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    Why do some eBay sellers up their BIN price hugely when an item sells out?

    will admit it's based on experience and theory rather than official sources... Many of my customers run ebay stores as their main business model and have ran many tests which indicate the result posted. Even at 2 weeks- 1 month it's a long time to sit and be penalised for selling the same...
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    Installing Google Checkout into Zen Cart

    I've just checked an order on GW and yes this would be "enough" to get by but for true integration, including order management, stock control and such I would recommend the SSL.
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    Voip, landlines, regional numbers, where do you start?

    we use skype with a skype-in number. it costs pennies and if you're away from your office for any length of time you can use it with your mobile device or laptop over 3g or wireless. There are hundreds of accessories too, from headsets connected to your pc to phones which don't need a computer...
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    Installing Google Checkout into Zen Cart

    Do you have a ssl certificate installed on your server? in order to use google wallet / checkout.
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    Why do some eBay sellers up their BIN price hugely when an item sells out?

    ebay listing/search algorithm includes listing longevity in it's calculations, so a listing which has been on longer and has sold more items is shown more than a new listing.
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    Magento or Oscommerce

    There's a lot of DOS and windows 3.1 based business systems about which just work.. it's not all about smooth edges, and drop downs, I find most businesses appreciate stuff that works, sales people like to sell stuff that looks pretty.
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    Magento or Oscommerce

    completely depends on your skillset.. they are both perfectly good open source ecommerce solutions which in the right hands can be great for most applications.. in the wrong hands... oscommerce will probably work but not look great, magento has a much steeper learning curve so it may not even...
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    Magento or Oscommerce

    The Zencart / oscommerce standard template / layout is dated, which looks rubbish, there's too many people who just change the logo and colours and say tada I've got a site, I think this is why these things get a bad name. The same will happen with the Magento layout, as people try to avoid...
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    Web Designers - Do you validate for W3C

    while I aim to get sites to validate (and in the majority of cases do) and write good code, I find it more important to ensure it is cross browser compatible. I spend a lot more time trying to get that extra padding out of Internet Explorer than I do to get the green tick from w3c. I'm mainly...
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    Magento or Oscommerce

    I' moved from oscommerce to zencart (an oscommerce derivative) which is much better for development and management, many of our customers love it because it's simple to use and does what it says on the tin. Magento although having a nice set of features seems very bloated.
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    will a local classifieds site work ?

    although yes it can work if you do it right, it's lots of work, and you're reinventing a wheel which is covered by many established companies, gumtree, adtrader, ebay etc. What you have to ask yourself is why would someone list their item on your site, what benefit can you offer over the...
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    Website creation costs?

    Using a cheap wysiwyg builder, cheap / free template or your friends 13 year old son who's "pretty good with computers" never leads to greater things, people who start internet ventures this way turn very quickly into a business who "had a website once but it didn't do anything so we didn't...
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    Wordpress with Paypal?

    if you're linking back to Amazon, don't forget to get an affiliate account, that way you can earn a few extra pennies, it's not much but every penny helps.
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    How to bridge Mybb & Wordpress to get one username

    depending on how far you are with your software have you considered phpbb? We did it on this site recently : hyundaiclub.co.uk most time was spent making the sites look like one.
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    Hi!

    Thanks for the welcome.
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