Amazon Product Reviewers - Ever Tried This?
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Hey I just want to throw something out there and see if anybody has tried this, and if it has yielded improved results.
I'm a wheeling-and-dealing type of person who will often buy products just to try them. This is most prominent in my electronic music hobby. I frequently buy drum machines/samplers just so that I can try them out, with the intention of probably just using them for a couple weeks and then I tend to flip them back onto ebay or to friends who want to buy them. I get the experience of trying out these various machines and I only lose maybe 10%-20% of what I payed to "try them out".
Well, I'm also setting up a lot of amazon review sites, and one thing that always bugs me is that I don't have any better pictures than what's available from the manufacturer. Or that I don't have any original video.
The sites and reviews still convert, but I think they could do better.
I got the idea to start buying the products that I write about on these sites, take a bunch of photos/videos to use as content fodder, and then take the item and sell it on Ebay to recoup a good chunk of the product cost.
This will take some cash flow, of course. Let's say I buy a $200 product from Amazon, open it, take a bunch of photos/videos, and sell it on ebay, I'll probably lose about $20-$40 by the time I get rid of the product, maybe more if I'm not careful. However, I will get very unique original content for the sites and reviews, and not have to pay the full price of the item.
I think this could be done with higher ticket items, and not have too much of a dent on cash flow since the product is being flipped, not kept.
Compared to what I pay for outsourced writing and SEO, this is a minimal cost.
Surely this must not be an original idea, but it's something that I've not seen on any other sites that review products and send people to Amazon. Everybody just uses the same standard manufacturer pictures and the sites don't stand out from competing affiliate sites.
Anybody out there that's tried anything like this? Did it improve conversion rates? Did it cause cash problems? Good experiences? Bad?
I know some people buy the products after the reviews are proving to convert so they can beef the pages up, which is very similar to this idea - but has anybody tried this flipping products solely for unique photos/videos?
I'm a wheeling-and-dealing type of person who will often buy products just to try them. This is most prominent in my electronic music hobby. I frequently buy drum machines/samplers just so that I can try them out, with the intention of probably just using them for a couple weeks and then I tend to flip them back onto ebay or to friends who want to buy them. I get the experience of trying out these various machines and I only lose maybe 10%-20% of what I payed to "try them out".
Well, I'm also setting up a lot of amazon review sites, and one thing that always bugs me is that I don't have any better pictures than what's available from the manufacturer. Or that I don't have any original video.
The sites and reviews still convert, but I think they could do better.
I got the idea to start buying the products that I write about on these sites, take a bunch of photos/videos to use as content fodder, and then take the item and sell it on Ebay to recoup a good chunk of the product cost.
This will take some cash flow, of course. Let's say I buy a $200 product from Amazon, open it, take a bunch of photos/videos, and sell it on ebay, I'll probably lose about $20-$40 by the time I get rid of the product, maybe more if I'm not careful. However, I will get very unique original content for the sites and reviews, and not have to pay the full price of the item.
I think this could be done with higher ticket items, and not have too much of a dent on cash flow since the product is being flipped, not kept.
Compared to what I pay for outsourced writing and SEO, this is a minimal cost.
Surely this must not be an original idea, but it's something that I've not seen on any other sites that review products and send people to Amazon. Everybody just uses the same standard manufacturer pictures and the sites don't stand out from competing affiliate sites.
Anybody out there that's tried anything like this? Did it improve conversion rates? Did it cause cash problems? Good experiences? Bad?
I know some people buy the products after the reviews are proving to convert so they can beef the pages up, which is very similar to this idea - but has anybody tried this flipping products solely for unique photos/videos?
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