Would you set up shop selling E-Smoking supplies?

[THE]

Give me some pros and cons of leasing an office space to hustle e-smoking
Couldn't be less expensive
A few K in product
Some displays
A few hundred a month for a lease (everything is dead cheap, here)

I'm thinking that no matter where you are.. E-cigs have enough of a "cult following" at this stage in the game.. if they knew you had what they wanted, at non ripoff prices, you could get nice and fat......

 

[Israfil]

Methinks if you did this not only would you get nice and fat, you'd be able to afford Lipo to fix it. ^_^

I really love the idea of a vapor lounge that sells ecig supplies and provides a nice atmosphere, but lack the resources. A few places have started em up...don't remember all of em but i think TW has one.

 

[DemonCowboy]

but TW is also turning into something akin to napa auto parts (we don't have it but we can order it and have it here tomorrow) it's turning more into a cafe than an e-cig supplier. wish i had the starting capital. if i did i'd sure put up shop if they want to tuck tail.

 

[ckreef]

90% of what you see on the internet is done out of a closet from someones home even though they try and make it out like they have a huge warehouse/business.

Doesn't bother me but it doesn't fool me either.

 

[ckreef]

You can tell this by when you call at 10:00pm on a Friday night and they answer the phone -- especially when they are sitting around the TV enjoying the evening and you just interrupted them -- LOL

 

[UntamedRose]

You can tell this by when you call at 10:00pm on a Friday night and they answer the phone -- especially when they are sitting around the TV enjoying the evening and you just interrupted them -- LOL

Always considered that a perk to companies that have 9-5's no weekend and a 30 call waiting time. (not that I know any ecig companies like that yet)

 

[BradSmith]

I would think about setting up a route and supplying gas stations and conveinence stores etc. No overhead, you don't have to sit in a store hour after hour. You could buy in bulk and then let them do the selling and set their own prices. You would be like the wholesaler. There would be a ton of advantages to doing it this way. You don't have to deal with returns or carry insurance in case someone slips and falls. Done correctly this could work really well if your in the right area. They already have the location and the customers coming in.

Just a thought.

 

[Zelphie]

but TW is also turning into something akin to napa auto parts (we don't have it but we can order it and have it here tomorrow) it's turning more into a cafe than an e-cig supplier. wish i had the starting capital. if i did i'd sure put up shop if they want to tuck tail.

What is a ecig cafe, a physical place for esmoking social? Silly question but never heard of it. TW has one???

 

[o4_srt]

a few coworkers and I were talking about this recently, there is plenty of profit out there, the only thing holding us back is the current litigation.

E-cigs are relatively new to my area, and most people I introduce to them are extremely curious. Since picking up vaping, 8 coworkers have made the switch, leaving only 2 smokers on second shift. I believe with a b&m storefront, and some advertising, you could be fairly successful.
Incidentally, a local cigar shop might soon be carrying greensmoke . Better than nothing, i guess, maybe I'll have to stop by and set em straight

 

[mistinthewoods]

(everything is dead cheap, here)

Where is "here"? Storefront rental isn't that cheap around here. I would think you'd need to be around some metropolitan area to get the foot traffic and that's where the rent is high. I know of one guy who looked into it deeply in Holland and Grand Rapids Michigan and the overhead was what held him back. He's an attorney and is selling stuff out of his law office now.

 

[DemonCowboy]

What is a ecig cafe, a physical place for esmoking social? Silly question but never heard of it. TW has one???

yeah the origional idea was it was going to be a lounge (yes e-smoking social hangout) that also sold e-cig supplies Justin in TW florida was well on the way to creating a good 1. but then i guess he got scared of something and is turning his supplier operation to "well you can order it online and have it shipped here and should have it for you to pick up in about a day" while keeping the lounge open.

personally i think something's spooked him like some sort of legal threat or something. as it seems he's backpedaling, trying to make it more lounge than supplier.

again i wish i had start up capital to even come up w/ a fair stock-base and i'd probably give it a shot. i'm not worried about bans personally as i'd simply find a nother way to market and deliver my wares. FDA and the backwards corrupt contemptable idiots in the US government be damned.

it was actually a good system a long time ago when it was part time - when did politics become a "profession" anyway? seems to me things were a LOT better back then when the members of congress and senate only met 1/ce a quarter and had to get back to their farms or REAL jobs so didn't have the time or energy to try to ruin every1 else's lives.

sorry, this b/s is just the straw that seems to b breaking the camel's back. at least this is helping some ppl wake up to just how bad our government really has gotten. /rant

 

[mistinthewoods]

- when did politics become a "profession" anyway?

When the lobbyists came along.

 

[DemonCowboy]

too bad it's not a constitutional right not to b lobbied against. that would cease all lobbying wouldn't it? given that lobbying for something usually makes it inherently against something else.

too bad that would never happen - it'd make this country a MUCH better place.

 

[THE]

Where is "here"? Storefront rental isn't that cheap around here. I would think you'd need to be around some metropolitan area to get the foot traffic and that's where the rent is high. I know of one guy who looked into it deeply in Holland and Grand Rapids Michigan and the overhead was what held him back. He's an attorney and is selling stuff out of his law office now.

Over in Wichita, the city is plenty large enough (still a small small city, maybe 400k people but there's alot of traffic from idiots in surrounding communities) and you can get space without paying too very much.

A couple of years ago when I was partnered with this guy we got a huge warehouse with downstairs storefront for under $700/mo.. It wasn't a "good" area but it wasn't a complete "ghetto" either and it was a very busy area.

We would have made a FORTUNE if he hadn't gone crazy. We were already doing figures you would not believe just out of a residential garage.

Even in prime locations, the cost is maybe half what it'd be anywhere coherent... I don't remember exactly but myself and this guy I use to know were talking about it one time and it's just insanely inexpensive here either looking at the raw land sq. foot cost or actual buildings for sale or even leased space .. it is all inexpensive

 

[THE]

too bad it's not a constitutional right not to b lobbied against. that would cease all lobbying wouldn't it? given that lobbying for something usually makes it inherently against something else.

too bad that would never happen - it'd make this country a MUCH better place.

All I know is that we can't lobby for a darned thing.
The big business dollar does our talking for us.
We use to do it with our voices and weapons.