Interesting problem…

Last year I started a micro business (UK) with my kids, part of which we are selling some imported goods via Amazon. This is a neat lesson for the kids because Amazon allows us to reach 1bn people across 23 countries.

Opportunity…

The EU requires us to have a person who is resident in the EU to act as point of contact for CE marking and for any stock that is delisted and needs to be returned to seller.

There are lots of people putting up websites offering this as a service, essentially a glorified mailbox, but they all seem to be saturated with demand. Hence the opportunity.

So does anyone in on nostr who lives in EU want to earn a few € a month to do this role for our micro biz? If so DM me. Only requirement is you should have a responsible character. But ideally you are WFH, maybe freelance, contractor, w/e?

More broadly… If anyone is an EU based dev, there is an Amazon imposed deadline for everyone to adopt this by 31st March 2024 and this looks like an great shot at capturing some recurring income potentially for years.

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Does UK count?

No, I’m UK.

Needs to be inside EU apparently.

I'm vat registered in Malta if that helps.

Meaning registered as a self employed.

unless using brand n userbase of AMZN u should look into many nostr based markets.

Apologies for going slightly off topic, but it's important.

(1) If your business takes off (let's say 50K revenue), you'll light up on an Amazon dashboard and they'll import and offer the same stuff, undercut you and take over your business. Stay small, and you'll be fine... but...

(2) Increasing EU/UK regulation will eventually overwhelm you, which is exactly the point in the bigger agenda of destroying small entrepreneurs.

@captjack is correct in advising the Nostr route, where nobody can block or close down your business because you did not submit some stupid form before a deadline.

Yeah this is really a pet project that I’m doing with kids. FBA means we can offload a lot of the actual work and keep this as a side project.

I’m really just teaching my kids some biz skills.

Already own nostrmarketplace.com and knostr.io for future use.