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Alex Kilka

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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

It's very consistent.

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

You have dozens of very high-quality sellers on eBay.

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

You have customers who typically are more like power buyers.

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

It's not their first power tool they've ever owned, so they know what they're looking for.

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

And for some reason, there's still a great arbitrage opportunity between the marketplaces.

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

Um, I mean, yeah, a typical sale, you know, it would sell for maybe 250 on Amazon and we'd buy it for anywhere from 180 to 210 on eBay.

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

Um, so it was really decent margins, especially, you know, the higher ticket items, you have to sell fewer of them and that makes your customer service a little easier.

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

Well, I don't have an exact figure for you on that.

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

Definitely more than what?

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

Definitely more than a million in sales, dollar sales.

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

No, no.

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

Yeah, over time.

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

And when we started off, we had multiple Amazon stores.

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

We initially started off as kind of like a general seller, but eventually we found this niche and spun up a

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

a company called Austin Tool Company.

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

And we specifically just focus on power tools.

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

You know, we branded as such.

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

I love this.

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

And spent so many of the segment.