International Store

Hey, does anybody know an online store for musical instruments that supports shipping to Europe (more precisely Romania).

I plan on buying a new drum set and every online store I check is located in the USA and "cannot ship International at this time".

I also worry about shipping fees, won’t they cost too much?

Any help would greatly be appreciated and, of course, best answer shall be chosen. Cheers!

here my friend, best of the best for europe

http://www.thomann.de/ ive bought all my gear there.

I purchased what looked like skirt steak (it was labeled fajita beef) that looked bright red and fresh. When I went to cut the raw meat into strips for fajitas, the inside was brown. I cooked it and it tasted old. Doesn’t meat oxidize and turn brown outside first?

Can the grocery store pull a fast one and use a chemical or gas to make it appear fresh? This was a new international store, like a giant asian/hispanic store, not a national chain. (Though I remember Food Lion getting busted years ago for bleaching old meat to freshen it. Yuk!!)
So if any of you live in Virginia Beach, beware of buying "fresh" meat at the International Supermarket by the WalMart off of Princess Anne and Lynnhaven Rd.

Some stores dye there meat to make it look better! You cant hardly buy anything consumable w/o it being treated in some way. Sure would be nice to buy just meat w/o dye and hormones and just veggies w/o all the chemicals! You cant even buy sweet corn w/o the corn being genetically engineered.Try a store that does only organic foods and also if you’re near the country try buying fresh from the farmer.

I want to make hummus but we don’t have any international stores around here. I’m wondering if you all know if some grocery store like Walmart, Kroger or perhaps Whole Foods carry tahini.

Or could you perhaps recommend a substitute for the tahini although I’d rather not go down that routine if possible.

Thanks for your help!

Any Whole Foods store will have it.

Hello,

How difficult is it to open up your own clothes store in London? Any Ideas of costs etc and where should I get good stock i.e. UK wholesalers or International?

The key is location – London is a big place!

A store in a wapping side street will be much cheaper than a prime pitch in Picadilly.

You need a shop with plenty of passing trade, not tucked away down an alley. Large enough to display a good range and store your stock but not so big the rent cripples you. Look for old shops in the area you like which have been vacant for a while, the owners will be keen to rent it as they still have to pay rates on the property even if it’s empty. Negotiate an initial rent-free period as an incentive for you to sign a lease – say 3 months. This will be a big boost in getting started. Other costs will include business rates (shop version of council tax) possible maintenance fees for the building, electricity (poss. gas but uncommon) phone etc. Also you’ll need to factor in advertising costs – flyers / magazine or paper ad’s / posters etc.

Look around for shops which are being fitted out or demolished as you can oftern pick up display counters / window dressing supplies / clothes racks for free as they’re being thrown out.

As for stock, you will make the best profits on items you import from abroad – particularly China as their goods are of nice quality, cheap and they trade in US $ so you get alot for your money at the moment with the exchange rate being so good. On average it takes about 2 – 3 months from placing your order to receiving it if shipping from China, sea freight is the most economical way of shipping and takes around 30 days. Make sure you are not caught out by the added costs of importing – when your items arrive they will have VAT / import duty added to them and you will have to pay some port fees / brokerage / clearing fees. For a shipment big enough to fill a couple of transit vans you’ll pay approx. £300 – £400 in port fees with the VAT being applied at the relevant rate. Even with these added costs, you;ll still be getting the items cheaper than UK wholesalers will sell them for.

Good wholesalers in CHina are easy enough to find on-line, don’t be tempted to pay for a subscription service / wholesaler listing as these are usually pretty useless. A bit of a naughty tip – if you use a file sharing program like Limewire / bittorrent etc. you can set it to search for documents and search for ‘wholesale list’ ‘wholesale supply’ etc. and get a few lists for free, you may find something good there. (just remember to do a virus scan on any file you download before opening it)

Don’t be put off by the competition, alot of traders give up on an idea because there are alot of others doing it – you just have to make sure you are better, cheaper, offer superior service, deal with queries quicker and you’ll win your share of the market.

Good luck, I hope it goes well.

