Too expensive to make a profitable turnover?


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Boozehawk
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Im no business expert but i have daydreamed about how working with CF could make for a business and i settled on the idea you would have to have some sort of Bread+Butter product. Maybe not something your very interested in but something that would sell and would be cheap and easy to produce. How about for your situation juts making flat panels in varying thicknesses and standard sizes A5,A4,A3 etc and setting up a little stall at car and bike shows. maybe buy some tube stock bulk as well to sell at a small profit along with some of the specialist adhesives. Get some decent graphics done for a stall and a few demonstration pieces showing what can be done with CF sheet. Youve already got the kit and you dont want to waste too much time making complex things that may or may not sell so go simple and stack high and sell at a small profit. Just my two penneth totally amaturishworth :-)
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One thing I noticed that no one has mentioned yet and was something that ruined a short lived idea for me was shipping. My initial passion and still is, was metal working. I needed a part for a chevelle that after looking I realized no one made. It was easy for me to produce. I could pop them out quickly so cost of making and materials wasnt too bad. But when I went to ship them. It cost me the same amount to ship them as it did to produce them. The part was just sheet metal. 18guage thick, 47 inches long and 6 inches wide. So Not all that big. I sold it for 150 in bulk a piece or 190 per part. It cost me 145 to ship them. So in the end i did the labor for free after paying for the metal. I cant imagine a hood or other car part will be cheap to ship unless you are a business that does shipping daily. 
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Shipping is something that takes a bit of networking and some haggling. You can find deals out there, especially if you ship regularly and use the same company. It definitely costs money, but you can do it cheaper than just the price you will get by going to the post office and asking them to send it. 
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Thanks guys,

I currently use various couriers for shipping as they offer different prices for different types of shipments, like Hanaldo said you really need to shop to find the best deals.

I am not really planning to make bonnets as they are fairly common. My query on the bonnet was merely a benchmark exercise Smile

 


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