hey guys thanks for joining me for a new
video as you can see somehow it is
raining again while i record
my introductions i don't know how many
days in a row that is but i'm going to
keep this brief
in this video i just want to warn you
about a new scam called
amazon automation that's going around
and it carries a
crazy high price tag and sometimes i get
worried that people think
that because it costs a lot of money
that this must be really legit
and i mean it couldn't be further from
the truth this is gonna be a very quick
and easy one to debunk
so i'm gonna go jump on my computer and
we can dive into things
thanks again for joining me guys so
we're going to be diving into what
amazon automation
is i had to use the air quotes there
because the first time i heard that term
my spidey senses were tingling i was on
high alert that this was probably some
marketing phrase that somebody made up
in order to scam people out of
more money and once you guys see who's
behind this push which i know is gonna
look familiar to some of you
uh it's gonna start making a lot of
sense so we're gonna have some fun with
this video but real quick let me
introduce myself in case this is the
first time you've seen my uh my videos
or my channel i'm ryan hogue i've sold
over 1.8 million dollars on amazon to
date
if you want to follow the links in the
description i've got a fba facebook
group i'd love to have you there i also
wrote an fba mini course
one lesson delivered to your inbox every
day to help you get started i also
publish passive income reports
transparent income reports
on the first day of each month so if you
want to subscribe to my channel
you can follow along and see somebody
who's really doing it i also show my
income for amazon merch kdp
print on demand uh even adsense youtube
etc
i also wrote a full amazon fba course i
spent over a year writing it i stand by
that it's the most thorough course on
the internet
if you'd like to learn more check it out
link in the description all right
let's get back on topic what is amazon
automation
now i just put in small text underneath
it's a scam
because the reality is like once i
explain to you the business model
or actually i'm gonna let somebody else
explain the business model in a second
but once you hear about what's really
going on
the thought of paying somebody else to
set this up for you to me is
absurd so this guy i don't really know
him but he's got more subscribers than i
do on youtube and he does a pretty good
job explaining what this business model
is really all about so let's
turn it over to him so this video is
called is amazon automation a scam truth
revealed and i've got it set to play at
1.5 x speed because i'm a madman i am a
robot this is normally how i listen to
things
so y'all can try it out for the first
time unless you have me at 1.5 x speed
in which case you're gonna hear this guy
talk real fast cheaper than that
so this idea of amazon automation it's
really just another
name for amazon drop shipping
and if you're not familiar with what
drop shipping is drop shipping is a
really
simple business model and this is how it
works what we're doing is we are looking
for items that exist on another website
we'll use walmart as an example wm
stands for walmart
and we want to see that the item is also
available on amazon as well
then if we see the items on both
websites we list it for sale on amazon
once someone buys the item from us we
then buy the item from walmart
and ship it directly to the customer
right here
so we never all right so that's pretty
much the gist of things i don't think we
need to go any deeper than that
so amazon automation is really just
amazon drop shipping
you know the word automation gets people
excited maybe they felt like
that is a marketing term would justify a
higher price point
but underneath the hood it's really just
drop shipping from another website
to your amazon customers and if you take
one minute maybe two minutes just to
look this up before you bust out a
credit card and pay for this course or
service or whatever it is
scam really you can see i mean the top
half by the way the top half makes it
sound like this is okay
if you actually want to stop and read
this but the bottom half that's the one
that we're gonna read
examples of drop shipping that is not
permitted purchasing products from
another online retailer and having that
retailer shipped directly to customers
if the shipment does not identify you as
the seller of record
or if anyone other than you including
the other online retailer appears on
packing slips invoices or external
packaging
or shipping orders with packing slips
invoices external packaging
or other information indicating a seller
name or contact information
other than your own that is this
business model that
is amazon automation it's not the top
half which refers to what i call
drop shipped print on demand and it
doesn't have to be print on demand but
the top half is okay and if you follow
my content on like using the amazon and
printful integration
or printful etsy or printful ebay et
cetera where you can
hire a third-party company that
everything is
it falls within the terms of service for
you know selling on amazon and using
them to fulfill orders to your customer
that's perfectly okay
what's not okay is buying from walmart
and having walmart
ship the product to your customer also i
mean if you just
i didn't plan on going too in depth on
this but like
number one what if the product is
cheaper on amazon than it is on walmart
okay well now you have to find a new
product
and i've seen other youtubers go into
this further than i want to
where they actually like go find
listings on amazon with like 30 sellers
that have an offer and those offers are
all like undercutting each other by a
penny at a time
until it's basically a race to the
bottom and the margins are so small that
i think people may even be losing money
because don't forget amazon takes a
large referral fee
from each sale that goes through the
platform and i don't know if everybody's
remembering that
and again like when you do your
repricing
when you create offers that you're
planning on drop shipping
i don't i mean i'm sure some intelligent
programmer can write in
uh some logic to make sure you account
for the amazon fee but
if that's not there you could easily
lose money on this which is crazy and
