Selling Bicycles & Telescopes Now!

January 7, 2010 at 1:48 AM | Posted in Bid or Buy, Mail Order, Small Business | Leave a Comment
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Bicycles

The bicycle as a means of cheap and healthy transport has greatly increased in popularity in recent years. Even so, specialist bicycle shops are not numerous, and mail order is worth considering as a retailing method, particularly for bicycles which are a little out of the ordinary. Consider folding bicycles, for example. These have all the characteristics of bikes in general, but they also have a certain gadgety appeal, a recurrent theme in mail order. Continue reading Selling Bicycles & Telescopes Now!…

Are you satisfying your selling products’ price to weight rate?

October 30, 2009 at 10:51 PM | Posted in Mail Order, Small Business | Leave a Comment
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The more your product weighs, the higher your delivery cost; the larger it is, the more packaging it will need. Both weight and size put up your price without putting up your profit.

Most carriers charge more for their services than the Post Office; and the Post Office has a rate scale that increases with weight, and a maximum weight for parcels of 25kg. For higher weights than this you are obliged to use non-Post Office carriers. One way or another, the heavier your product, the more it will cost to despatch. Continue reading Are you satisfying your selling products’ price to weight rate?…

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