For those who have the NL expansion, you can also sell cars. If you are running your business from a residential lot, you can sell the cars from your driveway. If you are running your business from a community lot, you will need to sell them from a special display unit as you can see in the picture. Be warned, however, as this takes up a lot of space.

Apparently, so the infamous car salesman Swiss Toni told me "Selling cars is very much like woohooing a beautiful woman". His analogy somehow eludes me.

Point-of-Purchase is a broad category that covers an area of sales that prior to OFB involved a visit to a community lot for clothes, groceries, magazines and video games. All of the "dispensers" have been tweaked so they can now be owned by a proprietor in order to run one of these businesses. This means that your sims can now run their own boutiques, grocery stores, newsagencies and video game stores. You can now buy food fridges, clothes racks, magazine stands and game stands. Be warned that none of these dispensers are cheap, but you do get to set pricing and will also see your shelves and racks empty as people buy your goods and these serve as an indicator to restock, which is a good idea as this will lower the environment score.

Another point about these point-of-purchase units is that any business perks in wholesale pricing do not have any effect. The base price is fixed.

As well as selling what people want to take home with them, you can sell what people wish to consume then and there. We have already looked at restaurants so this leaves juice bars, coffee bars (Uni) and the new lemonade stands. Lemonade stands are a good start for children who wish to make some money. Also, adults can run them as well, although if they do, it does make them look very out of place. For bars, it may be an idea to have someone there to clean up. Again, your customers are very quick to complain about any empty cups or mugs.