Thoughts About Arbitrage Automation Tools

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Hey,

I have been putting together a scale-able Retail Arbitrage business model for about a week now and have found some great courses and tools across the web. I am well aware of all the perils and all that is needed to be successful, not only to fly under the ban/suspend radar with Amazon, Ebay and paypal, but also what level of automation in truly needed to really scale this model to a level where the cash flow is significant enough to make it worth all of the time and effort.

I am moving forward with both ProfitSpy and ProfitScraper for locating solid products on Amazon with enough margins to resell on ebay. Each tool does something a bit different with ProfitSpy scraping and comparing the same items on both markets so you can determine what items are worthwhile listing and ProfitScraper scrapes the ebay seller accounts of high volume arbitrage sellers you target in order to see what in their inventory sells the best, including quantity, frequency and margin.

Once I have identified the amazon items that I want to sell, I am seeking to automate as much, if not all of this process. This is where the go to player seems to be PriceYak. However, I was recently made aware of a platform called Arbitrize... This tool seems to automate even more than PriceYak and although they take a piece of every listing, it appears worth it at first blush based on all the platform will do for you.

The other important elements of this process appear to be; using private proxies and VCCs to set up several new amazon accounts with prime trials each month in order to spread out fulfillment and fly under the radar with amazon, as well as (last but not least) the CROWN JEWEL of the game, an aged, high limit ebay account(s) tied to a solid, aged paypal account(s).

I have my own aged high limit ebay acct and a matching paypal account but my inclination to scale as quickly as possible and go wide over deep all day long brings me to the place of considering buying aged ebay stealth accounts and herein lies the rub...

My main questions that I would appreciate thoughts and feedback on are:

1) With all of the sources out there for these accts, how do you find the right one?
2) Will a virtual bank acct and a FEIN obtained from a legit LLC do the trick in taking over ownership of said accts?
3) On the issue of automation, does anyone care to share thoughts and experiences on PriceYak vs Arbitrize?
4) Same request on ProfitSpy and ProfitScraper?

and lastly, can any of you experienced DS'ers / retail arbitrager's tell me if I am missing anything glaring or critical to this overall process here?

Thanks!
#amazon #arbitrage #automation #ebay #thoughts #tools
  • I guess no one playing the Retail Arbitrage game frequents this forum? Hmmm...
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    EnterprenuerEmpire,

    Its been a few months, how have you managed? I'm just starting this idea as well and wondering how things have gone for you?

    Thanks
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