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Re: [mv] building something like zShops with Minivend
Hmm, sounds interesting. I received a quote from Inkomii a while back for 5k and passed on it. Being a small merchant, 5k is a bit pricey, but if I can get in at $950, I may re-consider. Can you please email me with more details.
Dan Goldman
At 04:29 PM 10/27/99 -0700, Brian DeSpain wrote:
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>Raj Goel wrote:
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> > ****** message to minivend-users from Raj Goel <frostbit@brainlink.com> ******
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> > On 0, Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com> wrote:
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> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > Has anyone explored the space building something like Amazon's zShops
> > > with Minivend? The basic principle is this: The site owner is a
> > > meta-administrator, who oversees shop-owners, who can each sign up for
> > > an account and have their own admin interface to their own products. The
> > > shop owners sell directly to the website visitors, and the site owner
> > > makes money by charging the shop owners a fee for posting the items.
> > > Does that make sense?
> > > I looking for a pointer to some add-on software to help with this, or
> > > documentation on how this has been done before. Thanks so much.
> > >
> > > I'm looking forward to trying this idea out with the 4.0 beta. ;)
> > >
> > > -mark
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>Actually BNW is doing just that for Mini-Vend right now. We are building a set of drivers that
>will allow you to upload your Mini-vend catalog to the following content aggregators.
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>http://www.infospace.com (Active Shopper)
>http://www.amazon.com (ZShops & Auctions)
>http://www.ebay.com
>http://www.affinia.com
>http://www.yahoo.com (Auctions)
>http://www.inktomi.com
>(This is one of the most important relationships BNW has. Inktomi's Shopping Engine provides
>the back-end for numerous shopping comparision engines. Infoseek, CNNFn, Merrill-Lynch, Snap!
>and others use their back-end technology. The total network is about 60-80 million page views
>per month. This has proven very effective for our clients)
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>For a sample of the Inktomi technology here's the Infoseek Shopping Engine.
>http://shop.go.com/
>For more information on Inktomi's shopping engine.
> http://www.inktomi.com/products/portal/shopping/
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>When the Inktomi Shopping Engine started, it was based solely on a percentage of sales. After
>the merger with ImpulseBuy they began charging a $5,000 annual fee to participate in the
>network and upload your database to their network sites. Fortunately all of our merchants had
>signed one year contracts based on a percentage of sales so they can participate in the
>network. (They also added the Impulsebuy Network along with a Java based deal broadcaster so
>there was additional value. They also found managing the merchant relationships very time
>consuming.) What we have done is negotiate a contract for a mass number of merchants at a
>lower rates than the $5000 annually. For example if I can get 120 merchants together I can
>lower the price per merchant to right around $950 per merchant. The way this would work is
>that the merchants would upload their files to our servers, we would massage it, make sure it
>looks good and then upload that file to Inktomi. This gives Inktomi a single point of contact
>(us) for managing the process.
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>I wanted to make sure that our drivers were working first but since someone mentioned Zshops,
>I thought it would be a good time to wade in. If you are interested please contact
>brian@xao.com
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>Take Care
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