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Vendio Accepting Auctiva Users to Move Over

directconnectshop — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:57:23 +0000

Vendio has offered Auctiva users to move over with rest of 2009 free of charges.

What Vendio offers is:

Unlimited listings on eBay, Amazon, Google, ShopZilla, Shopping.com and your website.

Robust and full featured free online store

2GB of Image Hosting

100s of free templates for your listings and store

Order management with tax and shipping calculation

Integrated with multiple payment platforms

Item and inventory management across all sales channels

Advanced item scheduling

Very good program Vendio has and for ones who are on Auctiva looking for another listing site.

You can check on more of what Vendio has to offer. Vendio

Amazon Launches Charge When Ship for Sellers

directconnectshop — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 03:11:53 +0000

Amazon announced their New Shipment process for sellers that is called “Charged when Shipped”.

A seller will have to complete the shipment process before they receive payment from their buyers. Where before the buyers payment was submitted to the seller before their product was shipped.

Buyers will no longer be charged until the seller has completed the shipment process. Sellers will have to click on their orders shipment button, include the information, which is then sent to the buyers.

Amazon will display the shipping information in the buyer’s Amazon account, and we also send the buyer an e-mail notification with all of the shipping information.

Read more about Amazon’s New Charge When Ship on Amazon Support Blog

Auctiva Listening Changed Price Structure

directconnectshop — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 18:17:09 +0000

Auctiva is a 3rd Party eBay listing, template tool that had been a free site to use over the four years, up till their recent changes to start charging for eBay sellers to use their site.

Auctiva has been receiving alot of complaints of their changes with their high rate prices they first started off with. Due to complaints they have been listening and changed their fee format.

On June 09, 2009, Auctiva Founder, CEO, Jeff Schlicht sent out an email to their members with the updated price change structure they have made.

With this updated price structure, they are now offering a Flat Rate Pricing of $9.95, with no other charges. Along with a special Starter flat rate plan for ultra-casual sellers: $2.95/mo., up to 15 listings, 500MB image hosting.

I have included a copy of the email that was sent to myself, and to Auctiva members.

Auctiva email by Jeff Schlicht sent out late evening on 06/09/2006

First of all, I would like to start out by saying that as Auctiva’s founder and CEO, I am very sorry and humbly apologize for any frustration and anxiety we caused you to experience about the future of your business over the past week and a half. I know that these recent events have greatly upset our community and I take full responsibility for that. I am asking you to give me a chance to make it right.

Flat Rate Pricing

Auctiva is officially moving to flat monthly pricing: $9.95/mo. everything included

1GB Image Hosting
A Faster, Easier-To-Use One-page Lister
Bigger Supersized Images
Better-looking Templates
eBay’s Most Popular Scrolling Gallery
Free Scheduling
24/7 Customer Support
plus all of our other time and money saving tools

In addition to our Standard flat rate plan, we have a special Starter flat rate plan for ultra-casual sellers: $2.95/mo., up to 15 listings, 500MB image hosting.

Why Change Now?

Since we first announced our new pricing structure, I’ve been listening to the community’s concerns. Considering the frank feedback you’ve provided, through email, surveys, customer support cases, our community messages boards and other forums, a few facts are abundantly clear:

You’d prefer a simple, no-surprises flat-rate pricing structure.
You don’t want to pay any additional FVFs.
You want image hosting included.
Your margins are tight.

If you are asking yourself, “Why didn’t they just use this pricing in the beginning?” the answer is that I thought our customers would like to have the choice of picking a tailored plan based on usage. Clearly, I was wrong.

All too often, large companies fail to listen to their customers. Auctiva’s brightest future includes the users who brought us this far. I am making this change now so you can get back to doing business. I sincerely hope that this pricing change allows you continue using the tools you have come to depend on.

Thank you for your business, loyalty and understanding.

Sincerely,

Jeff Schlicht—CEO, Auctiva Corporation

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Beware of Printing Online Grocery Coupons

directconnectshop — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:58:21 +0000

Grocery stores are now finding coupons that are online counterfeit, fraud coupons.

Beware when printing out online savings coupons. Make sure the coupons are coming from direct from the manufacture.

A video report by ABC news shows women printing out online coupons, taking them while buying their groceries for their families.

Counterfeit Coupons

directconnectshop — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:42:56 +0000

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