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> Kind of funny to read this, now that the practice is no longer a fantasy. I'm thinking of devs who have outsourced their jobs, and Amazon/Etsy sellers who sim
by gav 4y ago
> Kind of funny to read this, now that the practice is no longer a fantasy. I'm thinking of devs who have outsourced their jobs, and Amazon/Etsy sellers who simply resell/drop-ship goods from Alibaba.
One of the issues with being a middleman without a moat is that there's downward pressure on your margin over time until you are squeezed out of the market.
Given the amount of ads I get encouraging people to become a Amazon drop-shipper, I assume that making money doing that has got hard enough that selling shovels became more profitable.
- yCombLinks 4y agoI was doing it about 5 years ago, and it was mildly profitable without putting in a lot of effort. I see a lot more things dropshipped on amazon now, etc, so it would probably take a lot more effort now to make any serious money.
- bdowling 4y ago> the amount of ads I get encouraging people to become a Amazon drop-shipper... In other words, it's more profitable teaching people to become Amazon drop-shippers than it is to be one.