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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

Well, there's also like transaction fees and Amazon takes a cut.

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

But yeah, I mean, the math can certainly work if you're able to try it in a scalable way.

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

I decided to shut it down.

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

There was a policy change specifically that made it more difficult.

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

Amazon changed their return process.

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

And so now if a customer opens a return with a seller on Amazon, they're immediately issued a return label.

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

And that return label is to whatever default address you have in the system.

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

Um, there are some ways you can work around it, specify certain return addresses for certain SKUs, um, but added a whole lot more complexity because what I don't want to do is receive inventory.

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

Yeah.

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

Yeah.

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

Yeah.

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

I don't have anywhere to store it.

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

Um, by the time it arrives, it's going to be outside the return window for eBay.

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

Okay.

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

Um, and at this point, you know, my other business, um, was, was growing.

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

Right.

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

So, um, interesting.

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

At one point, we sold a lot of DVD players.

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

DVD players?

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

But they were a combination of DVD and cassette players.