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Originally Posted by Saajan
But with having a website, there's always trouble of having downtime and paying a web designer to to design your site.
With eBay its just a listing fee, final value fee and PayPal fee's.
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I know I'm a bit late to this thread, but feel I need to reply. (I lost the link and just now found it mixed in another area of my favorites.)
Don't want to pick a fight, but there is no downtime. I know they all advertise 99.999& uptime, but that's not wuite true.
However, having been selling hosting for several years now, I can say that I've never had a site down for as much as a half hour. Maybe 5 or 10 minutes, once or twice a year. And that's as liable to be in the wee small hours of the AM, not during busy times.
As far as paying a designer, there are many free and low cost shopping carts around that have a varitey of templates available out of the box, or have free and low cost skins / templates readily available.
Many of my clients do just fine adding a logo or a header to a default cart. And others find low-cost designs, few in the $ 100 range, most under $ 50.
And you are going to pay the PayPal or other processing fees, so they con't really count in any comparison. Either way you're going to pay the get paid.
As far as having a site or not, sure. They are truly inexpensive. You will have a cost for your domain - $ 10 to 12 for a year. With a .co.uk you will need to pay for 2 years at a time, just a rule they have. With the .com / ,net, etc. you have startup cost of no more than $ 12.
Hosting with me is $ 4.49 per month, paid annually.
So, for less than $ 5.00 per month you can have a cart. There will be a small chance you sell nothing, but you hardly lose anything, either.
In fact the ideal situation is to list on eBay and have a cart.
I personally have never sold on ebay. I started with a cart with about 2,300 hundred items in it. Never did any SEO type work, just put it up. I did use Overture, now Yahoo something or another, the main PayPerClick at the time.
No one was more surprised when in just a couple of days I was getting orders.
By the third month my card processor stopped taking payments because I had hit my $ 2,500 per month in transactions limit. That was like the 24th r 25th, a weekend. I got a lady on the phone to bump it up until the full crew came in Monday.
They just kept bumping it up. I never had to mention it again.
Anyhow, I did quite well without eBay, and I'm sure I'm not the only one.
Again, sorry to be so late to the party, but there you have it.
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