Comments on: Yahoo Stores Down on Cyber Monday

By: Jay Paul

Jay Paul — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:23:59 +0000

i would be agree with Debbie, Peoples cant beat X-Cart for e-commerce – Yahoo hosting services have caused many issues in the past , that we know very well.
and yes. Many peoples are using Yahoo’s small business services because they lack the know-how to set up their own processing needs but all are not happy with some services.
always looking for quality services providers.
very good for posted useful info
Best regards
paul

By: Erika, Merchant Account Store

Erika, Merchant Account Store — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 00:04:06 +0000

I just caught this article, and I have to say, as a merchant services provider, this only helped my cause. Many use Yahoo’s small business services because they lack the know-how to set up their own processing needs. Unfortunately, the industry in the past took advantage of many businesses, there is a lot of transparency and scammers out there, which doesn’t help. They’re needs to be more education given to small business owners that guides them through the process (without intimidating them).

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 05:48:16 +0000

You cant beat X-Cart for e-commerce – Yahoo hosting services have caused issues in the past for many small business owners as well.

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By: TigerTom

TigerTom — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:41:45 +0000

If you have a serious business, put it on a serious web host. Get your own shopping cart software, and have more than one payment processor option in it. A cart like X-Cart or Oscommerce has multiple payment options coded into it; PayPal, 2Checkout.com, Google checkout, your own merchant account etc.

Then if one link in the chain goes skew-whiff, you can switch to an alternative. If you’re making good money, don’t use a cheapo solution.

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By: karl M

karl M — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:24:50 +0000

This is why you should go with non-oversellers that cater to businesses.

If you pay peanuts you get monkeys. Not a single one of our customers was down on the busiest online shopping day of the year.

Regards,

By: Dawn

Dawn — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 21:52:53 +0000

We where way down in sales also.

By: Mathias

Mathias — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 19:32:22 +0000

If there is no SLA agreement between the shop owners and Yahoo I doubt the shopowners can get any compensation. Isn’t one of the reasons people pay a premium for Yahoo to avoid situations like this. A lot of people will be extremely disappointed with their reaction (keeping everybody in the dark) as well. Unacceptable and completely unbelievable …

By: Eric Pollitt

Eric Pollitt — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:41:50 +0000

Forget “Cyber Monday” is should be called “Blackout Monday” in lieu of “Black Friday.” All the while, millions of people are instant messaging one another, millions more are sampling music on iTunes, millions are shopping on eBay, but Yahoo! is struggling with something that should be elementary to them as an Internet company. What a bunch of Yahoo’s! It sure wouldn’t hurt them to sell a few million shares of their stock and invest in their Yahoo! Store platform, but by then Google may have a Store to go with their Checkout!