Computers & Internet my new venture

[langers1971]

Guys

this site has been advertising "work from home businesses" for the past several weeks, so i have looked a lot closer at it in the last few days, and decided to give it a try, i figure i do not have too much to lose.

Please visit my site, http://crawfie.incrediblebargainstore.com

it is still very much in its infancy, but i plan to change the featured items every 2 weeks or so, depending on how it goes.

 

[FlyingBurittoBro]

Can you explain this to me a bit, it seems like you are just linking to amazon. Do you have some kind of store within the amazon site? What services is the site supposed to offer?

 

[CraZdotcom]

thinking the exact same thing ^

 

[langers1971]

you are correct. i am linking to Amazon, however, when you go through my site and buy something, i get paid.

i just need to direct some traffic through my site.

cheers

 

[Igloo]

I don't get it. Who is paying you? The person who buys the item?
Why wouldn't people just go straight through Amazon?

 

[langers1971]

I don't get it. Who is paying you? The person who buys the item?
Why wouldn't people just go straight through Amazon?

amazon are the ones who pay, not the customer, i just have to get people to go through my site, instead of directly through amazons.

 

[checkraiseulite]

What sort of vig do you get from amazon?

Assume I buy something worth $100 through your site, what % are you getting?

Also what are your setup & ongoing costs of running the website? What were you promised in income a month? What support do you get?

 

[RichosGuns]

this can't fail

 

[langers1971]

What sort of vig do you get from amazon?

Assume I buy something worth $100 through your site, what % are you getting?

Also what are your setup & ongoing costs of running the website? What were you promised in income a month? What support do you get?

ok

i get 4% of any sale through my site.

set up cost was just $3.00, and ongoing costs of $30.00 per month.

not been promised anything as an income, i have to make it work, and get people to visit my site. i have 24 hour toll free numbers to call for support.

 

[woopedazz]

I have a bad feeling that Amazon is going to **** you via the monthly fees. Good luck with it.

 

[checkraiseulite]

So you have to sell $750 worth of stuff to break even per month?

Get out now imo, this will never work here in Australia on this scale, especially looking at the quality of your site.

You're better off finding high-traffic US/UK forums if you can (get a reputation & post count first so it helps if you are interested in the subject matter) and then marketing on there as people will have a much higher volume of amazon transactions per month.

If you could develop this on a bigger scale with a much better quality site and got a 10% vig it could be lucrative offering an effective 5% discount to the customer to go through your site.

As it is currently you have close to zero chance of making anything like minimum wage.

Why would people go through your site when they could go through amazon (they are not saving any money) and not have to possibly worry about being scammed or whatever?

 

[carn tigez]

So you need to generate $750 a month in sales just to break even...

EDIT: Beaten to it

 

[blues4flag]

Honestly, I struggle to see you breaking even with the quality of your site as is.

 

[THRILLHO]

I saw this advertised on facebook. I originally thought it was a scam.

Having read this, I'm sure of it.

You're probably just better off turning it into a website where you can post columns and articles you've written because that's cheaper than actually hosting a website yourself.

 

[THRILLHO]

When I click on the Computers link at the top, there's nowhere for me to actually get to Amazon to buy computer related products. Or do I then need to click on the electronics and photo link?

Also, your apostrophe is in the wrong place.

 

[langers1971]

thanks for the advise guys.

as i have already said, i have just started doing this - day 1.

still got lots to do/learn.

i figure with the overhead of $30.00 per month, if i get nothing or very much next to nothing, in the first 2 months, i can always pull up stumps, and all i have lost is $60.00. i was not prepared to spend hundreds on this at all, having said that though, i don't beleive its a scam, but it needs to be worked by the right people in the right way, whether i am that person, only time will tell!