Microbusinesses for Colombia

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Are these responses serious? LOL!!!
 
You guys haven't worked much in the shipping, customs clearance, supply chain or logistics industries have you? So you buy a pallet or two of liquidated designer hand bags in the states. Easy enough. How do you get them down to whatever Latin American Country you plan on selling them in? You can't carry them with you; and the cheapest alternative option is on a slow boat, partial container load. Your only other viable option is air freight, and believe me when I tell you that your profit margin would be all but eliminated paying for a single international air freight shipment of designer hand bags. Now let's get to the fun part. In a country like Brazil, Colombia or Argentina (probably the only three places where there would be a significant market for such high end merchandise) do you really think the local customs department doesn't know what brands like Coach, Michael Kors, Louis Vutton, Prada, Dooney and Bourke, etc. are? The first thing they are going to do is verify if they are authentic. If they aren't they will immediately be destroyed and you may risk getting arrested or being fined a nice chunk of change. Counterfeit designer merchandise is highly illegal in all three countries. If they are originals, then they'll hand you a nice little invoice for the import duties (and by using the word "little" I'm trying to be cute...the invoice will probably be at the very least 25-40% if the original value of the bags). What could you tell them in rebuttal? The purses were for female relatives? All 30 or 40 of them?! LMAO!!!!! I'm almost sure they'd start to look around for hidden cameras because they would think they were on one of those pratical joke shows that are so popular in Latin America. Why do you think products like this are so much more expensive SOTB...even though there's hardly a significant market for them in most places?
 
Again, the title of this thread is Microbusiness for Colombia...not how to be a sugar daddy on a budget. The word business implies making a profit. Now if you're prepago hunting I'm 100% in support of these last couple of ideas. Why get with a gold digger and buy her a bunch of high end stuff in Latin America at an inflated price when you can save yourself thousands of dollars buying the same crap in the U.S. and taking it to them?!!!

My current stuff comes vaccuum sealed on a container over the pacific from China right now. So yea I'm dead serious. What's a pallet of handbags 130 bags or something like that? That's pretty damn micro.

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My current stuff comes vaccuum sealed on a container over the pacific from China right now. So yea I'm dead serious. What's a pallet of handbags 130 bags or something like that? That's pretty damn micro.

I was a Supply Chain Administrator for a Chinese company for almost 3 years. I've worked in Logistics in Colombia for the last 3. Huge difference in the cost of customs clearance and duties of shipments with origins in China and destinations on the West Coast of Canada or the U.S. and those with origins in North America headed for destinations in Colombia or Brazil. Women's bags are my specialty. Any profit you could squeeze out of a pallet of bags wouldn't be worth the trouble in my opinion.

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I was a Supply Chain Administrator for a Chinese company for almost 3 years. I've worked in Logistics in Colombia for the last 3. Huge difference in the cost of customs clearance and duties of shipments with origins in China and destinations on the West Coast of Canada or the U.S. and those with origins in North America headed for destinations in Colombia or Brazil. Women's bags are my specialty. Any profit you could squeeze out of a pallet of bags wouldn't be worth the trouble in my opinion.

From what I remember from the girls was that it was pretty hard to get your hands on a coach handbag and they'd pay an f load to get them.

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I know a Brit who has done well with rentals in Lima. He's married to a Peruvian and they have about 16 apartments well situated in Miraflores. By now he doesn't have to advertise since much of his business is repeat customers. He takes down payments through Paypal, which is convenient for Americans.


Not a bad business for cities that attract both tourists and business travelers, like Lima, Bogota or Medellin.