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As sellers, we are always looking for alternative places to showcase our goods or services. We are also looking for ways to cut our costs. Sellers also need to add channels to their marketing. So why would I suggest Ecrater? With the sudden changes over at Ebay, many sellers are looking for a viable alternative. I believe that alternative is Ecrater. Ecrater is fast and an easy setup and go. It can take you only a couple of hours to set up a store. Ebay has gotten so costly, for many of the smaller sellers. While the traffic is great, with the costs of Ebay and Paypal, they both eat up many seller's profits. While there are many Auction sites out there, many do not have anywhere near the traffic of Ebay. We have tried them all with little satisfaction. The number of non-payers, can make you pull your hair out!
Why open a store at Ecrater:

  • 100% Free Commerce Site
  • Painless to setup a store!
  • An easy to use shipping matrix
  • Excellent cooperative people on the Forum
  • Good Traffic through the website - it is a PR5
If you have set up an e-commerce site, you know how time consuming it can be to populate your store, enter shipping information, metatags, etc. We have tried several different websites, and have had some difficulty with them, but this was a snap! The only thing that has stopped us from doing more is time! That is not really a fault. We have set up two stores here - Fun Cool Collectibles - Unique gifts for Unique People and Original Artworks. I love this site for it's ease of use, and the price is right - no hosting fees! No commission fees!

We have been selling on ebay Utradesports for the past 7 years! We have done well, but the ebay fees and paypal fees have more or less forced us to look for other venues for our products - my partner found ecrater and started putting stuff up over there, within the first week we had a sale! This was absolutely incredible we thought! We had had our own store with a domain name and CRE ecommerce website and were lucky to make a sale every other week. We had a Yahoo store for two months and never had one sale! But at Ecrater we had a sale in our first week! We poured our efforts into Ecrater, and backed off on Ebay, it was just getting too expensive over there. We had liked the Ebay stores at one time, but last year Ebay had jacked up the final value fees to make them more than the auctions. While the listing fees were lower in the store, the final value fees were more than the auctions, so we had to look for an alternative. We had tried free auctions, but there was never enough traffic. We could have hundreds of auctions, but very few sales for our efforts.
Using Ecrater is adding another channel to your marketing mix. It can help you add another dimension to your sales. Ecrater automatically sends the products to froogle, so you don't have to waste time getting the feed ready and dealing with some of the froogle headaches. Up until December 31st, 2007 - Google Checkout is free, which is a great plus! There is free hosting! Unlimited image hosting - we sometimes use 4 or 5 images, but you can use up to 10 images!

We have since opened up another storeOriginal Artwork for my artistic endevours. Most of it contains ACEO's right now, and I am getting ready for the Christmas Season so check out the possible stocking stuffers!
Click on the View all Images to see some of the stuff that we sell and visit Fun Cool Collectibles

If You Love a Deal, Do We have Deals for You 

In this age of Deals, Do We have a Summer Deal for you!

It is time for us at Fun Cool Collectibles to clear stock for the Fall and Winter line! Even though we sell 40% to 50% below retail, we have knocked another 10% to 20% off of our summer line. Take a look at the RSS feed below.

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Some Ecommerce Books from Amazon 

We have read many books for ideas for marketing our Ecommerce Stores

We have read some books on how to market our ecommerce store on the internet. It is actually more labour intensive than marketing a real brick and mortar store!

We all need to Read and be Organized 

This is an important part of Business

When you have several sources of income, you have to be organized. If you have several websites or lenses or affiliate links you need need to be organized or somewhere to store your passwords. This can get cumbersome, I remember when I would just write it on a handy piece of paper, and before you knew it I was looking through hundreds of pieces of paper just for a bloody username and password. These organizers are a must have. I only list Palm and HP - after using the other ones, I do not think they are worth the additional cost of purchasing software. I have been perfectly happy with Palm and HP. Check these out on page 3 and 4 of my at my Estore

Welcome to the Ecrater Store List 

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Event Horizon 1984 eCRATER EventHorizon1984

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Smilin' Eyes Treasures Collectibles, Replacement China, Vintage Items, And More

