match products across marketplaces.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
1176 How this Developer Made $250k+ Selling Powertools He Didn't Own Via Amazon Ebay Arbitrage

So with Tower Tools, you've got great model numbers.