Hey, It's Beau Crabill here
and I'm gonna talk about why you should never
invest into any Amazon automation store
and why pretty much Amazon automation stores
are a complete scam
So, you know, I made a video not too long ago about
why Amazon automation packages may be a scam
'cause I saw a lot of them coming up
And I did not expect at all
that these people continue to just keep
growing, and growing, and growing, these automation people
'Cause I just figured, you know what
people would just have common sense
and they know this is a scam
And now after my Facebook messages and my Instagram messages
my YouTube comments and e-mails just getting
flooded with all these people telling me about how
they invested into these Amazon automation scams
and are out 25k, out 30k
Have suspended stores, have a bunch of products now
or their funds now locked up by Amazon
And there's a bunch of nightmares
And people are afraid because of a couple of reasons why
Now before I get into this video, I'm literally going to be showing you
like actual messages from people who invest in Amazon automation
I'm not gonna say their names, none of that stuff
I had a previous video where people actually commented on and
you know, they said their stuff
But I'm just making this video
just have full transparency to protect people
that I've seen have a lot of evidence that people are
wasting a lot of money into these scams
So to keep it transparent, you know, I do sell on Amazon
I don't do automation because I know
drop shipping has a lot of mistakes
So let me get right into it
So first off, why you should never invest in Amazon automation
is 1, it's against the Terms of Service
So if you're doing any type of automation
or drop shipping that is going from retail stores
like Walmart, you know, Best Buy
Any types of these vendors these people say suppliers
and drop shipping to a consumer, that's against the Terms of Service
Second point to make
even if you are doing it within the Terms of Service
it's gonna make no sense, and it's gonna be doing an FBM
I saw some idiotic people post about
how they're gonna be getting into Amazon FBA wholesale automation
And one thing I wanna let you make clear
because this is also gonna lead to the third point after this
is any type of drop shipping is FBM
If you know anything about Amazon, the basics 101
If you wanna get sales, you have to win the buy box
The #1 way not to win the buy box is doing FBM
So if you do any type of drop shipping, you're not gonna win the buy box
For anyone who has no idea what that means
and that's going over your head
that means you're practically gonna get no sales
And it means that if I am competing against you, a drop shipper
and that any form of drop shipping
Even if it's from wholesalers, legit ways within the Terms of Service
Or if it's doing the actual against Terms of Service
drop shipping from retail to consumer
you're gonna be listing an FBM
So that means you have to be 15.1% lower than my price
me doing an FBA on the same exact product, to make any money
So now you're competing against people like me
And where wholesale is where, or
I don't even like to call it wholesale
'cause that's actually the incorrect term for it
What I do is online retail
where most the business is at on Amazon
You're gonna be competing against me
who 1, is gonna have a lower cost
So point really #2 I'm making is
it's not gonna make any economic sense
You're not gonna make any, it's
The margins are not there
So when people are guaranteeing that you're gonna make
a certain ROI, or say you're gonna get $100,000 a month store
And they're showing you all these testimonials that
there's evidence that they're faked
it's not realistic and the numbers are not there
So keep that in mind
Anyway, but if you're competing against me
you have to be 15.1% lower, and I'm gonna have a lower cost
I know this wholesale industry, I know how wholesalers work
and I know how to do online retail
And if you decide to not buy up front from your suppliers
you're gonna have higher cost
So let's think about that
You send over 30k to some people, you send them a wire
because most of them don't even have
merchant accounts that can accept payments on
You know, some people, they actually have you do financing for it
Idiotic, it's really stupid
They then are doing a business model
where you're trying to compete against me
who is doing it himself, doesn't have expenses
not cutting into your profits
And my cost is lower, and I can sell 15% higher
and Amazon's still gonna give me more sales than you
So 2, it's not gonna work
Third thing, all these people are complete shams for guaranteeing
that you're, they're gonna give you 100%
You know, $1,000 or $100,000 a month store
So this brings me to the like, this third point right here
that these people who are promising
And they will say in the fine line, alright?
So actually, I'm gonna get to the point right now
Actually reading the messages I have on Facebook from this one guy
So I'm gonna put them up here, I'm not gonna say the person's name
But again, the third point I wanna make is that
these people have absolutely no experience
to be able to guarantee you
And know, in their fine line, they're gonna not say guarantee
Which, if they're perceiving that as is
If they're showing you all these testimonials that, you can do this too
Completely wrong, but
Here's the person who invested 30k into an Amazon automation package
And before I get comments
Which, you know, if you have comments
feel free to comment down below
Before I get to the comments, I'm gonna let you know
people are gonna be asking, oh, is X, Y, and Z a scam?
Is this person a scam? Is this company a scam?
Is this service good or bad? Which one's a good service?
To just keep it very simple, all of them are not a good investment
And I know that because I have complete evidence from lots of people
and I know how the Amazon business works
So 1, there's lots of people losing money
people with tied up money in their stores
This person I'm about read literally sent 30k and got 0
Got his account suspended
asked to wait 6 months to get his money back
From Amazon, not from the company
They're not gonna give him any refunds
Practically, all these people don't even have a refund policy
They will say they have a refund policy
but they'll just give you the middle finger when you ask for one
And I have evidence of that too
And again, this is for all of 'em
So this guy, the person said
Hi Beau, watched your videos on YouTube
about automation and really found it insightful
Unfortunately, I'm here because I found out
the hard way from an automation company
And he says, he found out some whatever information from them
and he states, basically they're running a total fraudulent
marketing campaign that's very deceptive
Which is very true, these people are
Literally on one of the people's sites
I saw that their employees and sales reps are the testimonials
which is really awful
Yeah, so he says that he found out that
they were sourcing their inventory was never revealed
until after purchase, bla bla bla bla
And he says, he found out that his account
was frozen because of the inauthentic claims
So if you do drop shipping, if you're selling name brands
This is why, you know
These people have no ethics for taking in
25k, 30k from people because
if you get someone's account suspended
You know, Amazon can just randomly suspend people sometimes
You shouldn't be taking money from people
But anyway, this person's account got suspended because
when you're doing drop shipping on Amazon
Even if you're doing it within the Terms of Services
you are a huge red flag inside Amazon
And they will shut you down for no apparent reason
Because of that, right?
