andy hirst
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Registered: 18th Apr 02
Location: Rochdale, Greater Manchester
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thinking about this a lot recently, wanna work from home possibly trading over ebay to start with, thinking about car audio equipment. Need to know, where you found your supplliers, what are the terms you have with them etc. Any any other info that could help me decide if im going to do it and how to go about it.
Cheers
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Unless you have good cheap suppliers this is very competitive!
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andy hirst
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Registered: 18th Apr 02
Location: Rochdale, Greater Manchester
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thats what i was thinking, another area i was thinking of was to refurb apple macs (1-4 yr old) ive done it to mine and a couple of mates' macs, bu then again where do i get them 2nd hand cheap enough.
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Ian
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Registered: 28th Aug 99
Location: Liverpool
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Computing category is a nightmare as well but I suppose something fairly niche like Macs is a better bet.
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MarkW
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It's a pain starting any business m8 - trust me - u need probs about 3 times more cash than u think u will for a start shit loadsa hard work - and enough customer's  it's real hard but worth it in the end 
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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I am hopeing to start my own business too. It's all a matter of cash and time.
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Colin
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quote:
Originally posted by Peugeot Nut
I am hopeing to start my own business too. It's all a matter of cash and time.
Doing what P.nut 
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kerzo
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fair play to you if you try to start up your own business but i think the market is a bit saturated for car equipment etc and defintily for computing, maybe not as much for mac's but then again what % of people actually have one?
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Andrew
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Registered: 5th May 04
Location: Skoda Octavia Estate, Ford Puma
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Selling computer hardware. I'm just gonna get through uni and then get into it
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Bart
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quote:
Originally posted by andy hirst
thats what i was thinking, another area i was thinking of was to refurb apple macs (1-4 yr old) ive done it to mine and a couple of mates' macs, bu then again where do i get them 2nd hand cheap enough.
The questions your asking only seem to be relevant to that type of job, and not general self employed questions.
e.g asking where you would buy cheap audio equiptment, asking where you'd buy 2nd hand macs etc
All this stuff is things you'd have to research yourself.
As for terms of suppliers, well it takes years and years of buying to get on good terms with a supplier.
As your business grows, so will the amount of orders you do, and the more of a relationship you will get with the supplier.
The more you order and the more often you order the supplier will offer a discount and a bigger discount you'll get.
Hope that kinda helps?
Adam
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Corsa E-Tec
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Registered: 4th Feb 04
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all i can say is plan way ahead.
money, taxes, jobs to fall back on, suppliers, customers, advertising.
my mate is on his second business, he got his site setup, looks good, cost him a bomb and now cant use the business as he has no adverts to put in it. his business it like an auto trader type thing.
just waiting for it to pick up now.
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MarkW
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Registered: 19th Mar 04
Location: Orpington, Kent
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quote:
Originally posted by Peugeot Nut
Selling computer hardware. I'm just gonna get through uni and then get into it
it's mega mega mega difficult m8 - far too much competition - and getting trade accounts at supplier's is night mare - i've got 4 with between £1000 and £3000 credit but getting anysort of credit is serious difficult - and u need to put in serious order's month on month - go into something specialist - market is saturated with ppl selling shit computer hardware - ain't saying tht's wht ur gonna do - but i'd specialise (wht i had to do to stay afloat)
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TOMAS
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Registered: 7th Aug 02
Location: Nottinghamshire
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Its all a matter of profit percentage and turnover. Turnover is biggest key really and to get that you need low profit percentage.
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JUGGA
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Registered: 7th Sep 03
Location: BEDFORDSHIRE
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you need to buy your audio stuff from america or somewhere simular
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J da Silva
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Registered: 10th Apr 03
Location: The FACTory
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i have my own business but suppliers dont really play a major role in my job all my material is either supplied by the company i sub-contract to or i fish around for cheap gear but i can use anyone at any time
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Rob
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Registered: 9th Jul 01
Location: hull
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a fella in Hull started selling Jacuzzi Hot Tubs, he plan to break even was to sell 50 in his first year at £8k! He's sold that in 15 weeks!
I want one and I would like to set up my own business, only thing is, he got their first and more people will have seen the newspaper article and will now jump on the band wagon!
not a bad idea tho!
these seel on ebay too! 
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