then also
after you are making whatever the profit
is
i've heard that these courses then want
to take a cut of your profits so if you
make
you know it's gonna be incredibly hard
to make money but if you make like 500
bucks well you're gonna owe them
you know this guy on the whatever i
forget his name i should see
paul jay lipsky i'm looking at my tv up
there i've got him up there
uh he said that they take up to 50 of
your profits for a period of time so it
just sounds crazy in the first place
also
this is how i knew pretty much
immediately that this was a scam because
the person behind it
is a well-known fake internet guru
who pretended that he knew how to sell
on amazon
and was caught faking his
proof that he was an amazon seller he
forgot to add a comma
to his fake numbers this is well
documented you actually can't say the
person's
name and also i mean that's just a
blurred image of
a random person from the internet
because i'm being sarcastic there but
like
apparently he takes it so seriously
trying to protect and whitewash his own
image
which is straight out of the bill gates
textbook by the way if you do a little
research there
but he literally this person who's just
a youtuber and fake guru
hires a lawyer at all times to basically
whitewash his public image so anybody
who says his name apparently he
trademarked it it's not even his real
name by the way it's an alias
because he can't he couldn't do this
under his real name this level of
scamming which by the way
i keep saying scam just wait till you
see this so this is if you're interested
if you click one of the ads and you're a
potential
good fit for amazon automation the
buzzwords
they ask questions like you have to be
100 committed like they're already
trying to filter out people that you
know
can't afford it uh and they call it done
for you amazon business you know
uh but i'm sure even if it's completely
done for you there's
it's always there's always a catch right
how much cash
and credit credit in bold in all caps
could you get access to
what's your net worth value of all your
assets
equity in your home cars cash
investments i mean like life is already
hard enough in 2020 with what's going on
in the world
and they're just trying to literally
squeeze
what's left from people that fall into
these um
predatory funnels i mean i don't know
what to call it what's your estimated
credit score
you know it's okay if you don't have the
money now because while everybody's
losing their jobs maybe you can still
take out a line of credit
true or false i promised to show up for
the call so i didn't sign up for the
call
and i did this on my desktop computer
within one minute i was seeing ads on my
mobile phone
to finish the call so i mean these
people they're not good at selling on
amazon
they're expert marketers they're good at
marketing
this is why on the first day of each
month i put together a passive income
report and try to be as transparent as
possible with you guys about all of my
online business operations like how i'm
running them how they're doing
i have up months i have down months i
used to crush etsy i got kicked off etsy
instead of lying to you guys and just
making up numbers i said look i got
kicked off etsy i just keep it real
you know you don't have to lie about
this stuff so by the way if you guys
made it this far in the video like and
subscribe
if you prefer truth to fiction by the
way i looked up
a popular youtuber graham stefan who did
a video with this guy
and if you just scroll down to the
comment section
which by the way i mean take another
page out of bill gates playbook and
disable the comments
because people are eventually wise up to
what's really happening here
and you know your attempts at
whitewashing your public image and just
read the comments
he made off the money off the fools that
buy his scam course the fact you're
friends with the scam artist make me
reconsider subscription to your channel
his bridge came from ripping people off
with courses can you do a video about
name omitted for potential legal
ramifications
and his course being a scam because he
doesn't even have
an fba business graham i would advise
you to take this down this fraud is
finally
exposed and i don't want you to get hate
because of him and anyways guys you can
look up the youtuber coffeezilla all one
word coffeezilla
and he basically has a channel dedicated
to exposing
um just a bunch of frauds and i mean
he's gone to
great lengths to expose this guy too um
it's been done before i i don't have a
any legal protection if he comes after
me though so i'm not trying to say his
name
it's like it's like being in harry
potter you don't say voldemort right
all right so and then when you're going
through these funnels like one last
thing you know it's like featured in
forbes wall street journal entrepreneur
business insider guys
if you ever find yourself on someone's
funnel where they're trying to sell you
something and you see stuff like this
i promise you it took me two minutes two
minutes
to google google the person's name
plus forbes because it was first so i
just did it and i was like there's not
gonna be anything there was something so
i read the article went to the bottom
i mean i didn't read the article i just
went to the bottom i found somebody's
name associated with getting that
article published to forbes
and i reached out to him hey how much do
you charge for pr i'd like to get more
exposure for my brand that's all i said
and he said hey we charge 6099
for 10 placements on top sites how did
you hear about us and i said well i saw
you were able to get this scammer on
this website and
yeah guys it doesn't take too long to
debunk things and i
i would honestly just recommend in life
not just
when it comes to fake gurus online
trying to sell you something
in life just go a little bit deeper
scratch beneath the surface
look a little bit deeper please um i
want to say other stuff but like
literally i can't say things about
what's going on in the world today
even if it's verifiable fact because the
youtube sensors would potentially
remove my entire youtube channel and i'd
lose my livelihood so i can't
but um yeah i mean if this resonated
with you at all about just in life
you know being a critical thinker and
asking those questions then hit that
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