online store

Philippines
December 1, 2007 2:01am CST
hi guys I just joined a website that allows you to open you own online store and I wanna take advantage of this feature can anyone tell me how we can sell stuff online if we do not have our own brick and mortar store and if there are any sites that help us with this?
3 responses
@yaoyao918 (262)
• China
1 Dec 07
In fact, I am mad about this kind of shopping recently. I think it is very interesting and convenient. We needn't go out and we can buy everything we want to buy. Also, I have an online store myself to sell something I don't need now. It is a good platform for people to trade. It is unnecessary for us to spend a lot of of many on store's rent and fitment. I believe online shopping will become more and more popular in the future.
• Philippines
1 Dec 07
yes I totally agree with you. Can you recommend any sites that do this? E-bay would have been nice but I have yet to get a credit card.
• United States
2 Dec 07
I use freewebs too, Ebay, and Etsy.. you pretty much have to promote yourself alot to get traffic and it is a lot of work..but you will sell on these sites.
@dlucia (208)
• United States
2 Dec 07
I've had my online store for several years. I had a friend create the template for mine, then I changed hosts to host it. You can take a look here: www.lucysbazaar.com. Its an e-commerce site and I just added my products to it. I've never tried getting a store on ebay. I started out using a freebie site to create my store and didnt do very well. After I hired someone to create this one, it has done so much better. You pretty much get what you pay for. I learned that the hard way.
• United States
1 Dec 07
There are a few sites like Ebay. You don't need a credit card to open a store there. A debit card will do just fine, open a savings or checking account and ask for a debit card. Being able to open a Paypal account is vital to selling at many sites online. E Crator is another site. There are no listing fees, but the traffic to the site is nothing like Ebay, so you'll need to drive traffic to your site through promotion. If you are selling handmade items, Etsy is a very good site with low fees (but again, you must be able to open a Paypal account to sell there) Hope this helps!