Ecommerce Today,

OK I have been playing with Magento for quite a while now and tonight I have offically given up.  The software seems very promising, but it is just not for me.  I am working off a shared hosting platform and that has really caused isuues with running magento.  I you had a dedicated server and alot of time and knowledge magento might be a good fit.  It is not a good fit for me at this time.  I have moved on and lookin for a new host.  I am working on some free trails right now to see what I like.  I will report back t this blog with my findings.

The downside of using eBay is that when a customer Wins an Item, They make it not available for Purchase by someone else,  but they don’t pay for it till later.  In some cases that can be a few days or more. The more and more I use Ebay.  The more and More I see wasted time.  Wasted time for me is expensive.  If you bought your inventory on Credit, a $300 item is costing you additional .006 every day, plus storage and Lost time that it could have been sold to some one else.

After black Friday comes Cyber Monday.  But all those Cyber Monday sales seem to be lasting all week or even longer.

I have found good results with posting to ebay this time of year.  Items that normally do not get any bid until the last few hours have been getting high bids early on and Buy it now is equally sucsessful.

I have also addes selling with Amazon on a few items, but Amazon’s restrictions on what I can charge for shipping is hurting.  I recently sold an item that Amazon would only pay 5 dollarsfor shipping but the shipping easliy cost me over $9.00.  Getting customers to buy from my own store is the most profitable for me, but you can’t deny the coverage you get from listing items on ebay and Amazon.