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Thanks for your reply. Problem with renting unit I would need someone there to receive parcels and that's not possible not at the moment. Plan was to sell car parts. I had conversations with automotive groups who were interested to work with me and got stuck at this address issue.
Hi everyone. I hope someone can point me in right direction by giving an advice.
I have my new business registered in my residential address. Company is VAT registered. All business activity would be only on ecommerce online store and no commercial business office or building would be required...
I would suggest you to make a list of manifacturers you think you would like to work with and write each of them an email asking if they would want to work with you. If you are going to sell products on your website, they will want to look at your site first before anything else.
I was told to...
Thank you for your amazing answer to my question. This is excellent way describing the automotive parts market and lots information in one answer.
I am already in contact with huge manufacturer who is willing to work with me and can directly deliver parts to customers with extra cost for...
Not necessarily, not always everything is about millions. If you have skill set technical (understanding of car parts), IT (web design, e-commerce, car parts compatibility intigration), accounting (dealing with taxes) and communications skills, you can do it as good as big boys ?
Well, I like taking on challenges and it seems this is one BIG challenge to deal with.
Got the list of manufacturers who are stocked up in UK and emailed some of them. Got some reply already which sounds promising. No middle man is the way forward. Will give it a go without putting myself in...
You are absolutely right here. After brexit everything is slow so my idea would be to use local UK based manufacturer products and not products stored in Germany. Also, I agree on quality, as of my own experience parts from Ebay tend to not fit .
Hi everyone,
Trying to do research on how I can sell car parts on online retail. The question I have, where UK motor factors get their stock from. Is it directly from manufacturer or some distributors linked to manufacturer.
Has anyone had any experience with selling car parts online.
Thank you all for your input. I do understand how VAT works but issue I have is to actually get registered for VAT.
Only option I see here is to have some sort of contract between manufacturers and my business sort of pre-contract which states conditions such as VAT and other things.
The fact...