Little tutorial: how to get products for free and make passive income with amazon

I have a little method that i want to share that can earn you some passive side income + you will get some free stuff. If nothing works for you i think this is almost fool proof. However, you will need to put work in this is not for lazy people. It's not a get rich quick scheme. Some people even make big money by doing this (not this exact method but similar) however it's a numbers game in the end.

Anyway, for this method you will need an amazon associates account, youtube account and/or website + a facebook and paypal account.

Step 1/ Go to facebook and search for: amazon product review groups. These are groups where you can get free products on amazon from the sellers in exchange for a positive review. This is basically a win/win situation the sellers get's positive reviews so makes more sales over time and you get something for free. The downside is you have to pay upfront for the products you buy on amazon. (so you need a little cash, not for completely broke people) Most sellers will pay you back only with paypal and after making the review. However if you build a good relationship with them (often sellers have multiple products they need a review for) then some will just give you the money upfront. This is something you would have to negotiate yourself.

Most of the products in these groups are just cheap chinese things like phone cables, phone cases, led lightning, smart watches, ... Sometimes you will find some cool gadgets tho.

Step 2/
Now that you got a free product of choice, made the review on amazon and got your money back. You can now use this product to earn some passive income with. Since this product is being sold on amazon you can link with your own affiliate links to the product and receive a commission if someone buys something. I think youtube is great for the purpose of making product reviews because often people want to see how a product looks like in real life before buying. Pictures say sometimes more than words and video is even better.

Make a youtube channel and upload a nice video where you review the product, then in the description put an affiliate link.

Pro's of this method:
You can pretty much "unlimited" scale this, there are always sellers who have products that need to be reviewed. And there are so many products on amazon, i think it's never saturated because of that reason.
Con's:
This is a numbers game. You need a shitload of views for this to make you enough where you are able to live from it. But on the other hand, where you find this magical products with crazy conversions. You can search for it a long time. It's more about being consistent.

Other variations on this method would be using a website instead of youtube. But i think it's less important in that case to actually own the product. While if you make a video you have to own the product. (unless it's a shitty powerpoint video with stock images)

basically selling review. how much you are earning this method.

Works great!

hi thanks for tutorial

Purush said:

basically selling review. how much you are earning this method.

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I find that a very irrelevant question for a few reasons.

1/ It's stupid to share exactly what you do and earn or people will just copy it, but sharing ideas is something noble.
2/ it simply doesn't matter at all because it's not at all guaranteed to have the same results. Online income can be very volatile to begin with and it all comes down to how much work you put in and what your strategy is.
3/ Make a guaranteed >100$ a day guides are all bullshit. Nobody can guarantee you anything unless you work a job and have a fixed hourly rate with a contract. It may seem hard to believe but i found it to be much contrary like the more people talk the less they offer. But it also may be that way because they create unrealistic high expectations to begin with.

So to answer your question, what i earn with this method doesn't matter. What you could earn with this method, probably between 1 and 10.000 dollar per month. It could be even more than that or even less, who's going to tell.

swjedinight said:

Works great!

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So, you tried this or are doing it?

Nice thread. Seen similar methods but not any that mentioned developing a good relationship with the seller.

There are scams in this kind of group : amazon product review groups. I have seen several people posted in this groups saying don't trust this seller. How can you trust the seller before buying it ?

There are many seller that pay, some upfront as op mentioned. There are also sellers that give you a discount code so you pay little or NOTHING at check out.

Cirrus86 said:

There are scams in this kind of group : amazon product review groups. I have seen several people posted in this groups saying don't trust this seller. How can you trust the seller before buying it ?

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I have not been scammed so can't really speak of that. But i think it doesn't make much sense for a seller to scam because you can change your very positive review to a very negative one. They might get away with it on a small scale but if they would scam people like that bigtime i think it would easily backfire into lots of negative reviews.

Besides that, you can sent products back to amazon if you don't like them (within 14 days?). They will refund you. Buyers on amazon are good protected, as a seller it can be a pain in the ass. Amazon tries to keep people happy, they don't even care that it costs them some money. Bezos is rich enough and he knows that people get addicted to the convenience and they trust them. You can get almost everything china made 70% cheaper on aliexpress, still people use amazon. Because apparently they rather pay to much then dealing with those asians (they can be hard to do business with)

Regardless of how much this method makes this kinda sounds fun. I like posting reviews in my spare time. I'm all over Yelp. Getting free or almost free or whatever stuff and doing little YouTube clips sounds like a good time. At least in my book. Maybe not in others.

Really appreciate you sharing this. I have one question:

I feel more comfortable with Word Press Websites because I have a few blogs. Can I get the products, then write a review with video or pics and use my associates account? Would this work? I just don't like YouTube as much as controlling my own blog.

Would appreciate your feedback. Also, thanks again for the info and tips. Really a quality post.

lastreporter said:

Really appreciate you sharing this. I have one question:

I feel more comfortable with Word Press Websites because I have a few blogs. Can I get the products, then write a review with video or pics and use my associates account? Would this work? I just don't like YouTube as much as controlling my own blog.

