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DypZZZ 3 Grab Bag · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 231 Location: New Jersey

Good day PSU family,

I'm not sure if this right area for this post, if not I'm sorry, please direct me.

Well where do I begin, first off this is somewhat embarrassing, kinda shows how un-intelligent I am, for a word which better describes my situation (ignorant) , ok, if one prefers stupid

Let me start by sayiing I have a Web Site www.giftsalaheart.com I have been hosting on BizHosting http://www.bizhosting.com/ for almost 2 years, and remained there because of the ability to use their templates, and actually for someone who knows nothing of HTML or building ones own site this host gave me the tools to come up with a rather decent, though not professional site.

I went for this at the time eBay increased their fees back in I believe February 2005, I wanted to close my store there, and decided to build my site and sell from there, am I glad I did seeing again there new fee's and dropping a bombshell on store owners.

In spite of the tools provided by BizHosting I spent a number of months building, stocking, images, descriptions, believe me it wasn't easy for someone who knew nothing, I'm sure some here will agree, I do think though the site is fairly decent, I was kind of proud of myself and no longer needed eBay, that alone made it worth all the time and effort, though I now needed an auction venue, so tried Wagglepop back when, and also Bidchaser, and most of you know the situation with them, I was comforted in the fact I alway's had my own site to fall back on as I saw these falter.

Ok, what's this all about, well the truth be told I'm tired of paying $49.95 a month - $599.40 a year, wouldn't mind but I had to add all my own Pay Pal buttons through Macromedia Contribute 3, not so bad but if I added another product to one of my categories it would negate all my Pay Pal buttons, insertion, and I would have to do all over again for every item, needless to say I very seldom added new products to my categories, also if I made some changes on my front page, added on, I would also have to do that over again, and fed up with it, the ove all situation prevents me from increasing my stock, inventory on the site.

Oh, yes, Bizhosting had a number of merchant accounts to choose from but shyed away from them as most wanted you to leave a deposit of anywhere from $200.00 to $500.00, I couldn't afford that so went with the Pay Pal Buttons, and no I'm not pleased with their fees either but no upfront cost to use them.

I'm here in a quest, in fact a plea as I'm tired of paying $600.00 a year for the problems I have brought forward here, I'm looking, in fact need another host with the ability for my own web site, retain my domain name, preferably similiar to the same scheme, set up as my Gifts a la Heart site, and the freedom to do add, move, more or less complete control if that's possible, not asking to much.

I would appreciate hearing from anyone with advise or suggestions.

Help Please

Thank you very much, sorry so long a post

Papi

knappschiles · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4035 Location: Wi

Hi Papi,

Good to see you again.

I haven't looked at it, but PSU just opened the doors on their site hosting yesterday. As others that were the guinie pigs have posted that it's easy to use, I think that might be something to check out.

Where I host has a $5/mt and a $10/mt plan and I used the $5/ mt plan for a long time (still could, only upgraded for more toys that I haven't had time to use). The only thing about where I host is that I made the pages myself using the PP buttons. It's a bit of work, but if you did it on the other site it wouldn't be all that hard.

Carol

psunite · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 6213 Location: Columbus OH

Carol is right we just started ecomerce hosting details at http://www.powersellersunite.com/psustore_about.php Its a LOT cheaper then what you where paying at $49.95 a month. We also have templates so you can make a professional website with no knowledge of html. Just take a look at the demo store account and go through the templates.

dlz4utoo · Joined: 25 Jul 2006 Posts: 387

Hi,

Been a lurker for a few days now and read lots of good information. Thanks folks!

What is the difference between the webhosting with PSU Store and webhosting with Zen Cart?

Another ebay powerseller (probably yanking our status in a few days--it's been horrible since April!) looking to diversify and is a website novice.

DypZZZ 3 Grab Bag · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 231 Location: New Jersey

Hi Carol,

I appreciate, thank you for the welcome, as we all know life can take some unexpected turns, throwing a temporary obstacle befor me, I guess that's what the word (life) denotes.

You mentioned your host, is that who you have your site with now, may I ask please who that is ? I would like to check it out, at the moment I'm open to all options.

Hope your all well at the veggie farm.

Thank you very much Carol for your help, suggestion.

Papi

DypZZZ 3 Grab Bag · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 231 Location: New Jersey

Welcome dlz4utoo,

Good to have you aboard.

I'm sorry though can't answer your question, I'm sure someone will be by shortly to help you, I can't answer that one.

Papi

dlz4utoo wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")Hi,

Been a lurker for a few days now and read lots of good information. Thanks folks!

What is the difference between the webhosting with PSU Store and webhosting with Zen Cart?

Another ebay powerseller (probably yanking our status in a few days--it's been horrible since April!) looking to diversify and is a website novice.

psunite · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 6213 Location: Columbus OH

hosting with the PSU Store is a package that we maintain and modifiy. The hosting with zencart is just webhosting with a installation of http://www.zen-cart.com/ installed. We are just giving people two different options on shopping carts.

dlz4utoo wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")Hi,

Been a lurker for a few days now and read lots of good information. Thanks folks!

What is the difference between the webhosting with PSU Store and webhosting with Zen Cart?

Another ebay powerseller (probably yanking our status in a few days--it's been horrible since April!) looking to diversify and is a website novice.

