New online PC store

Slime101 · 8 Feb 2006 at 18:33

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

MNuTz · 8 Feb 2006 at 18:34

wiggy send me your email, i know someone that may be able to help.

Hes not a professional website designer but he knows his stuff.

[email protected]

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] ?

Beansprout · 8 Feb 2006 at 20:50

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

Are you just trolling now?

Slime101 · 8 Feb 2006 at 20:54

Beansprout said:
Are you just trolling now?

Go easy on the bloke - if he thinkgs its viable and he can make it work then good luck to him. He has a point, if we all listened everytime someone said it couldnt be done then we'd all be getting nowhere fast!

fozzybear · 8 Feb 2006 at 21:09

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

I didn't think you'd take my advice onboard.

You're being completely naive if you think you can take shortcuts to start your own 'online PC store'. For a start, there's just so much competiton out there already. To take shortcuts like you seem to be doing is crazy.

I'd knock the idea on the head unless you can fork out the money for a decent, professionally done website.

Slime101 said:
Go easy on the bloke - if he thinkgs its viable and he can make it work then good luck to him. He has a point, if we all listened everytime someone said it couldnt be done then we'd all be getting nowhere fast!

I'm just giving my opinion. I wish him all the best with his venture but in my opinion he's just got his head in the clouds!

Thrash · 8 Feb 2006 at 21:37

Another point is: it does not matter if you are wanting to open a conventional store or an online store you will need a capital investment to start things off, a business plan, advice on tax/vat, premises to keep stock and insurance for those premises etc etc. Have all these been considered?

the_gof · 5 May 2006 at 19:56

unless you've got about £100k up front, are looking to turn over tens of thousands minimum a month and have dedicated servers and some skilled staff, I wouldn't even bother thinking about accepting payment cards yourself - use worldpay or someone for that

a nice idea for getting a shop on the cheap might be to approach a final year student at university and see if (s)he'll build you one. a lot of courses involve group projects now, and they actually do sometimes turn out some genuinely good software! my final year project's still being used commercially :-)

Inquisitor · 5 May 2006 at 21:09

Holy three month old thread resurrection Batman!

the_gof · 5 May 2006 at 21:16

yeh I just noticed that! I was wandering around, happened upon them

meths · 6 May 2006 at 02:18

He's not even considered market segmentation, targeting and product positioning.

(I'm only saying this because I was up till 4am last night writing a report on it

)

zetec452 · 6 May 2006 at 10:18

Inquisitor said:
Holy three month old thread resurrection Batman!

i bet the website isn't finished still

NightmareXX · 6 May 2006 at 11:11

richard1973 said:
quite surprised this thread has lasted, as it'll be in direct potential competition with OC.

OcUK RULES

10/10

Ahem, back to the topic.

EagleOC · 6 May 2006 at 13:24

What about branding/identity? That doesn't come cheap either.

unknowndomain · 8 May 2006 at 09:42

I dont know if anyone else has said this but it is entierley inappropriate for you to ask a question about creating a competitor to OCUK on the OCUK website so I dont know why the dons havent removed this.

Beansprout · 8 May 2006 at 11:12

unknowndomain said:
I dont know if anyone else has said this but it is entierley inappropriate for you to ask a question about creating a competitor to OCUK on the OCUK website so I dont know why the dons havent removed this.

Do you seriously think the OP even stands a chance in hell

unknowndomain · 8 May 2006 at 11:18

Beansprout said:
Do you seriously think the OP even stands a chance in hell

I dont know but Ill support any one who thinks that they can make a go at it and rather than every one being critical why dont you be positive point out what he need to look at not what hes not looked at so he will fail, he wants to do some thing and we should help him but him trying to use a Computer hardware site to findout about setting up another competitor to this site is not appropriate and should not happen.

Beansprout · 8 May 2006 at 11:20

unknowndomain said:
I dont know but Ill support any one who thinks that they can make a go at it and rather than every one being critical why dont you be positive point out what he need to look at not what hes not looked at so he will fail, he wants to do some thing and we should help him but him trying to use a Computer hardware site to findout about setting up another competitor to this site is not appropriate and should not happen.

Well he has had quite a bit of help in this thread and frankly if this is his attitude I doubt he can do much towards taking down OcUK

unknowndomain · 8 May 2006 at 12:55

Beansprout said:
Well he has had quite a bit of help in this thread and frankly if this is his attitude I doubt he can do much towards taking down OcUK

You do have a point there sir.

PS I love the orly? gallery

Beansprout · 8 May 2006 at 13:10

NO WAI!