Would appreciate your feedback. Also, thanks again for the info and tips. Really a quality post.

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I think if you look at it from a scientific standpoint it's basically a math equation.

(Page views x Click-through-rate = total-clicks-on-your-links) For example you get 2000 views per day and 5% clicks on your links = 100 clicks
(total-clicks-on-your-links x conversion = total-sales-you-make) From 100 clicks 10% end up buying something = 10 sales
(total-sales-you-make x profit-margin = your-profit-without-expenses) 10 sales from let's say 80 dollar average x 5% profit margin = 40 dollar
(profit-without-expenses - expenses = total profit) 40 dollar - 2 dollar per day for site and hosting = 38 dollar

So to answer your question you would have to determine if conversions are higher with youtube than with websites. And if so, which one is the most easy to rank. I don't have enough data to make an accurate conclusion. (Since you would be promoting the same type of products on website or youtube the profit margin and price don't matter in this case.)

What are your websites about? Making one is not hard at all but it's getting shitloads of traffic imo. Especially high quality targeted traffic.
I find youtube easiers to start out with because video's will always rank a bit out of themselves without seo if it's not that broad of a topic. (= getting views on low hanging fruit) But a new website will not rank out of itself.

But if you are not good on camera you shouldn't be making them anyway.

In general i found reddit to be a goldmine for getting some traffic. You just have to be in the right subreddits and don't make it look like spam.

niel1996 said:

I think if you look at it from a scientific standpoint it's basically a math equation.

(Page views x Click-through-rate = total-clicks-on-your-links) For example you get 2000 views per day and 5% clicks on your links = 100 clicks
(total-clicks-on-your-links x conversion = total-sales-you-make) From 100 clicks 10% end up buying something = 10 sales
(total-sales-you-make x profit-margin = your-profit-without-expenses) 10 sales from let's say 80 dollar average x 5% profit margin = 40 dollar
(profit-without-expenses - expenses = total profit) 40 dollar - 2 dollar per day for site and hosting = 38 dollar

So to answer your question you would have to determine if conversions are higher with youtube than with websites. And if so, which one is the most easy to rank. I don't have enough data to make an accurate conclusion. (Since you would be promoting the same type of products on website or youtube the profit margin and price don't matter in this case.)

What are your websites about? Making one is not hard at all but it's getting shitloads of traffic imo. Especially high quality targeted traffic.
I find youtube easiers to start out with because video's will always rank a bit out of themselves without seo if it's not that broad of a topic. (= getting views on low hanging fruit) But a new website will not rank out of itself.

But if you are not good on camera you shouldn't be making them anyway.

In general i found reddit to be a goldmine for getting some traffic. You just have to be in the right subreddits and don't make it look like spam.

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--Thanks for the additional info. Very helpful.

niel1996 said:

What you could earn with this method, probably between 1 and 10.000 dollar per month

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Its not my intend to how much you are earning. Just to confirm this method works because i searched lots in facebook and most of the group comes with condition US only and some people are giving refund after we purchase by own. this is risky but can doable as you said some initial investment.

I can confirm. FB and those groups are legit, I've been pushing several of my products on amazon pretty successfully and cheap.
The con is that there is a chance of being scammed (from both sides). But it's always like that when you deal with something cheap like $5-10 reward.

Purush said:

Its not my intend to how much you are earning. Just to confirm this method works because i searched lots in facebook and most of the group comes with condition US only and some people are giving refund after we purchase by own. this is risky but can doable as you said some initial investment.

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I don't agree.

I just looked it up on their site. Amazon offers returns for most items within 30 days of receipt of delivery.
So if you get scammed simply just sent the item back and get a refund. You can also leave a very bad review as a middle finger to the seller.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=200572800

I don't know why any seller would do that. It will backfire to them hard.

niel1996 said:

I just looked it up on their site. Amazon offers returns for most items within 30 days of receipt of delivery.

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You are right in this part. I like the way you defending and explaining. Most of the US only , any method to overcome that.

Purush said:

You are right in this part. I like the way you defending and explaining. Most of the US only , any method to overcome that.

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Most are indeed for the US but some also Germany, UK, ...
Kind of depends where you live.

You could ask for international shipment. If you have an US account some sellers will do international shipment but i think it kind of depends how hungry they are. For them it's a greater cost but i found there are always more sellers than product reviewers so some don't care if they really want the review bad.

Getting banned is probably a greater risk than getting scammed.

But you should let it look a bit natural. Like if you only review 1 seller and give all his products 5 star ratings it might look a bit suspicious to amazon. But if you rate different sellers and sometimes put in a negative rating for a random product you hate. Then it looks pretty normal.

I don't know what their tos says about it or how exactly they monitor for fake reviews. It's a good question.
But since the return of your money is mostly with paypal and communication on facebook they can't really know you have a relationship with them. Unless the reviews itself are very suspicious.