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    Just Found On Alibaba.com

    I just seen this on alibaba.com. Seems someone else is looking to buy cheap glasses from China and sell them, probably, on the net. Is this how these characters meet and do business??

    http://www.alibaba.com/buyofferdetai...nd_frames.html

    :cheers:

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jacqui View Post
    I just seen this on alibaba.com. Seems someone else is looking to buy cheap glasses from China and sell them, probably, on the net. Is this how these characters meet and do business??

    http://www.alibaba.com/buyofferdetai...nd_frames.html

    :cheers:
    Interesting.

    I thought that they all met at the International Air Tambourine and Hee-Haw Convention?

    I guess I should grab myself one of those new fangled IPaids and get with the program and make a buck or three in this business!

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    He's just one of fourty!

    And they're thieves! All thieves I tell you.
    Wesley S. Scott, MBA, MIS, ABOM, NCLE-AC, LDO - SC & GA

    “As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.” -Albert Einstein

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    Redhot Jumper been saying it for years............................

    Ali Baba is only one wbsite of many for that purpose.

    I must have a couple of hundred frames and lens companies on file that sent me pictures and price lists.

    It is totally easy to get frames and labwork out of China and Thailand.............and I have been saying that many times on post's over the years, but it did not sink into OptiBoard minds.

    It is not only the on line companies can do it it is also you and me.

    Quote Originally Posted by wss2020

    And they're thieves! All thieves I tell you.


    ...............and I don't think they are thieves, but they are smart, because they takes advantage of the eonomic situation, it could not be a better time for them to startup.

    They are paying the price in China for frames and lenses, which I can not post here but could in the Pressional Forum which everybody should join anyhow. They make a small profit without much work involved but do sell large quantites and that is their gimmick. They buy and they sell, only at a different level for each.

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    Redhot Jumper here are just a few........................

    1,790 " spectacle frames" results from 210 suppliers

    Results: 897 products from 38 verified suppliers and 893 products from 172 unverified suppliers


    http://www.globalsources.com/

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    I have a friend that imports them and sells them in his shop. Extremely profitable.

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    It was VSP's CEO!!!!! I wondered what "VSP Global" meant!

    Seriously, if you're not a robot or an underpayed Chinese slave-laborer, you aren't in a growth industy.

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    That was just a lame joke Chris, I wasn't really implying they were thieves...
    Wesley S. Scott, MBA, MIS, ABOM, NCLE-AC, LDO - SC & GA

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