What are the pros & cons of (each) setting up a store in Ebay Stores and Prostores?
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I just did, not a pro store but an ebay store and its great.  The listing fees are by far less expensive though your items are not auctions people see them whenever they search on important key words.  I like the ebay store...very affordable...good service.
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It will depend on how much effort you will need to do. Clarify with them who will handle the following functions and how will these be decided:\n\n- Take good photos of the item\n- Write item description\n- Accept payment (if by Paypal and it's through your account, remember you get charged for Paypal processing fees). How much payment fees will you charge them?\n- Packaging the item\n- Going to the post office or arranging UPS man to pick up item for delivery\n- Who will pay for selling fees (listing + gallery fees and other add-on features + final value fees if the item sells)\n- How many relists would they want? And if so, who will absorb the listing fees for all the relists? You may have an item that simply won't sell even if you relists it 5 times - and that means 5 listing fees charged to you by ebay\n\nIf you will be doing all of the above, you can charge as anywhere from 5-30% of the amount of item's selling price.\n\nI suggest you study the fee structure of services such as ebay drop off stores. One example is iSoldIt.com, and their commission is basically 30% of the amount the item's selling price http://www.i-soldit.com/fees.asp . Plus, they will deduct the selling fees incurred as well as payment processing fees. \n\nOne thing to stress to them is that selling on ebay is not as cheap as they might think it to be -- and that NOT EVERYTHING sells. \n\nMake sure you have a contract and that they understand the process involved in selling on ebay and why are you charging these much fees.
83868
If you're talking about e-commerce on websites I think a disadvantage is the difficulty in satsifying customers.  Viewing product details, shopping carts and checking out all have to be very intuitive and if they're not you could lose a customer very easly.  I think customer satisfaction is much more important (and easier to lose) on an ecommerce website than regular one.
384657
Depends on the size of the store, the rent, the number of employees, the range of items in stock, insurance, the state of the economy... there are any number of variables to consider when opening a business.
817087
building such a website from scratch, would be a tough as well as time consuming task..to make it professional and secure, and to debug, it will take a months to build a website like e-bay..\nthe easier way would be to use CMS desinged to handle online shopping.. some of CMS are free while some are available for purchase.
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I run a ebay consignment store and absolutely love ebay!! It is pretty self explanitory to buy and sell. Of course it's easier to buy than sell so start with buying and see how it goes for you. Get the hang of it and then try your hand at selling something simple at first. Check out ebay's help pages before you start buying and selling. First you need to set up an ebay account as well as paypal and then your ready to get started. If you need any help, please feel free to contact me thru messenger or 360. I will help you out with anything I can!! Have a great day and happy bidding/selling on EBAY!!!
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DVD is huge and quick to sell but you need volume to make money. \n\nBig time growth on Clothing too, a good categories because it's easy to buy clothing for 80% off and resell them on ebay at 25-50% off but this take a lot of time in the listing because of pictures and description. \n\nRemember the rules number one en ebay: buy low, sell for higher and do volume....\n\n2 good books to buy right now on ebay: Ebay Millionaire, insane books with a lot of good stuff and The Perfect store, the story of ebay. After reading these 2, you will never go out of the ebay way! \n\nGood luck!
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eBay is a business like any other.  If you invest the time, energy, and money into it; you can make money from it.  Like any business, you can also lose money if you don't know what you're doing.\n\nBusiness 101:  To run a business, you need a product / service, and you need sales.  eBay can help with sales because it exposes you to a large potential marketplace -- but you still have to do the selling.  As for a product / service -- you either create your own, or sell someone else's.\n\nIf you've never run a business before, eBay is probably a good place to get an education.  You can learn more, and quickly, by doing research there than anywhere else.\n\neBay 101:  Search the ads to find one that resembles what you want to sell.  Watch the item.  See how the ad is formatted, what the starting price is, how many people bid on it, and what it sells for -- if it sells.  Do this at least 10 times, at different times of the day, and days of the week.  You should start to see patterns of what is selling, when, and how to sell it most successfully.\n\nBest of luck !
