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Comment on Do you know about the Daily Deal? by MindanaoBob

MindanaoBob — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 07:39:37 +0000

Cool, Tom! I hope you got something nice, and at a good price!

Comment on Do you know about the Daily Deal? by Tom N

Tom N — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 02:30:07 +0000

Interestingly, I was reading through some of your old blogs, came across this, clicked through, and ended up buying something from a daily deal.

Comment on Implications of doing business overseas by MindanaoBob

MindanaoBob — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 07:54:11 +0000

Just sent you an e-mail, Van.

Comment on Implications of doing business overseas by Van Robbins

Van Robbins — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 04:50:26 +0000

Can you email me directly?

Comment on Implications of doing business overseas by MindanaoBob

MindanaoBob — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 00:03:11 +0000

Hi Van – How do I know this stuff? It’s my job to know it! Just kidding. Actually, I have been thinking of getting into the cigarette business for about 5 or 6 years now. I recently started researching it and found out about the law.

If you are interested in doing some writing on one of my sites, you would be welcome to do so. Any certain site have particular interest for you?

Comment on Implications of doing business overseas by Van Robbins

Van Robbins — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:59:49 +0000

Thanks for that information. I was not aware of that new law at all, how do you find out about these things?

It is, to me, a bit sad that with all the serious problems in the US right now, Obama is wasting his time on banning smokes from being sent in the mail, isn’t there some other problems a little more pressing?

By the way, I am a writer and I would be interested to write for one or more of your websites.

Comment on Implications of doing business overseas by MindanaoBob

MindanaoBob — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:48:25 +0000

Hi Van – In March 2010, President Obama signed a new law into place called the “PACT Act” which stands for Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking. The new law, which takes place on July 1 bans all cigarette shipments through the mail system. So, in just a few more days, it will be illegal to send cigarettes through the mail at all.

Before this act, you could legally send one carton of cigarettes at a time through the mail, but no longer.

Comment on Implications of doing business overseas by Van Robbins

Van Robbins — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 07:16:55 +0000

I am an American living in the Philippines for some years and always looking for new business opportunities. I was wondering, Bob, if you have ever explored selling cigarettes by mail? As you know the cost of smokes is significantly less in the Phils than in the US, and it seems to me that there could be many eager customers. The hurdles would be to find enough steady, regular customers to make a good income on it, and to legally overcome the customs limitations somehow, maybe by sending one carton at a time in several separate packages?
Have you explored this at all?

Comment on Can I go to jail for selling on eBay? by MindanaoBob

MindanaoBob — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 00:27:34 +0000

Hi Ken – I agree with your last statement there. The USA used to be the land of opportunity. However, these days, you need a lot of money to start up any kind of enterprise in the USA. Here in the Philippines, there are tons of opportunities, and you don’t need much money to get things started. Unfortunately, in the USA, there is so much red tape and regulation that it is hard to get any business off the ground, it seems.

Comment on Can I go to jail for selling on eBay? by Ken from SC

Ken from SC — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 12:54:09 +0000

Yet another way, (including high taxes, labor laws, vice laws, printing money, income redistribution schemes, etc.), in which our crazy government drives the economy underground. The only organizations which can comply with all this nonsense are large corporations, (which, coincidentally, donate large sums to our stupid politicians’ campaign funds), so an individual or small group attempting to compete economically gets squashed.

Meanwhile …. the large financial institutions, (“Wall Street”), get richer and richer.

Bob, I don’t think the USA is the land of opportunity anymore. Bummer!