I just got a sales call from one of those "Free Amazon Events" and the grift is unbelievable.
I’ve been dropshipping on Amazon for over a decade, so I’ve seen just about every "get rich quick" scheme in the book. But I wanted to share a recent experience I had with an Instagram ad targeting the Latin American community.
It started as a "free event" for Latinos wanting to break into Amazon. I wanted to see what they had to offer, just out of curiosity. I missed the live stream, but (since I had signed up) they actually called me to follow up. They started pitching this "exclusive community" and when I asked for the price, they didn’t even blink, “$5K”.
When I told them I’d rather start with $1,000 to test the model and scale up once it showed results, they shut me down immediately. They told me $5k was the "absolute minimum" because half of that ($2,500) was just for the "course fee" and access to their "mentorship." The other half was for inventory .
Think about the math for a minute. They are aggressively targeting people in countries where the average minimum wage is maybe $600/mo. They are asking people to cough up nearly a year’s worth of wages just for the privilege of being told what to do.
Anyone else out there thinks this is predatory?