This thread has been created by moderators as an off-shoot to the OPs original reply moved from
another thread, so for any newcomers please don't take it too out of context (i.e. the OP didn't create a new thread entitled 'The best ecommerce product').
However some statements do need picking up on...
We can say that we have the best e-commerce solution if the problem you are trying to solve is to sell products online.
As a supplier who also provides hosted managed ecommerce solutions, I can say with fair certainty that both your solution and my solution are not the best ecommerce solutions if the problem we are trying to solve is to sell products online for these scenarios:
1. Companies that require ownership of their own bespoke ecommerce systems hosted on their own servers either due to their sheer size or intended growth size (e.g. amazon, dabs, amazon/dabs wannabees), their positioning, their unique requirements, their requirement to not be tied to any other supplier, their need to own their system as an asset of the company which they might later intend to sell, (e.g. venture owned startups, entrepreneurs businesses) etc
2. Companies that are selling products with special requirements that are not the typical 'put in a box and deliver products', e.g. custom designed (consumer to consumer) products like
www.zazzle.com, online design your own business card type products like vistaprint.co.uk, digital rights management electronic download products like itunes, ondemand video products, realtime booking products like holidays (that need to link in to operator's back end systems), car rental, subscription based products with recurring payments, other complex B2B (business-to-business) or C2C (consumer-to-consumer) requirements that typical B2C (business to consumer) ecommerce solutions do not cater for etc.
3. Products that you want to auction, i.e. the ebay way
4. Second hand products that Fred Bloggs wants to sell, again ebay might be better
5. and generally, companies with major show-stopping requirement X, where X isn't a feature of our solutions
Please try to avoid making sweeping statements.
Those solutions would not impress a serious business expecting to turnover say in excess of £2 million per annun.
Even quoting impressive numbers for your hosted managed service does not necessarily make your solution the best choice all round. There are plenty of larger clients of hosted managed services from other suppliers who obviously had good reason for going with their chosen supplier instead, e.g.
Venda's clients.
Looking at your portfolio I am sure you offer a good service, and your sites have got some (not all) onsite SEO features in place. Generally I'm a big believer of the hosted managed service model as a solution that can meet many (not all) company's needs, because it should mean that the supplier improves the system as part of the service, and every system can be improved, even the 'best' ones!
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