Assortment of vintage and newer collectibles, chin more...1 point

Vintage costume jewelry, advertising collectibles, pottery

vintage costume jewelry, collectibles, antiques, a more...1 point

SkinCare Ideas - Your Ideal Skin, Hair & Health Care

Face lifting cream, acne control skin care, hair l more...1 point

SMD Jewelry

Jewelry and accessories for men and women. A lot o more...1 point

NewRiverOne's Southwest Gifts and Collectibles

Unique gifts and collectibles from the desert sout more...1 point

Noadi's Art on eCrater Fantasy sculpture and jewelry designs

Fantasy sculpture and jewelry designs by Noadi's A more...1 point

The Nostalgic Nugget Rare Hard To Find Vintage Books Mod Decor Art More

Our passion is searching, finding, and selectively more...1 point

Muffy's Mom

Offers dog collars, dog leashes, dog bandanas, dog more...1 point

Kittenkat22 Hair Jewelry and More

Hair jewelry items including hair barrettes, hair more...1 point

bevelmatt Collectibles, Clothing, Rock Roll Memorbilia, Starbucks, Jack In The Box, Vinyl Records

The Fusion of Retro, HiTech and LoFi bevelmatt sel more...1 point

LaserDisc Outlet For The LaserDisc Collector

LaserDisc Outlet A collection of used LaserDiscs o more...1 point

Pet Friendly Travel Supplies

Pet Friendly Travel Supplies is offering you a var more...1 point

LJT Fine Arts, Original Drawings and Paintings by Lisa Teitelbaum

Subjects include life drawings, landscapes, still more...1 point

Fides Fashion, DKNY, Charles David, Lauren, Jones New York, Mezlan, Bacco Bucci, Style Co, deals on designer label clothing and accessories

Women and men fine fashion, designer shoes, jacket more...1 point

Original Watercolors and ACEO

This is an original Art Store where you can purcha more...0 points

Fun Cool Collectibles online Store

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Books Jewelry collectibles figurines toys electronics teapots gift ...

Unlike real life stores, Periwinkles is open day a more...0 points

Driver Recruiter Online eCrater Store A Division of Driver ...

A variety of products including Belt Buckles, Caps more...0 points

Sewing Patterns, Vintage, Out of Print, Retro, Knitting Crochet ...

ORIGINAL Sewing Patterns,Vintage, Out of Print, Re more...0 points

Wrought Iron CANDLE SCONCE - Wall Black Fleur-de-lis

Wrought Iron CANDLE SCONCE - Wall Black Fleur-de-l more...0 points

Adrienne Vittadini, Andrea Viccaro, Marino Orlandi, Trussardi ...

High quality vintage bag, purse, handbag, shoes, j more...0 points

Offering collectibles, outofprint books, china, glassware and ...

collectibles, used books, etchings, replacement ch more...0 points

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clocks, books, games, collectibles, music boxes, j more...0 points

Discount Designer Fragrances, gicci, nina ricci, tommy girl ...

designer fragrances, gicci, nina ricci, tommy girl more...0 points

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Selling facet cab rough gem stones and loose natural faceted cut ...

Facet rough Faceter Faceting gem stones Cab caboch more...0 points

Knapp's Vegetable Seeds at eCrator

Family farm that offers great commercial seeds for more...0 points

South Street Arts featuring the work of Finger Lakes artist Darryl ...

Finger Lakes artist creating art works in Wax Cray more...0 points

Where Customer Satisfaction Is Our Businessa targetblank ...

Top quality Holiday Decor Items, Gift Items perfec more...0 points

Moon's Harvest Bath Body Trends

Moon's Harvest offer the latest Bath Body Trends i more...0 points

Vintage Postcards, Antiques and Collectibles

Specializing in Vintage Holiday Postcards, Best Wi more...0 points

AIR PURIFIERS, PDA'S, Nintendo Wii AND MORE

We sell all sizes and models of Sharper Image Ioni more...0 points

Ruyan Online Store, ruyanchina, ecigarette, 139 EUR 190 USD ...

Ruyan, Ruyan ecigarette, ruyan ecigar, ruyan epipe more...0 points

AIR PURIFIERS, PDA'S, Nintendo Wii AND MORE

We sell all sizes and models of Sharper Image Ioni more...0 points

French Post Card Sewing Patterns Christmas Card Spode Purses

A variety of French Post Card, Roswell Stargate No more...0 points

LJ Stores offering antiques, collectibles, vintage clothing ...

LJ Stores offering antiques, collectibles, vintage more...0 points

Doyle Carver, iron art, HGTV, metal art, fish, animal, hickey bars ...

