Monday, June 14, 2010

To buy or not to BUY that is the question...

This past month has been, well lets just say it's been a lonngggg month.  Just to let you know this post is asking you my readers your advice on e-commerce.   Here is my dilemma.....
  • I currently have a site that is built to sell on ebay, but it's a dummy site "store front".  Using auctiva.
  • I want to expand my business with either drop ship or wholesale inventory. 
  • I honestly don't want to use ebay anymore due to the final closing fees. (But I'm debating if what I sell will it be worth it or balance out?)
  • I want to be able to edit my store front the way I'd like it.
  • I don't want to spend so much money monthly, but I do want to be able to have freedom with editing.
  • Are using the actual free trails worth my time?
(I mean I understand if you want something for less, you should expect less, but I'm debating on which one and how it's working out for others.)
 Does anybody use any of these sites below?
  • 1FreeCart.com
    I currently have the free site, but there are a couple of options that I'm considering paying for, like the $15 a month deal, but I don't like the fact the site is full of adds that I can't make money from, you know what I mean?
  • freewebstore.org
    This site offers a free web store, but only allows 15 items, then after that if you want to expand you can move up to the $10 for 50 items or $19 for 150 items.  So far I pretty much like this one because of the ease of customizing the layouts.
  • Weebly.com
    I'm this site because it is drop and drag to customize your layout.  I don't like the pop out for making payments with paypal.  I feel the customer will confused on why there is a pop out for a certain item, or they have a pop up blogger which then makes them have to take the time to turn it off.  It's not shopping friendly to my point of view.
  • Webs.com
These are pretty much all my free to really cheap options.  I've also checked out
Well if you have any suggestions or advice for me post it here or email me at shoptilyoudropdeals@yahoo.com  Thank you again for everyone that visits this site.  I also want to let some of you know I just now got your emails because I hardly check the email address that I guess I have for this site, which I will be changing now, so please bare with me, and I will respond to your emails shortly :)  God bless you all.
~Serena

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