Hello and question about ecrater directory

dickorydare · Posts: 5

Hello everyone, I just started the process of opening an ecrater store after closing down my yahoo store. I love the idea I got from the forums of having an optimized site through go daddy that links to products at ecrater. I was getting tired of paying the monthly fees at yahoo, seeing as how I wasn't making enough to cover it.

Anyway, my question is: Does ecrater have a directory of stores where you can go straight to the store without going to the product first? Or, more to the point, it seems that if you find a product you like and you want to view the seller's other items, the only way to do that is to type their URL into the browser because there is no link to the seller's store to click on. Can that be right or am I missing something?

I'm definately excited about ecrater and love the forums and friendly community. Hopefully over the week I'll get my store going: Dickory Dare Infant and Toddler Resale Boutique. If anyone else is doing children's resale, I'd love to talk!

Tsurfer · Posts: 636

Hi and welcome to ecrater.
At the bottom of this message you will see www click that and it goes to my store.

Everyone has their own store front.
But I have seen in those click to search places that when one item gets a hit and you go to the categories I have seen more then their items in their.

I have never seen a place that list all the stores. Don't think their is one.

You have to promote your own store and it does get promoted in google/froogle.
Any place else just type in your http://www.(name).ecrater.com and your store front will come up.

Good luck in you sales.

T

poopsheet · Posts: 4865

At eCrater.com there isn't a store list to choose from, just a search function for products.

dickorydare · Posts: 5

HandcraftedDollsbyLu · Posts: 174

dickorydare · Posts: 5

HandcraftedDollsbyLu,

Yes you're right. I hate to rock the boat right out of the gate., but it really suprised me that there was no "view other items" link or anything. I was copying and pasting the store url into the browser, all the time never realizing I could just click.

What do you mean

zickit · Posts: 21857

dickorydare · Posts: 5

zickit · Posts: 21857

dickorydare · Posts: 5

I have seen your posts all over the place as I've been soaking in all the info. It looks like you do a major amount of work helping people like me get started. I appreciate it. Thanks for posting.

HandcraftedDollsbyLu · Posts: 174

Hello dickorydare,

you're not rocking the boat, that is what these discussion forums are for, and new members have to ask questions and give their thoughts and opinions about things!

Yes, you've been cutting and pasting, never realizing that the store link was a link, I'm certain lots of shoppers have not realized it either! Why the link does not look clickable, especially when it is near other links that do look clickable is puzzling?

And yes, our listings do look different depending on the circumstances like bigtallman has explained. One listing, but displayed differently if in our store, or if from the search engine.

I really don't think that obscuring the store link is an advantage to sellers, but certainly it is a disadvantage to shoppers. Shoppers like to browse other items because of the savings on postage, and the convenience of buying several items from one seller, rather than one item each from many different sellers. Easier to keep track of, shipped together, etc.
I can't see the logic either. I can't think of a site that doesn't encourage looking at the sellers other items or visiting their store. It is surprising to me too.
I've posted in about the confusing navigation before; easy and clear navigation is very important according to everything I've read. There's another thread going on now that's discussing this also at:
http://www.ecrater.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=1759&highlight=

Hope everyone has a great week-end!
Lu