Need Advice!!!!!!Thinking About starting an Amazon FBA business.

[Bluemama99]

Hello newbie here!!!

So, I have been looking to start an online business for quite some time. I finally found Amazon FBA and according to what I have seen online and on YouTube, it looks like a promising idea.

I found a guy who can teach me how to go about it and also has a Facebook group. We had a conversation about it, and I am honestly thinking about it. I guess I am just looking to hear from you guys. Is anyone currently doing this? or has anyone ever tried to start a business online?

Your input is highly appreciated, Thank You.

Do you have the cash/time behind you to start? Only 60% of people actually make a profit in the first year, and loads of people lose money. DSis was looking at it last year and was horrified at the people left with unsellable product/CC debt as a result.

If you can afford to take the risk, go for it. But I think the market is already oversaturated and getting more so.

I assume this guy gets a cut. Therein lies the business.
its a saturated market with minimal profit margins, people will sell what you are selling cheaper than you can.

Its not a viable business in 2025

I am no expert because my selling on amazon has never gone beyond the hobby stage, but I thought that if you want to sell something on Amazon the key thing is working out what it is you want to sell and having strong evidence that it will sell. I.e., you need a business idea and a business plan, rather than just a platform. Where would your startup capital come from? Where would your training/small business support come from?

What you say about the guy with the Facebook page gives me pause - would you be paying him for business advice? Would he be taking a cut? Could this be some kind of pyramid scheme?

I'd be very, very, very wary of trying this if you haven't ever run your own business before.

When people are teaching a skill that can supposedly be used to make money, I assume it is the teaching that is profitable, not the skill. If the skill was so.good, the teacher would just be using their time to do it themselves.

It's the same when people have been sucked into MLMs and spend more time telling you that you too can make money selling scented candles (thereby creating competitors to themselves) than they do selling the candles themselves.

absolutely nailed it