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12/23/2016 at 12:28 pm #8695
Hey Guys:
I have been contemplating a second venue for some time now. I have asked about Etsy and we have gotten some replies. But that is still under the platform and control on another site and with the associated costs.After doing periodic research for over the past year I keep coming back to the idea of my own domain name and setting up an e-commerce store that is not under the control of a platform like Ebay or Etsy and the such. I am not thinking about droppng Ebay but rather than spending all the time to create a second venue on a platform like Etsy just start my own store on Shopify, or Magento, BigCommerce and the such.
So just wondering who all here may have their own domain name and store, who you used to host and build it and what kind of success or failures [Pros or Cons] you may have to share.
Mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
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12/24/2016 at 4:02 pm #8741
i’m setting up a Shopify store today. it’s $30 a month and you can import your ebay store and do Buyable pins on Pinterest which sounds interesting to me. i also think it integrates into Google shopping as well. i thought i might as well give it a try. though it’s another 3rd party system, i’m interested to see if people find our stuff other ways. i’ll certainly be updating people on it on the podcast and here.
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12/24/2016 at 4:30 pm #8744
I think I posted about my experiment with Shopify a few weeks ago but maybe not.
In any case, I tried their two week trial. I talked for hours with their reps about the Ebay to Shopify transfer, which template would be best for the type of products we sell, tons of stuff especially including their Ebay to Shopify transfer. I was assured that it would work well.
Well, NOT! It will only pull over the Title and description text from your Ebay listings. It does not pull in the Item Specifics or any Variations for those that use that feature.
Since Ebay has been pushing all of us to use the item specific areas for things like material, sizes, where made [country], then all of that and more was missing in Shopify. So I called again and asked what was up and they said their Ebay Importer did not pull all of that in and that it was just an infant in the world of data transfer and recommended a 3rd party app to do it. After I checked that app it was very expensive. Hundreds of dollars.
So I let the two week trial elapse last week. Ryanne, I would suggest you only do the trial, set-up just a basic store and import [transfer] over only a couple of dozen listings and then go and preview what they look like in the new template. Try a few of your old format and then some of your newer listings. The ones with very little copy in the description area and a lot of item specifics. I will be interested in what you see.
Now this is not to say that each listing can’t be fixed up, but from what I saw, it would mean doing each one manually. And we all know what a pain and time and laborious task that would be.
Keep us posted on what you find out or if you research out a good [cheap] transfer [exporter-importer] app that will do the trick.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
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12/24/2016 at 4:40 pm #8745
As a secondary experiment I was going to try one or two of the other big e-commerce site like BigCommerce, Magento or Volusion. But Volusion is also very expensive. I know of one artist that set up a Volusion site and ran it simultaniously while she had her Ebay store. She finally got so well known and had so many repeat customers that she dropped her Ebay store and now sells only through her own site and does extremely well.
mike in Atlanta- This reply was modified 7 years, 3 months ago by MDC Galleries & Fine Art.
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12/24/2016 at 6:36 pm #8748
Merry Christmas Everyone,
My e-commerce store is built on a WP site using WooCommerce with an add-on that allows me to integrate my eBay store without any issues. My cost is fixed without any limitations or restrictions. I may have posted this here before, but everything wrong with eBay is right with running your own store. I’ve come across more successful examples of stores moving (running) from eBay that to them.
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12/24/2016 at 7:02 pm #8749
that’s cool! i would love to see a link if you’re willing to share.
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12/25/2016 at 10:13 am #8775
I sure would also. Very hard to find those that have an Ebay store and are also running there own domain named store. Would love to see your structure and format. Shopify left so much stuff that it didn’t pull over into the store template I selected.
Etsy is the same issue so you have to cut and paste each listing from your Ebay store into your Etsy listing and then type in everything you have in the Ebay Item specifics area into the Etsy description area and that is what would have to be done on Shopify. A big time investment. And every time you add a new item, that would have to be duplicated in your own store.
Would love to also hear what your process is for listing in your domain store and for keeping things synched with your Ebay store, if you care to share.
mike at MDC Galleries in Atlanta
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