Bippy
09-12-2008, 09:54 PM
Hello everyone, my last muse that I talked about on here was a bust (do NOT go into the adult industry- the legal stuff alone will keep you out of automating everything) and I'm working on another one.
I'm working on setting up a web store for a product I've been testing. In the book Tim talks about a yahoo store, but Amazon.com has entered the market as well.
Yahoo's small business e-commerce solution is here (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/) and the Amazon.com store is available here. (http://webstore.amazon.com/)
Both offer decent looking pre-generated web pages, and credit card processing. Amazon's store also offers to connect to Amazon.com's fulfillment service, which looks nice but for my product isn't necessary (the manufacturer does fulfillment, but it might not for my NEXT muse).
Amazon will let me open as many muse stores as I want under one account, which is nice. As soon as I get one muse up and running, I can start working on the others and all my data is in one easy-to-manage, easy-to-get-to pile. Nice.
Amazon takes a 7% cut but you don't need a merchant account, you need a merchant account with Yahoo but they charge a 1.5% credit card processing fee- is the extra pain in the ass worth it?
Then there's the fact that for the same amount as the middle-priced Yahoo store option, you get a tie in with Amazon.com on your page on Amazon's option.
I'm pretty divided between the two, although I'm leaning towards the Amazon.com page (it seems easier to set up and I have more respect for Amazon.com as a business than I do for Yahoo), but I wanted to hear if anyone here had any experiences, good bad or other, with either vendor.
Thanks!
I'm working on setting up a web store for a product I've been testing. In the book Tim talks about a yahoo store, but Amazon.com has entered the market as well.
Yahoo's small business e-commerce solution is here (http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/) and the Amazon.com store is available here. (http://webstore.amazon.com/)
Both offer decent looking pre-generated web pages, and credit card processing. Amazon's store also offers to connect to Amazon.com's fulfillment service, which looks nice but for my product isn't necessary (the manufacturer does fulfillment, but it might not for my NEXT muse).
Amazon will let me open as many muse stores as I want under one account, which is nice. As soon as I get one muse up and running, I can start working on the others and all my data is in one easy-to-manage, easy-to-get-to pile. Nice.
Amazon takes a 7% cut but you don't need a merchant account, you need a merchant account with Yahoo but they charge a 1.5% credit card processing fee- is the extra pain in the ass worth it?
Then there's the fact that for the same amount as the middle-priced Yahoo store option, you get a tie in with Amazon.com on your page on Amazon's option.
I'm pretty divided between the two, although I'm leaning towards the Amazon.com page (it seems easier to set up and I have more respect for Amazon.com as a business than I do for Yahoo), but I wanted to hear if anyone here had any experiences, good bad or other, with either vendor.
Thanks!