TIE #082: How to Make $6,697 in Profit on Amazon in a Single Month (while hardly working)
Come see how much money my Amazon business made in March 2025
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I have been documenting how much profit my personal Amazon business makes in this newsletter for over 4 years now.
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.
Last year, it generated $158,652 in profit without stealing a ton of my time:
If I had to start over from scratch, I would still start with this exact same business model.
It is the perfect companion for someone with a full-time job and real responsibilities or someone like me who is obsessed with running multiple businesses.
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My Amazon business is not typical and 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.
I aim to target the highest profit margin possible while aiming to work as little as possible.
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 March:
Total Sales: $22,635.82
Items Sold: 288
Cost of Goods + Fees: $15,937.99
Total Profit: $6,697.83
Hours Worked: ~10
Average Profit Per Item: $23.25
Total Profit for 2025: $36,184.51
After a big dip in activity in February the business bounced back with a solid March.
This was the result of buying retired LEGO from people who are exiting the LEGO investing world and offered me their portfolio at great prices.
(If you’re interested in me buying your portfolio, feel free to send me a message here on Substack or leave a comment down below)
Outside of these transactions, there wasn’t a lot of action in the book market or arbitrage market as I continue to focus on LEGO, Pokémon, and my supplement business.
This approach will continue until July, where I will then start to focus on the book market again in preparation for the summer busy season in August.
Efficiency over volume is the goal, like always.
When I started this business over a decade ago, I didn’t have a lot of free time to work with.
I had a full-time job and I was in college.
While it required a lot more work up-front than it does now, it was still efficient enough that I was able to manage all three at the same time.
We all have personal lives and most of us adults have families to take care of.
It just isn’t realistic for most people to drop everything and build a fancy business from scratch.
That’s why I like Amazon so much.
I would start by arbitraging anything local to me (retail arbitrage).
Then I would add in book arbitrage.
If I had a extra capital to work with, I’d add in LEGO investing.
It isn’t flashy and it isn’t fancy, but you know what? It makes money. A lot of money.
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