My name is Walter Scheu. And, I’m about the last person in the world you would ever think would be importing products from foreign countries and selling them on eBay. But, here I am doing it.
My wife Ursula and me we run a little family farm here in Randolph County, NC called Foxburrow Farms.
We’re located about 30 miles West of Interstate 73 in a little community called Ulah. Right on the southern tip of the Uwharrie National Forrest in Randolph County. (don’t blink or you’ll miss it)
Here on the farm we piddle around with a lot of different ways to make extra money: raising and selling rabbits, growing ifferent crops, raising chickens, etc. We even have 2 Emus – the male is setting on a nest of 10 eggs as I type this! (yes, it’s the male emu that keeps the eggs warm and cares for the chicks when they hatch.)
We also process different items on the farm. For example, somebody might want some timber cut up into lumber and they’ll give us an order and we’ll take care of it for them.
Well, one day I needed a specialized tool for a processing job I was getting ready to do. I’d bought several of these tools before locally but they always broke after a couple of uses so I thought I might find a better model on eBay.
After a little searching around I found what I needed but I also noticed these tools were selling like hotcakes on eBay. And for not too cheap of a price I might add.
Well, a little while later I got to thinking — “Why couldn’t I buy this tool wholesale, sell it on eBay and make a few bucks?”
Well, that thought started an 18 month long journey into the bureaucratic nightmare that is the importing business.
You see I did it all wrong! I made every mistake you would expect a rabbit farmer from Randolph County, NC to make. And there was no one out there that I could go to that could tell me, “Walter, you need to do this and you need to contact these people and you need to fill out this form, etc.”
I spent 18 months struggling and researching and calling — let me tell you — this is no joke: One day I got so frustrated I called the American Embassy in China. Hey, but you know what? They talked to me. And they provided another piece of the puzzle I was trying to solve.
Let me cut to the chase and tell you the big secret that took me 18 months to figure out: You don’t have to know how to do everything yourself.
In fact, there are people who with a single phone call will handle all the customs red tape for you. There are other people who will handle all the freight logistics of getting the product from the exporter right…
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