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[Brockkk]

Originally Posted by jayjrc

i bloody love this forum!

Agreed

[uge44]

<quote>uge, you should become a registered seller before offering your services here.</quote>
I register to make 2 comments and you have a go at me. Give me a break. I just trying to help the guy out. He's confused and I'm willing to help. I don't even need any money for it. I'm sure we could barter something like back in the day. I'm NOT advertising; just being a nice new friendly face.

[Pete]

Yes, and you would be trying to help the guy out if you went up to someone at the checkout in a store and offered to supply free or barter what the guy was willing to pay for. I'd think the shop owner would not appreciate that, either.

You say you offer services, that you resell domains, etc. so you are in the business. And you are offering to swap away your goods when others are paying to advertise theirs.

Not in this thread. I don't attempt to sell domains. I'd either be ripping off the people by having to charge more than they can buy them for elsewhere, or I'd be making so little it wasn't worth the effort. So, I was not trying to sell any domains myself.

It's simply that you came and say you offer some of the same services others on here pay to promote and you're willing to barter them away. Fine, but become a seller then give away all you want. Many pay to sell here, so should you if that is what you are doing.

If you come for advice or to help others with wholesaling, fine. Please do all you can. But if you are going to be offering goods or services, you need to register as a seller.

And, in all honesty, I do at times "sell" domains. I have hosting customers who just don't want to be bothered. I get $ 12 per year for any of them and tell my clients they can get the same for $ 10 or so for themselves. I do it as a service, to keep them from jumping through all of GoDaddy's hoops, and some have a real problem setting up the name servers. So, for a couple of bucks, I'll do it.

It's certainly not for profit. Here's what I go through -

I pay PayPal about 75 cents for that $ 12 transaction, if it's from the UK. A bit less if from the US.

I print a receipt from the domain registrar for my records.
I print a PayPal receipt, as well.

I enter an Invoice for the sale of $ 12 into my QuickBooks
I "write a check" from my PayPal account for the purchase in QuickBooks

I now have a further "gross sale" of $ 12 on which I have to pay a portion to the City of Newport News, VA in the form of a business license.

While I collected no sales tax, I do have to include the amount as part of my gross sales to the Commonwealth of Virginia when filing my quarterly sales tax report.

I also have picked up a bit of income tax liability in the overall net profit from the "sale" of that $ 12 favor I did for my client.

Not to mention the actual time involved in going through the registration process with the registrar.

Hardly a profitable exercise.

I can understand that by reselling, you don't go through any of that. You just let them dio it themselves and you pick up a bit of change. So it's really you who are selling a "product", while I am simply offering a service.
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[uge44]

Mate. I just ended up in here trying to find a decent wholesaler, but within 20 mins it seemed to me that the area I want them in doesn't exist. It's either buy fakes or pay a lot of money. I registered but of course didn't read the rules, and just chatted as I normally do. It doesn't bother me if he wants to use my "service" or not. I won't make any money out of it so what do I care. As far as I can see, this is a forum to help people make money, but all the people here are just trying to hinder you.
What's the difference with people saying who they've gone to and who they've used, and me saying who I use and what I do. I'm not going to pay a forum for the privilege of talking about what I do for a business when that's the whole reason EVERYONE is here.

[Pete]

Your choice.

Most here feel like giving their sources is inviting competition. Never much bothered me, but that seems to be the attitude here.

Or, more correctly, maybe it's "I had to work and/or pay for it, so you are going to have to, also."

Probably some of both.

But if you are going to he offering your goods or services you will have to pay to stay.

Not my rules, I wish it was free, but that's just how the thing works.
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[JGClifton]

Godaddy.com or Namecheap.com. Stay well away form 1&1 and 123-reg. Terrible companies.

[sakat]

godaddy.com

But don't buy the space there...it's slow!

[jayjrc]

hey guys thanks, just to let you know im female lol, i think i may get my name from go daddy, i just have 1 more teeny question, shall i registar my website as .co.uk or .com? the person designing my site said it would be better to do .co.uk as people will think im overseas if i dont, but i want to hit the european market as i eventually hope to set up a small wholesale business, im not bothered about usa as thats where i will get my stock and they have alot of competition, i will be selling rocawear etc, but there are not many places to buy this wholesale in the u.k etc esp not wholesale, i want people browsing in other countries to be able to find me 2! im in a quandry as to what to do!
thanks in advance

[exploretech]

If it's available I'd say get both .com and .co.uk , also if you are planning to sell in europe and have the budget it might be worth thinking about .eu .de ...etc The extras can all be parked and point at your main domain.

[Pete]

Yes, get both. At GoDaddy, or wherever, you can just forward one to the other. Nothing to it at all.
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