I think number 2, whilst an interesting idea, has a lot of potential pitfalls. I wonder if this could be done in a social network sense where the community cont

I think number 2, whilst an interesting idea, has a lot of potential pitfalls. I wonder if this could be done in a social network sense where the community contacts the community looking for items, rather than via one centralised source. The two main barriers as I see are trust (once the money has been sent) and the legals of sending goods into other countries (ie import tax). This one would interest me the most. The Linux one could be useful, but I agree that it could be difficult to make money on it. The 3rd one is interesting on the basis that it should provide a much better service than is currently offered but your main barrier is that the larger companies prefer to deal with larger companies. You may look to sell to the likes of Capita as they could re-package what you do and they are already 'in' with these companies. Are there any other ideas, or have you refined your ideas down to these three?