They gave me the name of the distributor (River of Goods) with no
contact info.  How can I find this distributor?

Hello.

Using Network Solutions' WHOIS search [ 
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml ], I found
that domain name "riverofgoods.com" belongs to company in Minnesota
that also appears to run a company called Terrybear, Inc.
http://www.terrybear.com/

Since Terrybear's web page indicate that the company imports lamps
from Asia, I think that there is a very strong probability that the
"River of Goods" which is affiliated with Terrybear is the company
that you want.

I then went to Minnesota's corporate look-up page:
http://da.sos.state.mn.us/minnesota/corp_inquiry/corp_inquiry-find.asp?:Norder_item_type_id=10&sm=4

Sure enough, "River of Goods, Inc" and "Terrybear, Inc" have the same
address:

River of Goods, Inc. 
2285 University Ave W
St Paul, MN, 55114 
http://da.sos.state.mn.us/minnesota/corp_inquiry/corp_inquiry-entity.asp?:nfiling_number=11T-613&entity_type_id=DC&:Nsession_id=&:Ndocument_number=0&filename=5-326393200.txt&pgcurrent=6&:Norder_item_type_id=10&:Ssearch_Parm=river+of+goods

Terrybear, Inc. 
2285 University Ave
St Paul, MN, 55114 
http://da.sos.state.mn.us/minnesota/corp_inquiry/corp_inquiry-entity.asp?:nfiling_number=5H-178&entity_type_id=DC&:Nsession_id=&:Ndocument_number=0&filename=8-326393200.txt&pgcurrent=6&:Norder_item_type_id=10&:Ssearch_Parm=terry+bear

Thus, to get in touch with this company, I'd recommend that you use
the contact information for Terrybear, Inc:

Telephone: 651-646-9579 or 651-644-8065
email: homefurnishings@terrybear.com
source: terrybear.com
http://www.terrybear.com/TBlamps.htm

search strategy:
networksolutions whois: riverofgoods.com
minnesota corporations

I hope this helps.

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Request for Answer Clarification by drdonna-ga on 08 Jul 2003 21:19 PDT

Hi!
Nice job-from the home page looks like Terrybear may indeed sell that
type of product I'm looking for and I have sent them an email to see;
but how did you find Terrybear from Riverofgoods.com?

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 08 Jul 2003 21:26 PDT

Well, I figured that River of Goods might have a web site, so I typed
in http://www.riverofgoods.com

There is no web site at that address, but there is a "Directory
Listing Denied" error message. That proves that riverofgoods.com has
been registered by someone

I then used Network Solutions' WHOIS search [ 
http://www.networksolutions.com/en_US/whois/index.jhtml ] to search
for the registration date for riverofgoods.com .  The result that was
produced from that search indicated that riverofgoods.com was
registered to a person in Minnesota whose email address ended with
@terrybear.com .  That's how I made the connection.

Thanks.

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 08 Jul 2003 21:28 PDT

Sorry for that typo.  It should haver read:

"... for the registration data..."

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 08 Jul 2003 21:29 PDT

And sorry for that last typo:

"...should have read..."

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Request for Answer Clarification by drdonna-ga on 08 Jul 2003 21:37 PDT

Hi
I went to the site for Network Solutions that you provided and saw
terrybear listed there. Thanks again for the good sleuthing work!
Donna

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Clarification of Answer by juggler-ga on 08 Jul 2003 21:39 PDT

You're welcome.

Quick results and nice work.