what's up guys hope you're having a
great day i am back from my dominican
republic vacation it was awesome and you
know what i got a little bit of a sinus
infection that i'm getting over so my
voice may sound a little different i
don't know how good this mic is at
picking up my voice but either way the
show must go on and in today's episode i
want to talk to you guys about you know
i don't even remember where i found this
uh someone might have sent it to me or
what i don't usually check for
account sales but you can in fact you
know exit your online business in this
case we're going to be talking about you
know when i say online business we're
talking about a merch by amazon account
and somebody
in what i'm going to call the god tier
because i've never seen a tier 400 000 i
didn't know it existed but somebody in
tier four hundred thousand i mean they
might be by themselves up there i don't
even know uh they are selling their
merch account
for
1.67
million dollars and if anybody wants to
go ahead and spend that kind of money
that account can be yours today now of
course this is not an advertisement i
have nothing to do with the sale of this
account i just thought it was
interesting it helps put things in
perspective
that we are building a real business
here we're making monthly income month
over month over month and as we scale
we could potentially be working towards
a significant payday
should we choose to exit the business so
we're going to take a look at this
account specifically in this video so
let's get started
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amazon sellers all right let's check out
this 1.7 million account so guys we're
going to be taking a look at an empire
flippers.com listing i'll link it in the
description in case you want to check it
out but this actually reminded me back
when i first started merch by amazon
and didn't even know what it was one of
the things that caught my eye
was this listing right here behind me so
back in like what probably 2017
i think
uh somebody sold a merch by amazon
account just yeah i mean this was
probably 2017 honestly uh if not 2018.
but somebody had sold a merch by amazon
account back then for 234
000
at a 27 x forward multiplier
crazy right i mean that is still a lot
of money but it was even more back then
before kovid before the uh
dollar got debased big time uh so this
is just you know it just took me down
memory lane i was like oh yeah empire
flippers that's where i first heard
about it was somebody was selling a
merch account and then i was like man i
need a merch account because if people
are flipping accounts for this much
money you know there might be a future
in this for me
now fast forward to today
and we have come quite some way so
this listing on empire flippers
is for a merch by amazon account
actually it looks like it was created in
july 2018 so probably even after that
previous sale that i just showed you
took place
they've listed their account for sale
now it doesn't mean that they'll
actually close the sale but
1.669
million
dollars okay basically 1.67 million
dollars
uh they make 50 58 000 in monthly
revenue roughly 39 000 or 40 000 let's
just round up in monthly net profit
this is crazy guys and this is based on
12 months of data so
we're gonna read the description of this
account but also
just take that in for a second not only
have they been making this profit and
keeping it and what is that that's you
know 12 times 40 000
that's 480 000 a year in profit
off of merch by amazon and then they get
to exit
at 1.67 million on top of what they've
been making so just keep that long term
and i'm not telling anybody that you
have to sell your account ever like i'll
probably never sell my account
especially because
i've got my fba business
and my kdp business all under the same
roof which would make doing this
infinitely harder
that being said you know not everybody
has that situation like you can actually
see right here in the sidebar
this seller has a kdp account underneath
the same email address so that's going
to have to go as well but their merch
account has 86
417 live designs
370 000 live products let's read the
listing summary so they say this listing
is for an amazon merch business created
in july 2018
in the apparel and categories niche this
well-aged business has a solid history
of year-over-year growth and the seller
has a tier 400 000 merch account sales
are moderately distributed amongst the
top selling designs with the 10
best-selling designs earning roughly
26.5 percent of total revenue
minimal effort is required to maintain
the business at this time as the designs
are outsourced so
you get the employee contracts that's
why they listed this over here on the
sidebar
the you're not going to inherit all the
responsibilities you know they have a
team in place at a minimum to do the
designing
the business earns primary revenue
through merc through amazon merch in the
us uk and german marketplaces there's
minimal revenue from the japan
