Travel & Shop The World For Free

By: Debra Palmen

The definitive 'How to' guide for achieving free international travel through your shopping. How to plan a trip, where to go, what to buy, how to ship it home, how to sell it – all the international buyers’ secrets are revealed, plus traveller's tales to motivate you. Beautiful colour photography throughout.

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Book Description

Do you enjoy international travel? Do you like shopping for interesting antiques and vintage pieces? And wouldn't it be great if you could combine the two?
Even better, wouldn't it be great if your interesting shopping paid for your international travel?

Many people would love a lifestyle where their shopping paid for their travel, but they have no idea where to start. Learning how to become a successful international antiques buyer can be expensive and take years of trial and error to get right. The secrets of how to do it have been jealously guarded. Until now.

With almost 30 years' experience in the antiques industry, in this book I share with you exactly how to become a successful international buyer. These are details I wish I'd known when I had first started.

In Part 1 you'll learn:
How to plan a buying trip and how to calculate what you need to spend so your profits will repay all your expenses. At last, a legitimate excuse to spend up big in Paris!

Where to go so you can combine great fun sight-seeing with productive shopping. This is the good oil on where the professionals go to find the best bargains, from well-known venues to out-of-the-way events.

What to buy that is fashionable and sought-after by customers. Once you know where to go you need to know what to buy. There are millions of great things for sale - how do you know what to spend your money on? I'll give you a great start, plus advice on how to keep up with changing trends (from your couch).

How to ship your purchases home. You can spend a fortune, or you can take my advice. Here's a hint: take my advice, it will save you a fortune.

Dealing with the bureaucracy. Ah, bureaucrats. You've got to love them. But they won't love you unless you present your shipment and paperwork in exactly the right way. I'll show you how to keep things sweet with them.

How to sell your stock. There are many options available. Some might suit you nicely, some you might avoid. You're sure to find at least one technique here that works for you.

These are detailed instructions that have never before been shared. They range from things you might think obvious to details you wouldn't guess. Overall, it's a tried and true technique that's worked for me for years. And it can work for you too.

Part 2 includes a variety of traveller's tales to entertain and motivate you to get out there and collect a few travel tales of your own.
From Helsinki to Marrakech, Istanbul to Cornwall via Hong Kong and Paris, there's great shopping, a lot of fun and quite a few adventures awaiting you.

So don't just wish you could enjoy a lifestyle where your shopping pays for your travel. Now you can.
And who knows, we could soon find ourselves competing for the best bits in the Paris markets, browsing in Bruges, eating altogether too much baklava in Istanbul, or even matching wits in Diss.

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