Archon wrote:

Thats a somewhat jaded view of online sellers. If you put a telephone
number on a website and you are running the business from home you are
likely to get calls all hours of the day and night from international
buyers.

Who presses you to pick up the phone if you don't want the business?

If you communicate your address and phone number on your website
and serve customers well, you will likely get very few phone calls.

You may even put "Only US customers" onto your site, or "Please
call only between 14:00 and 14:05 eastern time" :-).

Similarly if he's running the business from home he may not want
to broadcast his home address across the web.

Why should I do business with a guy who does not want to tell me his
address? That is, who does not want to tell me where my money will
disappear to :-).

Using a bit of
common sense and whois can easily sort the good from the bad, and you
can tell by emailing the guy if he is interested in providing a good
service or not. (No, its not my website)JC

Sounds like you expect *me* to work, guess and hope, to enable
somebody else to earn money from me.
Jeeez, man, I'm not looking for voters. I am *his* opportunity, and he
should try to grab it :-).

Regards,
H.