Sunday Market: Your Items are faulty, I want my money back!
In the business of product selling, from time to time, you’ll face clients who’d like to do exchanges or even refunds due to the items bought being faulty. I don’t have a problem with that. In fact, the law demands it. What I have problems with is that some of them are just flat out lying.
Here are a couple of examples.
Filed under Sunday Business | Comments (2)Sunday Market: After all, you people invented that!
Okay, hari ni aku tak rasa macam nak tulis dalam Bahasa Inggeris. Entri kali ini akan digunakan dengan bahasa bercampur-campur dan menggunakan perkataan ‘aku’.
Sebabnya, nak kutuk sesetengah golongan di Australia ni.
Topiknya, perkauman dan hal-hal yang berbau perkauman.
Ini adalah entri untuk aku meluahkan perasaan tak puas hati aku. Kalau tak suka baca benda-benda macam ni, jangan proceed.
Filed under Sunday Business | Comments (10)How does a profit of 3.9% sounds to you?
How does a profit of 3.9% on your high-risk investment sounds to you? Not so attractive? That’s what I earned today with my part-time Sunday Market hobby cum business. Only 3.9% profit margin. Haha :D
Filed under Sunday Business | Comments (3)Sunday Market - Back in full swing
After a 6-month hiatus, I’m back again with my sunday activities. It’s time again to wake up at 3.30 in the morning every Sunday.
What’s so interesting about Sundays?
Well, wake up at 3.30, take a bath, perform Fajr prayers, rock off with a friend to the Sunday Market, and open up a stall.
The last time I was trading at the Sunday market was before the exams last year. After stopping for about 6 months (holidays in Malaysia and all, read about it here and here), it does take a while to get the momentum up again. At first, the prospect of waking up at 3.30am on a Sunday was unthinkable! But once you’re there, and goods started to sell, then it becomes interesting.
I first started trading in the sunday market about a year ago with a friend. Started off with no experience at all and without knowing what to expect. As time goes by, you start to get the hang of it. The money is nothing to be proud of, but hey, at least I’m doing something. Plus, the experience that you get by interacting with locals and observing how businesses are run is priceless.
Filed under Sunday Business | Comments (2)Tales from the Brisbane Market : Story 1
I’d like to share with you some stories from the Brisbane Market. One story in each posts.
Story 1 : The French Dude
There’s this one Sunday, my business partner was off the loo and I was going about my business as usual. Then, one dude came up and stood next to me. I was like, what the…
Filed under Daily Thoughts/Observations, Sunday Business | Comments (2)Sunday Market Business
I have been in a number of business ventures throughout the years. The recent one would be my Sunday Market business. I have to say, this is an enjoyable weekend activity.
I started this business back in early January 2007 with a business partner. All credit goes to him for inviting me along! :)
Basically, the Sunday Market system works like this. You can either be a permanent stall holder or a casual trader. A permanent stall holder will have a permanent stall throughout their term and they get to enter the market earlier than anybody else. The catch is, you have to pay AUD35 per Sunday and you have to pay in advance by 1 month I think. As for me and my business partner, we are in the casual trader category. We pay AUD25 per Sunday and we have to que up as early as 4.45am. They will let us in around 5.30am, after all the permanent stall holders have settled down. By the way, the market opens at 6.00am and closes at 12.00pm.
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