Well, here goes...
I have been approved... so I went for a test drive of the back end...
If all I said was whooo! that really is an under statement...
for starters... there are 600,000 products in the wharehouse to stock your store... there is on way to load them all at one once and create a mega store... I asked.. not that i want a mega mall necessarily...
what this program is best suited for is niche sites... like the one Chris has for as his demo..
Their is a datafeed available ... imagine this senario... you have an affilaite site where you add shopster products... so now you are the affiliate and merchant... just like the big boys.. no thiefs stealing commissions, no trickery, no worrying if the merchant is going to credit the sale... you areteh merchant...
Best part.. when the customer revisits your shopster store... no expired cookies.. cuz there are no cookies to expire or to be over written...
this program has a bit of a learning curve for setting up your store... but because Chris and his team are behind this program... getting setup should be no problem...
having worked with James in the past i know he'll go the extra mile to help if you ask...
There is a help section.. in the back end... I'd like to see it expanded.. I had some difficulty figuring out how to ad my products...
I think what happens when a help section is written... it is written by someone who understands the "system" inside and out... and sometimes this knowledge isnt passed to the tutorials completely...
I think this is the case here... assumptions are made...that are not necessarily true... learning curve wise...
I do understand that this system is not for the newbie who just today decided buy his first computer and go into the AM business... however if this newbie had average intelligence he could figure things out...
foruntately help is an email away... during normal business hours there is live help... via IM
I'd give Shopster 4 stars... pending building some history with them... they could well be a 5 star program... time will tell... as the my customers are yet to vote... with there wallets...
My recommendation would be.. signup and create some new niche sites... If you have websites that are under preforming convert them over to Shopster... and add links on your proforming websites to your shopster sites...
They reason I say convert existing websites.. is G has been sandboxing many new websites... till they are around a year old... they dont appear to be doing this to websites that change direction... I am also seeing MSN do this as well...
JOe