FOR ELECTRONICS RETAILERS it will be the holiday season of the flat- screen TV. But the companies that make the key component — the flat screen itself — won’t have much to celebrate.
Heading into the Christmas sales period, traditionally the biggest time of the year for electronics goods, prices of flat-screen TV sets are falling. Sharp Corp.’s 32-inch LCD-TV with built-in HDTV tuner, which was introduced to the U.S. in January at a suggested price of $5,000, now carries a suggested price of $4,000 and is being advertised by some online retailers for about $3,100, including shipping. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. recently began selling a 42-inch plasma set for under $2,000.
As prices slide, sales of flat-screen TV sets are expected to double this year and account for about 5% of global TV unit sales. Even so, these sets still yield far more profit for retailers than ordinary, tube-based TV sets. That markup is keeping prices above the level that could turn flat TVs into a mass-market item, say the companies most responsible for the price drop: the Asian makers of the highly complex glass screens called panels.
That isn’t fair, these companies say. To build the liquid-crystal display, or LCD, panels, they are investing tens of billions of dollars in factories as advanced as those that make computer chips. But these manufacturers can’t directly control retail prices since they are just one part of the flat-TV food chain. They sell their panels to TV-set makers, who in turn sell the finished sets to distributors, who then ship the TVs to retailers. Each piece of this chain takes a cut.
The world’s biggest LCD-panel manufacturers have been cranking out the flat screens faster than the TV industry can absorb as new screen factories have come online. That has prompted the panel makers to cut their wholesale prices by as much as 30% in recent weeks, a move that has lowered their profits. Now they are calling on TV makers, distributors and retailers to do their part to move the screens by reducing their markup on LCD-TVs — which amounts to as much as 40% of their retail price, according to analysts.
"Right now, to work on an immediate and quick liftoff of the LCD-TV market, the [retail] channel margin has to come down," says Ron Wirahadiraksa, chief financial officer of LG.Philips LCD Co.. The Korean company is the second-largest maker of LCD panels and is a joint venture of LG Electronics Inc. of South Korea and Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands.
Retailers insist their margins aren’t unduly high. They say the costs of displaying and marketing such big-ticket TVs don’t leave high net profits for them. Store chains have invested heavily in training sales clerks to explain the mind-numbing differences in flat-screen technologies. They also have a lot of money tied up in inventories of the costly TVs despite the relatively low sales volumes they generate.
Average selling prices of big-screen TVs have dropped to about $3,000 from $5,000 two years ago. That’s great for consumers. But for retailers, even if they keep charging the same markup in percentage terms, they end up with a lower gross profit per set sold in dollar terms, notes Michael T. Ryan, a former vice president of merchandising at Circuit City Stores Inc. and now president of international retail consultants Ryan Partnership.
The LCD panel makers, meanwhile, face competitive pressure from other screen technologies, including plasma, which generally is used in screens larger than 40 inches, and from the new high-resolution projection TVs that are powered by digital-mirror chips. Since September, plasma-TV prices have plummeted and contributed to a market-share gain over LCD sets. Large LCD screens cost more to build than plasma screens, though that may change in coming years because of efficiencies in the newer LCD factories.
Makers of plasma screens do face some of the same profit pressures as retailers apply a similar markup to those sets as well. But plasma- screen factories aren’t as costly to erect as LCD-screen plants, and there’s a bit less competition among plasma-screen makers, so the profit squeeze isn’t as bad.
Throughout the electronics industry, executives are plotting the rates of price declines and sales increases for flat-screen TVs and consulting their history books. Over the past decade, the pace at which consumers adopted each new electronic gadget — from PDAs to DVD players to MP3 music players to camera cellphones — seems to have accelerated. But most analysts predict that flat-screen TVs won’t take off as quickly as flat-screen computer monitors, which went from single-digit market share in 2000 to represent more than half of all monitor sales this year. Monitor purchasing has been driven by businesses while TVs are chiefly purchased by consumers, who tend to be more sensitive to price.
Still, flat-screen TV prices are reaching a level that draws far more buyers than the so-called early adopters of new electronics gear. "

Im just a student and i am not that good. BUT if u want some really good econs majors nad professors to help you. PLEASE TYPE PROPERLY and leave lots of clear paragraphs…

Coz it really doesn’t inspire help that u seek.

