What Happen to My e-Commerce Store?
It was one of my goals to have my own web store this year. I like the idea of owning my virtual store other than raking sales from eBay alone. Having my own web store means I can have full 100% control on everything, from profit to listings. You don’t get emails from eBay like, “hey, you have violated some of our rules, you are restricted from selling today!†*rolling eyes*
February 2007, yes, this year, I bought a domain from namecheap for my web store, and a logo from eBay.com. (hehe, yes, I bought this kind of thing in eBay too) I then engaged a local work-from-home designer (nooo, not eBay) to develop the pages with shopping cart for me. Now I just need to wait for the site to be readied.
Into the fifth month now and still nothing. The designer suddenly gone totally invisible from my MSN list. For many days, I sent him emails, sms-ed him and called him all the way from another states. Finally I got a reply from him.
He said he is very busy with some major projects and will have to issue me a full refund. I requested for the refund, I have been very patient but all I get was being push down by some ‘more important’ projects. So, my project is always at the bottom.
To him, he may have many projects on hand. He can justify which projects are more important based on pricing, customer’s size or relationship. But from my point of view, my project is the most important. If you feel you can’t handle so many assignments at once, why take up the job at all.
So, now I am resorting to design some static pages for myself *sniff*. At this point, between eBaying and blogging and some other online projects, I have another task on hand. Honestly, I like paying people to develop those for me as I couldn’t afford to spend time on it.
I have sent a message to a friend to see if he will be interested in designing a site for me. I think he has a flare for design and let’s see what his reply will be. I don’t mind if he is quoting me a reasonable price on it.
Oh, let me also check if eBay.com has a good price on web designing too *grin*. Anyone of you want to try your hands in designing website? Just give me a good quote.
Looks like this goal of mine for this year may not materialized *sigh*
Hey, be optimistic lady ! There’s still 6 months+ to go. I can check with a friend to see if he’s interested.
Congratulation jenny, I happy to hear that you are going to hv your own online store. I can see you are well planning for you online business. Wish your store traffic driven and profit driven.
i think online shopping website will cost a lot of money.. jenny is rich now.
I wish I can help you, unfortunately I am busy with my papers.
Well, maybe you can find someone from ebay
hi Jenny,
That designer must have wasted alot of your time. He must be interested in making the money that you offered him that he didn’t consider the amount of major projects that he currently has.
Anyway, I have a friend that might be able to help. He’s a web designer for mindef intranet during his NS days.
If you are interested, drop me an email at thegame0506@hotmail.com
Hope to hear from you soon.
Regards,
Ivan
http://ivan-ong.com
Jenny - I think you should do the following. Start a site using Wordpress, and implement a shopping cart plugin. Don’t need a fancy designer. Wordpress 2.2 is a better CMS than most ppl give it credit for, and you should be able to get your webstore in no time. ps. You’re using WP for THIS blog, so - even easier for you!!!
Hey Ivan, thanks for the suggestion. One of my friend agreed to help me with the design. I’ll just do with a simple one now i think. Lets see how things go.
Friedbeef, that is some new info to me. i didn’t know that. hehe, any sample sites to view? I’m curious on that.
Here you go…
Example of CMS
http://www.areteleadership.com
Example of wordpress shopping cart plugin
http://www.instinct.co.nz/?p=16
I had experience that when I engaged a freelancer. It’s always good to get those whom you can meet. Anyway, don’t be discourage. There are lots out that. Just you have to get the right person for it.
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