I'm George

[bigdog]

I'm a retired Fed who is bored with staying home. So I've decided to meet others selling collectibles like menus, LP albums and 45s, older sports-cards, cookbooks and whatever. I have some experience working Ohlone College in the late eighties.

I'm deciding on which place to try to sell my wares. Vallejo Shoppers Carnival or Solano Flea Market in Concord. Vallejo sounds better to me because its indoors.

I also am interested in possibly designing a web sight to act as a brochure for my wares. I'm looking for a low cost way of doing this. Anyone with pro or con information about either of those places and/or about the web sight, please continue this post.

Currently, I'm cataloging my inventory and organizing it for my first sale which will probably be in early March. I'm already signed up for a moose lodge event in Fairfield.

Regards

[bigdog]

Hi Paula,

Thanks for the note. I won't need a shopping cart because I see the web as a twilight zone-ish brochure (at least for now). If I want to sell something online I use one of the biggies and pay them their cuts. I will research the company you went with for web design and probably use them at 19.99 and design the site. I gather your hosting company is also very reasonable too that is good. I just want to be able to email, tweeter and facebook my web site to anyone I contact. Regards and thanks again for the tremendous welcome. George

[susien]

George,
Welcome to the board. Glad that Paula was able to help you, I do not have a website but should by summer since my oldest is taking Web Design this semester in college! Again, welcome, I am in Central California and all of my items are hand crafted so I really have no idea of what shows would be good for you. Good luck and keep us posted!

Susie

[davejs]

Feb 3, 2010 4:21:41 GMT -5 bigdog said:

Hi Paula,

Thanks for the note. I won't need a shopping cart because I see the web as a twilight zone-ish brochure (at least for now). If I want to sell something online I use one of the biggies and pay them their cuts. I will research the company you went with for web design and probably use them at 19.99 and design the site. I gather your hosting company is also very reasonable too that is good. I just want to be able to email, tweeter and facebook my web site to anyone I contact. Regards and thanks again for the tremendous welcome. George

Hi George. I use Microsoft Expression Web 2 which is an offshoot of the defunct Front Page. It's okay for me and I can pop up pages left and right. I am paying under $100 a year to my hosting company and I can put up 5 webs. I don't know what you mean by saying "I use one of the biggies and pay them their cuts." Are you selling on other sites? EBay?

[suktexas]

hi, paula, i am su, a newbie over here. i want to know how you amend your website when you have a new product? do you amend the whole page at one time like you move around your words and pictures and then you upload them into the hosting company? i am working on my website and i do not have a credit card machine and i do not want one. i try to sell my stuff for cash. may be i loose a few sales if i do not have the credit card machine but the running cost of credit card machine is getting expensive. if i only get 30 credit card sales over a year, then i do not think it is worth it. i do not know how your ecommerce collect the money for you. i do have a paypal account which i can collect money over the internet at my website.

[suktexas]

paula,

sorry i was selling in swap meet market in yuma and mesa and at the same time i do not familar how to go through this website efficiently as i want to.

paypal does not charge their shopping cart, but they charge for the sale. if you have a sales, they probably charge you about 3.5% - 4%. because they charge a transaction fee and a percentage fee every sale you make. i would rather they charge higher this way as i do not have enough website sales in a year to pay for monthly statement, wireless card machine, transaction fee, and sales fee on a credit card machine.

Feb 24, 2010 10:04:33 GMT -5 @pursestuff said:

Suktexas wrote:
hi, paula, i am su, a newbie over here. i want to know how you amend your website when you have a new product? do you amend the whole page at one time like you move around your words and pictures and then you upload them into the hosting company?

Yes, that is how I ammend a page in my website

i am working on my website and i do not have a credit card machine and i do not want one. i try to sell my stuff for cash. may be i loose a few sales if i do not have the credit card machine but the running cost of credit card machine is getting expensive. if i only get 30 credit card sales over a year, then i do not think it is worth it. i do not know how your ecommerce collect the money for you. i do have a paypal account which i can collect money over the internet at my website

I use Mal's for my shopping cart and I a Merchant Account and there is no charge from Mal's.

Paypal also has a shopping cart. I believe they charge for shopping carts.

Sometimes web building software comes with a little shopping cart built right in. My does not, but it made setting up and installing a shopping cart an easy task for me.

You might want to google Free Shopping Carts and see what you come up with. I know there are several out there. Google has a shopping cart too.

Hope this answers your questions.
Purse Stuff - Paula
Arizona