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Message:: [QUOTE="V. Kurt Bellman, post: 2243888, member: 71723"]To dovetail on this wonderful advice, there is a key problem at work here. You do not know what you do not know. The first of many steps is to be self-aware enough to know what it is you don't know. IOW, you need to learn the questions before even thinking about the answers. And the questions you need to have in mind are NOT "what" and "how" questions. You have several of those. You need to get to "why" questions before you become a Jedi .... Oops, wrong speech. This process is not a logic algorithm, even a complex one with multiple levels of conditional branches. This is dripping with nuanced people skills that can only be learned by being heavily mentored and experiencing them. The way you have started, on eBay, is a fine start. You need to let that flower garden grow before putting in 500 acres of genetically modified hybridized Monsanto corn seed varieties. Too many analogies? Sorry. Ask yourself what could possibly go wrong, and write down all of those worst case scenarios. Until you have a plan to mitigate those nightmares, to the point that they are not fatal to your business, you're not ready. There's a reason so many dealers are fairly wealthy older folks. Think about why that is.[/QUOTE]