Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This book is a good introduction to the retail flipping business, but by itself, it is completely useless to a novice such as myself. Let me give you some examples... The book advocates buying retail items at local stores and daily deal websites and then selling those same items on Amazon for a higher price. The test to determine if you should make the purchase at the retail store or not is based on comparing the purchase price to the current selling price on Amazon. However, what the book fails to mention is that other people are doing the exact same thing you are and by the time you make your purchase and send it in to Amazon fulfillment, the Amazon price drops - eroding or completely erasing your profit margin. The book gives no information regarding how to avoid paying sales tax when purchasing your merchandise or how to go about collecting sales tax when you sell the merchandise. The book advocates that you need some sort of price scanner to find books, but does not provide any details on exactly what we are supposed to use. Overall, I was disappointed in this book. It would be a great book with more information and more details...but I feel like it just left me wanting to know more.