£231K in year 1 wholesaling on Amazon UK — the boring arbitrage nobody wants to brag about

A first-time FBA operator in the UK posted his year-one results: £231K in sales, £12–15K net profit, working less than 20 hours a week. No private label. No influencer partnership. No Chinese suppliers or six-month product development. Just buying branded inventory from UK wholesalers at a discount and reselling it through Amazon FBA — hair and beauty products, mostly. The model is so unglamorous that even he apologized for the returns not being "amazing." But the unit economics are real, the time commitment is part-time, and the entire operation ran out of a converted garage with his son doing prep work.