Yes, but it’s not easy, and its not conducive to a “passive income” model: 1. Find, maintaining, and keeping a high quality manufacturer in China is hard but d

Yes, but it’s not easy, and its not conducive to a “passive income” model: 1. Find, maintaining, and keeping a high quality manufacturer in China is hard but doable. 2. Building a brand and audience is hard but doable. 3. Creating intellectual property and protecting it is hard but doable. The folks I know who sell a lot on Amazon do all of these three things decently, and one (often more) extremely well. From the sound of it, the folks in the article made a lame attempt at #1 and maybe a token attempt at #2 via Amazon ads. This low level of effort simply will not cut it for most products.