Weisbrot: I lost $5,000 selling 2016 election bumper stickers via Amazon FBA
Sean Weisbrot · Rich People Are the Best Evangelists in the World - Here Is Why · Apr 1, 2025 · at 24:01
Host Sean Weisbrot discusses past e-commerce mistakes while analyzing direct-to-consumer failure modes with Startups.com Chief Strategy Officer Ed King.
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“Lost 5000 dollars doing it. This was 2016, the summer of 20 16. For the election. I saw people selling bumper stickers related to the election and they were killing it on Amazon. I mean, thousands a day, two dollars, three dollars for fucking bumper sticker. So I said, I'm gonna sell a bumper sticker and it's gonna say, give me a dollar or I'm gonna vote for Trump. Or give me a dollar and I won't vote for Trump. Some of them like that. I was on Facebook groups. I sent it to these reviewing communities trying to get, you know, reviews for Amazon. They stole my product. I got his meaning. I gave it to them in exchange for reviews. I got zero reviews. So basically I lost a hundred units for no reason. I sold no units and then Amazon charged me 1500 dollars to dispose of the units that were on the shelf.”
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