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Phileasfox and an Accidental Trading Company.
Living on top of a mountain in Mid Wales with a small glove puppet,
we don't get out much. There really isn't anywhere to go.
SO. We decided that if we were going to go out, that we needed to
go somewhere where there was somewhere to go. Following this so far?
Good, stick with it, I'll be asking questions at the end.
We decided that we needed to travel to far away countries (but only
warm ones) and that we needed to find a way to fund this travel.
Then we discovered E Bay. The answer to our problems. We knew that
we could find nice stuff in other countries. We knew that people
would want to buy this stuff. But putting the stuff and the buyers
together would obviously be a problem for people living on a mountain
with a passing footfall of about 4 people a year. Suddenly we had
a worldwide market for our stuff. It was time to go traveling, buying
and writing stupid descriptions for our goods.
Its a tough life, but someone has to do it, and entering airline
tickets on your tax return as a legitimate business expense every
year just puts the icing on the cake........
The Fox? Oh yes, hijacked
many years ago with the promise that we would give him a better life.
We liked him so much that we named the company after him....
Our goods are all sourced personally on our travels. We use only
small family run concerns where we can assess the working conditions
and the age of the people working there. This is important to us.
By using only small companies, we can have items made to our own
design, using the best of local skills and craftsmanship and some
of our better ideas (or at least we thought they were better until
we actually saw the Rhinocerous Perfume Bottle) to come up with something
original.
We also sell occasional bits of tat (sorry, highly sought after
rare items), nice stuff that we either can't bear to throw away or
other interesting things that the local second hand shop is on the
point of chucking out...........