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choose online retailer... if this is a true start up company you'll go through so many problem solving episodes.  Once u handle the online business and get it going, branching out in retail locations seems a good next step to expand.
300786
Well, depends on what kind of audience you want to target and what locations you are targeting. If you're opening a brick and mortar store, a website might not benefit you much, other than serving as a basic ad telling local people where you are located. Unless you're thinking shipping nationwide, then a website would be a good idea.
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DVD is huge and quick to sell but you need volume to make money.\n\nBig time growth on Clothing too, a good categories because it's easy to buy clothing for 80% off and resell them on ebay at 25-50% off but this take a lot of time in the listing because of pictures and description.\n\nRemember the rules number one en ebay: buy low, sell for higher and do volume....\n\n2 good books to buy right now on ebay: Ebay Millionaire, insane books with a lot of good stuff and The Perfect store, the story of ebay. After reading these 2, you will never go out of the ebay way!\n\nGood luck!
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You can do it two ways:\n\n1. Do it yourself - get a domain name, you create a webpage, choose a webhost, get an online merchant account, get an online processing gateway to accept credit cards payment, find and install a shopping cart, take pictures of your products and write sales copy, get an SSL certificate from Verisign or Thawte for secure processing, integrate shipping tracking information from UPS or DHL. \n\nIf you do it by yourself, you'll have the flexibility to choose the best element for you with the features you need. The disadvantage is that you have to do it yourself and if you do not have the skills to setup the applications such as shopping cart, then it can be quite a challenge.\n\n2. Get a complete package - example is Yahoo store where they basically provide you with everything an online store needs (from web hosting to online processing to order management systems to shopping carts). All you need to provide are your web pages (sales copy and products), merchant account and the monthly fees.\n\nThe disadvantage is you are limited to whatever features they offer and customization options are almost nil.
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Convenience and time savings.\n\nIf I can store my grocery list on the company website, and just check the items I need and have them delivered...great!\n\nIf I can put in a standing order, and have items shipped with some frequency, so I don't run out...better!\n\nIf the company automatically offered the best prices and gave me a discount as sales were run, I would be a customer for life!
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You should really read up on the ways to keep yourself out of trouble before you start a small business on there. But i would definally suggest it for someone interested in a little money in less time. Search for wholesalers with items youd like to sell and list them on ebay. Youll make a good profit and a good amount of pocket cash
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I have been selling home decor items online for about 6 months, with a friend's help (she does most of the work, I do the books & finances).  We have experienced several frustrating situations: many damage claims with UPS and FedEx, even though we have researched best way to pack our product; ebay has been making many changes to their site, which always affects the listed items in some way; and also the fees incurred to list items and to have a store is really ridiculously high. There is a fee for everything!\nOverall, we have enjoyed it-the shopping for inventory is the best! After 6 months, we are finally beginning to show a profit. We hope to expand to other auction sites soon.  Next will come a "brick & mortar store." My friend  just dreams of having a "real" store!
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your best bet is to go to Ebay's site: www.ebay.com - it explains the whole process. I have my own store on there myself called "thelackofscents". It's quite easy. www.paradisestation.net is my real website. check out either one to give you some ideas.
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i currently use Yahoo! Small Business and their web hosting services. they are fantastic and have really grown my own website over the past four years. they have a merchant program which gives you support as you set up an online business and gives you pointers as to where exactly you can go from the start.\n\nif you don't want to start an online merchant store just yet, i still would recommend the web hosting package. it comes with site builder and pagebuilder so you can design the site yourself instead of paying a designer to do it for you. the package i have is web hosting starter and it costs me a little over 8 dollars a month. i have unlimited storage and great 24/7 support with Yahoo!. its cheap and has tons of storage and greap options. you should check it out.