Suavecito was the first product that Douglas Mrdeza listed to sell on Amazon back in 2014. He had ordered a bit too much of the specialty hair pomade for his barbershop in East Lansing, Michigan. He wanted to see whether he could offload some online.
It sold out. So, he ordered more. This time he paid Amazon some extra money to use its warehouse storage and shipping service.
"I did the calculation, bought what would have sold in a month and sent it in," Mrdeza says. "And it sold out in like a day."
He was hooked. He started selling more hair and beauty products on Amazon. Soon that part-time hustle became his full-time business, Top Shelf Brands....
How the scam works
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