I've been a member on this site for many years, though mostly as a reader and not much of a poster. As of today, I am 8.7 years from retirement from my "real job" and I've been thinking about starting a side-hustle for quite some time now. Next week I will have my FFL interview with the ATF, in the meantime I've setup a new e-commerce website: https://www.garidium.com to sell guns (after receiving FFL), firearms accessories. and other stuff.
It has been an interesting experience, setting up a business, and website through AmmoReady and signing up with distributors to do drop-shipping. On a side-note, I don't know how people setup businesses before the internet. I doubt I'll make much money on this, but I hope to at least build a sustainable business (break-even or better) over the next few years. I'm curious if there are any other FFL's out there with any advice you'd be willing to extend. I will probably start out with selling guns on gunbroker.com and driving traffic to my website. Finding a way to differentiate yourself from everyone else and beating prices from Amazon.com on accessories is the challenge.
Any feedback on the site is appreciated. If anyone wants to submit my first *real order" outside of my personal test orders, feel free to visit my site
(it does work well, and shipping is pretty fast). I would love to get honest feedback on the site though. Thanks all...
-Gary