That would be difficult, as local manufactures pay 40% duty on packaging.
When you visit the local food store , you see locally made jellies and jams, and often they cost 8-9 dollars, while you can even get tropical fruit jam from the caribben for half that. I recently saw a bottle of jam all the way from Greece for 4.45 on the shelf. Why 8 or 9 dollars? I assure you the bottle alone costs about 3 dollars, so your profit margin tanks.
Even if you were to knit sweaters to sell to the richer crowd, your cost of materials is subject to duties and the chinese make their own wool and hardly pay workers anything.
It is more likely that individulas will import items and put it up for sale on the site.
In the early 1990s, when amazon was incipient, there was a business that offered catalogues from Sears across from St Thomas Moore school. Did not last long because they would just add percentages corresponding to customs duties.
Even when Avon was around, you would pay the catalogue price plus 40%.
Maybe this will be special and offer duty free prices.
> “How many families will now take the gamble and go without already expensive medical insurance now that it will increase by at least 10 percent?
Medical insurance was never never vat free. Minnis charged 12% on it. so those who can afford it, will save money. It was really Obama that made medical skyrocket, and people have to reinsure.
> How many people will die because they had no insurance coverage,
At the least the same number that died under the Minnis administration.
Did the people Minnis cause to be furloughed keep their insurance?
ohdrap4 says...
Would have been a few months ago. Omicron has established the need for all to be tested, vaccinated or not.
The joke is on the vaccinated.
On Tourism relief: Biden doesn’t kill Christmas
Posted 5 December 2021, 8:55 p.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
Pfizer already said to expect annual doses for the next 10 years.
On Extended vaccine doses for immunocompromised begin Monday
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ohdrap4 says...
I am crying because this govt will now chargeVAT on fuel for my helicopter.
But thanks to the FNM, I brought it in duty free.
On Opposition’s last-ditch VAT change bid fails
Posted 3 December 2021, 3:38 p.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
I did visit the site and searched for the exact item I just received from amazon through a local courier.
Their landed price was 1.20 more than what I paid,
You just run the risk of paying extra for volume weight when amazon places it in a bigger box.
On Sebas raises $19m for e-commerce purchase
Posted 3 December 2021, 2:57 p.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
That would be difficult, as local manufactures pay 40% duty on packaging.
When you visit the local food store , you see locally made jellies and jams, and often they cost 8-9 dollars, while you can even get tropical fruit jam from the caribben for half that. I recently saw a bottle of jam all the way from Greece for 4.45 on the shelf. Why 8 or 9 dollars? I assure you the bottle alone costs about 3 dollars, so your profit margin tanks.
Even if you were to knit sweaters to sell to the richer crowd, your cost of materials is subject to duties and the chinese make their own wool and hardly pay workers anything.
It is more likely that individulas will import items and put it up for sale on the site.
On Sebas raises $19m for e-commerce purchase
Posted 3 December 2021, 2:54 p.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
In the early 1990s, when amazon was incipient, there was a business that offered catalogues from Sears across from St Thomas Moore school. Did not last long because they would just add percentages corresponding to customs duties.
Even when Avon was around, you would pay the catalogue price plus 40%.
Maybe this will be special and offer duty free prices.
On Sebas raises $19m for e-commerce purchase
Posted 3 December 2021, 4:42 a.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
Not likely. The difference in price will be marginal as there us no escape from custons duties.
On Sebas raises $19m for e-commerce purchase
Posted 2 December 2021, 6:32 p.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
> **IF you die of covid...YOU made a (bad) choice!! Do NOT start a
> GoFundMe!!!!!**
Dead people are hardly in a position to start a go fund me.
On EDITORIAL: Don’t let vaccine go to waste
Posted 2 December 2021, 3:47 p.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
> “How many families will now take the gamble and go without already expensive medical insurance now that it will increase by at least 10 percent?
Medical insurance was never never vat free. Minnis charged 12% on it. so those who can afford it, will save money.
It was really Obama that made medical skyrocket, and people have to reinsure.
> How many people will die because they had no insurance coverage,
At the least the same number that died under the Minnis administration.
Did the people Minnis cause to be furloughed keep their insurance?
Guy making himself a puppy show.
On Gibson slams breadbasket VAT rise
Posted 2 December 2021, 3:33 p.m. Suggest removal
ohdrap4 says...
He means for subsistence. You do carrots , your neighbour does sweet peppers and you barter.
However, supplies like soil and containers are expensive, and it is time consuming. Very time consuming.
On ‘Total devastation’ if VAT was put at 15%
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