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[Aussie Pyro King]

Hi everyone, I haven't been around here for a very long time, years in fact. But that doesn't mean my fireworks hobby has diminished!

I've recently been working on a small online pyro hobby shop for aussies, and have been selling on eBay.

It's only very small at the moment and a few of the products have already sold out, but i'll be getting more soon.

Anyway if you'd like to take a look the address is www.auspyro.com

I know i tried to get a .com.au domain name but don't have an ABN number....yet. Let me know any suggestions, like product ideas or changes you'd like to see and i'll be happy to implement them, i've been working fairly hard on this. Everything is legit, the items are sent cheaply by courier Australia wide.

Cheers

[marble]

Nice

If you get a ABN getting new supplies should be dead easy. I might grab some mag ribbon off you when you get it in stock.

Might be a good idea to expand into other non-pyro chemicals as well (acids, solvents, basic reagents)

BTW, I wouldn't sell on eBay. Seems too risky to me.

Edited by marble, 24 May 2008 - 09:08 AM.

[Techohead]

I don't understand how australian pyro supplying can be an industry. the customs here hardly lets matches into the country, let alone more interesting things like potassium perchlorate and magnalium. unlicenced pyrotechnics is ilegal, and the police will quickly deal with anyone making their own pyrotechnics devices with out a manufacturing permit. I, and all the other good aussie pyro's on this site are licenced, naturally, but i still think you'll get hell trying to supply anything half decent, like perchlorates.

good luck to you though, if you get it up on it's feet i might find myself buying something.

Techohead.

[Arthur Brown]

One of the major functions of this forum and the UKPS is to develop a legal framework for UK people to have a legal route to manufacture pyro. There is a LOT of discussion, and a little progress.

Maybe an association of Australians interested in legal manufacture could learn a LOT from the UKPS proceedings so far and then take things to your regulatory bodies to start towards legal manufacture.

[marble]

the customs here hardly lets matches into the country, let alone more interesting things like potassium perchlorate and magnalium.

There are no import restrictions for metal powders or perchlorates, I have had that confirmed.

I, and all the other good aussie pyro's on this site are licenced, naturally, but i still think you'll get hell trying to supply anything half decent, like perchlorates.

You are?

I am certainly not

[marble]

Maybe an association of Australians interested in legal manufacture could learn a LOT from the UKPS proceedings so far and then take things to your regulatory bodies to start towards legal manufacture.

The day the government grants us freedoms like that I'll eat my hat
At this point in time we cannot be trusted with a airsoft gun that shoots plastic pellets (hooray for being classed and treated like a real firearm), what chance do we have of getting them to allow us to make fireworks?

I'll just continue along keeping well away from anything that could spell trouble, I'm lucky that I live in a area with plenty of empty space.

Edited by marble, 24 May 2008 - 12:06 PM.

[Arthur Brown]

Good luck!

In the UK a fully licensed factory is available to any company with business, and costs about £10K in fees and about a year in application times and public notice times.

Getting the cost down for amateur use of very small quantities is where the UKPS is working at the moment.

Getting a "society factory" is part way but especially with the distances typical of Australia may not be very helpful to distant members.

The authorities have a major problem separating amateur pretty pyro from terrorist related pyro. Powdered aluminium being useable on both sides of the divide. Domestic chemicals from the pharmacy can supply some of the raw materials for bad pyro. The law enforcement people have a hard job working out what is needed for life and what is for bad pyro, half the time they get it wrong!

[Aussie Pyro King]

Thanks for the replies but getting a little bit off topic!

I just wanted feedback for my website, not a legal debate

[W.P]

I really like the ball milling extra option. It's a good idea.

[Pyrogeorge]

Do you ship Worldwide?especially to Greece?

[BrightStar]

I just wanted feedback for my website

It's a well laid out and 'business like' site - good work.

For Google ratings, I'd get rid of the opening logo page to make sure there's plenty of meaningful content (key words etc in the text) on the home page. You could expand the banner at the top with more branding if needed. Try to link in to it from as many other credible sites as possible.

http://www.auspyro.com/

That's one for a start

Good luck!

PS: Do I get a free Auspyro T-shirt?

Edited by BrightStar, 25 May 2008 - 06:28 PM.

[GalFisk]

Do you ship Worldwide?especially to Greece?

Why don't you order from EU suppliers such as Keten or Czort for instance?

Aussie Pyro King: nice to see someone helping out the Aussie pyros. A good beginning, though the selection needs to be expanded quite a bit. KClO4 is probably the most important, then a chlorine donor, red gum, colorants, etc.

[Aussie Pyro King]

Do you ship Worldwide?especially to Greece?

Sorry, only to Australia.

I'm currently investigating search engine optimisation. So sites with a cover page don't perform well in Google? So far i've managed to get a link from Wouter's page, nice guy. Looking for more at the moment.

Cheers

[Aussie Pyro King]

PS: Do I get a free Auspyro T-shirt?

Hahaha, i've actually only made one of the T shirts for myself. For the pic I just put my logo on a freeware plain white t shirt image.

If some one were to order one i'd have to get moving!!! My local print shop does them cheap so i'd be ok though.

Soon to have a few different coarser grades of aluminium powder. Can't find any flash quality stuff yet though.

Cheers

[Techohead]

QUOTE (Techohead @ May 24 2008, 08:42 PM) the customs here hardly lets matches into the country, let alone more interesting things like potassium perchlorate and magnalium.

There are no import restrictions for metal powders or perchlorates, I have had that confirmed.

QUOTE (Techohead @ May 24 2008, 08:42 PM) I, and all the other good aussie pyro's on this site are licenced, naturally, but i still think you'll get hell trying to supply anything half decent, like perchlorates.

You are?

I am certainly not

Well i am suprised to hear Marble, that perchlorates are not against Australian customs regulation. i know a pyro-enthusiast in Sydney who had a small quantity of potassium perchlorate seized by customs, and only after a troublesome enquiry did they even decide to tell him they had seized it. it just so happens that a few days later police arrested him and searched his property and seized all potentially pyrotechnic chemicals. you have probably heard this story yourself, or may even know the guy but i won't name him because i don't know if he would want that or not. but this gives me the 'illusion' that our government won't let us have potassium perchlorate. perhaps you are right. secondly, i cannot emphasise enough, the meaning of the 'inverter commas' when i say "i, and all the other australian pyro's are licenced, naturally" or should i say discretely, sarcasm?

but back to the point, i do think the australian pyro supply company is a good proposition, but still, i don't see how we could negotiate any reasonable terms for pyro with our government. they would probably require we fill in Statuatory Declarations for anything we buy from the site, with our corresponding pyrotechnic licence number. keep us informed with your progress.

Edited by Techohead, 09 June 2008 - 09:44 AM.