posted on December 12, 2004 10:47:55 AM
We have been selling for over 5 years and have never created a store. Our sales are so slow for us now (other than 'Buy It Now') - we have to explore other options. We've been comparing Vendio store management to eBay.
We would welcome any comments as to pros and cons in ease of set up, support, downtime and sales activity.
posted on December 21, 2004 05:40:49 AM
I do the majority of my business in my Vendio store. Although I also have stores on ebay and Ioffer, my Vendio store is the anchor.
I think you have to have a strategy with these stores.
Ebay store has items that complement my auctions. I usually only auction items that have been selling for years pretty steadily. I have a group of buyers who look regularly for these items.
Vendio store has over 8000 items and I look at it like my warehouse. I drive business to it from ebay (using the "visit my gallery" area to move them to my ebay listings in my vendio store) and I am pretty high up now in most google, etc. searches. Once I have collectors (ie., Abercrombie ads, electric car ads, etc) I load up their categories and once a month or so let them know that I have new arrivals. It is not unusual for them to come in and but $150 worth of their thing.
When Vendio changed the image hosting I started moving all my ads from 1945 to 1955 to Ioffer as well as slow categories. Now I am starting to get 3-5 sales/week there.
So, I think you use a strategy, open your stores where you think they will do the best good and then promote, promote, promote.