marketplace
increasing marketing efforts and
expanding to additional international
amazon marketplaces could offer an
attractive avenue of growth for a buyer
the business has been entirely passive
since july 2021. previously the seller
spent time overseeing designer work
monitoring sales and analytics and
checking advertising campaigns the
seller works with two designers located
in the philippines both of whom are
aware of the sale
one or both of the designers would be
willing to continue with a buyer
areas of growth identified by the seller
include scaling pay-per-click campaigns
so advertising
expanding to off amazon sales channels
which i love you guys know i love that
and expanding the product line of course
the more products you sell more money
you'll probably make
the seller offers the same designs on
seven other print-on-demand platforms
the accounts for which are not currently
included at the sale at the buyer's
discretion these seven platforms can be
acquired or they can be deleted more
information will be provided to active
buyers so that's actually pretty smart
because a buyer
that doesn't know i mean i don't know if
you have 1.7 1.67 million to spend on an
amazon account
you probably know the weight
that locking up amazon carries and that
ranking on amazon carries but to an
uninformed buyer they may actually be
willing to like pay you to either delete
or sell those accounts to them as well
at a higher i can just picture it like
people that aren't in this in the know
like us
would
weigh
they would weight this too heavily
they'd be like oh i'm gonna lose all
these sales to the seven other places
that you're selling these you know in
reality it's like no amazon on that pie
chart probably represents 90 percent of
the pie if not 99 on i'd guess 99
honestly um because we just know amazon
soaks up so many sales maybe not etsy
but um
you know at least like 90 i would guess
all right next amazon stopped operations
for merch by amazon following the start
of the pandemic in march 2020 which
negatively impacted sales in the
following two months more information
will be provided to unlockers who
schedule a call with the seller so i
guess empire flippers facilitates a call
with the buyer seller potential buyer
and seller the sale includes an amazon
kdp account with no content books which
provide minimal revenue the revenue from
this account has not been included in
the p l statement
so as expected this person is really
just focused on
merch by amazon
so here you can see behind me uh you can
actually look at a bar chart of their
all-time
revenue and sales it looks like december
2020 they did over a hundred thousand
dollars in revenue eighty-eight thousand
dollars in profit that is ub
absurd how in the world so that means
they only spent 15k on ads man there is
just crushing uh and i'm guessing that
because you see the gap between revenue
and profit
i mean that could actually be them
factoring in what they pay their team
uh but i'm guessing not if i had to
guess just to make this account look
more attractive for a sale uh but i
could be wrong uh it also could be
advertising you know i did mention that
like back in the day you could get an
advertising account even without the
invite to merch by amazon
you know one of my biggest regrets is
not utilizing mine as much as i should
have been and you know you live and you
learn uh but you know i had that through
us an alternate channel so i had the
ability to advertise back when like not
many people did and uh yeah
underutilized so is what it is uh
anyways guys i think that's really all
we can take away from this
the reason real reason i wanted to share
this is not to you know i know i know
that even the concept of like oh my god
selling an account is gonna rub some
people the wrong way because
somebody wrote on the resource page
somewhere that you're probably not
supposed to do this but at the end of
the day guys remember it's like it's
your life it's your business like you
can sell this if you want to empire
flippers is here to help you facilitate
it should you choose to uh if not you
know this is still going to go on in the
world around you it makes no difference
in our lives right if we're not a buyer
or seller so i just wanted to put this
in perspective that hey it's a long term
business not only are we making money
month to month in this case hand over
fist you know that means six almost 60k
and monthly revenue 40k profit um you
know half a mil a year just about
but there's an exit
potential you know exit plan at the end
with a huge payoff
all right and you know that's not only a
down payment on a house that is a house
that is a mansion uh depends on where
you live actually but you know that's a
big big chunk of change guys so anyways
thank you for watching this video until
the end i do appreciate you and your
time i'm gonna go rest my throat because
it's getting a little sore from talking
so much but guys have a great day
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