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Originally Posted by tribecat |  | | | | | | | | | Hi Rodney, I have to tell you that I am not a fan of paypal. Whenever I have sold items on ebay I simply won't accept paypal, only check or money order. They are a bit to avaricious and difficult to work with. | |  | |  | |
I haven't had the same experience, but what you just wrote is exactly what I was talking about
Some people just don't like PayPal, so if they see that as your *only* option, they may just choose not to buy. I don't think this is a "large" portion of buyers though.
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Sadly, I am pretty much at the mercy of otheres when it comes to being conversant with programming and having a fluid understanding of what is involved. | | | | | | |
You never have to be at the mercy of programmers. You always have a choice. And educating yourself (in places like this) as to what those choices are is a good way to take back some of that control
Having a programmer do the work is not a bad thing, but being able to explain to them what you need and knowing what you don't need will help to make sure you aren't getting taken advantage of by the developer. Hopefully we can help you out with that
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This is my first foray into ecommerce and I know I'm going to make mistakes but I'm sure hoping to keep that to a minimum in terms of time and expense. | | | | | | |
I've made quite a few in my years doing this. I *try* to remind myself to think of them as "learning experiences"
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Can you give me a bit of direction insofar as exploring some of the other options you mentioned... or is it as simple as going on the appropriate web sites? | | | | | | |
The basics of it is: if you have a domain name and a web host, then that webhost most likely offers you to ability to use php/mysql scripts on your account.
Free shopping carts like zen-cart, oscommerce, cubecart, etc can just be installed on your web hosting account and then you can manage your products and orders through their online interface. Most t-shirt sites use a shopping cart of some type. I've seen many that use oscommerce, but the others can be equally as good.
To figure out which one you think will work best for you, you could just visit the different shopping cart product websites:
zen-cart:
http://www.zen-cart.com
oscommerce:
http://www.oscommerce.com/ (or
http://creloaded.com/ is a nicely bundled version of oscommerce)
cubecart:
http://www.cubecart.com/site/home/ | | Quote: | | | | | | | | | | |
I am happily pleased to have discovered this site and its wealth of friendly and helpful kindred souls... it's really great.
Thanks,
Tribecat | | | | | | |
Happy to have you and be able to help.
