Selling online in Philippines

in #partiko5 years ago

Today i think its a day when i can share my honest opinion about this kind of business.

Since morning we was working and i am super tired. Not because of the job. Because of the people.

I use to sell before in UK on ebay few years ago. That was really cool.
No questions no chating no nothing.

It was easy and cool. I post the product and the price. Once they buy the item i get a notification and the money was on my account. Than i just went to ship the item and thats it.

But we are in philippines now😂 Here even this kind of work is a nightmare.
Here the sites like ebay are not working. The industry is full of scammers from both sidea. Even some sellers are scammers and also there is a dozens of joy reservers and bogus buyers.

The shipping is also quiet difficult sometimes so mainly all the transactions are on meet up.

Meet ups.

If they came to get they item. Or if they came in time.

Than also the suppluers sometimes send us the items that are not working. Than of course the customers are complaining.

When they return the item they are not patient to wait until we send it back to the supplier and we get a new one. They want they money back.

( even in many stores there is no money back guarantee )

And me i also dont like to make it. I can change the item but i dont like to waste my money.

Some of the buyers are at work. So that time they ask us to deliver. Deliver it for free.
Ok no problem until the place is not far. Than you try to get there in the fantastic traffic.
( if you ever tried to drive in philippines than you know what i mean. The name of the game is when you drive is stay alive ) 😂😂😂

And when you reach the destination than there is no parking place. Or if there is than it is reserved for some kind of VIP persons.
( in philippines every second business or car owner think that he is a VIP by the way and they even dont need to respect the trafic rules. As i mentioned before the game stay alive😉😂 )

Than fight with the enforcers or security guards because you wanna park somewhere for 5 mins until we deliver the items.

So is it sounds like a fun isnt it?😁

To tell you honestly it even doesnt worth the time and effort.

I just pray now every day that we get the visa aproval to my dear fiancee and we will disapier from this place like a lightning😂

And we live this business for one of the relatives. To be honest i even dont mind if we finish it but my fiancee's happiness is the first. So if she wanna continue it it is ok with me.

I just hope that if we will come back one day we will experience big changes. But even i hope i am afraid that after 5 years it will be still the same. Because this is the place where nothing is not changeing. 😁

So this is how it is working in ph. If ever you are planing to make any kind of business listen to me and stay far from the nonsense ideas like online selling or sari sari store😂
Sari store that is another topic i think because i dont wanna make this post longer today.

I need to rest😂

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