[James Nardell]

Hi guys,

Sorry I've been out of touch for a while...I went to the UK on holiday to see the folks and some friends...I was online...Just much less than usual!

I still urge you all to try out the system if you're not already signed up...It is working well for a large number of our partners...I wish I could show you all the sales reports so you could see this with your own eyes...Shopster I will admit has a few teething problems, but we have proven out that the system and the concept really does work...

Trinity...If you find that there is a group of products where the pricing doesn't look right, please bring it to our attention. Some parts of the Shopster inventory is sourced from third parties, and we will approach the relelvant manufacturers directly in order to get better pricing...

The shipping prices will get worked on too Trinity...We know that the prices need to come down, and we will work on acomplishing this ASAP...

I want to reassure you all that if you don't make $25 in sales over a three month period - which really isn't at all difficult if you've got decent targeted traffic - but you are obviously trying i.e. pushing traffic through your store Shopster will not close it down...I will personally make sure that this doesn't happen for AMWSO retailers...

Right now the data feed issue is a moot point...This has cropped up in ABW...The current data feed is for Froogle, and they have stopped accepting our data feeds...Shopster is going to produce data feeds for submission to Shopping.com and all the other major Shopping comparison engines...Here there will be a major value add for some retailers...In the meantime, if you want to request a data feed you will not have to pay a dime...

One thing i want to emphasize is that Shopster have let all current retailers keep their inventory irrespective of how many products are in the store...Some guys have 10,000+ products...You may have to pay for an additional 1,000 products, but this really isn't so bad...I'd argue it's probably highly unecessary for many retailers...Remember that many highly successful online retailers have between 1 and 500 products...Some of the AMWSO merchants turn over 7 figures with a lot less than 1,000 products...We really don't see this is a major issue...Shopster is meant to be for niche stores, and if you feel you need thousands of products we feel you are really missing the point of the system...

I'll post some more soon guys...It'd be great to hear from the successful retailers...I'm pretty sure a few of them frequent this board!!!