DypZZZ 3 Grab Bag · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 231 Location: New Jersey

psunite wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")Carol is right we just started ecomerce hosting details at http://www.powersellersunite.com/psustore_about.php Its a LOT cheaper then what you where paying at $49.95 a month. We also have templates so you can make a professional website with no knowledge of html. Just take a look at the demo store account and go through the templates.
Hi Psunite,

I appreciate the information, will take a look, and consider, one question for now is with your templates can I get anything close to my Gifts a la Heart front page, for one thing I would like to be able to use my own banner on the template, and can I keep my domain name ?

This may be a stupid question yet is it possible to move all my listings over to PSunite from my site ?

Thank you for your suggestion, I appreciate it, I need all the help I can get.

Papi

knappschiles · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4035 Location: Wi

Hi Papi,

I'm hosted at Netfirms.com

They do have a package that includes a store/cart but I haven't even looked at that.

Actually I think you would probably be most comfortable with the PSU store where you have templates and all that. To the best of my knowledge Netfirms doesn't have that stuff.

I hope you get something that works for you.

The vegies are keeping me really busy this year. The weather hasn't helped either. Earlier in the year we were really dry. Now that's OK, but the heat is sapping everyone's energy. It hasn't helped to have 90*+ w/ high humidity on market days either. The customers walk around like a bunch of zombies and don't buy much. The temps are supposed to break sometime tomorrow so I have hope that this Sat's markets will be a lot better than last Sat.

Carol

DypZZZ 3 Grab Bag · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 231 Location: New Jersey

Hello PSunite,

I have been perusing the PSU eCommerce details and I also have the same question as another poster, that is, what is the difference between PSU and Zen Cart as price is same ?

Is a customer comment page available as I didn't see on any of the sites listed there.

Another is when working on any pages, there's a need to add something new, will I have to be working with Zip files, that's not for me.

I also checked for my domain name on the DNS and it showed fail, I don't understand as I paid for that ?

I'm sure I will think of a few more questions as time goes on.

I do like and am impressed so far with PSU, I hope more eBay refugees will consider PSU Stores.

Thank you again.

Papi

knappschiles · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4035 Location: Wi

Papi,

As far as the domain name question -- you will probably be able to use it, but you will have to close the old site and have it pointed to the PSU store. If the old site is still up, that is why it won't "take" at PSU. You can't have 2 sites with that same name.

I'm not sure just what the procedure is that you will have to go thru tho and the proper order. I'm sure PSUnite will be back to help you with that tho.

Carol

psunite · Joined: 27 Jan 2005 Posts: 6213 Location: Columbus OH

I am sure you can find something similar to http://www.giftsalaheart.com/ with our templates. You can use any template and just change the color scheme to match your current site. It will also not be a problem to user your banner. I am sure PK Direct can help you with that.

You can use your current domain all you need to do is change the DNS information so it points to our server.

ZenCart users a totaly different shopping cart software as PSU Stores. I am still debating whether to even launch the ZenCart. I am currently working on it that is why it says Coming Soon.

If you want to add a new page you don't have to work with any zip files or anything. You can just add the page through the web based site admin page. Its similar to creating a new topic on this forum.

I check your domain through http://www.dnsstuff.com and it is set to ns1.sj1.northsky.com

DypZZZ 3 Grab Bag · Joined: 02 Jun 2005 Posts: 231 Location: New Jersey

knappschiles wrote (View Post): › docWrite("quote")Hi Papi,

I'm hosted at Netfirms.com

They do have a package that includes a store/cart but I haven't even looked at that.

Actually I think you would probably be most comfortable with the PSU store where you have templates and all that. To the best of my knowledge Netfirms doesn't have that stuff.

I hope you get something that works for you.

The vegies are keeping me really busy this year. The weather hasn't helped either. Earlier in the year we were really dry. Now that's OK, but the heat is sapping everyone's energy. It hasn't helped to have 90*+ w/ high humidity on market days either. The customers walk around like a bunch of zombies and don't buy much. The temps are supposed to break sometime tomorrow so I have hope that this Sat's markets will be a lot better than last Sat.

Carol

Hi Carol,

I'll take a look at Netfirms.

Carol busy is money, Yes ?

No there is never any happy medium these day's with the weather especially with the growing season, I guess we can attribute that to global warming.

You think folks there are walking around like Zombies, you gotta be here in Jersey, today up to 100, tomorrow 101 and who knows could even go higher, and with the humidity we can be looking at 105 to 115, yes so hot we are walking around in puddles of our own perspiration, if it continues this way, we're going to need oars to row up the street in rivers of our own sweat, ok, yes, I'm exaggerating just a bit, :roll: we don't need oars, we can swim. :lol:

I do hope this Saturday works out better for you, temps are supposed to drop.

Carol I appreciate your help, the information, will let you know where and how I end up with this.

Thank you very much.

Papi

PKC Direct

Papi,
I think you would like a store here. I am available to assist members with any problems you might have in design of the Templates and Joomla. And Bob knows the inner workings of the store settings. I would say we would have any problem you might encounter covered.

knappschiles · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4035 Location: Wi

Quote: › docWrite("quote")Carol busy is money, Yes ?

Unfortunately NO !

2 of the last 3 Saturday markets were way too hot and humid so sales just died. The busy part has to do with work on the farm, just too much work, partly because my crew hasn't shown up for work as much as they should have.

For everyone east of Wisconsin, our heat wave broke last nite, so it's only 66* here this morning, yeah. Our high is supposed to be only in the low 80*s instead of high 90*s.

I sure hope you find a store that works for you at a decent price. I know my web site has been the anchor of my sales since I ditched eBay. The other site are good too but you can do so much more with your own site than what you can do on someone elses site.

Carol