Recent content by Just_a_bloke

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    Broker/Agent for selling a business - Looking 4 choices

    Hell, that would be nice! Now back to reality... Not sure on value. I'm going to have to gather figures together before I start talking to people.
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    Broker/Agent for selling a business - Looking 4 choices

    Thanks Jim, I'll do some googling to see what I come up with. Are they from a personal list, or perhaps a website somewhere?
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    Broker/Agent for selling a business - Looking 4 choices

    I've decided to retire and now need to sell my business. Its mainly an online store selling specialist automotive items mainly aimed at vehicles etc. in the leisure market. I have done sales involving my labour and expertise. There is no property (buildings) involved (there will be stock). All...
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    Commissions from a VAT registered company?

    I've been assured the financial director will sort it... but I'll have to wait and see.
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    Commissions from a VAT registered company?

    I sell specialist automotive products. Products I do not supply, I pass on to another specialist supplier, then if they get a sale, I get a commission :)
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    Commissions from a VAT registered company?

    I've asked them again to try and clarify the VAT status, but they've not been helpful in the past :(
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    Commissions from a VAT registered company?

    No written contract. All done on good will/word of mouth basis.
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    Commissions from a VAT registered company?

    I'm VAT registered. I'm due some commission payments from another VAT registered business for work I have put their way. They normally make their payments to non-VAT registered people, so have not encountered this issue before. I've asked them how they log the commission payments in their...
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    Buying 2nd user payment card machine - finding provider

    Spoke to one guy this morning about getting a rent free card machine with a provider (who was talking of around £150 for just the machine). Then thought there are loads of 2nd hand machines around. Will providers give me grief if I want to provide my own machine for a PAYG type of an account...
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    Taking Card payments

    Different to the original poster I'm already set up for online to receive card payments, I can also take card payments over the phone, however I'm not allowed to have the customer next to me and take their card details??? So I need a payment card reader for the occasional customer (couple of...
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    accepting card payments - costs?

    I take payments via an e-commerce web site, and take payments over the phone using a virtual terminal. However I get occasional customers want to collect/pay at my premises couple per month at most). I have been doing those payments via the virtual terminal, but I've now found out my provider...
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    Facebook page types - not a business question, sorry.

    This is not really a business question, but please bare with me. I had a village Facebook page where people asked to be a friend rather than a like. I used to have over 1600 friends till my page was blocked by FB as they said I was using a personal page which was wrong, hence the block). This...
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    Superfast Broadband, but wait...

    Found the map... http://maps.thinkbroadband.com/?utm_source=mainsite&utm_medium=banner&utm_campaign=maps&utm_content=header#!lat=51.994993374500005&lng=-2.499400602019932&zoom=13&type=terrain&speed-cluster or http://tinyurl.com/o3w5v2l
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    Superfast Broadband, but wait...

    Thanks for all the feedback guys. I've still not done anything about upgrading yet, though I've now been looking at a couple of satellite systems, bit expensive for my needs, but hopefully prices will come down over time. I came across a map the other day (lost the link at the moment) which...
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    Superfast Broadband, but wait...

    Just tried the BT site to see what they offer.... "9Mb - 15MbEstimated download is an estimate, but it should be accurate to within 1 or 2Mb " No where near 30MB :(