#2015 -Failure Friday: “Amazon permanently banned my seller account…”
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2022
⏱️ 8 minutes
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In this week’s Failure Friday segment, we hear from the co-founder of TheSavvyCouple.com. In his early days, he sold on eBay and Amazon.com. It was all going well, until a supplier problem led to him getting banned—permanently!
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Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week.
Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com
Email: team@sidehustleschool.com
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Connect on Instagram: @193countries
Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com
Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.com
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| 0:00.0 | I believe we can learn as much from failure as we can from success if not in fact more. |
| 0:13.4 | That's right, it is time in fact for another edition of Failure Friday. |
| 0:18.8 | Failure Friday, our weekly collection of short stories about mistakes, missteps, disasters, |
| 0:23.0 | and of course failure. |
| 0:24.3 | All those things that don't go well. |
| 0:26.4 | Well, let's just actually call it what it is. |
| 0:28.2 | All those things that go very poorly. |
| 0:29.9 | All those actual disasters. |
| 0:32.2 | And today you're going to hear one of those disasters, not just a small misstep, but an actual disaster. |
| 0:37.1 | This story features Kellyn from thesabbycouple.com. |
| 0:40.5 | I really appreciate Kellyn. |
| 0:41.3 | We've heard from him a couple different times in his early days before he had this blog, |
| 0:45.8 | which is now a huge business. |
| 0:47.4 | I'll say some more about that at the end. |
| 0:49.1 | In his early days he sold on eBay and Amazon.com. |
| 0:53.0 | And he sold all kinds of stuff, including yoga mats, which he will talk about here in the story. |
| 0:56.8 | And it was all going so well until a supplier problem led to him being banned permanently, |
| 1:02.9 | effectively a permanent ban from Amazon. |
| 1:05.4 | And fun fact, as I was listening to Kellyn's story working on this episode, it reminded |
| 1:09.4 | me of my experience many years ago. |
| 1:12.2 | So this is kind of like my own personal throwback Thursday. |
| 1:14.5 | I used to sell on eBay at Amazon.com and ran into all kinds of issues. |
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