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He can't write a line of code, but he built the software that runs his Amazon business. He also flips $2 Skechers into $45 sales and had an AI knock out his entire sales tax audit in 30 minutes.
Chad from The Buy Box has spent about five years turning online arbitrage, retail arbitrage, and Amazon-to-Amazon flips into a business that runs on tools he built himself. In this one we get into the exact plays: how A2A flips work, why he still refuses to touch wholesale, how he reads a deal by looking for reasons to say no, and how he taught AI to do the boring parts of sourcing, bookkeeping, and a tax audit. Plus the 3.8 million request mistake that got his home internet shut off.
If you do OA or RA and you want the intermediate-to-advanced version of this conversation, this is the one.
⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 The seller who builds software but can't code
02:02 From the West Texas oil field to reselling
08:14 The chlorine gold rush that hooked him on FBA
15:57 Why he still skips wholesale (OA vs A2A)
19:36 Used, refurb, and rebuilding after losing suppliers
28:32 Amazon to Amazon flips, explained
33:15 The $2 Skechers deal
36:40 Credit card rewards as untaxed money
40:40 Reading a deal: disqualify before you qualify
43:56 Building his own AI sourcing tools (without coding)
55:26 How AI did his sales tax audit in 30 minutes
59:49 A road trip for inventory (and a 3.8M-request mistake)
1:05:36 Should you trust AI agents? Plus his home setup
1:17:28 The Whatnot experiment that broke even
1:28:01 Advice for new sellers + lightning round
🔗 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
Chad's Keepa skill (free on GitHub): [PASTE GITHUB LINK]
Keepa (the data behind every call in this episode)
SellerAmp: https://www.selleramp.com/oachallenge
Tactical Arbitrage, Keepa Product Finder, Inventory Lab
Business credit cards we talked about (5% cashback): https://www.cardratings.com/bestcards/business-credit-cards.php?src=704525
Claude Code + ChatGPT (the AI tools he builds with)
Whatnot, B-Stock
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