Make $1000/week with little knowledge, but hard work

Asif WILSON Khan said:

That's fair enough, maybe just give people a basic idea of how to put one together or what questions to ask a Dev, including what API's to use etc and what you think it would cost for them to buy a bot with similar features.
I think some people are afraid of hiring Devs because they don't know what is involved and don't have an understating of how bots are made or how much they will be charged.

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Right. Will do my best.

About the actual bot

General guidelines of how the bot I made is designed, and stuff you (or your developer) may want to take into consideration.

Of course, start off with a timer to read new orders from database (order gets put into database when user makes a purchase)
Start a new thread (multithreaded bot), and begin to process the order.

Initiate your web driver. This is essentially a web browser. Do not use the built in web browser as you may think, it's capabilities is poor,
and not suited for this task. Don't bother with curl and other stuff, it's about to become messy.

I used Selenium Firefox Driver. Navigate to product url, and use the WaitUntil command until "Buy now" button is ready (important! for some reason,
AliExpress is ajax-loading this. Very strange).

Start entering the customers address details. Again, for some reason, AliExpress switched between two different classes, and don't use
name-tags for their inputs. It took me a great while to figure this out, so might save you some time.

Resources: https://i.gyazo.com/9d958330d3b6b78a6a8484e7cb28f167.png

Validate the fields (important). I can post my very very messy code snippet for this, my excuse is that AliExpress backend acts weird with their naming..
https://i.gyazo.com/041796d478d913a9b290b73425025fbb.png

I also add a +.50 cents in case seller changed the price between when bot looked for cheapest one and when placing order. Happened once and
order never went through.

Check if captcha exist. If it does (probably), the workaround is complex.
As their captcha doesn't have a img-tag, you can't save it directly.

My workaround was to screenshot page, and crop the area where element is located.
Snippet (feel free to copy): https://i.gyazo.com/4c0271c62cdae745a99f3ed37a3b398e.png

Then send it to captcha solver service. I used Antigate (cheapest), if they failed, I moved to a while-loop with Anti-Captcha (more expensive) until it was solved.
Add a break of 3 or so tries here so it's not an bugged captcha. If so, call a click on "flush-captcha-image".

From there, all the hard parts are done. Click OK to proceed to payment, populate paypass-field with password and send order. Done!

Nice share OP. Somehow I agree that it's not really fair for the customer. But you can easily twist that part to something legal.

What do you do about customer service? Do you have a toll free number to accept calls, online chat, email support?

cnick79 said:

What do you do about customer service? Do you have a toll free number to accept calls, online chat, email support?

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No, nothing. I would never want to take those calls and having to explain break
the news to the customer that he/she would have to wait up to 40 days.

I only accepted email and didn't reply on questions, and refunded if customer was
extremely angry (to prevent dispute and ruin Stripe/PP-score further).

Again; this can be done so much better when it comes to the customer-connection part.

Hi,

First thanks for you contribution, is a great tutorial.

And now I want ask two simple question:

1- In your page https://freeium.com use some CMS?
2- I can do, when they buy through my page, it is automatically created order in AliExpress?

chiqui3d said:

Hi,

First thanks for you contribution, is a great tutorial.

And now I want ask two simple question:

1- In your page https://freeium.com use some CMS?
2- I can do, when they buy through my page, it is automatically created order in AliExpress?

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Hi there! My pleasure.
There is no public CMS or framework used for that one I'm afraid.
Yes, if you (or somebody else) create a bot that places the order on AliExpress.
I covered some of it in a few posts before. Check it out!

Asif WILSON Khan said:

I take it most of your traffic was coming from PPC?

https://www.facebook.com/freeium/?ref=page_internal

That site is only 9 months old and not active any more? For how long were you making $1000 p/d? Why have you abandoned the project?

http://www.whoismind.com/whois/freeium.com.html

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He makes 250k net profit every year for the past 3 years he doesn't need an active site...

yakuzaemme said:

** Update **
As I've had two PMs already about selling the script/bot/site, I will not. Neither will I revive this to work with you.

The purpose of this thread is to learn, ask question, get guidance of how you can do it too.
Don't have programming skills? Ask away on how to find the right partners (or use my AMA thread).

As I assume more PMs are to come:

• I am not selling or giving away anything, or will I work with/for you

Thanks for your understanding.