Jullien Miranda
No:. 281 260 0393
Houston Texas

WORK EXPERIENCE

2006 – 2009: Weatherford International Jar Technician / Lead
Responsibilities include tearing down and assembling jars to company standards while maintaining good quality as well as quantity. Responsible for testing dirty jars upon arrival from the field; draining jars, dissembling jars and tagging parts. Responsible for carrying out visual inspection of Jars and parts and performing mag particle inspection. Trained in maintaining constant alertness for any flaw in parts, recognizing defective parts and reporting any such findings to shop foreman or service manager. Responsible for steam cleaning and wire brushing all parts; setting torque springs; filling parts with oil; pressure testing and assembling Jars; testing complete/assembled jars; painting jars and putting jars in stock. Responsible for maintaining an organized work area throughout the shift and for replacing any hand tools to their proper locations at the end of shift. Responsible for operation of stationary overhead crane to lift, move, and position loads, such as machinery, equipment, products, and solid or bulk materials and parts using hoisting attachments.

2004 – 2006: Volume Millworks Welding Apprentice / Assistant
Trained in welding machines including Tig (AC and DC) and Mig welder. Ability to weld milled steel, aluminum and stainless steel. Operated 4.5 and 7 inch angle grinder, manual vertical band saw, pedestal grinder, manual milling machine and various clamps and fixtures. Assisted TIG and MIG Welders in welding, brazing; and thermal and arc cutting. Cleaned work pieces to remove impurities such as slag, rust and grease using wire brush, portable grinder, hand scraper and/or chemical solutions. Responsible for properly connecting hoses from hand torch to oxygen and fuel gas cylinders, and cables from power source to electrode holder and work-pieces or fixtures. Moved work pieces, tools and supplies, manually or byhandtruck. Lifted, moved, positioned, held and/or clamped work pieces and components to table, jigs or other positions by using hoist, electric crane, jacks, shims, pry bars, wrenches, hammer and/or wedges. Placed work pieces into furnace to preheat for specified time. Operated gasoline engine to activate electric generators. Assembled and tack-welded steel frames and other component parts of machinery and equipment in preparation for final welding. Measured and marked locations for metal components on assembly table. Verified position of metal components in assembly using straightedge, combination square, calipers, and ruler. Removed rough spots from castings with portable grinder and hand file. Removed, tagged and marked finished work. Attached grappling equipment to objects in preparation of movement. Moved assembly to storage area using a gas or electric powered forklift.

2003 – 2004 Time Warner
Receiving Clerk / Order Filler
Using both a barcode-reading scanner and manual data entry on computer, kept records of all goods received. Accepted deliveries, sorted packages and prepared receipts for customers or delivery personnel. Noted time of incoming delivery and condition of content/product. Transferred data to appropriate departments and moved / routed damaged goods to the proper office.

2003 – 2004 Stewart & Stevenson
Shop Hand
Operated gas and electric forklifts to stock materials. Loaded transport vehicles. Kept record of daily operations. Kept work area clean. Other duties as requested.

EDUCATION

Certificate – Forklift Operator/Driver Trained and certified to drive/operate forklifts (including diesel, electric, gas or petrol powered trucks equipped with fork attachments) in order to shift/stack bales, cartons, containers, crates and pallets of goods in areas such as warehouses or docks; move raw materials and finished goods to processing or dispatch areas of factories; storing goods in correct area of a warehouse; loading transport vehicles making sure loads are evenly and securely placed; servicing/making minor adjustments to the forklift; keeping a record of daily operations. 2005

American CPR Training
Certificate – Safety Oriented First Aid and CPR Trained and certified to recognize first stages of victim unresponsiveness and to perform initial assessment, resuscitation and chest compressions (CPR), as well as to deal with minor emergencies such as cuts, abrasions, burns and hypothermia.

