So we stood looking at the stuff with a slight feeling of dread as we are not really sales people. Ben and (DH) had been working on getting this distributor thing up and running and now that the stuff has arrived Ben is back in NZ. He's the one who can speak the lingo and has most of the contact. What could we do but look at each other and laugh.
Being very green to all the business workings in India we then found that we need some special tax stuff for being a distributor for out of state stuff so we began the process of application for this. This then lead to finding out that we needed an inspection of our Office/warehouse, haha, this was our home. They were fine when they came that it was in our home because they knew it was a start up business but we then found that we need to get permission form our land lord to have an office here..... this then led to our land lord telling us that we have to re lease the property as a commercial property so we will have an increase in rent, power and water. This comes at a time when the pennies are almost non existent and we can only cry out, GOD!
So all in all, we have this shipment of goods that we have one month to sell and we are not allowed to sell them until this other stuff has been sorted out. I can't say I have kept cool, calm and with complete faith in God since all this happened. I have had to go through another process of coming to a place of rest in God again and trusting that He has it under control. Talk about testing times. Sometimes things just don't go as we plan them.
There are some underhanded was we have been offered to do this but we want to do it legit. We would rather have a delayed process than compromise our honesty.
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