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A lot of good information here. I believe the question that started all this was could it be done. Short answer is yes, if you are willing to do all that is needed to be done to make it work. The only thing I don't understand is why is it that every time somebody ask about buying in bulk, producing in bulk, or selling lures it all goes to a tax debate? I understand this is information that would be needed if the person moved forward with there business plans, but dang. Some of you all make it sound like the first time he makes a lure the helicopters are going to start circling, or if he sells a $2.00 lure to his best friend the guys in the black suburban's are going to roll up and slam him on the ground. If you choose to make it a business then yes you will need to do all the same things any other business does. accountants, marketing, employees, payroll, overhead.

Free advice is generally only worth what you pay for it, but this is mine: Go to a CPA. Pay him/her to tell you what it will cost to operate a legitimate lure making business, and what the risks are. It is their job to know this stuff, and their advice actually means something.

Thank you for your kind words. You have really made an excellent job of your system, must have taken several days/weeks to work all that wiring out!!

If someone wants to know more about Federal Excise Tax, do a search on this forum for "excise" and you will find lots of info. Oh Salty you make me laugh. I did a search on Free Good Advice and found a link to a book at Amazon titled "Good Advice from Bad People: Selected Wisdom from Murderers, Stock Swindlers, and Lance Armstrong" Your just not bad or crooked enough to give good advice. unless you ride a bicycle.

CopiedBaits4You, Dude, you can spin this however you want to try and justify what you've done, but, the simple fact is that you sought out my patterns and (basically) copied them. From your comments here on TU, I could tell that you were somewhat fascinated with my lures, but, I guess I didn't realize just how fascinated. I'm not real sure that this applies to "If you can't beat 'em...join 'em", however.

To each his own, as they say. I haven't spoken to Kim about it. I can just speak from personal experience. All my baits were made with scent IN the plastic, and I could smell that stuff on the bait LONG after several casts. But hey........whatever works for YOU is what's important. This is just one man's opinion. Take it for what it's worth.

Hi, this is Rupert from Ultramolds. I'm back from England now. Apologies to anyone who has being trying to contact us, Chris has been "snowed" under with work while I've been home on personal business. Apologies for any non returned messages/emails. Awesome looking system you have there!! Great customization and ingenuity, absolutely love it! Yes we have our mini system working and on sale. Please contact me directly. Sorry for stealing your thread Camrynekai

Just an idea; maybe you can put together a How to book on building one and supplies needed. I would be interested for sure. Or put some unit together for sale I would also would interested in one. Great effort and time for sure. I LIKE IT!

Very nice indeed!

wow.. how much did it cost you ?

Neat

Signed up today Curt. Looking forward to it. Skeeter (aka SkeeterZX)