Dylan

@kip_roland Yeah, I'm still waiting to meet someone who pivoted out of Amazon and regrets it. My closest business partner, who scaled alongside me for a year, dipped out in January and he's already making more money elsewhere. These stories make my day and give me hope.

Amazon doesn't care if you're innocent. One listing I forgot to delete cost me $53,000 and nearly my entire business, all while my wife was in labor with our first son. The story of the worst and best week of my life... It started in late January 2025. I woke up to the Amazon violation that threatened to suspend my account. A double violation... the kind that kills accounts. My heart sank into my stomach. I felt like I was free-falling. And as if the universe has a twisted sense of humor, my wife went into labor with our first son that same week. I was sitting in the hospital, holding my newborn son, while secretly checking my phone, watching my business burn to the ground. The highest high and the lowest low, all at once. It was an impossible feeling to describe. Before you think I deserved it... I was actually innocent. I had already pulled all inventory for the flagged product. But I forgot to delete the listing. In Amazon's eyes, that's "intent to sell counterfeit products." My appeals went nowhere. The lawyer I hired for $4k was a waste. The financial bleed became brutal: → Refunds: $25,000 → Inventory fees: $21,000 → Consultant for a new account: $3,000 I was out $53,000, with a newborn at home and my main source of income gone ($1.7m revenue). I felt like a failure and was frantic. But that rock bottom moment forced my hand. I had to pivot, and I had to do it fast. That month, I dove headfirst into live selling. It was a desperate move, but it was the best career decision I ever made. Today, we're building a million-dollar liquidation live selling business. That catastrophic week was both the worst and best of my life. It almost broke me... but it also showed me the way forward.

Enough said. Only growing from here.

@Sole_Republican Depending on your margins, your lapping mostly everybody else.

I be talking hella crazy on X I better fucking make it😂😂

@7FigSaykho People that talk about j1gging haven't fought a Sec 3. Your 100% right, no questions asked.

Look brudda I'm not saying u can't j1g. Do what ya want. It's a free country. I'm jus saying you couldn't pay me to j1g. I'd rather drop the entire supplier than add random characters to my name/address. All you need is the wrong account health case and you'll feel what I'm saying.

@GavinSweeneyy @7FigSaykho Not just the Section 3, literally just a piece of it.

@FBA_Dylan @7FigSaykho It was fine back in 2020, the second section 3s came into play it was dead

I'm at the point where I refuse to j1g purchases If I have to change my name to Fredick Douglass for my orders to go through I'll just find someone else to buy from. Cuz who's about to explain to Amazon how Mr. Douglass is my best employee I choose peace

@ecomnickg Margins on Shopify is what keeps me grinding. $10k days on Amazon at scale have the same profit as $2-3k on Shopify.

I’m returning to my regularly scheduled business tweets. First tweet: Finally hit 100K sales in a 30 day period for Shopify brand. Far from rich, most of it reinvested, but achieved 41% net margin. More profit from this than my best Amazon month (203K Dec Rev - 15% margin)

@ReezyResells @Sole_Republican Good stuff Reezy. It's crazy that everybody complains all day on X about their business model, but they don't pivot. When they finally pivot, they make a lot more money and realize how stupid their previous model was. Always humbling.

I’m not selling anymore, I found a way better way to make money on amazon and it doesn’t involve spending money, shipping products, customers, or even leaving my house not to mention I don’t have to deal with Amazon’s fees or brand gating 6 figures net profit year one, with $0 overhead and only working 10-15 hours a week The “real operators” can keep pursuing the worse business model 😂

I first learned about Amazon through Reezy all through respect. But he said it him self selling the dream is more profitable then building the business you trying to selling, respect to Reezy for the honesty. But that time have pass you made your money, time for the true operator to shine now💪💪

@Sole_Republican @7FigSaykho Yes.

@7FigSaykho Don’t this wipe out more OA stories?

@FBA_Chris Wonder when people will finally wake up.

Nothing like Amazon gating your most popular and best-selling brand because they feel like it… 2 weeks to sell through all inventory. This is why people move off the platform.

@EcomCJ 100%

@FBA_Dylan Organic drop shipping… Good shit man! I really want to exit from the scale we’re doing on wm/amzn as well but need to get more up and going overhead is silly

This could potentially be the best thing that happened to me. Haven't been posting much on X here because I've slowly stepped away from Amazon entirely, and most likely for good. My current business has been way more rewarding than Amazon ever was for me. 90% of my day is spent learning new things and growing instead of just 90% dealing with "the junk" To top it off, I keep 75% of the revenue that I earn as profit. It's way less stressful being able to profit $200+ a day with only $300 in revenue. No orders to pack, suppliers work WITH me, and customers are handled fairly by my systems. I've lost money by failing, but very little money has been lost by getting screwed over. Not a post to brag or to down any business model, but sometimes the grass actually is greener on the other side.

@MethodFBA Dropshipping.

@FBA_Dylan Interesting, are you dropshipping or PL or what? I’ve been playing around with a fair bit of AI content for TikTok affiliate recently and have been tempted to look at doing something similar

@Abe2948 @EcomCJ Yes.

@FBA_Dylan @EcomCJ Are you dropshipping ?

@MethodFBA Organic videos/marketing --> Shopify website. Lot's of different names for this, but that's the basics.

@FBA_Dylan What are you doing now instead?

@EcomCJ Organic videos/marketing --> Shopify website. Lot's of different names for this, but that's the basics.

@FBA_Dylan So what’s the new biz/side hustle?

@TheHusbanAhmed Wouldn't say it's not going to work, but definitely going to be harder. If I was to go all in on a business model starting today, OA wouldn't make my top 3. Still works as is tho.

@FBA_Dylan I followed your Section 3 journey, and how you got reinstated, I was also reinstated last week. This whole arbitrage model doesn’t seem to be working anymore, and it likely won’t work in the future for new sellers either.

@SleekStash Yep.

Section 3’d 16 days later Amazon not playing around 2026

@christian_flips Just beat a 2-month section 3 recently, DM me.

The day I never thought would come. After 2M in sales my account is deactivated. I won’t blame anyone else, this one was on me. More on this later. For now, if anyone has gotten their account deactivated then reinstated, I would love to connect. Drop any suggestions below⬇️

@Flippin4Gold You should build a brand, just not starting out on Amazon imo.

Dont do PL. Problem solved 🤷