What's the most economicable way to start a e-store with 100 of your OWN products?

[JuryDuty]

I've been researching:
- web hosts with shopping carts (like Miva Merchant)
- amazon zshops
- yahoo stores
- etc, etc,
but can't seem to find anyone who will let you sell about 100 of your OWN products for much under $100/month (by the time you add in the hosting costs, merchant costs, etc.)

Anyone know an angle I don't? Please help!

 

[littleprince]

its hard to go below that cost....
coz theres costs with security and such...

my company would charge you about 295 per month, Canadian dollars.... plus about .45 per transcation...

 

[Locutus of Board]

Cheaper startupL

Get your own domain name, and maybe even free host.

Post your stuff there.

Advertise on Ebay, linking back to your site.

 

[Sophia]

There's this:

http://www.pair.com/pair/ecommerce/

Commerce MIVA $49.95/mon
$75 setup
- 500MB/Day Traffic
- 250MB Disk Space
- 50 Mailboxes
- Access by Telnet or SSH
- Custom CGI and SSI
- MySQL Databases
- Secure Server (SSL)
- MIVA Merchant and Empresa

I don't know if that's a deal for those services, though. You could go cheaper with a more basic account (starting at $6/month) plus an extra $15 a month for shopping cart service.