Heinz Schmitz wrote:
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.



So in the age of the internet you should put "US customers only"
WTF...exclude the rest of the world, right, thats good business.

Don't pick up the phone? Home business......would you want to be woken
at 3am by someone with no clue about timezones even if you do state
EST/PST which means nothing to someone in Europe or Asia. Don't pick up
and people like you think the number/business is bogus (but of course
the call has already woken you).

I'm not talking about a major online business here where I agree contact
info should be available, but there are many small website sales where
broadcasting your address and even your email unless disguised against
spam bots is just going to get you overwhelmed with unwanted crap.

I guess you don't run an online business. It IS up to you to ascertain
whether a website seller is genuine, do your homework and you won't get
screwed. There's one major manual seller famous for taking orders then
telling customers he will go find the manual and send it within 3 weeks,
he has his contact numbers etc listed...good seller? I don't think so.

JC