How an accountant from Moscow earns 40-60 thousand a month reselling iHerb vitamins through Prostobox with no investment. A real reseller success story.
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And now, meet our first heroine — Olesya from Moscow!
My name is Olesya, I am 37 years old, I live in Moscow, and my main job is as an accountant at a federal company. I’m in the office from 9 to 18, and during quarter-end closing season — sometimes longer. I’m not looking for any freedom from employment, my main job suits me: the team, stability, official salary, and voluntary health insurance.
But for the last two years I’ve had a side job that brings in 40-60 thousand rubles a month and fits into an hour and a half to two hours a day. I sell vitamins, supplements, and sports nutrition from iHerb. I don’t invest a single ruble of my own money into it.
At first I bought vitamins from iHerb for myself and my family
I had been ordering from iHerb for about six years for myself, after all, they have the best vitamins, the effects of which are noticeable right away. For my daughter, since kindergarten age, I bought children’s Nordic Naturals on the advice of a pediatrician friend and ChildLife multivitamins with berry flavor, which my daughter drinks without fuss. For myself — Solgar magnesium citrate, after the gym my legs cramp up from time to time and I also have trouble sleeping, magnesium helps with both. I took California Gold Nutrition collagen in courses. My husband goes to the gym, so I got him Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard whey protein, Now Sports creatine monohydrate, and occasionally BCAA.
When iHerb left Russia, I was confused for the first few weeks. In pharmacies, the same forms cost 2-3 times more, and I didn’t trust marketplaces after a friend’s counterfeit incident. I found Prostobox.com — I simply compared prices and terms among different intermediaries for delivery from the USA. I opened a card with a Kazakhstan bank and ordered the first package for myself. And then word of mouth kicked in. At work, I “treated” a colleague to my magnesium when she complained about insomnia. A week later she asked where to get the same one. Then another colleague joined in, two moms from my daughter’s class, a neighbor. By the end of six months, I realized I was spending an hour a day on other people’s orders and getting nothing from it. That’s when I added a markup.
What I buy on iHerb for my clients
My assortment came together organically, based on what I use myself and what I’m confident in. I don’t deal with exotic supplements I know nothing about, I don’t sell sports pharmacology or anything that requires a prescription.
The main categories are these.
Children’s vitamins and omega-3: Nordic Naturals, ChildLife, Garden of Life Kids. This sells especially well in the fall, before the school season and colds.
Women’s complexes: magnesium in different forms, omega-3, Solgar for skin-hair-nails, B vitamins.
Sports supplements for the husbands and boyfriends of my clients: proteins, creatine, BCAA, pre-workout complexes from Optimum Nutrition, MusclePharm, Now Sports, Dymatize.
Average order value for one client is about 4-5 thousand rubles, but there are also 15-20 thousand orders when they buy for the whole season at once or put together vitamins for the whole family.
How the process works
It’s very easy to work this way. I have a Kazakhstan card, and I use it to pay for the order on iHerb. The delivery address is the Prostobox warehouse in the USA, which is provided for free after registration. The package arrives at the warehouse in a few days, where it is repacked and sent to Russia. I can receive everything myself and sort it by client, or send it directly to the client without extra stickers and without my data on the box. I do it both ways, depending on the size of the orders.
Prostobox has a separate promotion for iHerb: a package up to 1 kg — 9,99 $, up to 3 kg — 29,90 $. One kilogram usually fits 4-5 Solgar or NOW bottles for me. For larger orders I choose 3 kg, it’s more выгодно in terms of calculation.
What I liked most about Prostobox. First — automatic customs declaration filling via AI. For an accountant whose every minute is scheduled, this is a real lifesaver; before, I could spend an entire evening dealing with those forms. Second — direct shipping to the client in anonymous packaging: the client does not understand who I work through. Third — live and fast support.
Where I find clients for selling vitamins and supplements
My main platform is my Telegram channel. I started it about six months after launching, when I realized that explaining to each client the effectiveness of one supplement or vitamin or another was very long and tedious. On the channel I post short reviews of what I brought in, once a week I make a selection of discounted new items, and I show package unboxings. Right now there are about 2500 subscribers — colleagues, acquaintances, moms from my daughter’s school, their acquaintances and friends.
A couple of times I arranged collaborations with other small bloggers — I send them the products they need at my own expense, and they make a post and an unboxing. The subscribers who come are not random, but people interested in specific products. Some clients also come from Avito: I have a modest listing there, “help with buying on iHerb,” and I consistently get 2-3 new clients a month.
Why I became an iHerb reseller
This side job with iHerb covers three things for me. First — extra income; my husband and I are saving it for renovations. Second — I continue buying what we use ourselves, only now those purchases pay for themselves and bring in extra on top. Third — the pleasant feeling that I know how to earn money not only in an office. I’m not planning to leave my main job, I like being an accountant. But I also like that the phone in my bag is now also a little business that grows on its own.
Want to try earning money on iHerb too? It’s much easier than it seems.
Vitamins and supplements will bring you 80-150% profit!
Real amounts are easy to calculate in our profit calculator.
79% of Prostobox resellers choose iHerb products with our delivery to offer to their customers. There are several reasons:
- High and steady demand for original iHerb supplements and vitamins in the Russian Federation after the company officially left the country’s market.
- Good prices on iHerb and a 100% guarantee of product authenticity, while Russian marketplaces mostly sell counterfeits from Chinese websites.
- Many product variations — you can choose the right one for each customer.
- The best delivery prices — 9,99 $ for a package up to 1 kg, and 29,90 $ for delivery of a package up to 3 kg. Delivery speed — 5-10 days from the warehouse in the USA to a pickup point, which is very fast and convenient!
- The ability to independently regulate the markup, which will become your profit.
- You can send purchases from iHerb both to yourself and directly to clients — the whitelabel system will not let them find out which intermediary you work with for forwarding.
- An AI assistant fills out the declaration for you, and orders are accepted by API — this will save many hours a week on processing client applications.
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