Buying/selling kitchen mops

[funkyrobot]

Hello all. I'm planning to buy/sell kitchen mops within London. I have many links to cheap mop refurb engineers, so my costs will be considerably less than the average joe. I think it makes sense to refurb, rather than throw away.

I just wanted to know what is required to do this? Do I need to become a mop trader? Will there be any complications?

Thanks.

[Mikeyplum]

I beleive you need to be accredited with the Master Mop Refurbishers Association Committee of the UK and Zimbabwe.

Or you could get fined 1 trillion Zimbabwe dollars.

[Mr Roper]

For starters I'd expand my target audience. Is there any reason why your kitchen mops won't work in the hallway? Or perhaps the dining room?

Personally I think the day of the mop is over with the advent of domestic steam cleaners.

Good luck and keep us posted.

[markmullen]

If you sell less than 6 mops per year you're not counted as a mop trader and don't have to register as such.

[funkyrobot]

markmullen said:

If you sell less than 6 mops per year you're not counted as a mop trader and don't have to register as such.

[Pixel Pusher]

Probably a big market for this.

You'll clean up.

[vixen1700]

Anybody else remember Dusty Mop, the talking mop from the kids' programme Hickory House?

There was also a talking cushion called Humphrey.

[Snowboy]

markmullen said:

If you sell less than 6 mops per year you're not counted as a mop trader and don't have to register as such.

That's just not true.
It's one of those stupid urban myths that keeps coming up.

Under 6 mops isn't classes as trading.
You only need to warranty the handle not the head.
Fitting a vileda head to a MrMuscle body is illegal.

It's all nonsense and I wish people would stop posting such rubbish.

[funkyrobot]

I've had a little think.

I'm going to run the mop refurb business from my shared car park. I live in a flat on the 40th floor, but I'm going to use the building frontage to display my mops. I do hope the neighbours won't mind. I can always give them a discount.

I picked a mop up from auction last week for 40p. It was tired and needed work. Managed to get a new head fitted for 79p. Sold it the other day for £4.00. There's money in this game!

[Timmy35]

You might well make more money trading moptions rather than actual physical mops?

[Grenoble]

[sc0tt]

Do you sell left handed mops?

[funkyrobot]

sc0tt said:

Do you sell left handed mops?

No, but I'm working on a conversion kit that turns right-handed mops into left-handed ones. Just awaiting a patent.

[vixen1700]

http://www.cleaningsupplies4u.com/department/mop-h...

Wholesale mopheads here, reckon your profit margin is going to be limited.

[funkyrobot]

Grenoble said:

[Pixel Pusher]

sc0tt said:

Do you sell left handed mops?

What about double ended mops.

Like a Dart Maul mop?

I'd buy that.

[Grenoble]

Will you be trading these mops from home ?

What warranty will you be giving?

[funkyrobot]

Grenoble said:

Will you be trading these mops from home ?

What warranty will you be giving?

Yes, from the front of my flat.

No warranty as I'll be shifting one at a time.

[Grenoble]

Do you have plans to sweep away the competition?

[funkyrobot]

Grenoble said:

Do you have plans to sweep away the competition?

Yes. I'm hoping for a clean streak of sales.