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🗓️ 29 August 2025
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Can you make money buying Apple computers in one country and reselling them in another? In this episode, we explore the appeal—and the reality—of international tech arbitrage.
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1:37.2 | Can you make money buying Apple computers in one country and reselling them in another? |
1:42.6 | This is international tech arbitrage. That's the goal |
1:45.6 | anyway. Arbitrage itself is a classic entrepreneurial play. You are buying low, |
1:50.4 | you are selling high. But what if you tried it internationally using price differences between |
1:55.4 | countries because sometimes products like computers will have different prices in different countries or |
2:01.2 | regions even. So can you buy it somewhere, sell it somewhere else for a higher price, |
2:05.7 | therefore profiting? Could this be your next profitable side hustle, or at least somebody's? |
2:11.2 | That's what a listener is wondering. He's wondering if it could be his next side hustle. |
2:15.4 | Let's talk about the details. Let's unpack the fantasy and the friction. |
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