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Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.
LOL, I was there for 10 + years, with 2 – 3 different websites, I can safely say, I’ve hear it all before. It was funny, (well, not really), several times a year they would send out survey’s about what users would most like to see as far as updates. A few times they released these results. Every stinking time, they would choose the easiest, or the ones their large customers wanted, rarely ever the updates most people wanted. Smaller businesses suffered due to the lack of services that would help them grow.
The best thing I’ve ever done was to leave that, and every other hosted platform behind. At the time, you had to hire a developer to do just about anything at all, or learn rhtml. Thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars that would have been better spent on marketing, and building my brand.
We learned this past week that Shopify has started restricting sales of certain products. You never know when you maybe restricted out of business.
If you want the freedom to do what you need to do, with your business, avoid these like the plague.