StoresOnline Day 32: My Site is Live!
June 1st 2007 11:27 am
As of 12:20 am last night, my site is live! Whoo hoo!
Check out Baby Slings R Us.
I also activated some Google Adwords ads for it. Got up this morning and checked…no sales yet. What? Nobody is buying baby slings in the middle of the night?
Had two more frustrating experiences with customer service. The person who said she would check out the bug I reported and send me an email did. It said “works fine now, here’s a screen shot.” I tested it and it still has the same problem. She obviously did not follow the steps I outlined: checkout and get as far as the page that shows shipping charges, then take something out of your cart and checkout again: the shipping charges do not refresh according to your cart contents.
I had also emailed them that they promised full html access in the seminar, which wasn’t true. Don’t know what I was hoping for, maybe something like "Thanks for pointing that out…we’ll forward this to the appropriate people." Instead I got "You have partial access—that’s probably what they meant." Very frustrating.
What I ended up doing with Paypal is changing everything about the account (name, contact us email, the way the charge appears on the credit card) to be Baby Slings R Us. This means that I can no longer use that Paypal account for my other website. But hopefully this one will make enough money that I can get rid of Paypal altogether.
Check out Baby Slings R Us.
I also activated some Google Adwords ads for it. Got up this morning and checked…no sales yet. What? Nobody is buying baby slings in the middle of the night?
Had two more frustrating experiences with customer service. The person who said she would check out the bug I reported and send me an email did. It said “works fine now, here’s a screen shot.” I tested it and it still has the same problem. She obviously did not follow the steps I outlined: checkout and get as far as the page that shows shipping charges, then take something out of your cart and checkout again: the shipping charges do not refresh according to your cart contents.
I had also emailed them that they promised full html access in the seminar, which wasn’t true. Don’t know what I was hoping for, maybe something like "Thanks for pointing that out…we’ll forward this to the appropriate people." Instead I got "You have partial access—that’s probably what they meant." Very frustrating.
What I ended up doing with Paypal is changing everything about the account (name, contact us email, the way the charge appears on the credit card) to be Baby Slings R Us. This means that I can no longer use that Paypal account for my other website. But hopefully this one will make enough money that I can get rid of Paypal altogether.
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