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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
Well, since adding more stock from RedHotBed, our Ebay site has been getting more traffic. This is obviously a good thing, but there are some limitations in the way Ebay let us do things. Ebay’s fees also become an issue, especially because of the low cost of our individual items. This is making it difficult for us to maintain the low prices we aim to provide.
To get round this problem, we thought it was about time we started to think about putting together our own store site. This can be found at www.craftybeggars.co.uk. For those that are interested, we went for hosting with Lunarpages and eCommerce software from CubeCart. We’ve tried to add a bit more detail with some extra pictures, so we hope you’ll agree, it’s worth a look.
One strange thing. It was actually cheaper to take a new domain name rather than transferring one we already had! Our portfolio now consists of three domain: www.TheCraftyBeggars.com, www.TheCraftyBeggars.co.uk and www.CraftyBeggars.co.uk. At the moment all these domains point to the same place, but we do have plans to rectify this and build connected sites with differing content. It’s early days but we’ll get there!
We would love comments about the site. Any ideas for getting it to look more appealing would be welcome and criticism, if constructive, would be equally well received.
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