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Lao Wai in China( potentially selling SUPERCARD packages :)

Started by skanex, September 11, 2005, 08:29:30 AM

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skanex

I'm in China on business and I am considering whether or not to ship supercards to the states.

Basically I can sell the complete SD package to you for $55 (superpass, and Supercard)

1G sd card(kingston) would be about $66  flat,   512 $40.

As for the CF version, I could get it to you for $45 as a package

CF cards I am not sure of as I haven't checked the price as of yet.


$20 flat via EMS worldwide

rocky

:shock: Wow thats a great deal but I already bought a supercard. How much would the superpass be alone? :?:

skanex

Well its $20 for shipping minimum since I am in China no way around that...its kind of a bad deal just to pay for the superpass and shipping as the shipping itself is more than the superpass which is around $18.

I don't want force you to buy anything else but if you would like to buy a cheap SD or CF card though that would add to the value, cf and SD cards are cheaper here on average.

rocky

Sorry I thougt that included shipping, I already bought one Sorry.

Trenton_net

If your bringing back a few units for people it should be ok, but if your making a business plan out of shipping SC’s I’d be careful. Margins are low, risks are high, and dead stock is always a problem. Not to mention customs, which regularly seizes pirate goods they find. The only way to really make significant money is to actually have the company based in China. It’s the only way to lower overhead in terms of logistics, quick repair/testing of dead stock, and sourcing. Unless you have family or a cousin working inside China for you, having product shipped to your location, then re-shipped to the customer is too expensive. And combined with seizures (By customs), lost items, or defective merchandise, any profits to be had from getting it cheap from the manufacture quickly evaporate.

Heck, its hard enough selling locally. Anywhere you look, there are pirate stores that sell similar products, all price matching each other. Competition is fierce!