TIE #090: How to Make $3,687 in Profit on Amazon in a Single Month (while hardly working)
Come see how much money my Amazon business made in June 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 #53 of this series, you can read post #52 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 June:
Total Sales: $13,949.13
Items Sold: 200
Cost of Goods + Fees: $10,261.38
Total Profit: $3,687.75
Hours Worked: ~5
Average Profit Per Item: $18.72
Total Profit for 2025: $45,039.37
Just when I forewarned that June would be around the same amount of sales as May we turn around and do almost triple that amount.
I didn’t plan on it, but I did have another batch of LEGO that I bought from a seller who is exiting the investing game.
(Don’t worry, I talk to more people entering than exiting)
The sales you see here are mostly from that transaction.
All of the sets sold were a few years old, so selling them now wasn’t a bad idea as we prepare for another heavy Q4 buying season.
It won’t be long before it is back to school season again and sales ramp higher for this business like it always does.
I am actively buying book inventory in preparation for that as we speak.
At this point in my business journey, a bulk of my regular sales come from LEGO in Q4 and books during the two back to school seasons.
While I could be looking for every day arbitrage opportunities, my time is better spent focusing on Diald, the LEGO market, and the Pokemon market.
That isn’t to say that I don’t have a few quick arbitrage moves sprinkled in, but they are definitely in the minority.
I am at a point where my Amazon business is mainly an outlet for LEGO in one quarter of the year, while keeping the corporate overlords happy in the other three quarters so they’ll let me continue to sell LEGO.
Like I always say, if I was starting out it would be a different story.
If you want more money, it is in your best interest to buy profitable things and sell them.
More importantly, you should repeat that process as often as possible as quick as possible so that compounding can work its magic.
It always comes down to where you’re at in life, how much time you’re willing to sacrifice, and what your goals are.
Every individual reading this has a different answer to that question.
It is my hope that my posts here provide a little bit of value for everyone, in whatever stage of life they’re in.
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