February 2025 Income Report: $618 Net Profit
Slower month
Here’s last months’ report if you’re interested:
A much quieter month than January. Still trying to get general online arbitrage going.
Let’s take a look at February:
Profit and Revenue for February 2025
Total Revenue: $3,775.64
Items Sold: 87
COGS: $1,906.22
Biz Expense + AMZ Fees: $2,872.53
Net Profit: $618.46
2025 Net Profit: $6,518.48
About 30% of these sales came from generic online arbitrage. That is just a fancy way to say I am buying everyday products from other websites and selling them on Amazon. I use a combination of tactics to manufacture some margin and then resell on Amazon.
Some of those sales are only netting $4-$6 profit. But I had a realization that even just a catalog of 20 products that only do $50 monthly profit is a store that is doing $1,000 net profit. That’s an oversimplification but that logic has been a light bulb going off for me.
Automation Tools
One big development this past month was that I created a python script to automatically scrape deals off Amazon.
I bought a lot of deals but I’m a bit worried now that I was pressing too hard to make the new tool worth it. I’m going to keep developing it and probably set up a UI soon to make viewing the deals easier.
I don’t think any of these deals were worth buying. The tool is only looking at the last three months and using that average used sale price to determine the ROI.
I also am working on a chrome extension to fix a few things that I like to see differently on seller central. Any manual repetitive action I’m taking I want to automate as much as possible.
More to come on this soon.
Upcoming Articles
February inventory report
One year Amazon selling reflection
A tale of two replens
2025 Outlook
I have failed a bit at sourcing for OA. This needs to be a consistent and daily action. But life gets in the way, I get tired and lazy, and honestly sometimes I just forget the good ways to source.
I enjoy writing this newsletter, but even just figuring out my monthly P&L by each item was a pain. That is another task to automate.
My plan for now is to continue trying at OA and using the CLI tool to find some easy book deals. Build more capital and blow it all on used textbooks April - June.