2006 Eisenhower High School Diploma – General Studies
General 12th grade curriculum such as Social Studies (principles of Government, Democratic Ideal, Urbanization, Tax and Finance); Science (Physics, light & optics, relativity/force); Language Arts (English & world literature, mass communication, radio & television); Math (Calculus, Algebra, Probability and Statistics).

Too chatty and over-detailed in some ways, while still lacking pertinent information. If I were you, I would start afresh. Here’s what sections I would include if I were you and what to put in them:

~Contact Information: Name, Mailing Address, Home Phone (if you have one–I don’t), Cell Phone, Email Address, Website (if you have one– and only if it’s relevant, not Facebook or other such rubbish). Don’t abbreviate anything. Write out "Cell phone: xxx-xxx-xxxx" instead of just "No." I would bold your name and center it at the top in a slightly larger font. Don’t make it look like a Vegas neon sign though.

~Work Experience: Month and Year Started – Month and Year Ended, Job title, Workplace, Location of Workplace (City, State). You can follow it with a brief bullet-point list of no more than four or five shortly-worded items, so pick the most important things and ditch stuff like "keep work area clean" and "other duties as assigned." The person who will hire you KNOWS that all jobs have lots of duties, but it’s really a turn-off when someone writes twenty lines about a single job. Example: "Jan 2001 – Jan 2005. President of the United States of America, White House, Washington, D.C. Made policy decisions. Appointed and oversaw administrative committees. Head of executive branch of government." Nuff said, even for that job.

~Special Skills and Qualifications: Put your certifications in here. Same story. We know what CPR certification means, and even a lay-person has a good idea what "Forklift Operator" means. Instead, put when you earned each certification and when each will expire. (You might separate "First Aid" and "CPR" onto two different line items if they were earned separately.) Also put in any other equipment you can operate (even if it doesn’t require certification), special licenses (do you have a truck license by chance?), re-mention management experience, etc.

~Education: Again, just the basics, please. Graduation Date (Month and Year), School, City and State of School, any LARGE honors (Don’t say you were president of some random club. Your boss won’t care.). No hiring manager is going to be interested in reading that list of your high school courses, either. They just need to know you graduated.

~Other Work Experiences: Volunteer work of ANY kind, as long as you’ve done it more than just a few times (coach, youth leader at a church, soup kitchen, animal shelter, whatever). It shows that you’re a productive person and are involved in the community. If you’re not doing volunteer work, you SHOULD be while job-hunting. Most people find jobs largely through networking, and volunteering is a FREE way to mingle with other people.

~References: Yes, you put them on your resume as well, even though a majority of applications ask you to write the references on that page. Put in 3-5. First, make sure the people you’ve chosen will say nice things about you. If you’re not sure, pick another person. Second, make sure the references you’ve chosen are okay with being your references. Third, let them know every time you send a batch of resumes out so they can be prepared for possible phone calls. Who to pick: No family members. Preferably ONLY people you have worked with (so they can talk about your work ethic/skills AND your character rather than just your character). Preferably at least one manager/boss. Include on your resume: Name, Position, Workplace, and Location ("Shift Manager, Such and Such Industries, Sometown, Wyoming"), and as much contact information as your reference gives you permission to include. Whatever the reference wishes.

~(optional): I put a colored dividing line between all the sections on mine to make it a little more visually interesting as well as more cleanly organized. I also print it on heavy-weight marbled paper. I also include three copies of reference letters that I ask bosses, professors, and/or coworkers to write for me. Even though the letters usually aren’t REQUIRED, who’s going to throw them away? And it makes me stand out above all the other applicants.

~Final Tip: You can move the sections around in a way that seems to make the most sense to YOU. Put the section that seems most important first, and so on. I actually COMPLETELY rewrite my resume depending on the specific type of job I’m applying for, customizing it to match the priorities position I want.

