Today, guys, you're going to hear a true life story from me about how one of my former business partners got kidnapped, and I actually had to pay a ransom of over $100,000 from an Amazon business just to get him out.

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How's it going, everybody?

Welcome to another episode of the serious sellerist podcast.

I'm your host, Bradley Sutton, and we're going to do something a little bit different today.

It's going to be a story time with Bradley episode, all right? I want to give you guys one of my craziest experiences as far as

working with any Amazon related company. I'm probably going to have a few of these, but this is a

pretty crazy one. I might need to sell the rights to the movies one of these days. All right,

well, it might not be that interesting, but I think you guys will find it kind of crazy, all right?

So, as some of you may or

may not know, my journey with Amazon actually started, you know, maybe five years ago or so,

one of my old partners, you know, came to me and he was like, hey, I'm going to start a cell phone

case company. I would like you to join. Now, these were in the days, it's not like today.

That's kind of like a joke. Like, hey, let's get into cell phone cases. You know, that's a joke because we all know cell phone cases are so saturated and things. This is way before then. This is in the Galaxy S3, S4 days. S4 had just come out. So I'm not sure what year that was. but anyways, you guys can look that up.

So this was somebody who I had been working with for years. S4 had just come out. So I'm not sure what year that was, but anyways, you guys can look that up.

So this was somebody who I had been working with for years.

So, you know, it was a Korean gentleman.

I had partnered with way back in like 1998, what was the first time I started, or 1999 around there.

We had started a company for aftermarket car parts. This is when the Fast and the

Furious came out. And I had started the company where we were, you know, taught, we were selling

aftermarket cars or aftermarket parts like body kits and exhaust systems and intakes for Korean

cars. I had a Korean car at the time. And I was like, hey, I would love to make parts from my car, and I saw that there's a big need. Everybody was making stuff for the Japanese cars, and I was like, hey, I want to be able to be the source for Korean cars. I was like 19 years old, and the business was doing like a million dollars a year in the United States. So it was pretty, it was pretty successful.

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