Thread: What do you think

Spicy - few years ago we opened a similar type kiosk to what your friend want to do - it was pretty much a waste of time as the profit on each item is so tiny you have to sell heaps every day to make any money and with many others offering the same in the area that can be hard. increase your margin or your customers will just go next door. Mind you we were in a small village rather than a town so maybe they would have enough customers to make it work. However I think your idea is much better. Later I will open a different kind of shop in place of the kiosk but am waiting for the international airport to be finished on Lombok and business to pick up first.

I think you're right, they should do something else.

furniture/house accesories might be a good idea, but don't expect 'locals' to buy in this shop...they would buy straight from the manufacturer. I do that too btw.

Hafri

Everyother shop sells the DVD's and software. Profit on a Rp 7000 DVD is about Rp50 again hardly worth it and there is no demand for originals. Don't know about second hand TV and x box. Could be expensive and you would have to ask for a hefty deposit in case they do not come back.

I also do not know many houses without a TV :(

Spicy, your idea is right, they should open a mini-mart supermarket which local at tourist area

Hafri could rent to tourists - plenty rent dvd players in Kuta and put them in their hotel rooms for the duration. We also rent DVD players to non guests if we get anyone asking. We usually ask for a Rp250,000 deposit. They have always been returned no problem.

DVD/VCD movie rental was a nightmare- mostly our customers were locals and they would rent a movie and pass it all around the village and bring it back a month later, by which time everyone had seen it. We tried implementing fines for late returns but that just made them keep the movies.... and we lost hundreds of movies - and mostly originals (VCDs) as it was at a time when in Lombok we didnt get a lot of copies.

No - we have closed the kiosk down now - in fact it was recently half knocked down when they widened the road. But I would like to rebuild it one day have some other business once Kuta is busier. (Kuta, Lombok)

renting out second hand tv's???? :lol: very funny.
and ps2/dvds, like jimbo said every 100 metres is a place where you can get that.

Originally Posted by noodles

Spicy, your idea is right, they should open a mini-mart supermarket which local at tourist area

:lol: , again very funny...especially since you don't know that one m.m.(expatowned) just went out of business. the one nextdoor (localowned) is thriving as usual.