outdoorzgirl wrote (View Post): ›
I found this on the Dealio Blog, a parent company of Vendio. Vendio was acquired from E Commerce giant Alibaba. To celebrate they are offering a coupon code for $100 in free merchandise from AliExpress. This is perfect for resellers as AliExpress sells in bulk. I just thought I would share this with everyone. The blog article explains how to redeem offer.

http://www.dealio.com/blog/2010/06/freebie-alert-get-100-in-free-stuff-from-aliexpress/

Vendio_Helen wrote (View Post): › I get this question (or some version of it quite often so I thought I'd post it here):

If the Vendio Store is free, then how do you make your money?


A: The Vendio Store is 100% free. You won't be charged a dime for using it, regardless of the number of items or revenue.

What costs money (and how Vendio makes money) is our Marketplaces Plan. Our Marketplaces Plan enables you to sell on eBay and Amazon for $10 a month plus a % of your transactions. You'll also need to add on an image hosting plan because your Store images (which are free) can't be used on eBay or Amazon.

Here's our pricing page:
http://www.vendio.com/ecommerce/pricing



Best regards, Helen

donnatella wrote (View Post): ›
According to Alipay's TOS, their escrow service isn't available to people living in AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR and WA. I hope anyone in those states thinking about buying from AliExpress (with the false sense of security of having "escrow" to protect them) reads that and thinks twice. That is a huge fact that has been hidden. Or am I missing something?

classicvideogamesplus wrote (View Post): ›

Vendio_Helen wrote (View Post): › I get this question (or some version of it quite often so I thought I'd post it here): If the Vendio Store is free, then how do you make your money? A: The Vendio Store is 100% free. You won't be charged a dime for using it, regardless of the number of items or revenue. What costs money (and how Vendio makes money) is our Marketplaces Plan. Our Marketplaces Plan enables you to sell on eBay and Amazon for $10 a month plus a % of your transactions. You'll also need to add on an image hosting plan because your Store images (which are free) can't be used on eBay or Amazon. Here's our pricing page: http://www.vendio.com/ecommerce/pricing Best regards, Helen

So for 10 dollars a month you can sell at Vendio and use Ebay and Amazon. I looked at FV fees and up to 1,000 dollars is 1.95 fv.
our first $1000 1.95% of sales
$1,000.01 - $2,500 1.75% of sales
$2,500.01 - $5,000 1.5% of sales
$5,000.01 - $25,000 1.2% of sales
$25,000.01 and above 1% of sales
Then you need image hosting to do that on ebay or Amazon, etc and is:
Storage Monthly Subscription
3MB $3.00
5MB $5.00
55MB $10.00
150MB $20.00
500MB $35.00
10GB $50.00

Not really bad at all if you have no extra ebay/amazon fees, am I understanding this correctly. You can list on ebay, amazon, etc and just pay Vendio fees and nothing to ebay, etc itself. Maybe I don't understand it but that is much cheaper than just using Ebay by itself. An example: if a person paid the 10 dollar monthly fee and used a 55mb plan for another 10 dollars and listed 500 items fixed price because photos let's say were close to 100kb. Let's say you sold 50 items of them in a month, you only have to pay the Vendio fv fee, no extra money to ebay? If that's the case, I wonder why people using ebay don't save a ton and just use Vendio. Or am I missing something here?

donnatella wrote (View Post): › According to Alipay's TOS, their escrow service isn't available to people living in AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR and WA. I hope anyone in those states thinking about buying from AliExpress (with the false sense of security of having "escrow" to protect them) reads that and thinks twice. That is a huge fact that has been hidden. Or am I missing something?

CannyInvestor wrote (View Post): ›

donnatella wrote (View Post): › According to Alipay's TOS, their escrow service isn't available to people living in AZ, CA, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR and WA. I hope anyone in those states thinking about buying from AliExpress (with the false sense of security of having "escrow" to protect them) reads that and thinks twice. That is a huge fact that has been hidden. Or am I missing something?

That is because those idiot States have passed laws that forbid escrow services to any resident in their State where the escrow service is not itself regulated by that State.

So very few escrow services will offer services to residents of those States (each State demands bonds of hundreds of thousands of dollars, lots of paperwork and red-tape, etc).

So by trying to protect their residents, these States have denied their residents the ability to protect themselves with escrow services.

It is a nonsense.

cuthen wrote (View Post): ›
Can Vendio Platform be used for other auction websites? I mean sites other than ebay and amazon.