Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

On Saturday I decided to go to the launch party for Birmingham Girl Geeks. It was a unique experience as you are immersed  in a room filled with people JUST LIKE YOU. On my table were business women, photographers working in e-commerce, web designers, social media experts, mobile web designers and even people who had just started [...]

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Well, hisashiburi desu! (it has been a while in Japanese) I have had a very busy e-commerce 2011. The economy has taken a bashing but online things are still hotting up! The world is our oyster online with the expansion of social commerce and like many sellers looking out to Europe and beyond is the [...]

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Is it just me or has there been a steady rise in anarchy in the UK? Money is always the cause. Over the snowed in December, I was informed by almost all of my service related companies energy, insurance etc that the VAT was rising AND their prices were going up. The largest increase was [...]

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I have the fear do you? The fear that when an item pop through UK customs the entire parcel value plus shipipng costs are taken into consideration when customs and VAT charges are due. How selfish, I really don’t think shipping charges should be a factor but they are. So when I had to recently [...]

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Well it means a lot of work for companies like Channeladvisor. Channeladvisor already has the functionality to work with eBay immediate payment which bypasses the CA checkout and the sales are imported after the fact. I imagine this is going to be the norm for such systems after June 2011. The issues I see at [...]

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