New online PC store

wiggyuk · 8 Feb 2006 at 14:40

I am currently trying to setup my own online PC hardware store, what is the best kind of website I should create I have heard about oscommerce websites, I have never setup a website before but I have dreamweaver 8, how hard can it be ?? can someone please advice the best way around this

wiggyuk · 8 Feb 2006 at 14:58

Lagz said:
My advice? Give up now. Sorry thats harsh, but if your asking that you probably don't have much of a clue what your doing.

Before even considering website stuff, do you really know:
- Where your going to get stock from?
- What your selling?
- How are you going to find space in such a crowded market? How can you possibly undercut massive companies?
- What initial investment do you have?

Cheers Lagz I was going to sell on eBay first until I had sufficient investment to put into my company, I have already had several suppliers from all over the world contact me and sedn me there products and prices, and beleive me at the prices I have been quoted I could sell very competitive and still make a profit. So can anyone give me any advice on setting up a new site for selling goods ?

wiggyuk · 8 Feb 2006 at 15:06

Beansprout said:
www.oscommerce.com.

But really....I agree with Lagz. Unless you find the cash to sort everything out professionally, which would include a website development. Though oscommerce is reasonably easy to setup.

I would like evrything to be sorted out professionaly how much would a website like this cost to setup

wiggyuk · 8 Feb 2006 at 15:17

How many products are you going to offer ? I do have a large list of products that I will be supplying

Payments - I would like to accept all types of payment including credit cards

wiggyuk · 8 Feb 2006 at 16:01

Lagz said:
Will probably cost you at least £7500+ to get a professional website done that meets your needs.

Be wary of getting something cheap that is hard to maintain. . you will pay for it later.

I didnt relise it would be that expensive just for the site, I could always use one of these ocommerce sites and then transfer over to a more expensive site later, what you think ?

wiggyuk · 8 Feb 2006 at 16:27

so do you think that the oscommerce site would be fine to setup and then transfer later to a professional site, do you think I would still get good sales using the oscommerce site

wiggyuk · 8 Feb 2006 at 17:23

thanks for all your advice guys

wiggyuk · 8 Feb 2006 at 17:44

Ok guys how do you go about starting one of these osCommerce cant find anything on there

wiggyuk · 8 Feb 2006 at 18:10

How do I set a site up with this oscommerce

wiggyuk · 8 Feb 2006 at 18:29

fozzybear said:
I'm going to brutally honest here and suggest that i think you're a bit out of your depth and are setting your hopes too high. You say yourself that you've never even done a website before. Get down from your cloud.

If setting up an ecommerce site was so easy, we'd all be doing it. I suggest you think it through a bit more.

Do you think Sir Alan Sugar would have listened to this advice

wiggyuk · 8 Feb 2006 at 19:33

Slime101 said:
You could use cube cart, i'd also suggest using paypal as youll be selling though ebay as well to keep it simple.

If you need any more advice then shout me on email as i'm using cube cart at the mo for a number of sites

For some reason I cant PM anyone so could you email me on [email protected] ?