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Originally Posted by Omaroo
Nah. If it's that secret I don't need to know. I thought you might appreciate the opportunity to give some substance to your statement & I was curious because you used that position as leverage within your argument. If you can't or don't want to tell us what your experience is based on then I understand...
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Locals who know me know , I suspect some of the old hands here will have figured it too, it is just I am now retired and not interested in restarting the business (was very time consuming though quite profitable , I was strickly an importer , focusing on high quality astrogear , no Tasco , I also quickly ditched Celestron and Meade (because the biggies had them tied up and it wasn't worth persisting with them) and I was 100% mailorder , and worked with a very modest margin (mostly under 20% , no overheads so I could do this - I often never saw the product , arranging shipping direct from the manufacturer to the client and only taking a small margin on the wholesale price).
I still get regular calls from old customers asking me for quotes or enquiring about the business , even asking if I plan to restart (though I haven't traded since 1998).... so I must had done good things in my nitch.
I think the boss would divorce me if I even hinted at restarting the business.
Just a privacy issue.