Grade Ebay Auction Pro Stores Website

Hi Auction Sellers, I wanted to update you with information about Pro Stores another Ebay product for ecommerce selling off Ebay's Auctions site. Well the grade is in and it is a D. I have worked with the product for 4 months and have to give you the information behind the grade.

First I like to say that the platform itself is basically user friendly for the most part but could use some work but ok overall, the customer service was very disapointing. Example: questions could not be answered, problems behind the scenes were fixed days later in some cases, and overall seem like they themselves new nothing about Pro Stores. Another thing that really concerned me was that Pro Stores purposely blocks meta tag information from search engine spiders as well as blocks most link and additional information you ad to your own website template, now after calling them and looking over there control panel I found out that they do this so you have to pay them to market your site for you to Price Comparison engines / sites, etc. Sound formilliar Auction Sellers, of course it does. Ebay just being Ebay I guess showing there customers how much they appriciate us all by finding another way to charge fees.

So my suggestion if considering a ecommerce site stay away from Pro Stores a great option with much more tools and flexibility would be webmasters.com a better value at a cheaper overall cost.

Google Base Go's Live Watch Out Ebay Auction!

Google base has afficially gone live and I have had the chance to check it out and experiment a bit with it. First I would like to say I'm glad to see the response on my last post on Google Base a potential real competitor your comments are important and respected. Now back to Google Base, I have put some items online in this new platform from Google.

It is easy has plenty of options to add what ever you want and really makes it easy for small and novice ecommerce sellers to sell product with out a website and with out any website optimization issues. Ebay Sellers should take notice, the information gathered from accross the internet all point to the fact that Google is targeting Ebay and Craigs list. This multi function search engine slash classified slash market place is fast as far as response on quaries and is has a very targeted result. Now this new item is still in the starting stages as far as growth so Auction Sellers don't go and close your Ebay Stores as of yet, but It looks like the real deal and it is FREE. I'm sure that is refreshing news since we all know that Ebay tends to nickle and dime every one with out really paying attention to customers / Auction Sellers. With Ebay annually raising fees this could change the way we all run our ecommerce business.

Here is a link to Google Base so you can experiment for it yourself.

Auction Ebay Site Compition?

Compition for Auction Ebay Site may be comming sooner than Auction Sellers may think. Now the question has been who can compete with the online auction king. Not Overstock, Not Yahoo, and certainly not Ioffer. The big battle may finally begin with the arrival of Google Base. The news has been buzzing around the internet with a so called leak with screen shots of the up coming Google Base a free online data base and selling engine and it is FREE. Auction Sellers should take notice of this potentially internet changing posibility. No one dominates the internet more than Google and Action Ebay Site has taken notice as stocks fell the day Google Base was discovered. This may be a big money making forum for small internet marketers. The information is still new and Google has since pulled the screen shots but do admit to the creation of such a monster tool. I will continue to research for new developments.

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