posted on February 19, 2006 07:50:42 PM new
I saw add for 2 free months for Prostore through ebay anyone got one how does it look would like to know you can get an Express one and sell limited number items 20 and it is $6.95 month for small partime sellers I see and lets people fax in orders and payments etc.? just wondering if anyone had an Ebay Prostore going to go look at.??
Sounds pretty good don't know, Plus you get a 30% discount if you have an Ebay store.
posted on February 19, 2006 09:00:49 PM new
I don't have a pro store. I've thought about doing something like this outside of the ebay marketplace, but for what I sell, it is simply a lot easier for me to list to the ebay store. My opinion is that if you have an ebay store, why bother with the real low end option of having 20 items? Why not just put them in your ebay store for 40 cents per month?
posted on February 19, 2006 09:47:48 PM new
That makes sense. I had an Ebay store last year until they hiked the price of the monthly rate by double: then I dumped it. I didn't sell enough in it to warrent paying to have a store and ebay make all the money. LOL would wind up I would have been paying them to give away my items so was not worth it to me. I am just a small partimer doing for fun and apparently making money for ebay and very little for me. Sell through rates sure have dropped off in last year. I use to have a 99% sell through rate now I am lucky if it is 50-60% and profits down big time too. Thought of trying store again but just leary of making Ebay more money and me nada. No pain no gain but have feeling I would be all pain.
posted on February 19, 2006 10:03:21 PM new
Oh forgot to say they have other levels of stores not limited and probably about same as an ebay store cost--almost.
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Can't touch this! uh huh, uh huh.
posted on February 19, 2006 10:52:34 PM new
Irked - their unlimited store is 29.95 and rather than an 8% closing fee, it is only .5%
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posted on February 20, 2006 07:29:55 AM new
Right now they are full of glitches and problems. They claim to be integrated with eBay, but they aren't.
You have to list directly through the Prostore to utilize the checkout and the listing process is cumbersome. Plus you have to go into eBay after listing and revise to add in your return policies, add a shipping calculator, etc.
Supposedly they're issuing an update this week fixing alot of the bugs, but I won't believe it until I see it. Here is a link to their discussion board if you'd like to see what people who are using it are saying:
http://discussionboard.prostores.com/index.php?
If you visit the board, you'll notice they tend to have typical eBay non-customer service.
Personally, I think it is way too much for too little in return. The only reason I'm even trying them is for the eBay checkout redirect so I can easily accept credit card payments through my merchant account. My buyers can simply click on the eBay 'Pay Now' button and be redirected to complete the checkout. This works fairly well, but currently has shipping calculation problems.
I'm still looking for another solution and will be gone from ProStores as soon as I find it.
