I received an email from outside the USA written by a reader of my store site. Probably a reader of my other e-sites too, but he didn’t say. He was not a customer of mine but was seeking information on something I might have in stock. He had purchased an imported machine tool (to his country) from a source other than me, of a particular brand name I offer. He also ordered some accessories listed as...
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Something’s Up
I am working on some new product ideas for the THMStore. I wrote an article called “Mission Adjustment” I posted in the store itself saying I am developing new products that will be exclusively sold through the store. Reselling (buying wholesale to sell retail) items are not the best way to operate a micro business. There is just not enough profit in low volume to make it worth the effort. Since I will be doing...
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I just sent some machine gears to the Canary Islands. You have heard of that place. Little islands in the Atlantic off the coast of Africa. What I found interesting was the gear order was from Spain. I was naturally thinking of mainland Spain. The city name was Guimar and that didn’t cause me any excitement. The name of the Spanish state was Tenerife. That sounded familiar but I didn’t know why. (Site of the...
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I sell machine gears from a web store that I own and operate. It is called The Hobbyist Machine Store. The gears that I sell are for two very popular machine tools called a mini-lathe and a mini-mill. There have been tens of thousands of these machine sold all over the world. The one major flaw they have are some plastic gears in the drive train. I supply replacement steal gears for the plastic ones....
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