Any opinions on Volusion?

[Vagabond]

www.volusion.com

Looks like a good all-in-one solution.

[clanshrapnel]

I actually came across this site a while back, but not because it was an all-encompassing solution. I came because they had 1-page shopping cart, which I came across on an internet retailer while browsing around for shopping carts.

As it turns out, the 1-page shopping cart is pretty damn slick, and it really did seem compelling to me to have a single page to checkout rather than multiple pages where a connection could mess up, customer could lose interest, etc.

I didn't investigate much further because the price is a little high, and I don't know how much flexibility you will have with their setup stores. I'd imagine it's something along the lines of Yahoo's 'make your own webpage' since you have a certain number of items you can sell, but to be honest, I haven't had the time to investigate further.

Dropshipping and holding products just seems too difficult nowadays. A lot of dropshippers give very small margins, are underdeveloped to handle returns/tracking/invoicing, and are vague at best about policies. It sounds like selling information is much more profitable, easier to setup, easier for transactions, easier for returns, and easier to maintain.

But that's just me.