#143 - Don’t sell an Alibaba product

Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder

Amazon, Business, Amazonfba, Selling, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Personalbusiness, Productbusiness, Ecommerce, Onlinebusiness

4.9 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

You might think that it's easier to sell a product that already exists and that you can source from Alibaba. The problem with this is that customers immediately notice it.

In this episode, I talk about why you should not sell an Alibaba product.

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0:00.0	It is a lot easier to create and sell a product that already exists.
0:05.9	There's no mold costs.
0:07.3	It's already there.
0:08.0	Like you just go to Alibaba, you type in anything.
0:10.6	So it's very, very tempting.
0:12.2	Should just be like, oh, that looks great.
0:13.9	Let me slap my brand name on there.
0:15.7	That's a unique brand.
0:16.8	I'm going to go take some cool lifestyle shots on Instagram, make my brand Gucci and sell it.
0:20.6	Boom, done.
0:21.1	The problem is, guys, people can sniff out Alibaba products like a bloodhound.
0:33.0	What's up, guys?
0:33.8	You're listening to another episode of selling on Amazon with Andy Isam.
0:39.1	In this episode, we're going to talk about don't sell an Alibaba product.
0:46.2	Now, I know the first response you're probably thinking is, Andy, what the heck are you talking
0:50.9	about? You've been telling me all this time to find a supplier in
0:54.9	Alibaba. So why are you telling me not to sell an Alibaba product? Well, in this episode,
1:00.5	we're going to dive deep into the details of your product and why I think it's a terrible
1:07.3	idea to sell a product that is like an Alibaba product. And again, we're going to
1:14.1	specify that in this episode. First, though, I got to give a shout out to Mel Larson, who left a
1:19.9	review on my podcast recently over on Apple. Thank you so much, Mel. They said, he really packs
1:26.1	great info into each one, as well as great tips and
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