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    How to get retail partners/stockists

    Sorry if this is a bit of a non-sequitur from your OP. But, I think there is a gap in the market for quality non-leather belts, for vegetarians. It's easy to buy cheap non-leather belts but they don't last. Vegetarian Shoes (shop) in Brighton sell them, but I couldn't find anything on Amazon. I...
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    Curious about local business

    Thank you very much. The business is probably about 300-400m from where I live. I'm used to seeing the business, but observing it over time such as a whole day would certainly give me a better view of the business. A florist is going to have peak times (e.g. Valentines day, Mother's day) and...
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    Curious about local business

    A local florist is up for sale. With the asking price and the quoted gross profit (yes, I am worried about that not being net profit) it superficially looks like a good investment. Where could I find more information about running a business? Is it plausible that a shop can be run profitably...
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    Musical Software Development Help !

    Or, you'd need to convert the tab into a MIDI file, which doesn't sound that complicated. I don't know what language the OP is using, but, say, in Java, creating a midi file, adding (for guitar, I'd presume:) a single track, and then adding notes, is a doddle. The resulting MIDI file could then...
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    Musical Software Development Help !

    I would think that a properly designed user interface (assuming the users use a GUI) would prevent all of these problems, except perhaps the same note being played on two strings, automatically. If they're supplying a text file, then the validation still doesn't sound very hard except for the...
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    Musical Software Development Help !

    This sounds easy/impossible. A guitar tab includes the notes being played, as well as an indication of slurs, slides, and trills. However, tab includes limited rhythmic information, unlike standard musical notation which is rhythmically exact (*). Hence in a tab to score conversion, the...
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    The worst customer you've ever had?

    Any chance of some anecdotes concerning the worst customer you've ever had? No names please, just anecdotes.
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    Ebay Profit

    Agreed. (Not that I would know). My examples were for individuals selling second hand goods.
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    Ebay Profit

    Easy to build another ebay. Given sufficient time (not an unreasonable amount, but probably a few months full time work) I could build something that would work and be reasonably secure myself. But, it's extremely difficult to get a sufficient number of people using it to build up a critical...
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    Anyone Out There Interested In Making £1500 For Showing Genorosity? Not A Scam

    The problem is that for someone sensible to do the deal with you, there needs to be trust that you'll repay the money. As you said, you can provide something in writing. But I don't think that goes far enough. Anyone can write and sign anything. But if you don't pay back the money, then what...
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    Anywhere to sell 100's of usb sticks?

    I had a look at sale prices on ebay. Seems to support the opinions that £1.50 is a bit much to ask. But some people are paying £0.99 for the stick, and £4.50 for postage from Hong Kong. Probably says something about sales psychology there. Only thing I could think of was if you could do a deal...
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    Anyone Out There Interested In Making £1500 For Showing Genorosity? Not A Scam

    Can't you borrow the money from a bank, by having your overdraft limit extended? Or by phoning your credit card company and asking if you can put the £2500 on your card? Don't some banks advertise that if you apply for a loan with them? To pay 60% interest in four weeks is 45,000% interest over...
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    Selling counterfeit goods

    There's a case in a guitar forum right now where a "Cash Converters" in Australia has some fake guitars in. Someone reported it to the police. Police utterly disinterested and said that it was legal to sell fake goods. It's not, BTW, legal to seel fake goods in Australia. I checked. (Edit...
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    Selling counterfeit goods

    Just to be clear here, I have no intention of selling counterfeit goods. I am arguing against those (on another forum) who claim that there's no problem (morally or legally) if someone sells counterfeit goods while telling people that they're counterfeit.
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    Customer denies receipt - Royal Mail says they delivered

    No legal eagle here, but could you get a written statement from the customer saying that the signature given is not his/hers? Certainly if I was a customer of a business, someone stole my item, and the business was going to refund or replace, I'd be very happy to provide a signed statement...
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