Comments on: PayPal X Dev Con spawns Facebook shopping mall

By: Gill

Gill — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:33:52 +0000

I’ve just installed it on my business Facebook page too and it is indeed easy peasy – it looks as if it will be easy to add products too

I think I am going to hold off on actually adding any products though until I can price them in £ rather than $ – hopefully not too far away as they say in their FAQ that “We will be rolling out support for other currencies very soon”

By: John

John — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:44:19 +0000

I personally am surprised that Facebook are not charging from the start. I am sure once they build up a credible community of sellers they will start to extract money from us?!

I don’t mind paying, if they bring the buyers…just like I dont mind paying ebay, as the buyers are there. What pisses me off is sites like eBid who have little buyer activity, but they use a strategy of charging £50 for lifetime membership and give you a crappy t-shirt …to me this is £50 for a t-shirt and the hope of selling one item in 5 years!

By: John

John — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:40:47 +0000

I think you mentioned it was free on many posts!! I wish people would read posts!!

When you say free – do you mean £0 lol

By: Lino

Lino — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:37:18 +0000

Probably not for long. Didn’t eBay used to be free?

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:59:40 +0000

IT’S FREE

Honestly it’s Free! Free! Free!

By: Hereford United Fan

Hereford United Fan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:07:55 +0000

Can you explain how much it costs. I thought it would be a good idea to drive traffic there from ebay and then offer a slightly cheaper price.

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:54:03 +0000

no, it is like 2 days online and there are still a few items there.
Also it has to be made public by paying for ads on facebook like google adwords.

I linked the fan site, that comes with the storefront, to my shopify store.

Time will show but it is always a question of how much time you will spent in it.

By: Hereford United Fan

Hereford United Fan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:16:56 +0000

Have you sold anything yet?

Cheers

By: Stefan

Stefan — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:03:15 +0000

I tried it, it is so easy:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sheer-Shirts-Transparent-Clothes/321093690116?v=app_135607783795

By: Simon

Simon — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:35:37 +0000

Works fine with my ISP (1&1), who I believe are Europe’s largest provider (prod_293.html bit at the end):
http://www.economic-comics.co.uk/comic-shop/trading-cards/gogo-39-s/gogo-crazy-bones-power-series-4-starter-pack/prod_293.html

By: ebuyerfb

ebuyerfb — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 03:52:25 +0000

Me neither. Sounds like somebody tried to do something clever with their .htaccess file and broke compatibility with every other proprietary technology.

By: Sue Bailey

Sue Bailey — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:56:30 +0000

Please post some examples of server setups that do this? I’ve never heard of it.

By: Bigpoppa

Bigpoppa — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:03:19 +0000

Big problem with this. To use it you have to have Facebook Connect installed into your website, not so bad except that the file that needs to be uploaded is called “xd_receiver.htm”.

It’s quite common that most servers cannot use files with an underscore in them, because the server changes the underscore into a forward slash “/, which is a new directory?!?

It simply won’t work with many server setups. If they can fix this issue then the potential is huge.

By: Hereford United Fan

Hereford United Fan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:30:00 +0000

That seems quite good value. This could be a serious competitor to ebay.

By: northumbrian

northumbrian — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:19:48 +0000

looks as if paypal has joined RBS

The Scottish national flag is a white-on-blue saltire (i.e. a diagonal cross on a coloured background) and it derives from the shape of the cross on which Scotland’s patron saint, St Andrew, was crucified.

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:38:45 +0000

Same as they currently charge you, zilch, nada, nothing, £0.00 per month, $0.00 per year

By: Hereford United Fan

Hereford United Fan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:33:32 +0000

But how much will facebook charge?

By: Sue Bailey

Sue Bailey — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:14:19 +0000

Simon, it’s not compulsory

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 15:09:37 +0000

According to payvment’s websites its currently free. I guess the actual payment part is handled by Paypal but the shopping cart, which can be utilised anywhere you can insert the code, is run by payvment or maybe they piggyback on the Paypal platform and Paypal holds all the data.

The trust part comes from the fact that the actual payment process runs through Paypal website I guess.

The best way to find out is to try it.

By: Hereford United Fan

Hereford United Fan — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:52:56 +0000

Looks exciting although managing inventory will become more complicated.

How much will it cost to sell on facebook?

I am also a bit confused. Who will handle the transaction? Is this part of paypal or is payvment a different company?

Will I get seller protection like on paypal?

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:27:56 +0000

Actually – that’s quite nifty, I admit… Might warrant some more investigation once the Christmas rush is over… Thanks Chris!

By: Chris Dawson

Chris Dawson — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:01:46 +0000

Facebook connect would allow someone to add items to your website shopping cart and they’d appear in their cart on Facebook next time they logged in and vice versa. It’s actually really really cool.

By: Leo

Leo — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:58:04 +0000

It sounds like a good idea as long as it works and people trust it

By: Linda

Linda — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:54:12 +0000

I rather like Payvment’s idea of providing a shopping cart as a web service allowing buyers to roam from site to site with a single cart.

From their site
“Then it dawned on us that if a shopping cart was turned into a web service, that would mean it could roam the entire internet free! People can add items to their cart from one place and checkout those items even if they were no longer on the site. ..or it’s even possible to have a single cart with items picked up from multiple retailers. It would have no borders!”

By: Simon

Simon — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 13:32:08 +0000

Great – just what we need. Another channel to sell on.

As if eBay, Amazon Marketplace and our own website wasn’t enough administration!