Chess Sets | Chess Sales | Chess DesignChess Sales as a Business. Chess Design, Retailing, Supply, Importing and Drop Shipping.Chess Retail: Drop Shipping Chess Sales- June 24, 2006 Theme chess sets, chess clocks, chess computers, all of these are periferal to our main business. So our sales of them don&8217;t carry as much profit, but hey, we don&8217;t have to stock them orhandle the problems with purchasing, returns, etc. But if only the man blowing bubblesat the top of the diagram ...http://www.veryboring.com/24-06-2006/chess-retail-drop-shipping-chess-sales/ Couriers for our Chess Sales - Oh Dear!- June 24, 2006 Well, kinda. Only they make us do it instead of themselves. It&8217;s not as if we don&8217;t give a reasonable business over the months. We have many parcels, some small some large, but courier profit margins are so thin that they appear to try anything on to make that little extra. Our packages from chess ...http://www.veryboring.com/24-06-2006/couriers-for-our-chess-sales-oh-dear/ Whats the Appeal of a Theme Chess Set- June 20, 2006 In our online chess store in the UK - 25% of the chess set range are theme chess sets. They are wonderful productions with great attention to detail in the design of the chess set. Whether Isle of Lewis,http://www.veryboring.com/20-06-2006/whats-the-appeal-of-a-theme-chess-set/ Chess Piece Design after the Jaques-Staunton Hatchet Job- June 18, 2006 It&8217;s all very well having a prescribed design such as Staunton to work with. Sure - we all know where we are, we all know which one is the pawn and which the bishop, and the queen has her head-dress, etc., but it has all kinda done away with the amazing artistic display of pre-staunton times. Then, if a religious theme were requested - no problem. If a battle theme, same again.Different periods of historygave wayto wonderful representative ...http://www.veryboring.com/18-06-2006/chess-piece-design-post-jaques-staunton/ Chess Sales and the Football World Cup- June 17, 2006 Retailers the football (soccer) world over are&8230;. enjoying the football, yelling for their side&8230; but also wailing about the retail dry-up it has brought along. Germany must be doing well for retailing - at least the part of Germany where there arehundreds of thousands of football fans to see their teams slug it out for the ...http://www.veryboring.com/17-06-2006/chess-sales-and-the-football-world-cup/ Which Wood is Preferred in Chess Piece Design- June 16, 2006 It seems traditionalists prefer Ebony Chess Pieces, whilst the asthetically minded prefer Bud Rosewood chess - what have you found I run a store in the UK and people choose Bud Rosewood chess pieces much more than Ebony - with ...http://www.veryboring.com/16-06-2006/which-wood-is-preferred-in-chess-piece-design/ Chess Retailing and Buying from a Third World Country- June 10, 2006 It&8217;s no secret that the vast majority of decent chess sets are made in a small area of India. The country that claims to have invented the game has the &8216;privilege&8217; of supplying the world with it&8217;s excellent designs. Whether it&8217;s Pleasant Times, JS Arts, Ivory Works,Checkmate (and many others), the ...http://www.veryboring.com/10-06-2006/chess-retailing-and-buying-from-a-third-world-country... Whats so special about the Isle of Lewis Chess Set- June 3, 2006 What is it about the Isle of Lewis chess setthat gives it the auraof wonderment resulting in it representing a significant chunk of chess salesIt&8217;s not Staunton and can&8217;t be used in tournament play. It&8217;s kinda confusing which piece is which with some exceptions. There are many ...http://www.veryboring.com/03-06-2006/whats-so-special-about-the-isle-of-lewis-chess-set/ Is it just Adwords, or is all of Google gone Evil- June 3, 2006 This pic is an attempt by someone to work out the interplay between adwords and adsense. Kinda scary huh I run a small online chess retailing outfit - just about provides ...http://www.veryboring.com/03-06-2006/is-it-just-adwords-or-is-all-of-google-gone-evil/ |