This is a crazy simple business model, my friend.

Jim keeps telling me I can get paid just for taking random widgets off a shelf in a store

and moving them to Amazon or eBay.

Sign me up.

But wait, is that even ethical?

I can't wait to hear how Jim explains this one, and then I'm going shopping for deals.

I'm looking forward to this one,

my friend. Now here's your host, Jim Cockrum. Hey, welcome back. I'm your host, Jim Cockram. This is

Silent Sales Machine Radio, and I am super excited today about a topic that I've had bouncing

around in my head because I run into a lot of people

in our community that struggle with this issue. And maybe you struggle with it and you don't

even realize it. And today we're going to fix it. Because until we fix this one little issue

that you may not even realize is bouncing around in your brain, you simply can't succeed

to your full potential. And the issue we're

going to tackle today is simply this. Is arbitrage a morally virtuous activity? Now, some of you

may not even know what I just said. Let me break it down into plain English, real clear. So you can

enjoy this discussion and

debate. There'll be a link below or wherever you see the show notes for this show. If you go to

Silentjim.com, you can always see the show notes for every show. Let's talk about it there.

But here, let me put it in plain English. If I go into a retail store and they have widgets there for $10 a piece that are selling for $80 on eBay or Amazon or Facebook marketplace or wherever I might turn around and flip those for a profit, we call that arbitrage if I buy them for $10 and sell them for $80.

Have I provided any value to anyone? Have I actually put a valuable service out there to the world that I can be

proud of? Is it morally virtuous to take a product from point A to point B and make a profit in

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