@surfsupaustralia wrote:
Hello fellow eBayers.
I came on to see if I was the only one whose sales have literally stopped completely over the last week which is a first for me and it seems eBay is playing games yet again.
Having been solely on eBay selling for over 11 years now I believe it’s time to obtain my own website. I will still remain on eBay however the amount of fees I pay to them and the poor way I feel I get treated by their customer service when needed I feel it’s time for a bit of a change.
What I would really like is to know if any of you have your own website and who you are with. I have been doing a lot of research and now I am just confused. Volusion, shopify, bigcommerce? I would really like eBay inventory integration and to stay away from the whole % of sales fee. I am leaning towards bigcommerce but still undecided.
If anyone has any suggestions, recommendations, experiences or feedback about what works well, it would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers
I have been with eBay since 2003 and dabbled in selling but returned a few months ago in the hopes of making my businesses fulltime and I was shocked at the difference. There were always gripes on the boards about fees, listing violations and powersellers but now it is a totally different ballgame.
Now sales seem to be affected by the 'algorhythm du jour' and theres nothing you can do about it. I am in the process of migrating to websites, and I too found it confusing! I took up trials on a few sites but settled on Shopify. I didn't trial Big Commerce but I did read a lot of reviews that said it was not as intuitive to set up, also because Shopify is much larger and templates are better. Bear in mind I'm not integrating my listings, I have imported them but will not be merging inventory etc, so I don't know how the two compare. I did have to add a couple of free apps from Shopify to set up, (importing eBay listings and adding a Facebook store) which I believe are already included in Big Commerce.
Volusion was very disappointing simply because of the multiple emails and phone calls I got during my trial, they really try to push you into a subscription from day 1.
Anyway I am very much a novice when it comes to building websites, and I have only done a soft launch to allow me to direct my Facebook customers to somewhere they can pay, but so far so good.
