fsiano Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 Hey everyone, I have been in osCommerce for a good year or so now. I finally have the time to finish a shop I have had in mind for long months now. Although I was wondering about everyone else, are you all making sales with your shops???Anyone doing a ridiculous amount of selling? I am just wondering and I figured it is a nice time to brag about how many visitors you get a day,etc. Just a friendly question Wish me luck in finishing my site Thanks Frank S Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 Hey everyone,I have been in osCommerce for a good year or so now. I finally have the time to finish a shop I have had in mind for long months now. Although I was wondering about everyone else, are you all making sales with your shops???Anyone doing a ridiculous amount of selling? I am just wondering and I figured it is a nice time to brag about how many visitors you get a day,etc. Just a friendly question Wish me luck in finishing my site Thanks Frank S Show me hard figures (ie net profits) and I'll be impressed. But yes, obviously people are making sales with their shops. Mattice "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardsandwars Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 lol @ Mattice. I know what you mean. After 7 months, we expect to net our first profit in February, though not much. Of course, then I'll just need to find another way to write something off for a loss. Gotta show loss for at least a year for tax purposes. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daemonj Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 Actually, you can legally show a loss for the first 4 years. :) "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - A. Einstein Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 Absolutely!!! After the first day we were making money! Of course online shops/maintence are alot of work, but if your the owner/developer you just need to establish what price you charge your development time to. Yes you do make money but don't expect millions - it's a little slower than that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 Visitors / day: average 150 Orders / day: average: 6 Are we making money? YEP! Cheers Torsten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 Visitors / day: average 150Orders / day: average: 6 Are we making money? YEP! Cheers Torsten forgot to say: We are on market since September 2002! We are highly ranked @google & ect. Torsten Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattice Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 Of course, then I'll just need to find another way to write something off for a loss. Gotta show loss for at least a year for tax purposes. I can only hope for you the IRS isn't planning a little web shop themselves and scrolling these forums to find out how they can change 'This is a demonstration shop only' :D Don't know about USA laws. In Holland there are Starter discounts. And in your case you might get away with a good de-valuation of your stock as it is 'fashion' sensitive... ie Warcraft 3 will not be worth what you paid for it last year etc. As for traffic, hits, reg'd clients and all that I can only say "Show me the money!" ;) Mattice "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizardsandwars Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 Mattice, We get some start up tax breaks as well. And we run everything as cash based, so we just expense our inventory up front. It'll take longer for us to show a profit on paper this way, but tax benifits of not showing profit for the first year (or more) far outweigh what our profit would have been, after taking into consideration our initial investment. As for statistics, We opened in late August '02. We get about 1400 page requests a day Which is about 500 distinct users We average 15-20 Users sign up each day Leading to about about 10-12 sales per day We spend about $500 a month in advertising. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: As of Oct 2006, I'm not as active in this forum as I used to be, but I still work with osC quite a bit. If you have a question about any of my posts here, your best bet is to contact me though either Email or PM in my profile, and I'll be happy to help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowman671 Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 1600 Plus Customers In Database 140k in sales last year all via OSCommerce working on a very old snapshot version of oscommerce. setup 3 new stores on newer version of snapshot working fine some quirks on the shipping with UPS on the last one have to look at it a bit more. Getting ready to grab a new snapshot today and have another go with a new store. All In All wonderful product. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamscape Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 also depends how quick you'll make a profit, on how much inventory you carry... obviously people like wizards that carry their own inventory will take a little longer to see a "profit"... some people do drop shipping though, and have very little sunk into the company money wise since they don't carry the inventory, and could see profit pretty quickly. The only thing necessary for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ActiveTuning Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 We have about 237 registered customers, and about $12,000 in gross sales on our first product made for solely a 2002-2003 Nissan Altima. We should be releasing another 3 products within the next 2 months. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loxly Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 1600 Plus Customers In Database140k in sales last year all via OSCommerce working on a very old snapshot version of oscommerce. setup 3 new stores on newer version of snapshot working fine some quirks on the shipping with UPS on the last one have to look at it a bit more. Getting ready to grab a new snapshot today and have another go with a new store. All In All wonderful product. Can we see your site(s)? Debbie [no external urls in signatures please, kthanks] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 11, 2003 Share Posted February 11, 2003 Getting about 10.000 hits a day with our two sites. most are just looking :evil:. Sales are looking better each day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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