If they, so if Amazon
they see multiple different locations ship from addresses
they're not gonna like it
They're gonna put you as a red flag
so do keep that in mind
So let me read his second message about this
He says, there's a lot of us in similar positions
and we are not certain how to proceed
So this person right here, you can see the screenshot
he is saying there's a lot of us
And he says actually, over 20 in another message
and he has no idea how to proceed
'Cause the problem with this
the fourth issue I have with all these automation people
is they force people to sign
NDAs saying you can't talk bad about us
Now I'm not a legal adviser, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not an attorney
I do know a lot about business law just because
you know, I found out when you make a lot of money
people wanna try to take your money
so I've had to deal with a lot of lawyers
and just, you know, protecting myself
But yeah, you definitely cannot promise someone something
and if that is not true, you can't shut them up
So people that are listening to this video
yeah, you definitely cannot, you can't shut people down
So like, if people, you get scammed
like you are allowed
In America, I don't even care if the people are not in America
you know, you're allowed to say something about it
So he then says, do
And he's asking me this question, which again
You can ask me questions, but again, I'm not an attorney
He says, do we have a case against companies like this?
We're treading carefully and cautiously
while documenting a lot of things
before I figure out how to approach the scenario
But if you have any advice on how to move forward
that would be appreciated
So then he tells me, 'cause I
Then I just sent a message saying
how many people are affected that you know
And then, who are you a client of?
And I crossed 'em out
I've had pretty much every single automation person that sells one
I have evidence from them on these
He said, I would say 20 people that I've actually
personally sourced out and contacted have suspended accounts
Oh my gosh, okay
So 20 times 30k, $600,000
That's $600,000 of money sent to these people
that have gone literally 0
And that's just what that person knows
and that's just from one service
So all I have to say about this is
let's now just look at this as an investment
Now I know I'm rambling on quite a bit
but this person is just aware of 20 people
And again, that's $600,000 just shut it off the way
I then kinda helped him out a little bit on how he can, you know
get his money back from Amazon, you know, within 9 months
Sometimes 180 days, depends on what Amazon do in their policy
It's typically 90 days, Amazon will send you back your money
once it's been suspended
But let's just think about it, right?
So I'm a firm believer in my business that I never
allow anyone in my business
Any service provider, any business partner
any employee to do anything
I don't hire anyone until I've done it myself
So anyone who is thinking about doing Amazon automation
I suggest you to do this, go out and do it yourself first
You know, some of these people saying, oh
you know, you don't wanna do the work because we're professionals
These people are not professionals
Tell them to show them your
their Amazon history like 2 years ago
Look at their YouTube videos in the past
it's either they're doing, you know, some stuff that
I mean, I don't wanna talk bad about network marketing
but a lot of these people came from network marketing
For some very odd thing
literally every single one of these Amazon automation people
came through network marketing
I know some people really deep into the network marketing space
and they will literally tell me to my face
and their top dog in the MLM space
that yeah, overall, it doesn't work out
So, I think there's a lot of issues with that
But some people that, you know
they've probably been hurt themselves
That they kinda got scammed
when they were in those previous industries
And so they're like, I can go scam other people
There's that
If you look at these other people's YouTube videos
you can see them literally jumping from different topics
That they started with private label
now they're doing drop shipping
now they're doing wholesale, all these other stuff
So if someone doesn't have such experience with this
I'll be very cautious
because none of these people do have experience
So to be able to say, hey, you give us 30k
we make it more, is really idiotic
So as an actual investment, do it yourself first
Do it for 6 months
you're probably gonna get suspended
Otherwise, it's not gonna work out
Because what these people do, they
This is also just really funny
What these people do is, and I have this
literally information from an actual Amazon automation person
They kind of all use the same virtual assistants
If you don't know what a virtual assistant is
A virtual assistant is someone, typically in the Philippines
that you can pay really low wages for
Literally like, $3, $4 an hour
And supposedly, all these automation people
which, I have this direct information sourced from
someone who actually sells these
They're all using the same VAs
So let's think about this, your $30,000 investment
is being relied off some people in the Philippines
Which, I use VAs, and that can be very well
But probably, on average once a week
one of my VAs say hey, my electricity went out
Do you really want $30,000 on the line
for someone whose electricity goes out once a week?
There's a lot you can do with $30,000
And if someone's telling you they're gonna get X, Y, and Z
it's probably not gonna work, so
There may be a lot of people with a lot of testimonials out there
I have evidence that they're fake
I've seen people get like shut down saying, hey
you can't be talking about this, X, Y, and Z
You know, if you have any questions at all
feel free to comment down below
One thing I will say is, speak up
Speak up
If you have issues
I have people who have messaged me on Facebook
that literally are terrified
If you want to actually learn how to sell on Amazon
through the legit way
and how to actually make money on Amazon
then it's not gonna require $30,000 to get started
And that's not gonna require $2,000 to get started
Feel free to subscribe to my YouTube channel
It's free to do so, and I don't take $30,000 from you
Anyway, you like this video, comment down below
Have a great day, and I'll see you in the next video