Hacker News Reader

If you're drop shipping from US-based retailers, how are you able to make margins on Amazon & eBay? Aren't those retailers also listing on Amazon - with better branding than you - and getting all the sales?

(Just spent a few hours reading on this based on another comment in this thread so trying to learn how the "sourcing things below Amazon price" piece works...)

View on HN

No, most retailers aren't selling on Amazon. Some are.

And yes, most products won't have any profit to be made. The trick is to find the ones that sell well but are more expensive on Amazon, there are thousands of such products, probably even more.

If you're interested in actually doing this, feel free to email me and we can chat.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com