can anyone please help me.thinking of renting a shop and sell handphone.where can i source for handphone distributor and suppliers.no experience in this field and would need some guidance.how much of investment $$ to put in and renting of shop where can get the most of it.

maybe do some research and find out there are about 245.000 mobile phone shops in CM already

baahjun.

nahh .... i rekon there are at lest 300. 000 phone shops in chiang mai already and the poster ( dreamer ) has a great chance of making some BIG money

let him try to compete against thais .... its his money !

dave2 : )

Why not open a T-shirt stall at the Night Bazaar instead, an equally good chance of losing money.

deleted my reply because it was stupid.

I don't always delete my stupid replies

deleted my reply because it was stupid.

I didn't bother replying because it would have been stupid too.

Would have called the OP with advice but did not have a handphone. Where can I buy one?

Maybe he would do better with these.

Come on use your head. Buy a bar. Drink heavily. Have a girlfriend run it for you. Big money.

Come on use your head. Buy a bar. Drink heavily. Have a girlfriend run it for you. Big money.

Get a bar....run it for 12 months and if you still like it ( and are well enough ) open it to the public.

I don't always delete my stupid replies

Nor do I PB.

I see the OP comes from Singapore - could it be that much different there? Maybe it's the lesser known Singapore in Patagonia.

I've often wondered why even a Thai person would start a business where there are no unique product offerings and almost no way to add value by way of service, leaving only vicious price competition as a means of getting sales. Even with an extended family the size of Brazil it would be a dodgy proposition.

What? They do it all the time?

Maybe a noodle shop with second hand mobile phones as a side line market. Throw in the local thai whiskey as a after dinner drink, with all offered out of a tuktuk for a speedy get away.

Once upon a time I lived in country in the med and on the road leading to where I lived there was a very successful bakery.

Other people noticed the success and within a year there were four more bakeries on the same road.

Now, guess what happened next - no clues.

Once upon a time I lived in country in the med and on the road leading to where I lived there was a very successful bakery.

Other people noticed the success and within a year there were four more bakeries on the same road.

Now, guess what happened next - no clues.

The original bakery kept its prices the same and everyone still went there out of respect.

Now, guess what happened next - no clues.

Increased the price with the idea that if it was more expensive everyone would have to think it was better. AKA - TiT

As for the OP, very heavy competition and unless you have a very unique business plan and location doubt if it will succeed.

can anyone please help me.thinking of renting a shop and sell handphone.where can i source for handphone distributor and suppliers.no experience in this field and would need some guidance.how much of investment $$ to put in and renting of shop where can get the most of it.

It seems you have tonnes of monies to burn . Perhaps you should tell us why would you think your shop would be successful?

can anyone please help me.thinking of renting a shop and sell handphone.where can i source for handphone distributor and suppliers.no experience in this field and would need some guidance.how much of investment $$ to put in and renting of shop where can get the most of it.

It seems you have tonnes of monies to burn . Perhaps you should tell us why would you think your shop would be successful?

For the same reasons your 2^nd hand book shop would, maybe?

/ Priceless

OK, I think the OP has the picture now.

I have to admit, when I first arrived, I thought I might start a small import/export business, selling unique Thai handicrafts/textile art, etc. on a web-based site.

I have quite a bit of experience in this sort of thing- spent most of the early part of my life traveling and buying artifacts, jewelry, antique rugs, paintings, etc. worldwide and then selling them in the US (both wholesale and retail).

5 seconds after I got here, I realized that everything along this line that I might have done successfully in the past....has been done to death by about a million people now. 20 years ago, maybe even 10 years ago, you might have got your foot in the door.

The problem is, a lot of people come to Thailand, decide they want to stay, but aren't flush with cash. So they all start a business.

The above posts are spot-on; there are literally 100's of thousands of people scrapping and scrabbling for an ever-decreasing slice of the retail pie.

I do know a few successful farang here who have a successful business. They are very much an exception to the rule.

Everything you think might be a hot new idea, has been thought of by dozens before you, tried by a few, and rarely have been successful.

Not a pessimist here; just saying it like it is.

There was once a Chiang Mai Thai Chinese former police captain who decided to sell mobile phones (handphones) in Thailand. He did rather well for a while.

