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elgato · Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 17240 Location: Texas

eCrater is one of those sites that's hard to define - it's part online marketplace, part storefront service, and some sellers swear by it - the site is very SEO friendly and gets good rankings in Google search results - not to mention it's free.

If you're one of eCrater's happy customers, you may be pleased to learn that it's launched a UK version at eCrater.co.uk.

eCrater founder Dimitar Slavov said there were many user requests to launch a marketplace in the UK, "so we just listened to our users."

In order to list products in the new marketplace, sellers must maintain prices in both U.S. dollars and British pounds (GBP), and they must ship to the UK. In addition to being listed on the U.S. and UK marketplaces, listings will also be posted to both Google Product Search and Google Product Search UK. In addition, all merchants will receive their own store under the ecrater.co.uk domain.

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elpereles · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 1478 Location: Puerto Rico

It is nice feature. I was testing it, and reading the eCrater forum. It isn't needed to make a 2nd store to sell in the UK site.

But is still have some little problems like you need to use the calculator or the matrix and paper payments are shown.

elpereles · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 1478 Location: Puerto Rico

Now in the Administrator Panel is available the option of Google Analytics for the UK site version.

elpereles · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 1478 Location: Puerto Rico

It is nice you can see your items in google.co.uk/products, but in my case the light weight items will be very difficult to sell or attract buyers. Because the S&H that the UK store is using are the Shipping Matrix numbers.