Thanks for the feedback guys. I think I've found a particular niche product where it's a good arbitrage opportunity with very few sellers on amazon that have it, where the markup is decent enough to even account for a 10% defect rate to make a simple part time, more or less "passive" income where even just a handful of sales is fine with me to start. If it gets better, then I can always scale up.
What I would hope to do is order the product from Alibaba, and make said product more of a kit for installation through attaching the tools needed so the user can install it more effectively. Plus if I'd get it in bulk shipped from there I could always test each piece out first, and use Amazon to ship it. It's not hugely ambitious but something to try for me with very little capital to try it out with. I was more concerned with others' experience on quality control above all with Alibaba. A bored hole wrong where a screw doesn't fit, or is misaligned, is a pain. Consistency is key and that's my concern, but it could just be a bias.
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