Ecrater

I ordered seeds for agave plant that they claimed they had, been over a month and no one responds. DO NOT BUY ANYTHING ON THIS WEBSITE! SCAMS...

Ecrater enables Sellers to set up their own site / page, enabling them to upload their logo, pictures and to connect with the stores facebook page. It also enables sellers to accept credit card payments through Stripe, or simply through Paypal and google checkout. Ecrater uploads all listings to itsmarketplaces (US, UK, AU), but also sends them to Google Shopping for free as well as allowing sellers to import listings from ebay. However unlike bigger market places, you have to sponsor your site by your self, and you can do so by connecting your store through Adwords and Facebook, meaning you can sponsor your site (this is not free however). You can upload your listings for free, and they will stay there until they are sold out (unless you remove them), and they will charge a small fee only if you sell your product. Now this all sounds great however there are some slight disadvantages to ecrater compared to other sites. It does take a while to start selling products, especially if you don't sponsor your page. It also does take some time to set up your store, and some IT knowledge is needed. Sellers are not allowed to leave feedbacks to buyers, and often people forget they have listings on ecrater as they do not time out, so ALWAYS check that you are buying from an active seller by emailing them first and by checking their feedback. Unfortunately the ability to personalize your own site is limited, and they have a fairly old looking interface (looks like its from the 90's) however the ecrater team is always bringing up new updates, and I am sure that they will soon update the looks of the sellers sites, as the have already done with the market places. Overall I find that ecrater is a great alternative to ebay and amazon, less fees, and more freedom for sellers (ebay sellers will understand me here) and I definitely would racomend it to everyone! Happy selling from Maerg2014 :)

This is the truth of what really goes on with eCrater. First off, the sellers side. Be prepared to get tons of buyers that will try to take advantage of you and threaten you with feedback extortion. Regardless of the fact, eCrater will side with buyers every single time to protect their beyond repairable reputation. Buyers will lie left and right and Ecrater will not care and think of you as the crook. They will send you email after email threatening to close your store if you dont give the buyer free things and/or give into their demands. Buyer's will purposely leave feedback that is negative just to ask where their product is, and eCrater will not do anything about it. This site attracts clueless buyers that cant even read a 3 line description.

Ecrater is nothing but a waste of time, and their software is so outdated and way behind the times. A warning to sellers, once you post an item with a specified shipping and product price, be prepared to spend countless hours updating each product one by one, if you have to adjust pricing and shipping. This site is not worth the time vs the aggrivation. All price adjustments must be done manually, per product, meaning you have to open each and every product individually, update the price and move on to the next. If you have hundreds of products or even 50 be prepare to spend days and hours on it. Then next month you can start over. They will not and refuse to place the simplest of bulk editing tools to help sellers. Once again they only care about buyers stealing from sellers and their reputation as crooks.

They've always been this way and have no intentions on changing. You'll spend countless hours, days, and weeks buiding your site only to have it destroyed in seconds with no support from anyone. If you really want to have a store, dont go for one that has a feedback system that (1) you have no choice of action to have it removed and (2) be held hostage by everyone in site. Dont be held hostage over buyers think they can do what they want and you just have to site there and take it, along with the losses. Ecrater is not a site for anyone, they attract garbage!

Tried this site for a 2 weeks and everything every seller said in a negative way about Ecrater was true. After since I got away from them, its been piece and quest allowing me to do what I have to do to run my business.