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About MrBead – Nigel Mckay        

I'm a 49-year-old Englishman living in both Hong Kong and Mainland China.  One of the first foreigners to enter China's antique and jade markets over ten years ago. Now I have an apartment 25-floors above the entrance to the Canton jade and bead merchants. I spend about 6-days in China, followed by a similar time in Hong Kong.  Traveling three-hours door-to-door by taxi and train to Hong Kong, where most items are mailed.  My wife Mi Mi buys in China and packs in Hong Kong - and my mother helps with British orders, posting them from Luton in the UK.  Tony, a long-time English friend helps photographing and buying in China. 

I usually work every day for over 80-hours a week.  Too long really, but I enjoy it!  Next month MiMi and I will be in the UK, however most of the time we’ll still be working there.  I've been online for over eight years, selling from eBay and nine stores.  I have three premium stores powered by Miva software: MrBead.com, OnlineOriental.com and AwesomeRings.com; two Market Works stores, one in US dollars and one in GB pounds; and four eBay stores.   I also send around 2,500 listings on eBay under seller 'jensen4', 'betterbead', 'mrbead-uk', 'awesomerings', and ‘gothic-uk’.  Most of the work is done on two computers in China, two in Hong Kong and one in the UK + a laptop.

The hardest part of the whole job is understanding customer’s problems, especially payments that don’t make clear what they are for.  This takes a lot of time.  Where as large store orders are long to pack, they are easy to process.

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Thanks,

Nigel

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