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Re: Shopster.com.... Advice?
Posted By: Starfire In Response To: Re: Shopster.com.... Advice? (Mel. White)
Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2007, at 12:14 p.m.(pst)
I am in my second month of membership with Shopster (and possibly my last). I dropped out for a few days, and then decided to give it another month. In Shopster's Forum, many members have asked when they can expect to see some sales. They are asked to be patient - saying it takes about a year - before you see any real sales activity!
During that year, members are paying $99 for the startup fee, $29 a month for continued membership, plus optional extra charges to acquire their own domain name, purchase more stores or products, etc. That's quite a bit of money to spend, considering the fact that you might not make any sales. Why? One reason is that the prices Shopster charges its members, makes it very difficult to make a sale.
They say they have 800,000 products in their warehouse. Unfortunately, many thousands of these products generate profits that are less than $1! True, they have products that can generate much higher profits, but you have to sift through 800,000 products to find them, which is not an easy task – it’s very time-consuming!
Yesterday, May 7, 2007, I created a post in Shopster's Forum, in which I expressed some of these concerns. Namely, I asked to hear from some of the members who have been with Shopster for a year or more, to tell us about their success or failure during that time. This was the second time in two months that I had asked that question. It seemed like an appropriate question to ask, since they're asking that you pay out a MININUM of $399.00, and possibly wait as long as a year before realizing sales on a any positive results.
Guess what? During the past two months only a couple of members said they were making sales. And, more importantly, my post was deleted within a few hours after I posted it. To add insult to injury, they made it look like I deleted it, as evidenced by the following:
Forum topic: If you've made a sale, come in, tell us and ring the bell
Partial content of my post they deleted:
It's great that some of you have made some sales recently, but, not trying to sound like ''Mr. Gloom & Doom'', did the profits you earned for each item sold, exceed $5? From what I've been seeing and reading, some of you have invested quite a bit of money trying to get your store(s) up and running - paying the monthly membership fee, paying ...Posted to Deleted Posts (Forum) by Starfire on May 7, 2007
Believe me, I wasn't the one who deleted it! Their removal of my post, strongly suggests to me, that they don't want me to influence other members concerning the honesty, trustworthiness and credibility of the Company. I'm not saying anything bad about Shopster - it has some very good things going for it - and they certainly haven't done me any harm, as yet. I just think people should be made aware of what life in Shopster is like - BEFORE they invest their money. I have to admit, though, that if I had known how high their prices are, I never would have joined. In my opinion, a one week trial period is not long enough to learn and do everything that needs to be done, especially when you’re trying to select 4,000 products ( I think it’s 1,000 now) that can earn you a decent profit.
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