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23 July 2005

Fulfillment Service? If we had one, we could be the world's only one-stop shop for cocktail bitters and other rare ingredients.

post by: warbaby at: 10:41 | 16 comments

I can help by tracking down the goods and fronting the purchase to the fullfillment service. I will wait for reimbursement out of sales revenue.

posted by warbaby 23 July | 11:16

What is fulfillment service stop
Am feeling unfulfilled stop

posted by kenko 23 July | 11:26

apparently there is a good bbq sauce shortage in japan
and taz needs a range of mexican and indian spices

i personally would love [deleted]

posted by ethylene 23 July | 11:43

I need some really good sweet chili sauce. I just can't seem to find any that has the right blend of sweet and hot. It's ridiculous, given I live in Manhattan. And I used to get this great one in NZ but I've forgotten the brand.

This would make me fulfilled.

posted by gaspode 23 July | 13:08

#1 Blue Crabs by the bushel? Please? (Not frozen/Not picked.)

Oooh, and 10oz Buds. (The beer.) Or the National Bohemian I was pining for the other day.

posted by kortez 23 July | 13:16

A fullfillment service is an Amazon for hire. They have the warehouse, you pay for the stock and processing charges. They take the orders, process the payments, ship it, and pay you the difference. Essentially a contractor for mail order retail logistics.

posted by warbaby 23 July | 14:37

I sense unfulfilled demand.

posted by warbaby 23 July | 14:38

Like these. (with three "l"s)

Suppliers drop ship to the fulfillment house and they do the rest. We would be the capitalists in the fandango.

*puffs big fat cigar, polished diamond stickpin*

posted by warbaby 23 July | 14:46

If youse guys are serious, we have a distressed goods store here that specializes in condiments. They are very inexpensive, there's a wide range (including mexican and asian). I'll shop, pack and ship for you (and do the customs thing, if necessary.)

posted by warbaby 23 July | 15:04

The "Customs thing" may not be so simple. If shipping to the US the FDA has Prior Notification requirements for consumables. Other destinations also have some difficult to comply with requirements. Using the post office might make it easier because their enforcement of these requirements is EXTREMELY lax.

posted by Carbolic 23 July | 15:22

I'm in the US, right at the Canadian border. If customs outbound from US is a a hassledorf, there are customs brokers right here. In the past (pre-9/11) I've sent care packages all over the place, including taco fixings to Wroclaw, Poland. I'm not proposing to import, but one of our clients is an importer, so I can talk to people who've been there and done that.

*adjusts tights, swirls cape*

posted by warbaby 23 July | 16:51

I found three varieties of potted meats at a store in Cairo, all from either Belgium or Denmark, each with a smiling cow (like Elsie here) on the label, called Beefy, Beef-Beef, and Groot.

When I was nabbed for the contraband Beef-Beef at the border, I had to pledge that it was a gag gift and not for consumption before the customs guy would wave me through.

posted by Hugh Janus 23 July | 18:51

So how was it?

posted by warbaby 23 July | 20:00

I make an amazing barbeque sauce, should we feel the need to supply Japan. :) We could call it "Round I"...and the logo could be an I with a circle. :)

What? Quit looking at me like that, I can make fun of myself...it's perfectly PC if I'm making fun of *me*. ;)

posted by PsychoKitty 23 July | 22:30

gaspode, was it Kaitaia Fire?

posted by nomis 24 July | 08:12

Just a question but what is the proposal here - that the fulfilment is used as a kind of swap shop for whatever Metachat users want in other parts of the world? I'm just trying to visualise what all this would entail...

posted by dodgygeezer 24 July | 10:23

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