Power Sellers Unite

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

Over 60,000 active sellers offer more than two million searchable products across Facebook using Payvment's free ecommerce platform, and now the company is launching premium versions of its Facebook commerce application. New features include advanced social commerce analytics, social promotion and discovery tools, as well as multi-store/multi-admin support for larger brands, retailers and agencies.

While most Facebook commerce solutions require Facebook shoppers to complete transactions on the merchant's own website, Payvment allows shoppers to buy from merchants directly on the merchant's own Facebook. It also aggregates merchants' offerings in what it calls its Facebook Shopping Mall.

http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y11/m10/i31/s02

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

Update:

"Payvment Hits A Million Active Shoppers on Facebook Last Month"

Payvment reached one million monthly active shoppers in December 2011. Payvment is an ecommerce platform that lets sellers set up Facebook stores. The company has over 100,000 active sellers offering more than 2.4 million searchable products across Facebook.

Payvment said it experienced a 3 times year-over-year increase in transactions by its network of sellers during 2011, and last week announced it had hired two executives, including a new business development executive.

http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abn/y12/m01/i16/s05

SMNtoys · Joined: 17 Nov 2011 Posts: 1

Ebay appears to be very aggressively reacting to any posts relating to Facebook's new online store program at www.payvment.com. I think they are finally worried about some real competition from a very well-capitalized on-line presence with a larger audience than thier own. Any reference I have made regarding Payvment has immediately been deleted from forum posts, and today we were suspended for 24 hours for just posting an inquiry regarding how others have done on this new website. Anyone else had similar experiences?

Here's the email:

Hello,

We regret to inform you that we have temporarily removed your posting privileges to our Community forums for the next 24 hours following recent incidents that do not comply with our Community Board Policy guidelines.

Here’s an example of the post in violation:

<p>Has anyone here tried this new e-commerce website? Its tied to Facebook, and its free: <a>www.payvment.com/</a></p>

<p>Looks pretty interesting.</p>

That was removed for:
Advertising merchandise, auctions, services or commercial Web sites, including
offers to trade, or charitable solicitations.

At this time, we encourage you to review the Community board usage policies
http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/everyone-boards.html to prevent this
situation from reoccurring.

Thank you for your cooperation and we look forward to your continued
participation in our Community.

Regards,
Janis
eBay Moderation Team

luckyalive · Joined: 27 Apr 2008 Posts: 589

Visited site, searched for word "vintage" and got to see 6 product images, with 3 more being cut off on the bottom by whatever bad coding they are using to construct their pages. Not really sure how much farther down the product grid goes, but this interface problem would make me leave immediately.

And then there is "free shipping" plastered across the top 3 items, not really sure if that applies to those 3 items or all the items in the grid. Please stop with the free shipping b.s. - I frankly question your honesty if you are trying to con me into believing there is free shipping - it does not exist - you pay for it seperately or its built into the item's price.

There is a noticeable lack of categories - didn't even see one for antiques off hand. Frankly reminds me of a Etsy layout that is usppose to look cute, but not very functional.

If this requires one to go through the whole Facebook b.s. then forget it. They really expect me to pay them $29.95 a month for abunch of worthless features and then make cute posts on Facebook about what I had for lunch.

How about an auction site with a interface that allows customers to quickly find stuff?

So what are their payment processing terms? Does it include chargebacks?

eBay has banned the mention of other sites for years. I recall reading a post several years ago by someone who sold postcards and who had two ebay user i.d. names or stores because he exceeded the then current maximum of 5,000 items per account / store. He mentioned another postcard collecting site in the ebay forums and they starting interfering with his auctions - so he left.