Data-driven Amazon FBA business importing competing products from China
Find Amazon products with strong demand and comparatively weak competition, identify ways to improve or differentiate them, source similar products from Alibaba, and sell them through Amazon FBA.
physical B2C Resale / Flipping
From Chris Koerner on The Koerner Office Podcast — How I Use Web Scraping to Find Products That Sell for 20x the Price at 00:00
Problem: Aspiring Amazon sellers often choose products based on personal familiarity instead of evidence about demand, competition, product defects, pricing, and fulfillment economics.
For: Amazon shoppers in categories such as pet accessories, household and kitchen accessories, health and wellness, books, and education.
Products from this video
Examples
- Two-in-one gravity-fed cat feeder and water dispenser: ranked strongly while having relatively few reviews; the transcript identifies its simple design, approximately $29.99 price point, and two-in-one functionality as potential advantages.
Other takes on Resale businesses
- A used and new equipment dealership supplied through dealer trade-ins and local flipping
- Buy Costco customer returns and liquidation inventory through auctions, then test, clean, repair, and resell the items locally through Facebook Marketplace.
- Local liquidation and random-goods resale store
- Local buy-low, sell-at-market-value flipping of used items and equipment
- Resell overlooked electronics and other underpriced goods through local marketplaces and eBay
- Live-selling business for discounted liquidation, overstock, customer-return and hard-to-sell goods