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Old 07-22-2007   #11 (permalink)
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If there is at least 10 members that want one I will place a order for them

25 min order is more than slkworld can do on its own thats $6000 USD. I would have to reach deeper into my pocket to do this than I have in the past and for a longer time period. Previous min order was 10 and that was not too bad. The store has only sold 25 modules in a year. there are not exactly hot sellers even selling at the max allowed discount of 5% that mods4cars allows me to sell at even with free shipping its still around 2 a month way to long to have on a credit card. These modules need to be paid for in advance I have been paying out of slkworlds checking account for them funded by a loan to slkworld from me. A loan that never seems to get paid back since all profits after cost to operate the store including buying boxes, packing material, merchant account fees, SSL cert, Fraud screening whats left goes to support the site. Most of the active members have a modules now so its mainly just the new
owners one by one.

Same with the Green Filters we make $10 a pair. the free cleaning kit cost the site $1.00 to sell it them to you so there is no profit there.

I looked into selling Piecha products and the items I would have to pay for upfront to stock hoping you guys will buy them in a reasonable time period, not to mention most of the 25% discount would be consumed by import shipping and taxes unless it was a very large order from them and they also need to be paid by wire transfer before they ship. To sell there products I would have to sell for more than they do on there own site.

Now factor in that some one has to do all of this. Process the orders box your order and drop it off at FedEx all with in a reasonable time. I have spent hundreds of dollars to automate a lot of the shipping, to save time on this with thermal labels automatically printed along side of your invoice. I have negotiated rates with DHL, UPS and FedEx to get you the lowest shipping rates.
The SLKWorld store is great for us, but tons of work for Bill. Not much profit to support the site. I sell on eBay. Correspondence, packing, shipping, followup, problems, etc., and all things associated with selling online are time consuming. I understand and would support the closing of the SLKWorld store. Bill's time could be better utilized.
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