Recent content by connell83

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    Loan from LTD company to family member

    Hi, I have a limited company. I wish to use the savings of the limited company to loan to a family member, at a fair interest rate. This family member has no relationship with the company at all, ie not an employee nor a director etc. The money would be paid back to the company monthly with an...
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    Home delivery of import

    Oh I could ask for that. In the past it has always been a case of manually taking all the boxes off and loading them onto the pallet onto the ground. I guess they could electronically lower the pallets from the back of the truck. And then the driver could wheel the pallets to the house / garage?
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    Home delivery of import

    I currently use my parent large double garage for import deliveries. A huge articulated truck normally comes with the delivery and then I have to unload every single box from the truck onto a pallet on the ground then use a pallet truck to wheel it into the garage. Thing is I am buying my own...
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    international money transfers

    Has anyone ever sent money to China? I have to send 10,000 pounds, last time I could not send in Chinese Yuan, so my supplier had to convert it at their end and they lost a % fee for it, which was quite a lot. I have 3 bank account and none will transfer in Chinese Yuan, that includes...
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    should I tip my web designer?

    I have recently had a web designer working on my new site over the last 2 months. I will be paying him the final bill this week. Should I tip him? His rates are good and he has done a good job. I hired someone from USA actually, so i'm not sure if it is custom to tip or not, if so how much...
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    Tackling ebay's dominance

    i pay at least £400 a month in ebay fees (plus paypal fees which ebay owns! at probably another £200 a month) I wish ebid or someone became a true ebay rival as ebay fees are getting rediculous now. They should not be allowed a market monopoly.
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    Any opinions on X-Cart hosting?

    which company are u referring to?
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    anyone every hired an seo consultant?

    thanks yorock, yes im planning on hiring someone to do it for me, because i dont have time to do it simply. Some things i can do myself though. A lot of the on site things i can do, but not offsite. How do you go aobut finding someone who is recommended and what costs do people normally pay...
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    anyone every hired an seo consultant?

    i am considering hiring an seo consultant for my ecommerce site. has anyone had any experience, costs etc? I dont want to be ending up paying someone who knows little more than I do!
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    websites terms & conditions

    I need to put some terms and conditions on my website. These are just generic things that could come in useful. Is there any standard terms and conditions out there that people use, and then change to suit their website, rather than just starting from scratch? thanks guys
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    Any opinions on X-Cart hosting?

    i was recommended by my website designer to use ewd hosting for x-cart, its basically designed especially for x-cart
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    Joining FSB

    er, what has that got to do with anything? as i said... i have applied to join the FSB and got a call form them saying they are arranging a rep to visit me personally, is this normal? seems like a strange thing to do, how can my membership cover the cost of hiring someone to visit everyone...
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    Joining FSB

    i have applied to join the FSB and got a call form them saying they are arranging a rep to visit me personally, is this normal? seems like a strange thing to do, how can my membership cover the cost of hiring someone to visit everyone who applies?
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    payment gateways

    Sorry guys to bring payment gateways up again. I am finding it rather confusing. I am looking at using protx, I believe that is £20/month minimum BUT, protx requires you to already set up a merchant account with a bank! Well to do this is normally a £200 setup fee plus £20/month with most...
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    importing, picking up clearing the goods myself

    At least 500kg I am shipping over. I live in North Lincolnshire. On the advice so far, it seems I will have to hire a freight forwarder to pick it up at the port in UK rather than do it myself. I'm not quite sure how to go about that but I will contact some freight forwarders to find out what...