---
title: 'The Unethical Ways These Teens Are Making $3,000 a Day'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=RsoIdqrYm7c'
video_id: 'RsoIdqrYm7c'
date: 2026-07-23
duration_sec: 412
channel: 'Extra Landen Levine'
---

# The Unethical Ways These Teens Are Making $3,000 a Day

> Source: [The Unethical Ways These Teens Are Making $3,000 a Day](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RsoIdqrYm7c)

## Summary

This video exposes the unethical and often illegal methods some teenagers use to make money by reselling replica items and selling vendor lists. The creator investigates the claims of high earnings, reveals the legal risks, and explains the actual business model behind these schemes.

### Key Points

- **The Replica Reselling Scheme** [00:02] — A creator with over 100k Instagram followers claims to make money by buying replica items for $30 and reselling them on platforms like OfferUp, eBay, and Facebook Marketplace for $150, promising a 5x return.
- **Illegality of Reselling Replicas** [01:37] — Reselling replica items is illegal under United States Code Section 2320, with penalties up to 30 years in prison. Even if sold as replicas, it remains illegal to sell them.
- **Comparison of Real vs. Replica AirPods** [02:55] — The creator bought replica AirPods from DHgate and compared them to real ones. They were nearly identical in appearance and sound quality, but had worse build quality and a distorted connection sound.
- **The Real Money Maker: Selling Vendor Lists** [03:48] — The actual source of income for these 'resellers' is selling vendor lists (links to replica suppliers) and Discord memberships, not reselling the items themselves. They charge for access to these resources.
- **Pyramid Scheme Structure** [04:55] — Some resellers, like Madx Resells, sell links to people so they can sell links to others, creating a pyramid-like structure. The money comes from selling the 'opportunity' rather than actual products.
- **Example of Misleading Claims** [05:08] — The creator uses an example of a reseller who claims to make money from 'Ecom' (selling vendors via Shopify) but insinuates the money comes from reselling. His dashboard shows income from vendor sales, not product reselling.
- **Young Kids Involved** [05:58] — The creator found a 12-year-old named 'gtin resells' who claims to have made $5,000 from selling vendors, highlighting how easy and accessible this scheme is for young people.

### Conclusion

While reselling replicas can be profitable, it is illegal and carries serious legal risks. The real money for these creators comes from selling vendor lists and memberships, not from reselling products. The creator advises against participating in such schemes.

## Transcript

exactly how he might tell you it's from reselling and in a way it is but it's not what you think he has over 100,000 followers on Instagram and post these probably seen before he's pulling in some crazy numbers and has multiple
posts with over a million views but these are all secretly ads well I guess claims he was able to make all this money buy his car and get his lifestyle from reselling replica items he says that all he does is just go to a certain
special website where you can buy rep replica items for like $30 then he sells these replicas on Marketplace apps like offer up eBay and Facebook Marketplace for like $150 and it sounds really crazy and appealing to a ton of people because
item take pictures of it list it and you get a five times return on your money reselling when people used to talk about reselling it used to be like reselling shoes and stuff but now it's replicas reselling rep airpods gained popularity
reselling replica clothing watches jewelry and other things like that if you open up Facebook Marketplace you're going to see some listings for my phone and look cuz I can guarantee it's going to show up all right Facebook
[Music] Marketplace here we go men's luxury watch okay so here's a person reselling a fake Rolex as you can see he even blurs he blurs out all of the logos he's selling it for $300 and he just has a
clut it literally took me like 30 seconds to find anyway the truth is you but there's a massive downside and this isn't actually how the people that are money the downside is this type of reselling is illegal according to United
States code section 2320 if you resell replica items you could face up to 30 here I don't know what teenager is going to get 30 years for reselling some reps and they say oh well I'm not reselling them as real I'm reselling them as
replica so it's okay but even if you tell the buyer that it is a replica it don't even care if it's illegal though they'll still do it but I will say as a illegal to buy them but it is illegal to sell them and a lot of these creators
who are trying to tell you to resell are telling you to list these items as real which is obviously also illegal but it's crazy because it's actually working and then listing them on stockx where they get sold for $200 to a person who
we've established you can actually make some decent money with reselling replicas but there's no way people are making $100,000 a month because I think if you're selling that many replica items you would definitely run into
they're not actually making their money from that so what are they actually they say in order to start reselling you need to have a good vendor that makes good on toone items if you don't know what that means basically they're saying
manufacturer they can make these replica items for you the same as the real stuff replica item you're selling and the real thing and with some items the replicas something like airpods it's really hard to fake and to test that out I actually
compare to my real ones here both of them are up close I have used both of these replicas for that reason I bought them to see if I could save money on let me real quickly point out some similarities and differences and for
reference I bought the replica ones off of dhgate which is a popular website to replica ones are identical to the real ones and I was also pretty surprised that the sound quality was pretty much the exact same the only differences were
a bit worse build quality and some weird noises the airpods made when connecting it's like the same airpod ding noise but just way worse quality and even though absolutely no way that somebody who has bought airpods before would think that
these guys are actually making money with reselling so they tell you that you they'll give them to you and if you go to the link in their bio they have a whole selection of replica items and Brands like this guy has spider Amiri
obviously a ton more as well but they're not going to give you all these vendors resellers are actually making a lot of their money they'll tell you all about much money you can make but to start you have to buy their vendors and when you
buy that vendor for them you get a link to a website where you can purchase the doing is just reselling links for websites to you and a lot of them also about reselling which is another big way they make money because when you buy the
they have the Discord where they can get paid monthly I feel like dream right now paid monthly I feel like dream right now dream face not going to lie I don't really want to give $40 to one of them but if you'd be
then I'd definitely be down to join one and maybe like buy some products and see that then just let me know in a comment a lot of people hear me say that are going to do it but I actually want to know if at least a few people are
there's also a unique way that people are doing this that is technically legal named madx resells and he basically just sells a links to people so they can of buying the links so they could buy replicas to resell they buy the links so
they can sell the links to people to resell if that makes any sense so he's these people are doing to make so much money which is not reselling replica problem with a lot of these resellers is they claim they make all this money from
obviously you know they don't make it from reselling products it's from using as an example a lot throughout this video is a great example of this in the truth like as you can see he doesn't say he made his money with reselling he
says Ecom AKA selling the vendors through Shopify and all the videos he Shopify dashboard is just from people buying vendors but he also does videos insinuate that a car was his like he
school I instantly went to my McLaren so I can drive down to Miami and looking at his more recent videos it seems like he stopped lying but I'm not sure because bought a penthouse in Dubai I can't say if that's real or not but he is making
surprised if he did so we're going to give him the benefit of the doubt there but as far as if I believe he made 100K in a month yeah I actually think that's but from reselling vendors and the amount of people doing this is crazy
video I saw so many young kids reselling like literally there's this kid gtin resells he I don't think he's older than like 11 or 12 he's only been posting for store selling vendors and he says he's already made five grand I'm not even
going to lie like I don't even get it anymore I literal a 12-year-old can make $60,000 a year reselling reps and it takes no skill at all so do I think you tapped right now and a lot of people are doing it you can still make money from
something illegal it is kind of like a short cut to getting rich and I know definitely staying out of it and just sticking to legal things even though links to reps I would not do this if I were you I have had success with content
and I have a private video that you can description like it doesn't even show up on my channel page at all but thanks so an amazing rest of your day and see you guys in the next one