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Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by awaywopassd on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @12:52PM (#17961367)
You were likely buying from a 3rd party seller.

I know of some people who do this. Basically, list tons of items on Amazon from local speciality stores, Costco, etc. They markup prices, of course. Then once a day, on their way back home, they pickup stuff that was bought, pack it at night, and then ship it in the morning. You are basically paying for someone else to shop.

I was introduced to this side-hustle by my friend and did this for a few months, but it was too much of hassle for very little return. Very hard to scale.

Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by vel0city on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:32PM (#17962157)
Even better are the drop shippers, who just scrape retailers online and create marked up listings on Amazon. When a user orders from their Amazon shop, they just place the order immediately on the boutique shop with the buyer's delivery information. Get a lot of these scripts running, and you can make a good bit of money.
Re:Amazon is stuffing its search results pages with ads by jessaustin on Wednesday September 12, 2018 @12:58AM (#17965673)
At least, that's what the paid online "run your own dropship business" courses would have us believe...