Is Amazon FBA Still Worth Starting In 2025? TRUTH Revealed

Here is the Truth about Amazon FBA in 2025, including an Amazon FBA Fee breakdown, the pros and cons and some secrets no one will tell you!

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My First Two Years In Selling On Amazon:

There are right and wrong ways to sell on Amazon and it’s not worth starting if you’re doing the old school private label or wholesale method. In this video, I will go over the different Amazon business models as well as the pros and cons of selling on Amazon in 2025. I will also share with you what I think the future of the Amazon FBA is.

My Numbers
Revenue: $801,343
Product Cost: $214,400
Amazon Pick-and-pack Fee: $114,993
Amazon 15% Fee: $117,278
Random Fees: $29,618
Amazon PPC: $39,635
Other Fees: $18,000
Profit: $267,419

4 Main Amazon Business Models
Retail Arbitrage
In this model, you go to retail stores and find products that are on a deep discount. You take the product and sell it on Amazon. The problem with this is it’s not a sustainable business model because you constantly need to go out to retail stores and look for products. It’s a good side hustle though for low-income companies or students.

Wholesale
In this model, you go to companies or manufacturers and you buy their product at a wholesale price and flip it on Amazon. While you can make money with wholesale on Amazon, there are three problems with this model. First, it’s getting too saturated. Second, there are established sellers that are just so far ahead. Third, a lot of the manufacturers are just going directly to Amazon.

Private Label
This is the most common one that new sellers are doing. It used to be extremely easy and it used to work really well. Basically, you find a product on Amazon that has high sales and low reviews. You can create your own private label version of this product. You slap your own brand on it. You go to Amazon and create a better listing and get more reviews. This is great in theory but there are four main problems why the private label is dead. First, it’s too saturated. There are so many people joining Amazon FBA every day, trying to private label the same junk products. Second, there are sellers that are way ahead of others. The third reason is China. China is going directly to Amazon. There are many times they are cutting out the middlemen because they are seeing the power of the Amazon platform. The last reason is Amazon Basics. Even if you find a really good private label product, Amazon will just copy it and create their own version of it.

Creating Your Own Product
It’s not too late to sell on Amazon if you create your own product. Create a product that you wish existed in the world that does not yet exist. Don’t just simply slap your own label on an existing product. You need to create a product that’s better. A lot of people are not doing this because it needs a little bit more work but there is a lot of big advantages. One of them is that you don’t need a lot of money to do it because you can raise money via Kickstarter. This is also one of the ways you can test the market. For my product, I was able to raise $15,000 on Kickstarter.

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[originalbiblestudywithJael]

It doesn’t matter whether it’s saturated or not. What matters most is how you can stand out. Those sellers who can’t make customers satisfied will be out of game. Those who can stand out and create value will make money, no matter when they join. Old brand can be out too, if they ignore their quality of service.

[digicash]

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[kennytee]

This video is saturated with him saying ‘too saturated’

[langwajohandupreez]

THERE ARE SO MANY FAKE GURUS AND PROMISES THAT WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHO-IS-WHO! TRAVIS YOU ARE HONESTLY AN EYEOPENER! AN HONEST MAN THAT REMINDS ME OF MY YOUNG DAYS IN THE 50'S & 60'S WHEN A DEAL WAS CLOSED WITH A HANDSHAKE! THANKS. I RESPECT YOU.

[jessarakelian]

honesty like this is much appreciated! just got verified as a seller and am starting out soon... super nervous and feeling a bit lost but content like this makes it all a bit more okay by the day! thank u!

[reacting_to_stuff_]

Dude even your peanut butter doesn’t sell and now you trying to scam people into paying you money for a course. Not cool

[beeisbad]

I know you're probably never gonna see this, but bro...YOU have absolutely INSPIRED me! In a time where the country is going through this pandemic and losing my job, YOU have giving me REALISTIC, NON-BULLSHIT, INSPIRING HOPE! Thank you for this video.... and I have just subscribed. Now I'm gonna take a look at your other videos and pray that you lead me out of this 9 to 5 hell!!! Thank you again, brother!!!

[brandonlink]

Dude doesn't realize all he did was private label nut butter. Bro, you didn't invent nut butter, you just changed it slightly and branded lol

[jasonmurray]

I'm making a bet that more people are going to move to e-commerce after COVID.

[silver]

Great dude. Super helpful and honest. Honest being the key word

[joea]

Always great content and very, very honest! Newbies like me really appreciate your generosity and guidance.

[Narx]

Dude, I have seen a LOT of videos on Amazon, and ultimately shyed away, but you are making me think its possible. I am more of a novel idea sort of guy, so the idea of doing it this way really sounds awesome.

[siendbhcixisj]

great to hear a success from start to finish, well done dude, all the best for the future! ... from Scotland

[Andre-wdeh]

when you say that other ways of selling on amazon are not that great, it's very true!
I used to retail arbitrage and it got harder and harder to consistently find products, not scalable and competition was getting stronger. Race to the bottom is very common. Ended up stopping that and will look into this new way!

[Moralesscalpmicro]

the problem is, how do you create your own products? the ideas are easy to come up with but the actual process is where im lost, like where do you even go to get your own products manufactured

[koltinsullivan]

Been on a 3-video spree watching your videos, thanks for the confidence to add my product to the market, subbed!

[garywateridge]

all said and done, for me that knows nothing about e commerce, but wants to learn, I find your presentation thought provoking and informative. Thank you

[ErezShahaf]

I have developed a product for about 4 months, this November I have launched, and made in one month 75k in sales and 30k in profit. 2 months have passed, my manufacturer now sells my products to many Amazon sellers despite our contract. Take in mind that even if you pay for tooling and molds, eventually you will not make money as long as you work with China. Things are getting really hard in Ecommerce, and the Chinese are going to be the big winners, unless the trade war escalates. Also, copycats are a real thing. It is impossible to keep a successful product under the radar in 2020. You may get sales for a month or two, and by then there will be 10 products like yours. It is currently happening to your nut product too.

[stpasiona]

Thank you so much. This is timely... I'm on the bridge of venturing into this line....