What if the stuff sitting in your loft could be the start of a proper business?

Mine was. I started reselling trainers and car boot finds on eBay from my spare room in Manchester with about £200 of savings, mostly trial and error, some of it expensive error. An early batch of 200 phone cases sat in a storage unit near Trafford Park for three months because I hadn't checked demand before I ordered, that one cost me nearly the whole month's profit. Once I understood margins properly I moved into Amazon FBA. My first proper shipment was 40 units of a kitchen gadget sourced from a supplier I found on Alibaba, and it sold out in nine days. That was the moment I stopped treating this as pocket money and started treating it as a business, registered as a sole trader, opened a separate business account, the lot. The eBay side didn't disappear either, it became the place I tested new products cheaply before committing real stock money to Amazon, a habit that's saved me from at least four bad buying decisions since. Three years on it's a six-figure revenue business, still run mostly from Manchester, and I've since branched into wholesale accounts alongside FBA. None of that happened by accident, and none of it happened fast.

This group is everything I wish someone had handed me on day one, instead of learning it £200 at a time. The gap for UK sellers specifically is that most of the big reselling and FBA content online is American, built around US tax rules, US suppliers, and US marketplaces. It doesn't tell you how VAT registration thresholds work here (currently £90,000 of turnover, not profit, which catches sellers out fast once a product takes off), what import duty actually costs when your shipment clears UK customs, or how Amazon's UK and EU fee structure differs from Amazon.com. Get that wrong and a "profitable" product on paper loses you money in practice, that's the exact mistake that put my phone cases in storage. Most sellers who fail don't fail because the product was wrong, they fail because they priced off gut feel instead of the actual landed cost after every fee is accounted for.

What we cover inside:

Product research: using UK-specific demand data, not US trends, to find products with real, consistent demand rather than a viral spike that's gone by the time your stock arrives. We look at seasonality too, nobody needs 500 units landing in February that only sell in December, and we use Amazon's own UK Brand Analytics data rather than guessing, checking a product idea against twelve months of search trend data before ever contacting a supplier.

Sourcing: vetting suppliers properly, ordering samples before committing to a full shipment, and understanding Incoterms well enough that you're not caught out by shipping and customs costs you didn't budget for. I share the actual supplier contacts I still use, and cover how to spot a trading company posing as a factory, a mistake that cost one member her deposit before she joined.

The numbers: a profit calculator built around UK VAT, Amazon UK referral and FBA fees, and shipping, so you know your real margin before you commit money, not after, plus when to reinvest versus take profit and when it makes sense to move from sole trader to a limited company.

Listings, launch and systems: writing listings that convert, running a compliant launch that doesn't get your account flagged, building early reviews the right way, and eventually deciding whether wholesale, private label, or straightforward reselling is the right next step once you're ready to move from one product to a small portfolio.

Every Monday we run a sourcing and trends session on what's actually selling on Amazon UK right now. Every Thursday is a numbers and fees clinic, bring your own listing and we'll pull it apart. Once a month, a member opens up their full numbers, revenue, ad spend, returns, so you can see exactly what a real UK FBA or reselling business looks like behind the scenes, not just the highlight reel. Alongside the calls there's a supplier vetting checklist, a sample-request email template, and a running spreadsheet of member-verified suppliers you can filter by product category. New members start with a short onboarding path: the profit calculator first, so you can sense-check any product idea before spending a penny, then the sourcing checklist once you've found something worth testing.

This works whether you're reselling on eBay and Vinted with under £500 to start, someone testing a first Amazon shipment, or a seller already turning over five figures who wants sharper numbers. It's not for anyone expecting passive income with zero effort or a get-rich-quick product drop, every seller in this group checks their own numbers weekly and treats sourcing as ongoing work, not a one-off project. If you're happy to test small before you scale, you'll do well here.

✅ A UK-specific product research checklist
✅ Supplier and sourcing contacts that actually reply
✅ A profit calculator built around UK VAT and Amazon fees
✅ A sample-request email template that gets suppliers to respond

Most members who stick with the weekly numbers clinic hit their first profitable product within two to three months, and a good number have replaced a chunk of their day job income within the first year, a few have left employment altogether to run their shop full-time. Fancy turning your evenings into an actual income? Join the group.