LOL No, I've just been otherwise occupied. Being an in-house programmer and not having projects or clients to work on is an interesting environment that I'm still getting adjusted to.
Point 1: "You can tell her no (or slap her, etc)." Sure I could, but then I'd be accused of being just like my father-in-law and have to deal with the family ramifications (that reverberate into my home) from it. Point 2: "It's a bad business model / there's no profit in it." Thanks for the info - I plan on talking with her about that aspect of it. The reason she 's looking at this as a solution comes from a number of avenues: a) We're in a relatively rural area. The closest "big box" store is 25 miles away, there aren't any computer stores with inventory in a 30 mile radius outside of Office Max or Wal Mart. The only stores in town are a small grocer (IGA), a hardware store and one convenience store. b) Adding any additional income stream will help her base business increase in profitability. As I said, her store sells used books, rents videos and is a drop off point for dry cleaning services and I think she's talked about shipping as well. c) With gas prices where they are, people are less willing to drive to get things if they don't have to. The kiosk idea blends a human face that locals know with the ability to locally purchase products that would normally require a drive. Erika, I especially appreciate your comments on the fact that I boiled down to, "you'll get out of it what you put into it." The more work that she/I do for the site the better chance it has of being picked out of the crowd. Thing is that part of this deal would include me blogging about items purchased, deals coming up, etc, and promoting my blog and the site appropriately. Thanks also to MaryJo, I knew CFWS had good drop-shipper integration... and to Maureen for the Innotrac link. I've had some success in stopping some of the more hair-brained ideas. My questions this morning are a part of my research for what I'm going to go back to her with. That said, she's a big girl and can make her own decisions and she may decide to go through with it. Thanks again, Hatton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:265045 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
