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My friend and I built a proof of concept to post books for sale that were not available on Amazon.com but were available on Half.com for a markup. When someone
by rsuelzer 11y ago
My friend and I built a proof of concept to post books for sale that were not available on Amazon.com but were available on Half.com for a markup. When someone orders on Amazon.com, place an order on Half.com and change the shipping address.
- misiti3780 11y agowere you able to make money using it ?
- zeeshanm 11y agoI personally know someone who successfully arbitraged Amazon and Half.com. There is so much potential out there.
- misiti3780 11y agocan you explain more about how the arbitrage works ? I am confused how it is possible. for instance, I buy a lot of used books from amazon.com (well, third party sellers). when i one-buy click, the purchase goes through immediately, and the sellar already has the book listed, so i am confused how it would even be done.
- 55555 11y agoThis is very easy and actually quite common between Amazon and Ebay. You would list the title as Merchant Fulfilled on Amazon and when someone orders it you would place the order yourself on Half.com using their shipping address and pocketing the difference.
- zeeshanm 11y agoTo add to this, you can use Amazon Listing API to add/remove items that are available on Half.com.
- misiti3780 11y agohow did you go about finding the items that were on Half but not on amazon though ? - manually ?
- zeeshanm 11y agoDoing it manually is one way but not scalable. You can aggregate data either using available APIs or by scraping websites. You can list books on Amazon that are available on Half.com and give you a decent profit margin. It doesn't matter if books are already listed on Amazon. Just make sure your offer price is a little bit cheaper than the cheapest available copy.