Fishiron is operated by artist, Doyle Carver, who more...0 points

Studio Ghibli Goods Online Store

100 Brand New in Mint Condition original Studio Gh more...0 points

French Post Card Sewing Patterns Christmas Card Spode Purses

A variety of French Post Card, Roswell Stargate No more...0 points

LJ Stores offering antiques, collectibles, vintage clothing ...

LJ Stores offering antiques, collectibles, vintage more...0 points

Doyle Carver, iron art, HGTV, metal art, fish, animal, hickey bars ...

Fishiron is operated by artist, Doyle Carver, who more...0 points

Studio Ghibli Goods Online Store

100 Brand New in Mint Condition original Studio Gh more...0 points

YesterYearsGoodies Gently Used Vintage Books Cookbooks Craft ...

YesterYearsGoodies, vintage, antique, collectible, more...0 points

Beautiful Jewelry Chest

Variety of vintage jewelry, costume jewelry I sell more...0 points

djpoorfarmherefords sells sewing patterns, fabric, movies, books, home, hardware

I sell a wide variety of items, vintage sewing pat more...0 points

FRAMESnGIFTS Your store for home decor, gift items, collectibles more!

FRAMESnGIFTS has a variety of home decor, collecti more...0 points

Evie Jewelry

Solid Silver and fashion jewelry at great prices0 points

Trendy Handpainted Gift and Accessory Boutique that provides the finishing touch

Unique handmade handpainted accessories that inclu more...0 points

Hidden Cameras,Spy equipment,DVR, Surveillance equipmentOnline

Specializing in home and personal protective devic more...0 points

Yard Sale Bargains Online Discount Store

A place where you can find a variety of new and ge more...0 points

Bookworm Bargains Discount Bookstore

Online discount bookstore selling a wide variety o more...0 points

Using UsFreeAds to sell on Ecrater! 

I found UsFreeAds when I was studying Bum Marketing!

Free Classifieds

This is an excellent site for traffic to your Ecrater store. We are constantly putting up items from our Ecrater Store and we get phenomenal traffic to the store. We have not seen this sort of traffic since we had been on Ebay, when we did most of our selling at Ebay. We will put up a series of items from the store and watch the people come and view them! I put up a TUK shoes and we had 20 views in the first day, and it was listed at google the first day! I call that Google Juice! This site is a must if you are going to sell on an estore or if you have auctions that you need traffic to. For 9.99 a month UsFreeAds is a must in your marketing plaan for Ecrater.

We sell Internationally 

This is part of our Niche marketing

Make selling Ecrater a part of your marketing mix. This will help you to sell more product on the internet, and that is the name of the game! Getting more product exposure. Many of the items - close to 40% - that we sold on auctions went Internationally, and we don't even have a brick and mortar store! Some of the product that we sell on Ecrater also sells internationally. We would never have this much sales if we were just a brick and mortar in the middle of New York! We ship Internationally, so our sales are quite good! This is part of niche marketing, as many people selling on, for example, on Ebay would not ship internationally. Sure, the odd item went "missing", but we chalked this up as part of doing business. Many international customers could not get the product, and therefore would pay a premium for it. We sold many items at the "Buy it now" price to International customer. We thought of this as part of our niche marketing. We charge a reasonable amount for shipping and handling for international customers and they flocked to our auctions! We have carried this over to our Ecrater Store and we sell many of our items Internationally!

Great Stuff on eBay 

This is where we got our start in selling on the internet!

Check out these great deals from Ebay

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Ecommerce Blog Posts from Google 

Check out these great Ecommerce sites

We always spend at least an evening a week looking over websites or blogs for ideas, and so should you
Green Tips for Ecommerce Packaging
Jan Ferrigan tackles the issue of environmentally friendly packaging in the July 20th issue of Aucti...
Newport, RI Handbag Designer Launches Ecommerce Website www.mikija.com
Mikija, designers of unique papyrus handbags, today announced the launch of their new, direct-to-con...
eVanity Launches Robust eCommerce Site in Just 100 Days With ...
The new eCommerce site was successfully launched in just 100 days with MarketLive(R) FastTrack 2008...
Intermix(R) Upgrades to MarketLive(R) v5.5 eCommerce Suite to ...
"The online channel is critical to our success as a high-end retailer," said Don McNichol,...

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Hey all, my wife and I are selling our items locally and started an ecrater site. I was very impressed with the ease of it all. I hope to be as succesful on there as we have been locally.

Posted March 25, 2008

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Posted February 22, 2008

 
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