He was a Lt. Colonel, Blinky

There was once a Chiang Mai Thai Chinese former police captain who decided to sell mobile phones (handphones) in Thailand. He did rather well for a while.

Now there's a thought maybe the op could look into buying a football club.

He was a Lt. Colonel, Blinky

Through merit or money?

He was a Lt. Colonel, Blinky

When he was doing shifty deals with mobile pagers, he was a mere police captain, he retired as a Lt. Colonel

OK, I think the OP has the picture now.

I have to admit, when I first arrived, I thought I might start a small import/export business, selling unique Thai handicrafts/textile art, etc. on a web-based site.

I have quite a bit of experience in this sort of thing- spent most of the early part of my life traveling and buying artifacts, jewelry, antique rugs, paintings, etc. worldwide and then selling them in the US (both wholesale and retail).

5 seconds after I got here, I realized that everything along this line that I might have done successfully in the past....has been done to death by about a million people now. 20 years ago, maybe even 10 years ago, you might have got your foot in the door.

The problem is, a lot of people come to Thailand, decide they want to stay, but aren't flush with cash. So they all start a business.

The above posts are spot-on; there are literally 100's of thousands of people scrapping and scrabbling for an ever-decreasing slice of the retail pie.

I do know a few successful farang here who have a successful business. They are very much an exception to the rule.

Everything you think might be a hot new idea, has been thought of by dozens before you, tried by a few, and rarely have been successful.

Not a pessimist here; just saying it like it is.

Their worries are over. Customers will soon be flooding the establishments of savvy owners:

http://classifieds.thaivisa.com/miscellane...ness-31875.html

OK, I think the OP has the picture now.

I have to admit, when I first arrived, I thought I might start a small import/export business, selling unique Thai handicrafts/textile art, etc. on a web-based site.

I have quite a bit of experience in this sort of thing- spent most of the early part of my life traveling and buying artifacts, jewelry, antique rugs, paintings, etc. worldwide and then selling them in the US (both wholesale and retail).

5 seconds after I got here, I realized that everything along this line that I might have done successfully in the past....has been done to death by about a million people now. 20 years ago, maybe even 10 years ago, you might have got your foot in the door.

The problem is, a lot of people come to Thailand, decide they want to stay, but aren't flush with cash. So they all start a business.

The above posts are spot-on; there are literally 100's of thousands of people scrapping and scrabbling for an ever-decreasing slice of the retail pie.

I do know a few successful farang here who have a successful business. They are very much an exception to the rule.

Everything you think might be a hot new idea, has been thought of by dozens before you, tried by a few, and rarely have been successful.

Not a pessimist here; just saying it like it is.

Their worries are over. Customers will soon be flooding the establishments of savvy owners:

http://classifieds.thaivisa.com/miscellane...ness-31875.html

This is almost beyond belief. I wonder how the sales of this product are going? An old motherboard screwed to the outside of a box. Probably a light inside?

Once bankrupt, don't forget to come back on this forum and blame 'Thailand' for making your business fail. It's essential.

Their worries are over. Customers will soon be flooding the establishments of savvy owners:

http://classifieds.thaivisa.com/miscellane...ness-31875.html

This is almost beyond belief. I wonder how the sales of this product are going? An old motherboard screwed to the outside of a box. Probably a light inside?

Surely it must be a joke. I thought I'd try and crack it by running Lalita Petkijnam through the anagram machine but the best it could come up with was Pajama Lentil Kit. We can laugh but maybe Lalita has found the Holy Grail of retailing and in a few months we'll see her on Dragons' Den raising the funds to take it forward to a world shattering IPO.....

On the other hand sell two or three to gullible idiots and she's made more money than a teacher does in a couple of months. There must be a law against it?

Seems like it's not just being touted on TV - here's their website and in answer to all us sceptics, here is an excerpt from the helpful FAQ that comes along with the money back guarantee.

Is this a joke or a fake product ?

Boondee Magic Box is neither a toy nor a joke or a fake products. It is the real, true Hypnosis machine. The miracle was generated by a great Amulet inside the machine connecting to the secret of electronic circuit. © Copy Rights protection. The important of this machine is the assembly process of amulet and complexity of electronic

Yes, it really ends like that.

Sell amulets and give away a rescued soi dog and a dead jingjok with each purchase. Or two amulets, a stuffed soi dog, and a hungry jingjok.