Anyone importing from china and ebaying? - Need some advice.

Brooker_Dave

RFW wrote: »

Chinese post is presumably cheaper than here. Not sure how international postage works between countries. I don't know if countries pay each other to deliver or just work on trust, so each country just delivers whatever they receive. Perhaps Custardy will pop by.

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/letters/blog.pl?/pl/2012/4/1334191984.html

RFW wrote: »

Don't waste your time explaining why Brooker D was wrong, he never like to admit it. Presumably his business advice involves a bit of smuggling to break even.

In what way was I wrong??

Brooker_Dave

RFW wrote: »

Just let it go, admit you can't add up and move on;)

Is this where we have to pretend that buying things in bulk costs more per unit that buying them in ones?

RFW

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/letters/blog.pl?/pl/2012/4/1334191984.html



In what way was I wrong??

You were wrong telling someone they could earn £10 on a product when they obviously couldn't. You either misunderstood what the word profit means or you had trouble with your sums.

Interesting ecommercebytes link. It just tells you post in China is cheaper though, not what or if countries pay each other for delivering their mail. For example if someone in China pays 60p to post to the UK, do Royal Mail get paid anything for delivering it or do they just agree to do it as long as Chinese postal system does the same for mail sent from the UK?

Oh and obviously bulk buying will get a discount but you or I don't know if that discount would net the product down to be the same price inclusive of all duties and charges. You also shifted from telling OP it was easy to buy one or two items from China to earn a tenner on them to telling him to import by the container.

Brooker_Dave

RFW wrote: »

You were wrong telling someone they could earn £10 on a product when they obviously couldn't.

Buy enough of them and they could.

But £6 of one is not bad margin.

lemontart

antrobus wrote: »

$19 at 1.53 is £12.42; £23 less £12.42 is £10.58.

(I'm assuming that $ means USD of course, as opposed to CAD etc.:))

what about the currency charges unless you have a dollar account for them to be paid for from.

Brooker_Dave

lemontart wrote: »

what about the currency charges unless you have a dollar account for them to be paid for from.

If you hunt around some cards don't seem to charge, my wife's does not, mine does.

ballisticbrian

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKsPLPZPkEI

RFW

Brooker_Dave wrote: »

Buy enough of them and they could.

But £6 of one is not bad margin.

Doing it legally there wasn't even £6 profit in there. Also bear in mind a new seller would need to be extra competitive and go in at about £19, you'd be lucky to break even.

Brooker_Dave

RFW wrote: »

Doing it legally there wasn't even £6 profit in there.

What was illegal about it??

TrickyWicky

The lookalike thing I think.