posted on October 22, 2003 10:20:47 AM new
Just out of curiosity...
You have found a system that does everything you want - it's just that there are some minimal costs involved. Have you kept track of all of your valuable time that you have spent trying to figure out services that don't offer you the same options? it's hard for me to imagine that the 1% sales commision is really affecting your sales numbers to such an extent that it would justify all of the time and apparent frustration that the search has cost you.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on October 22, 2003 10:45:24 AM new
1% of $40000 per month on ebay is a lot.
2% with no cap on the storefront sales of $10000 per month is a lot.
Auctionworks does everything I need, but I pay them Thousands of dollars a year in fees.
I am trying to find another service that will save money.
Vendio looks great, but no good reporting.
Zoovy seems to be the best choice, so far.
I am going to start spending more money on CPC and search words to boost my storefront sales, and I would not like to 2% of all my sells go to auctionworks.
posted on October 22, 2003 12:41:43 PM new
Why not get your own website where no commissions are paid to anyone and use that keywork investment towards promoting you site as opposed to your page on someone elses site?
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on October 23, 2003 07:39:33 AM new
check out the freeware storefront at oscommerce.com.
You can have a storefront running in about a day If you don't want to do the work of setting it up, you can hire me cheap! I've done three so far. There are many contributed extras- one of which is in development, an ebay lister. The ebay contribution isn't complete yet, but I'll be trying it out as soon as it is!
"And All Shall be Well, and All Shall be Well, and All Manner of Things Shall be Well"
posted on October 23, 2003 10:45:46 AM new
I don't know what everything else costs, I use Sellers Assistant, and its $15.99 a month for the 'Pro' program. The basic is like $9.99. (I may have those wrong, we get it free, we beta tested it when Slocum first put it out there) ebay owns it now. You can have Sellers Assistant host your pics, or use your own FTP ( I use my own) it tracks sales, does end of auction emails, feedback, most everything.
You can do thousands of auctions, fixed price, or storefront. The whole program is a desktop program, and you don't even have to go into ebay. Any new things or changes, SA will prompt you to download (or is that upload ) to SA.
I've done three so far. There are many contributed extras- one of which is in development, an ebay lister. The ebay contribution isn't complete yet, but I'll be trying it out as soon as it is!