/biz/ - Business and Finance

Import/Export for Dummies.
City College Courses use it for one of the texts.

>>270

Yeah, those for dummies books can be pretty squared away for truely novice people learning something new.

I got one for technical analysis and it was pretty good, although a bit dated in some of the theory/phylisophical aspects.

Import and export are quite different matters. I think the term "import/export business" is a bit of a vague literary meme, to be honest. It seems to be used by romantics who don't quite understand the business of the person they apply the term to.

For import, you need to find suppliers willing to sell you in the tiny quantities you will doubtless start at. Then you need to figure out what to do with the goods - this probably means selling it yourself, or getting a friend to sell it for you, or doing the bitch journey of going retail to retail and trying to con them into taking your stuff off your hands at a price that earns you a profit and still gives them room for a margin.

For export, I don't even know how you would go about this. What goods are there that an American starting from zero can realistically obtain, that can be exported out of the US? Exported where?

Again, in the US in particular, you would need read up about a lot of complicated regulatory law. This is a major barrier to entry, it's very dry and tedious stuff, but if you make a mistake (and you doubtless will because of how abstruse the regulations are) you can get into a lot of trouble. It's the sort of thing that can easily make honest libertarians out of worst statists. You could easily solve this gap in skill by first working for a few years doing sales at a company that does a significant amount of export or import - interacting with their sell/buy process will probably give you a feel for how things are supposed to work. You can save part of your salary, then when you've learned enough, quit and strike out on your own. Most people I've known who seriously went into this line of business started out with companies in this way.

Also, the feasibility of this idea is questionable. With Alibaba's explosion in the past few years, and the constant success of online shops both domestic (Amazon) and foreign (dealextreme), the niche grows ever narrower.

>>274
I've been toying with an idea where I would go around to computer recycling centers, get computer parts and old machines for super cheap, refurbish them, and then sell them to people in developing countries.

Eventually what I would want to do is set up something in those countries where I could just ship the "garbage" computers to them and let them do the refurbishing and sell to their own people.

>>281
Why would africaniggers go to your site and put in their stolen cc# and pay international shipping when they can just stroll down the street to Jamal's stolen comp parts where they accept payment in hyena teeth?

Bumping this incredibly slow board.

>>282
But if I don't sell them the parts they won't have anyone to steal it from.

Plus I gather you haven't spent much time in developing countries. I'm not talking about people dancing around an open fire and banging spears together. I'm talking about major metropolitan areas like Accra, Cairo, and Lagos that have financial, educational, and business centers, hence a need for computing.

But the whole idea seems pretty moot because it's illegal to ship non-working parts from the US to the third world, so anything you send to them would have to be refurbished in the US and that would make things too expensive for the third world.