Peddling the ‘Secrets’ to Getting Rich on Amazon
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Peddling the ‘Secrets’ to Getting Rich on Amazon
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#2"There’s something uniquely American about believing that with a little bit of hard work, anybody can make money fast."
Sure sounds like nothing has changed from P. T. Barnum's time who supposedly said "There's a sucker born every minute"
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#3> They’re frustrated with Amazon, which they say is making money off the failures of people like them.
Wait what... I can't even. It's not Amazon's fault you bought something no one wanted then tried to sell it. You wanted easy money and it doesn't exist. You CHOSE to ship directly to Amazon so you didn't have to handle shipping, you CHOSE a quality item that kept breaking, they CHOSE to use Amazon, any they CHOSE to order a huge quantity of crap.
I simply cannot understand people who think like this. They plopped down a ton of money on something they didn't fully understand in a get-rich-quick-scheme and then blame the marketplace for their failures.
Can you make money doing this? Absolutely but it takes more research, time, and effort all of which they decided was beneath them and then got all mad when it didn't result in them raking in the money.
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#4This is the internet equivalent of those "get rich quick" TV infomercials, where the only people getting rich quick are the ones providing sham classes/books/seminars and charging outrageous amounts for them.
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#5> They’re frustrated with Amazon, which they say is making money off the failures of people like them. Wait what... I can't even. It's not Amazon's fault you bought something no one wanted then tried to sell it. You wanted easy money and it doesn't exist. You CHOSE to ship directly to Amazon so you didn't have to handle shipping, you CHOSE a quality item that kept breaking, they CHOSE to use Amazon, any they CHOSE to…
I feel like you're replying to a troll comment. Wasted energy. :D
Re: Peddling the ‘Secrets’ to Getting Rich on Amazon
#6"There’s something uniquely American about believing that with a little bit of hard work, anybody can make money fast." Sure sounds like nothing has changed from P. T. Barnum's time who supposedly said "There's a sucker born every minute"
> a little bit of hard work
Heck, they didn't even want to do that! They did end up working hard (according to them), but the plan was that it would be essentially free money.
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#7> They’re frustrated with Amazon, which they say is making money off the failures of people like them. Wait what... I can't even. It's not Amazon's fault you bought something no one wanted then tried to sell it. You wanted easy money and it doesn't exist. You CHOSE to ship directly to Amazon so you didn't have to handle shipping, you CHOSE a quality item that kept breaking, they CHOSE to use Amazon, any they CHOSE to…
It’s a re-hash of the “start an Internet business and make millions of dollars from home” scam [1].
[1] https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2018/10/03/654124255/epis...
Re: Peddling the ‘Secrets’ to Getting Rich on Amazon
#8This reminds me of those house flipping seminars where it's so easy to make money if you follow these XX steps and pay whoever thousands of dollars for the secret.
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#9The way to make money "easy" is to have a skill combined with an insight that most other people don't have, and work to exploit that ability for profit. For example, someone who is a good application developer but works in a dental office can identify what exactly is needed by that demographic, and how much they are willing to pay for it (thereby using their potentially "hobby" skill of programming to create that run-away successful SAAS startup).
But once you hear of other people doing something (drop-shipping items from China to Amazon, or cryptocurrency mining), chances are very good that you will have too much competition. The only way to make it big is if you get into that business before you hear of it off the street.
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#10> They’re frustrated with Amazon, which they say is making money off the failures of people like them. Wait what... I can't even. It's not Amazon's fault you bought something no one wanted then tried to sell it. You wanted easy money and it doesn't exist. You CHOSE to ship directly to Amazon so you didn't have to handle shipping, you CHOSE a quality item that kept breaking, they CHOSE to use Amazon, any they CHOSE to…
>I simply cannot understand people who think like this.
Such people are the subject of several Coen Brother movies, including Fargo, Burn After Reading, Ladykillers, and so on...
(Not that I don't feel for them though. It sucks to lose your savings, even if you did it by being greedy/stupid).