Quote from: Dr Octagon on December 13, 2017, 11:42:39 AM

I hope you do reply Sammy and I hope you are genuine. You seem an intelligent fellow, lot's of respect for anyone who can speak 2+ languages. I don't see the model Sammy is proposing as a get rich quick scheme.

And I could imagine him needing a little bit of wiggle room to get things started (hence I proposed 30% payment up front) and smaller value items to begin, maybe escrow for over $200, but if Sammy finds the 30% upfront, that means you don't really need to get into escrow until the $350 mark.

I have LOTS of consumer electronic stuff and 30 listings on eBay - should be 100 but its an ordeal.

Taxes a very important, as are the correct customs stickers- however I have experience selling all over the world, I would just need the tarriffs for your country so as to stay just under.

Way to long have people in the West judged Africa on the actions of a few and absolutely if the shoe was on the other foot I'm sure there are plenty in Africa would blame the West...

If BTC is going to mean anything (in my mind) it has to mean forging peer 2 peer global trading relationships.

However you can't cut corners in trade and when in retail you need to know you market - where, what, who, how much?

From much trail and error importing from China to sell in the UK, in the beginning you really need to focus on what you can turnover quickly. Cashflow is the oil of trade and if you get a load of stuff at the start and it gathers dust for a month you are going to struggle in the early days, so know your market, know what profit margin you need to make to grow and what margin the market will bare.

No matter what you do you'll have competiton.

The reason this paticularly interests me is that I was chatting to a lad who did tyres recently, cheap half worn ones - but the premise was huge. The other business they have - which is making far more money apparently is buying clothes by the kilo and shipping them to Africa.

So I know somone doing this.

However 2nd thoughts maybe escrow everything. Credit lines are hard won. But a certain risk is manageable.

THUMBS UP DOC!!!

Dr OCTAGON you really your stuff ....

I don't blame those who are spewing venomous reactions over here. It's part of the human nature. Millions of years of fights for survival has made human beings risk-averse. They've developed instincts of self-preservation. That's why everybody can't be a Trader or an Entrepreneur... (Read the Book "HOMO SAPIENS' by Noah Harari and you'll get what i mean...)

I smiled when i read the last paragraph of your post on "half worn tires" & "used clothes" importation Business. My mother has been in the imported clothes retail business for more than two decades. She buys the clothes per kilo from the whole-sellers here and roam from town to town to sell the clothes 1 by 1 to individuals. It's through that commerce that she has been able to feed and raised 5 (five) children (including me). Two of my sisters are currently in that business too. So if you are interested i believe you have the right person to partner with

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Lemme PM you right away... We have a lot to do together...
Regards