Is it hard to start an online store?

I was thinking of starting something like that too, only I am thinking of posting my merchandise on ebay and multiply. I am not yet thinking of the traffic, making the site presentable is already taking much of my time. I am not really the artistic type, I just want my site to look nice enough to convince people to order from me. I guess maintaining an online store is going to be as time consuming and will need as much effort as a physical store.

Yup, I think it's about our traffic site, coz how will you have a customer, if someone never know about your online store, you need a marketing expert and do the marketing campaign. About you payment method, you should try like ebay or amazon method it's very safe. I think the rest is up to you,be creative and good luck on you bussiness.