Decreased Prices!
Sat, 16 September, 2006 – 9:31 pm
A short while ago I wrote about a business that I'd been working on for almost 3 years was starting to liven up again after the delivery of a product sample from the supplier. Today I had an email with some of the prices too. About 2.5 years ago we first met with this supplier and he gave us prices. They were pretty encouraging until he mentioned a few months later that they excluded VAT. We (interpret that as I!) managed to tweak the prices so that they were still pretty competitive and good value whilst still giving us a reasonable profit.nnHowever times have changed and so I had to ask for a new price list, especially as they use a new, better method of producing the products. However the prices that came through on the email work out to a considerable drop for most of them apart from one. Admittedly I haven't had the whole list of prices that I've asked for yet, unfortunately the supplier is over worked and seems to not be able to get the right staff to help him out. That's the downside as this email was due a week ago - it concerns me as I still don't feel comfortable relying on someone to fulfill the orders when they take forever to get back to me.nnThat said, I think that for the first 3-6 months at least, if not more, the site will still be slow moving so if we have to suspend the site then at least it shouldn't be a major issue as I'm only expecting a handful of visitors at first, nothing major until I get the next part of the site completed. I'm also hoping that at least once the site is up and running we can go to other suppliers and show them a working version of the site and they will take us more seriously, as to date I don't feel any of them have and haven't treated us too well - probably because of the idea and the lack of understanding surrounding running a business directly off a website without a bricks and mortar business to back it. However we have virtually no outgoings as all products are prepaid for and all products will of course make a profit. The only outgoings are domains and we all know they're hardly expensive (bear in mind having 3 reseller accounts available to me means I have hosting space and bandwidth galore!).nnWe still have some prices to sort out as the prices given for postage are completely wrong due to the new Postage pricing. I also need a sample of every product we'll sell to get photos for the website, however I'm hoping it will start to come together again and perhaps early next year we can 'open' for business. I'm starting to get motivated with this business again and after this week of clearing up several sites I'm hoping to start devoting at least one day a week to working on the site, securing it more with what I've learnt since I last opened the files, and getting Dave to fix my shabby CSS 
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