TIE #078: How to Make $75,620 in Profit on Amazon in a Single Month (while hardly working)

Come see how much money my Amazon business made in December 2024

Your first step to escaping the rat race is making your first $1,000 online.

The best way to accomplish this as a beginner is with a simple Amazon business where you sell other people’s products.

It worked for me 10 years ago and it’s what I would do if I had to start over from scratch today.

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I have been documenting how much profit my personal Amazon business makes in this newsletter for a full 4 years now.

4 long years of transparency.

While running this type of business was never a dream of mine, it is what laid the foundation for me to live a lifestyle full of freedom and fulfillment.

In 2025, an Amazon business (where you arbitrage products online and from retail storefronts) is still where I would start if I had to do it all over again.

This post is #48 of this series, you can read post #47 here:

TIE #077: How to Make $2,721 in Profit on Amazon in a Single Month (while hardly working)

My Amazon business has three branches:

• Branch 1: Non-fiction book arbitrage (read here if you do not know what this is)

• Branch 2: LEGO investment sales (read here if you do not know what this is)

• Branch 3: Any and all other online arbitrage

Depending on the time of year, they all rise and fall independently from each other.

It is not your average Amazon business.

I target the highest profit margin possible while aiming to work as little as possible.

No longer am I trying to grow, I’m just trying to maintain.

This often means buying products and waiting a while before selling them.

The game I play is efficiency, I do not play “number go up” simulator.

Let’s take a look at how we did in December:

Total Sales: $206,340.94
Items Sold: 3,701
Cost of Goods + Fees: $130,720.26
Total Profit: $75,620.68
Hours Worked: ~15-20
Average Profit Per Item: $20.43

Total Profit for 2024: $158,652.68

Quite the change compared to last month!

December almost provided the same amount of profit as January - November combined.

It also gave us the best profit margin of any other month thanks to the power of LEGO investing.

I know it looks ridiculous, but just think about it for a moment with this example:

1. Buy LEGO set for $60 (Bird of Paradise)

2. Hold for a year

3. Sell LEGO set for $250

4. Get $200 after fees

That is $140 profit on a $250 sale and well over 50% profit margin.

Is every set that good? Of course not, but many in the TIE portfolio were in that 30-40% range.

Over $150,000 profit in a year is pretty cool for something that doesn’t take a lot of my time.

Not only that, but it is roughly $30,000 more than 2023.

I didn’t try to make that happen but it did.

I would point to my refined set picking system (that I updated after buying 2022 retirees) as the main reason for that.

January is usually a great month for my Amazon business before the numbers drop significantly until summer.

Now that we are in 2025, I will be soon introducing or re-introducing several regular updates within the newsletter that feature:

• My collectible card booster box portfolio (mainly Pokémon)

• My new supplement business (I almost have my product in hand!)

• The 2025 LEGO Investing Hit List

I’m beyond excited to attack the year and provide you all with the highest quality content that I’m capable of.

If you have a content suggestion, feel free to leave it in the comments below.

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