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Imaginary PMs

Sombrero said:

Imaginary PMs

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He is going say "mm I shouldn't be selling my bot but here you go" $300 scam boom

Thanks op.
Your method is unique no rehash.
Especially the ads tutorial
+ complete website exemple
+ads exemple.
Thanks

great tutorial, thanks buddy

Your site is awesome, very well designed...is it on wordpress, if yes, which theme are you using or html / php , self coded?

Is that you franklin?

Interesting method! I have heard something similar in the past, but using the bot is pretty cool. Not sure if I would trust a bot with it though.

On a side note, would it be easier managed to just hire someone part time/full time to manually do the work for you that the bot would be doing?

yakuzaemme said:

• The site is not active. You should not place an order. It is for demonstrational purposes.

• I repeat: Do not order. This is no advert for that website. Study and learn from it instead.

• I repeat, once again: Do not place an order. I am not looking to promote the website.

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Until next week

CaptainJackSparrow said:

Interesting method! I have heard something similar in the past, but using the bot is pretty cool. Not sure if I would trust a bot with it though.

On a side note, would it be easier managed to just hire someone part time/full time to manually do the work for you that the bot would be doing?

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Possibly. I'd estimate each order to take about 5 minutes, so you need good volume for it to cover, since the margins are low. But yes, why not!

Great guide! I've found it particularly interesting as I'm currently studying web development and it brings in some fresh air from a developers perspective compared to other methods I've found on this forum.

I'd like to ask about the taxes when withdrawing money from PayPal or Stripe. Is it necessary to have some sort of a company to do so in Sweden? I'm currently living in Denmark, and I can't really speak danish yet, thus I'm wondering maybe I could find a similar solution here as I believe that Scandinavian countries might share a thing or two in common.

dinovo said:

Great guide! I've found it particularly interesting as I'm currently studying web development and it brings in some fresh air from a developers perspective compared to other methods I've found on this forum.

I'd like to ask about the taxes when withdrawing money from PayPal or Stripe. Is it necessary to have some sort of a company to do so in Sweden? I'm currently living in Denmark, and I can't really speak danish yet, thus I'm wondering maybe I could find a similar solution here as I believe that Scandinavian countries might share a thing or two in common.

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Any money over 40.000 DKK /year (I think that number is correct) you need to tax on. To do this, you're easiest way to go is to start a thing called "privat virksomhed".
It's free, great for beginners but has a few downsides as not being able to save money within company (meaning tax on every penny) etc.

Adlad said:

My problem isn't with you asking questions. My problem is with your attitude as though the guy is some sort of criminal or scammer just because he's sharing his own version of a method someone else shared.

He already stated very clearly Freeium was his early on in the first post. You doing WHOIS searches and posting random screenshots trying to proof he's hiding something doesn't really equate to anything. It just makes you look bitter

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Why are you so salty?

Off topic, but a bit of advice.

If you have dropped a decent investment into your watch site(and it does look well although the copy is in need of tidying)
You really shouldn't be posting it all over a black hat seo website.

If it was for cheapo swatch clones; then maybe, but you are trying to build a brand with a bit of cache. A load of search results with site:blackhatword for [removed by staff ]really isn't imparting kudos on your brand.

Similarly, associating yourself with a method thats pretty low brow in internet marketing is also affecting your brand. This method probably makes a few quid but its a starter job for dreamers or people on low income.

Basically, your site looks well. It would be a shame if people google the brand and got to a thread about cheapo dropshipping.

Duffers5000 said:

Off topic, but a bit of advice.

If you have dropped a decent investment into your watch site(and it does look well although the copy is in need of tidying)
You really shouldn't be posting it all over a black hat seo website.

If it was for cheapo swatch clones; then maybe, but you are trying to build a brand with a bit of cache. A load of search results with site:blackhatword for Ambassador watches really isn't imparting kudos on your brand.

Similarly, associating yourself with a method thats pretty low brow in internet marketing is also affecting your brand. This method probably makes a few quid but its a starter job for dreamers or people on low income.

Basically, your site looks well. It would be a shame if people google the brand and got to a thread about cheapo dropshipping.

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As it's not re: the method, PM and I'll explain there. Seems like I cannot PM to you directly!