Internet - General Internet | Retail - Miscellaneous Retail

Asking Price	$560,000	Inventory	$70,000**
Gross Income	$1,379,475	Real Estate
Cash Flow	$104,494	Year Established	2006
FF&E	$90,000*	Employees	10

* included in the asking price

** not included in the asking price

This business recycles books. After acquiring used books by the truckload, the books are processed using sophisticated work-flow management software that allows high volume throughput. Good quality books are listed on Amazon, eBay, Half.com, ABE, and Alibris. The remaining books are sold to recyclers. There is less than 1% waste created by the business. E-Commerce: doesnʼt require a high-price location; doesnʼt have to be open on evenings and weekends; and has an international instead of a local market. A high degree of systematization make this business easy to learn & operate. The strong systems allow the business to hire low skilled easy to replace employees. This is a green business: Books are a huge store of greenhouse gas. Carbon dioxide is released if books are burned or decompose in landfills. This business recycles over 100 tons of books each month, offsetting carbon dioxide emitted by burning 50,000 gallons of gas.

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Facilities: The business is operated out of a well-laid-out warehouse consisting of 10,008 usable feet with a monthly lease rate of $3,283 per month NNN. All of the furniture and fixtures are in good repair and are worth approximately $90,000. There is a well-thought out work flow to the operation that cause it to be efficient, with a systematized, easy-to-follow, work-flow process.

Competition: One of the nice things about an e-commerce business is that there is a virtually unlimited marketplace: the business does not rely on a limited group of local customers. This business doesn't really compete with mega e-tailers like Amazon.com, eBay, or Alibris, rather they collaborate by offering their products for sale through the on-line marketplaces established by the e-commerce giants.

Growth/Expansion: One of the biggest opportunities for growing this business is simply to operate it as a full-time business. The current owner puts in only 10-15 hours a week of time operating this business. Full-time management efforts may lead to significant revenue and profit improvements. There are a variety of other opportunities for growth such as selling higher margin used CDs and DVDs and replacing portions of the current expensive licensed software with a custom developed software to reduce expenses.

Financing: $200k @ 8.5% interest rate, six year amortization, 3 year term, 1st position OAC

Support/Training: The seller is committed to making sure a new owner is well trained. The fact that the business is highly systematized should enable a buyer to learn the business very quickly.

Reason Selling: Seller unwilling to devote time necessary to take business to next level