Which Online Store Do You Prefer?

I prefered my own ecommerce site. It was so much more profitable! Having said that though, we did sell through Amazon and found them to be awesome partners for our product. Curious about others' experiences?

I used to sell my hand-made beauty accessories on Etsy and Vinted. And a good friend of mine suggested that I set up a standalone website using one of these wordpress beauty accessories store themes . With my own website sales trippled if not to say more. The key is to market your website, I use social media platforms for this purpose.

I do have an on-line store https://store.neuroyoga.zone and I use "nopCommerce". It's a free open source ".Net" based platform that has multiple features in addition to the store; i.e. blog, newsletter, etc...

I use it for the security of the platform, very flexible and scalable, interfaces with multiple payment systems, and I can brand it anyway I want. Does require some techical skill to impliment.

If you are looking to do e-commence avoid Wordpress and its plugings, the security is just not there. This is comming from a seasoned web developer with over 20 years experience and doing sites for fortune 100 companies. :smileywink:

Hi ,

I have seen many clients of mine having their Personal Website and they also sell on Amazon or Ebay Or Etsy as well.The Only reason is that they want to expand their market reach and More Profits and ultimately what their goal is. So adding new platforms to sell is always profitable what they think. 

I am not sure what everyone else thinks about it but i also believe that if selling on multiple sales channels will somehow increase the Profitability and reach.Hence i might have to price my product at 22$ to compensate the fees associated for selling. But as you know Amazon or eBay are very big Marketplaces and customer hits are more on these rather than personal websites as it may not be that much popular. So there are upsides and downsides.

I use etsy for my handmade loose leaf teas and vintage teacups and ebay for all the related items that aren’t allowed or don’t make sense in my etsy shop. I tried my own website but it took enormous amounts of time and in 2 months I only had two sales and one of those was to my mom. 

Yes,i pay large fees to etsy and ebay but when I sell my handmade loose leaf teas on my local farmers market circuit those costs are high too. If I had a brick and mortar I would have overhead expenses that wouldn’t decrease if sales were bad so I like the flexibility of paying commission on actual sales to these big box platforms. There are some listing fees but they are small.

I like etsy better than ebay because in general it doesn’t have the swap meet feel that ebay has. Also ebay has really vicious timeliness standards. I had a few items with the wrong ship date and they put me on probation and restricted my seller standards.