| HelpNeeded! | 07-16-2020 03:31 AM |
Re: Any tools to find winning products ?
This may not be what you're looking to hear, but in my experience it hasn't been about finding products. It's been about altering an existing product, and doing some work to it, to make it more valuable. I started e-commerce in 1999 back with Amazon Z-Shops and eBay. I started with Pokemon cards, buying and reselling. Small profits, but for a 10 year old kid not shabby. As I grew older I learned its not about buying something and reselling in its original condition. The Pokemon video game at the time was very popular. So I created a game that had every Pokemon in it and special items unlocked and such. Once I had one game save created (this took countless countless hours) I could write this save file to cartridges in seconds. Now that $30 video game became worth $100. Little bit later I saw that piecing together toner refill kits was profitable. You had to source bulk powder, weigh it/bottle it, match it with reset chips, create an install guide. So there was a hurdle involved. But again, $20 in materials for $80 or so of a sale price. Then in 2008 I started a company doing custom video game items. Again, taking a normal product, altering it, and making it more valuable. It isn't that I have coding skills to create something or particular hand skills. Its just thinking outside the box of what you can do to change something out there that someone else wouldn't want to do on their own and just simply buy at face value. But something where you are making a huge profit. If you'd like to talk more I can elaborate further on exactly what I mean by all of this. | 
