A guy who sold $1.2 million worth of products on Amazon last year told me where every single item comes from.
Alibaba.
The $35 wireless earbuds he sells on Amazon cost him $3.80 from a factory in Shenzhen. The $28 phone case that gets 4.7 stars cost him $1.40. The $45 LED desk lamp cost him $6.20. The $22 resistance bands cost him $0.90.
He doesn't design the products. He doesn't manufacture them. He doesn't invent anything. He finds factories on Alibaba that already make the product, orders 500 units with his logo printed on them, ships them to an Amazon warehouse, and lists them with professional photos and optimized copy.
His average markup: 440%.
He told me something most American consumers have never considered: "Every product you buy on Amazon with a brand name you've never heard of and most of the ones you have is available on Alibaba at the factory price. You're paying a middleman to put it in an Amazon box. The factory doesn't care who buys. They'll sell to you directly for the same price they sell to me. You just don't know how to find them."
He showed me 9 things most people get wrong about buying from Alibaba and the system that lets anyone buy from the same factories supplying Amazon, Target, and Walmart.
Here's the full playbook 🧵
Somebody explain this to me please.
TESLA
Founded: 2003
Revenue: $98 billion dollars
Company Value: $1500 billion dollars.
BYD
Founded: 1995
Revenue: $113 billion dollars
Company Value: $98 billion dollars.
BYD has higher sales. More profits. Produces more EVs than Tesla yet its value is $1400 billion dollars less than Tesla.
Is Tesla a bubble or is BYD $1400 billion dollars cheaper ?
@umarsaif It’s Sualeh Asif, not Arif. Pakistan indeed has many talented youth like him, but they rarely get appreciated or supported at home due to incompetent and corrupt leadership.
You served as Federal Minister for IT. You were part of that corrupt government you mo**n
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@AymanAb53809364@66twn66@R_rty45 فيما يتعلق بالصراع بين إيران والسعودية، سنختار دائمًا السعودية ونقف إلى جانبها. نحن دائمًا ضد خطاب الحرب والتحريض عليها من جانب الإيرانيين، ومع ذلك، سنتعاطف معهم أيضًا لأن زعيمهم قُتل على يد الإسرائيليين بطريقة طائشة، وقد طالبنا دائمًا بإنهاء الحرب وإحلال السلام في المنطقة.
Indians do these things in Bollywood and make themselves happy. Afghans are now following the same path.
Meanwhile this is how Pakistan conquers Afghanistan in reality! 🔥🇵🇰
In Indian language: This is the real dhurandhar.
This really is cultural torture. Imagine you were part of Mamdani’s win — knocked doors, phone banked, and even overcame a series of abductions and attacks from the state — and then on election night it’s reported you won in a landslide. Then the vote counting is stopped and in the sloppiest, most brazen way, it is simply declared the next day that actually Andrew Cuomo won.
That’s what happened last February in Pakistan, with the full support of the United States and the Biden administration.
Now their Cuomo is rewriting the Constitution to add a 27th Amendment effectively making him dictator for life. Trump called him “my favorite field marshal.”
Pak contains the highest populations of Punjabis, Pashtuns, Sindhis and Baloch of any country. Pak is the successor state for all 4 of its major ethnic groups. No Afghan, Indian or Iranian gets to tell us otherwise. Pak is a Punjabi, Pashtun, Sindhi, Baloch country.