Auctiva - Powerful solutions for eBay Sellers

I guessed I missed something. Will Auctiva be web hosting a store front for sellers outside of eBay. Or is this just for eBay and/or other sites. If this is a store front in a new Auctiva site, what will be the costs for listings etc.
TCKITTY

Yes, we are introducing off-eBay stores. This will be like Yahoo Merchant or ProStores in terms of features/functionality as well as price. Please read through the other posts for more detail.

Most people dont like neither and that is why there popularity came and gone with the wind. Infact two companys with poor visions.

Dont end up like theme as maybe make it a option or something of the % thing as I personally like to handle my own marketing and dont trust my investment in other peoples hands.

Just a heads up befor you layout your plan as percentage is a bad idea in my opinion as any person can blog themselves to death for free which I did a test myself and my sales and reactions were 10 to 1 compared to paying google or yahoo for hits and it all costed nothing.

I suggest get the monthly fee at a low price and provide much more than the free sites available. By doing this you created your own Niche like with Auctiva on ebay was succesful.

Make people beg to come and get a store as alot of competition offering free as BISI has a great platform and Bonanzle but they both lack vision.

Auctiva is the King of ebay listings so I expect alot from your new ecommerce site.

Rules

1. Keep it low priced
2. Keep it simple
3. Templates are the Key as it is what people want most.
4. Keep product options open with simple variables like BISI.
5. Group all stores in one somehow on a Main Auctiva shopping platfor and provide set categories that people may or may not use depending if they want to participate as then you can combine without creating a massive program to index them. Kinda like google base but in a ebay or bonanzle format

Then charge a fee of $5.00 initially the up to $15.00 a month or so plus sell advertisement on the site as ebay is doing now to its own members.

Dont do as amazon does as amazon sucks with all the million advertisers that lead you off the site.

This is what people want and need and if I knew how to provide all this I would bet my own shirt on it. Plus I would offer variable selling options at the same time. Like big vendors on or off fuction on the auction site or massive store.

These little things are what we want. Infact it would be great to really think this over and create a site like this as I honestly think if done right it could be the next Google or MSN.

Infact better as my vision is everyones vision but nobodys done it yet or will soon as programmers have tunnel vision and the owners that pay them as it takes a nobody to lead the way. Good Day

can you tell me if the new commerce package for off ebay stores will have the ability to accept credit cards. I have an account with Wells Fargo for store register and want to avoid PayPal at all costs - too expensive and cut down any profits...any help appreciated

I second ValuesPro's sentiments.

1. Must be reasonably priced.
Ebay's greed has been their downfall.
2. K.I.S.S. Occum's Razor, Keep It Simple, Stupid. User Friendly is not just some catch phrase. People are uncomfortable trying new things. Esp. in the tech world.
3. Amazon and now dumbay following the pattern, of advertising competion of the items listed is dumb. WHY should I list on Amazon or the evil company when they are directing people away from my sales?
4. ALWAYS listen to those who are paying you. Ie, us. You may not always implement our suggestions, but, always be open. Otherwise its just like ebay, and while piss poor customer service may save money in the short term, ignoring customer input is disasterous.
5. Offer as many options as possible. I like the video presentation, where we are allowed to customize according to OUR needs. If Auctiva builds on that concept, while making it easy, it should do well.
6. Keep things functioning. Don't blame others for Auctiva's issues.
One thing that frustrates and infuriates me to no end is when a company blames everyone else for THEIR errors. (eg., the photo uploading issues. If Auctiva continually blames us and does not recognize the issues, then there's no reason to support Auctiva Stores. Fix that problem, and we can feel more secure in trusting Auctiva with bigger projects. Quite simple, really).
I have two simple expectations from a company:
A. Do what you say.
B. If you make an error, do everything possible to fix it.
Simple enough? One would think so, but, companies these days are few and far between that can even measure up to these simplest and most basic of expectations. WHY?

Thats my input. I hope Auctiva listens. Otherwise it becomes pointless to put my money here.

**You will have the option of having us advertise on your behalf to drive traffic to your store. When this results in a sale we expect the fee would be about 8%. We will announce the full details once they've been finalized.


Kind of what I was thinking as I posted in all the forums here. As yes build a one platform and charge a percentage of them selling at 8% or a better idea of $5.00 per 100-300 items plus maybe 3% to participate when sold as 8% is too high as ebay used to be 5% or so.

But if you drag a sale in from the web alone for us than 8% is a good deal.

As you want lots of items on the new platform but dont want to overload your site with items that never get sold. Plus it allows things to rotate regularly if somebody has thousands of items.

As like Bonanzle it just has too much junk to sift through and there index for products is just terrible as I dont even try to shop there and only sold once while I sold over 300 on ebay in the last few months.

Thanks Jeff as I knew your vision is good but lets see if the site will operate without bugs as I know you will do just fine. Thanks

The fee we charge for traffic we bring will need to cover our costs for bringing the traffic, plus some margin for profit. This will include different sources such as various PPC sites like Google & Yahoo, affiliate programs, etc.

If it turns out we find traffic at 3% then we'd pass along those savings and you'd pay much less than 8%. The goal here is for us to find and bring traffic as cheaply as possible and pass along those savings. As our scale grows the costs should go down a little.

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can you tell me if the new commerce package for off ebay stores will have the ability to accept credit cards.

Yes, we have a couple payment processors such as Authorize.net which integrate with your merchant account and bank to allow you to process your own credit card payments.

Jeff-how do you feel collectables will sell in your stores or are they geared more for the non-collectabe market?