posted on June 28, 2005 11:23:48 AM new
The last time I checked the cost of Yahoo Stores, which was a goodly while ago, they were terribly expensive.
On one of the threads here, I get the impression that they are now cheaper than eBay. Is that correct? IF so, where do I go to sign up for a Yahoo Store?
I agree with another seller, who said, it is best to have stores in both places, no need to decide between the two.
Presently, we have no auctions posted on eBay at all, but we still have our store, and sales do come through it, without our listing auctions on eBay.
I am interested in the full story of the Yahoo Stores from someone experienced in them - specifically the full monthly cost, and the average amount of sales via a Yahoo store.
posted on July 1, 2005 02:12:05 AM new
I have had a Yahoo Store since the beginning. Last year I closed my store because of illness. This year I started over and built another store and after three weeks found I couldn't get my merchant account set up as I still do the old fashioned processing, by hand and mail.
So if you don't have an Established Merchant account with electronic processing, don't bother.
I then built a website for the same price with a nice software package called Yahoo Site Builder which is a free download product.
Still, I am finding people are not shopping. Also the website is not listed in all the search engines like the Store is listed.
I jumped into the Yahoo free Auctions primarily because of the fact they listed the auctions in the Yahoo Search engine. Still no results.
Hopefully I will be fully prepared for the big shopping season and if it is still slow I will shut the store down again.
Its frustrating because I started out with a big bang and lots of sales and it looks to me like the Internet Bubble has burst at least for my products.
posted on July 1, 2005 02:16:53 AM new
Sorry I didn't really answer your question. The store is if I remember correctly about $35. and there is a comparable web site for the same price and one smaller for about $14.
In the past I had an Ebay Store and I dropped it after two months as a total waste of money.
posted on July 7, 2005 08:58:52 AM new
I have had an eBay Store for a couple of years, and we do fairly well through it – PARTICULARLY if I am also posting auctions, and during the busier fall, winter and early spring.
At the present, I am not posting items on the eBay auction, but the store is still selling a bit, and such is decent for this time of year, and the fact I am not promoting my Store via my eBay auctions (which I am not currently running).
I am using this slow time to tweak (SEO Search Engine Optimizing) Web Site pages on our various web sites, getting ready for the fall season.
Selling is presently slow at Yahoo, but I do not have a great deal of auctions up. I feel, from my past experience with Yahoo that I need to be running at least 100 auctions to be financially effective on Yahoo.
I post the same items on Yahoo that I post on eBay, at the same prices.
I will have to check out the Yahoo Stores again and see if they are suitable/adaptable for our usage. We have our own cart system, and merchant’s account.
$35.00 for a Yahoo Store is about double that of eBay, so I will have to think long and hard about that.
I do not need their web site system; we already have well established web sites, which produce very well.
NET VERO has a great new site deal, where you can purchase a program, and run up to 20 web sites, which brings our cost down to about $9.00 a month per site, which is great.
I still have one major site via FAT COW, but since they started "upgrading" a few months back we have had nothing but problems with their service. For 4 years, we had little to no problems, but recently it has become a nightmare, and we are moving this FAT COW site to NET VERO, within a few weeks that will put all of our sites under the same server umbrella. Net Vero has been extremely reliable, and we have used them for years.
Thanks
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posted on July 15, 2005 07:02:14 PM new
Yahoo shop starts at 39.99 to 200 plus dollars.
You have to have a merchant account and it has to be compatible with its online gateway.
you can go to Yahoo and find out more.
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