TIE #079: How to Make $27,746 in Profit on Amazon in a Single Month (while hardly working)

Come see how much money my Amazon business made in January 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 over 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 over 4 years now.

More than 4 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 #49 of this series, you can read post #48 here:

TIE #078: How to Make $75,620 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 January:

Total Sales: $95,748.99
Items Sold: 632
Cost of Goods + Fees: $68,002.43
Total Profit: $27,746.56
Hours Worked: ~10
Average Profit Per Item: $43.90

Total Profit for 2025: $27,746.56

While not coming anywhere near that of December, we still had a fantastic month of January.

Even more so considering Amazon withheld my ability to win the buy box for books for nearly the entire month.

While losing buy box eligibility (due to very little recent sales activity) is common, eligibility usually returns within a day or two.

Either they were asleep at the wheel or they are taking this policy to the extreme.

As such, I intend to have a lot of sales activity leading up to future busy periods.

While it didn’t cripple us, it did result in me selling books at a lower price than I wanted to.

If I had to guess, it probably cost me ~$10,000 in revenue and ~$3,000 in profit.

Such is life.

Most of the numbers above came from books, with a little bit of LEGO in there that was left over from Q4.

Moving forward, revenue will drop considerably like it does every year until summer.

To fill the gap, Diald updates will resume ASAP because I now have inventory in my hands for the first time:

Marketing is underway and looking promising.

Expect an update soon!

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