TIE #084: How to Make $3,594 in Profit on Amazon in a Single Month (while hardly working)
Come see how much money my Amazon business made in April 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.
This post is #52 of this series, you can read post #51 here:
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 April:
Total Sales: $14,623.67
Items Sold: 243
Cost of Goods + Fees: $11,029.19
Total Profit: $3,594.48
Hours Worked: ~10
Average Profit Per Item: $14.79
Total Profit for 2025: $39,778.99
As one would expect, sales activity dipped even further in April like it has every year of this series.
Sales mainly featured 2023 LEGO retirees that I purchased from a few subscribers who have exited the investment game, just like last month.
This trend of lower sales will continue until we hit August, where it will explode again as college students return to class and buy their required books for the semester.
We sprinkled in some random arbitrage (mainly Amazon to Amazon) but I didn’t find a whole lot of opportunity.
Amazon to Amazon arbitrage has been a thing for years and something I’ve done a ton of, but I find the opportunities as infrequent as they’ve ever been.
I see people claiming otherwise, so clearly they know something I don’t.
If it takes too much of my time and isn’t something I care a whole lot about, I tend to lose interest quickly so that doesn’t help.
All of that being said, I could still crush at least $1,000/month in profit on Amazon from non-LEGO arbitrage alongside working a full time job.
This is why I’d still recommend it to people who have zero business skills and hardly any money to work with.
Is it getting harder every day?
Absolutely.
Is it a waste of time yet?
No and I doubt it ever will.
Market inefficiencies will always exist and Amazon has a significant interest in allowing third party sellers to sell things on their website:
Their Q1 financial results this week list a 6% year over year growth in income generated from third-party sellers.
While some of this is likely due to an increase in fees, it is not a small sum. It is more than half of the net sales of product sold directly from Amazon.
Fee increases always trickle down to the consumer and anyone arguing otherwise, is for lack of a better word, a moron.
Personally, I love when things get more difficult.
If you’re willing to do what most aren’t, you’re rewarded more handsomely for it.
P.S.
For those out there who lost the ability to sell LEGO on Amazon, a newsletter subscriber recently said this:
It has been my assumption for a while now that LEGO is restricted for all new sellers unless you sell an unknown amount of toys in an unknown amount of time.
I had no information to back this up, but (albeit from the EU where different rules may apply) what they’ve experienced seems to confirm this.
If you or anyone you know is willing to test this theory in the United States by selling as many toys as you can get your hands on, I would love to hear from you.
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I've sold thousands of units of toys over the last year, LEGO included, and I'm still hard gated