We would go one step further. If people are not honest and straightforward with you during negotiations, I’d suggest avoiding deals with such people. Unless you have absolutely no other choice, and we almost always have other choices, avoid deals with people who are not honest and straightforward with you, and who don’t communicate openly. [...]
The difficulties are sometimes due to the product itself, and sometimes from the intricacies of the bureaucracy of the country concerned and sometimes from an old fashioned desire to make importing as difficult as possible in order to protect their own suppliers. In many cases now there are quota restrictions from certain markets into various [...]
Buying cardboard boxes from your local stationer can result in you paying at least five times what you should be doing. You should think about how many you are buying over the course of a month. If as an example you are buying in five hundred a month but only ordering 20 or 30 at [...]
