Your Questions About How To Do Business Online In Singapore

Can anyone help me with taxes in Singapore please ?

I want to open my own online business by buying stuffs from the US .
I’m sure i must pay GST ,custom charges & taxes . Can anyone help me
with this . I just need information on how much do i need to pay or maybe how
to get the Free trade agreement thingy . Hahaa ,heard about that before but i still
don’t understand . So any information please kindly share (:

Thank youuu (:

Do you know how to obtain contact info & e-mail lists for large business enterprises based in Singapore?

I’ve searched online and see ads for many such directories, but I cannot be sure which might be best. Perhaps you already know of such a free service that can provide a list of e-mail addresses for Singapore-based businesses?

Our 8-year high school reunion is coming up. Should I show off to the girls that dissed me?

It’s been 8 years since our senior year in high school. We’re about to have a reunion in a couple weeks.

I was somewhat nerdy and skinny in high school, and used to try to talk to a couple of the “pretty” girls and they’d lift their noses at me like I was worthless. Pretty mean girls.

About 5 of the girls I remember that were rude and stuck-up to me are going to be there. I checked their MySpace pages, and 3 of them are overweight. 4 out of 5 of them work shitty jobs… one changes dirty diapers at a day care center, another bags groceries at the supermarket, one is a waitress, another one is a golddigger that jumps from guy to guy and doesn’t work. The one with a decent job is some kinda of data technician at a hospital.

I graduated from Standford and now hold a good position with a Singapore-based investment firm, and make over $150,000 a year, and plan on adding about $30,000 more to that income with this online business I just started. I live in a wealthy neighborhood as well. I also am no longer skinny as I have worked out ever since I got out of high school, and have a cut physique like a swimmer, and I date a girl that models for Ed Hardy. I drive a 2008 E350 Mercedes as well.

My question is, should I go in there and go out of my way to flaunt to these stuck-up girls what’s going on in my life, since they dissed me and humiliated me in high school? If so, how should I go about doing it? Any recommendations? I plan on bringing in my girlfriend for them to see as well, who looks about 1,000x better than any of them.

Shallow, I know. But, the reunion is only for one day; think about how these girls dissed me month after month in high school.

Would you rub this in these women’s faces? I’m cynically looking forward to it…
ProfessorC… the gold-digging chick with no job as peace of mind?

I never even thought of any of these girls until I was told about the reunion… then I decided to thumb through the thumb buck. Trust me, for the past 8 years I have not been thinking of them day in, day out.

You defend them and say “this is what teens do“… really? I didn’t do that, and neither did any of my friends. Mean people are mean people. Don’t excuse them just because they’re female and I’m male.
*decided to thumb through the YEAR BOOK

Basics of setting up online shopping site?

i know nuts about starting/owning a business, so really hope someone can give me pointers..

Im looking to start by selling female clothings and accessories, maybe with some men’s as well and actually i did think of selling all sort of knick nacks like say decorative ornaments etc..to increase variety.. does more variety = higher potential for sales? or it is better to start by sticking to a theme eg if its clothes then its clothes, dont sell watches or handphones

Just a simple home based one, low costs, cos im not sure how i would do.. so really expensive shopping cart or webhosting systems etc are completely out.. i am also targetting local customers first; i live in singapore

Trust. How can I enable customers to trust me if my site is new? ie i dont have good reviews from customers yet (this is if im not using ebay)

Im not aiming at anything big for now, I just need to know what is the most basic and important thing I need to know/have to start and run it.

thanks!

How long does it take for an order from Borders online bookstore to reach you?

I ordered a book from Borders online. They gave me a purchase and confirmation email the next day. Written in the report is a part which says: International standard delivery (DHL), 7-21 business days, along with a weird dhl tracking number that goes like this: #000000000. When i followed the link attached to the tracking number, the tracking program in the DHL site goes into an error saying the number does not exist.

Its already been 3 weeks since then. I am just a little scared that something went wrong along the way (my first time ordering books online).

I am living in Singapore.

Is this normal? How long does online book order usually take to reach you? Thanks in advance!