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    Pull Bows Supplier

    floristsundriesdirect.co.uk
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    Sweet Bag Suppliers...

    interesting as we supply them, (not with sweet bags), but they have a very good business in their cash and carries.
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    Using Alibaba to find a wholesaler

    what is the product or market that the product is in? May be able to point you in the right direction if its related to the industry i am in. It will be difficult to tell if you are dealing with the factory if you do not visit them! Generally if they are advertising a wide range of products...
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    Using Alibaba to find a wholesaler

    it is unlikely that in this instance FOB will mean free shipping to the uk. Typically when importing from china the factory / trading company will quote something like FOB shanghai, which means they will ship the goods to the port in shanghai. You will then have to arrange for the goods to be...
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    Is a £300K loan impossible to get to buy business?

    This is exactly how Not to value a business!
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    complaints about paypal- and if you proceed them throuht ex.sagepay?

    i think sagepay are just the payment processor. If you accept a fraudulant transaction into your bank it can still be reversed by the accepting bank, and i believe the paypal will still be able to reverse transactions, even if they are accepted through sagepay. im not fully sure on the...
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    Property

    quite often the idea of buying rental property is to have the tenants effectively pay off the monthly mortgage payments. This way after 25 years you effectively have a free house. You already have one mortgage free house so any income from that is profit that you can use for deposits on more...
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    Shipping logistics - China to UK

    hi adrianS, Can you not just get a better shipping agent? !! We import somewhere between 300 and 400 40ft containers per year for our business and still use an external shipping agent. It takes all the hassle out of it. Problems with documents, xrays fumigating etc is all sorted by the agent...
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    Property

    Personally i would keep the property and rent it out. The property market at the moment is not doing particularly well. If you hold onto it for a few years you should be able to sell it for a lot more than you would if you sold it today. £1800 pcm is a nice income for not doing a lot! A...
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    Finding Decent Wholesalers

    As mentioned above visit trade shows. If you buy the product you require more often than not it will have some sort of branding that links it to the source. We brand all of our products with our logo and web address. Ring the source and see if they will supply you, if not ask them for their...
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    An Idea for a business Please Help!!

    We are in the wedding and party industry and may be able to help. We have our own in house developers that are capable of building planning tools (we already have some of our own ideas under development specifically for weddings).If we think we can generate some money from the idea, maybe its...
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    Help with accepting card payments

    From memory i dont think sagepay perform a credit check. We have four accounts with them, but they are quite old now so they may have changed things. You can always email their support. Their system is ok, but they do have some annoying generic error messages if a transaction fails that often...
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    Cubecart & Seo

    If you have a large store it can cause massive slow down because of the amount of database queries it does. We used to use this a few years back and started experiencing very slow load times on our site. It turned out that on our homepage alone the seo mod was running over 200 database...
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    How to others manage selling on Amazon, Ebay and their own site?

    i'm presuming that you have some sort of offline stock system to keep track of stock for your accounts. Ideally you can export your stock levels from this automatically and then import them into your website database, again automatically. We do this every 30 minutes so the stock on our websites...
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    New Flower shop advice....

    The floristry industry is tough at the moment, and as just a florist shop you will struggle. Tesco have ruined the price of fresh flowers, and even the big flower wholesalers in the uk struggling because of this. You need to offer other services at the same time. At christmas you can make...
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