Good luck hunting.

okay so ive been looking for an online job that i can work from home with and i actually found one! i was wondering if anyone has heard of this company or if its just another scam that i need to look out for!! my husband says its sounds great but that it might be too good to be true.

in the company im virtually the over-seas book keeper and the email stated.

this is the initial email i got read it and tell me what you think please[[in the email it will also state the name of the company]]

[[NAME OF THE COMPANY]]
RIVA STAR INDUSTRIAL COMPANY LIMITED
> > Riva House,
> > Limewood Approach,
> > Seacroft Leeds,
> > West Yorks,
> > LS141NG
> > United Kingdom

[[FIRST EMAIL I GOT]]
My name is Micheal Bickham I was born in New York
> and
> > I’m 50 years old, i Am presently in france for
> work and
> > we are looking for a Male or Female representative,
> who can
> > be working for us as a par time worker and earn $400
> per
> > week. We are happy to inform you that this would not
> affect
> > Your present state of work but rather get the extra
> cash
> > into your wallet. Our main factory is located in UK
> while we
> > extract the raw materials needed for the manufacturing
> of
> > fabrics from UK, Asia and South Americans, We produce
> > standard articles for the promotional, catering, hotel
> and
> > laundry trades. We are also able to manufacture to our
> > customers specific design requirements. As our main
> area of
> > business is the promotional market we are constantly
> working
> > with our clients on new and innovative designs and
> provide a
> > fast and flexible service. Blank Tea Towels, Cotton
> Canvas
> > Bags and Cotton Drill Aprons are our most popular
> products
> > used by screen printers and
> > embroiderers for tourism, schools, special events and
> > promotions.
> > We are in need of a representative, someone who is
> honest,
> > sincere, trustworthy, capable and reliable that would
> help
> > us receive payments from our customers. The reason why
> we
> > need this rep is that the cost of coming down and get
> those
> > payments is very expensive, we can spend up 2,500
> dollars on
> > every trip,(feeding, accommodation and flight tickets)
> so we
> > need a representative who will be handling that
> aspect.
> > We are willing to pay you $400 per week , and you can
> still
> > keep your
> > regular job while you work for us All you have to do
> is
> > help us receive payments from our customers. These
> payments
> > May com in Check, Cashiers Check, Money Order and
> Travelers
> > Check, or International Money Orders base on what our
> client
> > decides to pay with. and they would come to you in
> your
> > name, because you’re the one to get them cashed,
> so all
> > you need do is cash the payment in your bank or
> cashing
> > point, or any cashing store, you will earn $400 per
> week for
> > doing this for us.All we need now is your trust and
> you will
> > work with us. It would not cost you any amount, you
> are to
> > receive are payments which will be sent to you by post
> from
> > our business partners, or those mailed to us in our
> location
> > will be sent out to you. These are the
> Information’s
> > required from you if you are interested in this part
> time
> > job.
> >

thanks so much
thanks for everyone that awnsered so far!

as far as depositing it to MY bank account
i dont have one hahahaha and i told the person that and he said to cash it at a check cashing place so thats what i intend on doing.

dang well apperently theyve already sent the first check and it should be here soon so what do i do?? i guess ill just tell whoever delivers it that the person doesnt live here hahahaha

thanks everyone

hmm never heard of it..but it might be real…or a scam?

http://www.data-wales.co.uk/ni_fake_jobs.htm
i found them at this site and it says "fake job scams"

Riva Paoletti Ltd, Riva House, Limewood Approach, Seacroft Leeds, West Yorks, LS141NG riva_paoletti92@yahoo.com. Guangzhou Petshine Trading Co., petshine_tradingcompany1@yahoo.com.cn. N Brown Group plc, Griffin House, 40 Lever Street, Manchester, M60 6ES, Charles Desmond, churchgatesbiz@googlemail.com. Dr Kelly Bryan drkellybryan@gmail.com. HILLSDOWN HOLDINGS, HILLSDOWN HOUSE, 32 HAMPSTEAD HIGH STREET, LONDON NW2 1QD, <humanresources.hillsdown@googlemail.com>. KEITH CERAMIC MATERIALS LTD kcmprocurement@gmail.com .

so i guess its fake….

You can’t unless you have a valid address in that country/an iTunes card from the country.

I live in the Ruhr area in Germany, and was wondering where I can get international beers, namely, South African cider/beer drinks ( Savanna Dry or Hunter’s Dry )

I never saw any while I was in Germany and I’ve been to most of Germany.

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