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    Cheapest Postage Method - PPI

    pretty sure BPL includes vat and should work out slightly cheaper for a somebody who isnt vat registered. but shouldnt you be using STL? Standard Tarrif Letter?
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    Nop Commerce

    have to admit luckily i am a experienced web developer (now running my own company full time) so i have made some changes myself but nothing overly exciting. I think most older nopcommerce sites could benefit from some of the features in the new nopcommerce. ie : cookie policy, better cart...
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    Nop Commerce

    Hi We use nopcommerce and have done since version 1.4, now upgraded to 2.8 its a good piece of kit though at times infuriating at the way they do certain things. Have it all working now though struggled to find a decent asp.net 4.5 host. The advise is right, they are now working using the...
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    Distributor Vs Manufacturer

    Hi All we sell item A but sometimes we sub contract a company in China to make custom Item A's for us (They have our name on them, made to our specification.) and then sell them as our own products. So what are we officially? Any help gratefully received.
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    New E-commerce developer needing advice

    In my experience this is wrong most people don't notice at all. Our ssl certificate ran out when we changed hosts and I haven't re sorted it out not one person has mentioned it and no loss of business etc. I can't account for how many went running when realising but I suspect it's none
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    Website Design? Boosting Sales?

    site looks good. However the 2 scrolling / changing bits were really oddly messing with my eyes. Id consider setting the bottom one to a manual scroll and slowing the top one down a tad.
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    Dropshipping? Good Or Bad?

    Hi my post is really to see gather peoples experiences and to see if the figures i had in mind are reasonable. You have confirmed that they are reasonable. which is at least something. I guess im going to have to do some thinking on the rest for now. Will PM you once ive done my thinking...
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    Dropshipping? Good Or Bad?

    Hi they would get 12% discount off my retail prices. but they are free to charge what they want to their customers, I would expect since the items sell mainly in lots of 2-4 items per sale they would make £2-3 per item. For taking virtually no risk and just passing on shipping addresses...
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    Dropshipping? Good Or Bad?

    Hi Thanks for the answers. I was thinking basically 12% discount off retail + delivery at standard costs. so I allow them to log into my site order whatever they want add the correct shipping address and pay me. they make the 12% off item price I make the rest. bearing in mind the...
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    Removing unwanted thanks

    WTF What The Fanks??
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    Dropshipping? Good Or Bad?

    Hi I mentioned a week or so ago i was looking for dropshippers, but im also considering dropshipping. Has anybody had any experience of doing this ? is it worth it doing? what sort of percentage should a dropshipper expect to make out of my products etc. Am i diluting my own websites value...
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    Manchester Area Business Network

    I would be interested when its live.
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    Pinterest Invites - Who Wants One?

    from my count that makes 3 and one left so im going for a punt. :) will pm my email address thanks in advance.
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    Buying domain names to stop piggy backing?

    Hi Yes I have done but even yesterday somebody from the voucher company emailed me asking me to refund some money to their customer. They also told me about the 90% failure rate. I have a very clear we are Moomins UK not UK Moomins message I posted on twitter / facebook. Im just more...
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    Buying domain names to stop piggy backing?

    interesting one recently (december a company sprang up called say for eg : UKmoomins.com selling the same product as me and im trading as MoominsUK.co.uk the new company makes a hash of it using one of the voucher companies takes thousands of orders and then delivers on 10% because of the...