[rooster]

hi everyone, it's a pleasure to be here

can money be made by buying products in the Far East - like Singapore - and then reselling them here in the richer West. i was thinkning about technology like ipods, laptops, cameras.

are things considerably cheaper in the east?
will there be any limits to how much stuff can be taken through customs?

thanks for any replies

[pentupentropy]

yes, you can buy lots of things far cheaper, but business is business, and a lot of asian companies won't deal with you unless you have money to spend. Check ericesquires thread on the dropshipper site... http://www.worldwidebrands.com

we are going to get a joint account with these guys and they deal with dropshipments under $500.00

BTW, if you have money to spend, check out alibaba.com, it's only the 4th or 5th largest site on the net =)

also, tradeboss.com has good deals if you're spending big bucks.

Depending on what you deal with, there will be limitations on anything. You have to check locally with where you plan on shipping to and from. Don't deal with far east companies that you can't find a reputable reference from, unless it's a very small order to test them. I ordered 50,000 blank cd's once and got crap that you wouldn't use in your 8 track.

[rooster]

thanks for the reply, i ws only thinking about it in small quantities to earn a little money on the side. my sister-in-law is an air hostess with an eastern airline, she flies over here frequently, i was thinking about getting her to bring over a load of cameras, ipods or small laptops every time she comes over, and then resell them on ebay.

[pentupentropy]

That may pose a different situation for you. Can we use her too? =)

Can she just get me to pataya for free?

kidding, but I would sill check with your local to see if there are any sort of odd rules about bringing that stuff in. better safe than sorry

[rooster]

haha unfortunately she only gets my girlfriend a flight-discount, no free flights available for me

[Thecure]

Originally posted by rooster
hi everyone, it's a pleasure to be here

can money be made by buying products in the Far East - like Singapore - and then reselling them here in the richer West. i was thinkning about technology like ipods, laptops, cameras.

are things considerably cheaper in the east?
will there be any limits to how much stuff can be taken through customs?

thanks for any replies

Yeah, I tink that could be a good business to start off with since electronics like cameras, mobile phones, laptops, etc here are way cheaper than in most countries in Europe, and most importantly, they are made here (Japan, China, Thailand, Korea, Singapore, HONG KONG, Malaysia). I actually thought of starting to do something like this, but where can I find customers in Europe? I live in Thailand and can't really travel to Europe so often, only once a year, so this would make it uncomfortable for me. But I really think its a good idea. And yes, there's definately a limit of bringing goods to another country, but if you want to ship it (if its a good load of good) I think it would be a better idea.

[rooster]

hey thanks for the reply. could you give me an indication of how cheap electronic products are in the east? is there a big retail company which sells them in the east, for which i could visit their web-site and check the prices? like if i see a sony vaio laptop for £1500 here in britain, how much do you think it would be in the east? my girlfriend's chinese-malaysian and has travelled in singapore and thailand but she's clueless, she doesn't know how much the stuff costs.

thanks again

[Thecure]

Originally posted by rooster
hey thanks for the reply. could you give me an indication of how cheap electronic products are in the east? is there a big retail company which sells them in the east, for which i could visit their web-site and check the prices? like if i see a sony vaio laptop for £1500 here in britain, how much do you think it would be in the east? my girlfriend's chinese-malaysian and has travelled in singapore and thailand but she's clueless, she doesn't know how much the stuff costs.

thanks again

A few prices for you here :

Apple iPod Shuffle 1GB MP3 Player -> US$190

Apple iPod Shuffle 512MB MP3 Player -> US$135

Sony Vaio Pocket VGF-AP1 Music Player 20GB -> US$500

Apple iPod Photo 30GB MP3 Player -> US$440

Laptop Acer Aspire 1692WLMi 80 GB Disk -> US$1,650

Laptop Compaq Presario V2152AP 40 GB Drive 256 ram -> US$1,140

If you wanna know anything, feel free to ask

[rooster]

o those are the prices you an buy them for in thailand? if so the ipods actually don't look much cheaper - US$135 is UK£73, and those ipods sell here £70 retail. i'll look up the prices of those other products.

thanks thecure

[mxer210]

yeah seriously. Those are more than retail here. You might aswell to go BestBuy and buy a bunch, then sell those off.

[Thecure]

Originally posted by rooster
o those are the prices you an buy them for in thailand? if so the ipods actually don't look much cheaper - US$135 is UK£73, and those ipods sell here £70 retail. i'll look up the prices of those other products.

thanks thecure

Yeah actually I just looked on a website of some website from here. But there's a shopping mall here, called Pantip Plaza, which has 6 floors of pure Computer stuff and electronics. There's lots of real cheap stuff, im sure u can get that Ipod for about 50 pounds there if not less.