Shopping on line
January 10th 2008 09:42
Now that I’m back home in New Zealand I’ve begun selling books on Trade Me again. (For those who don’t know, Trade Me is NZ’s equivalent of eBay – in fact it wiped the floor with eBay in this country.)
So far the profit hasn’t been huge, but no doubt it’ll pick up again when everyone gets back from their annual holidays. (Going to work at the moment it’s so quiet I feel as though I’m in one of the villages called Crowle in England that we visited. They were both quiet as the grave, one even more than the other, in fact.)
Anyway, to keep track of my financial dealings, such as they are, I use Mind Your Own Business, which I bought thinking it would be easy to use and all I need. However, it’s not very good in terms of retail – or else I’ve got the wrong bit of the package. It produces umpteen thousand reports, many of which don’t seem to relate to what I’m trying to find out. I appear to make a huge profit, but the actual bank balance doesn’t agree. Or else I’ve spent it all while it wasn't looking.
When I look at MYOB I often wish I had something like Ashop. This is one of those lovely online sites where they provide a shopping cart setup for you. You know, the sort of thing that’s on most online retail stores – Go to the Shopping Cart Now! But unless you have a big site with plenty of money behind it, you can’t set up a shopping cart system. That’s why this sort of software would be great – for that time in the future when I’m living off the proceeds of my sales on Trade Me (as one of my daughter’s friends is doing!).
Ashop has everything – the list on their site goes on and on. In fact the person paying the least amount of money per month gets almost as much as the person paying the most. That’s my kind of site!
Well, well, maybe down the track I’ll be able to make use of this, at a time when their monthly fee is a mere pittance compared to what I’m earning. Time will tell!
So far the profit hasn’t been huge, but no doubt it’ll pick up again when everyone gets back from their annual holidays. (Going to work at the moment it’s so quiet I feel as though I’m in one of the villages called Crowle in England that we visited. They were both quiet as the grave, one even more than the other, in fact.)
Anyway, to keep track of my financial dealings, such as they are, I use Mind Your Own Business, which I bought thinking it would be easy to use and all I need. However, it’s not very good in terms of retail – or else I’ve got the wrong bit of the package. It produces umpteen thousand reports, many of which don’t seem to relate to what I’m trying to find out. I appear to make a huge profit, but the actual bank balance doesn’t agree. Or else I’ve spent it all while it wasn't looking.
When I look at MYOB I often wish I had something like Ashop. This is one of those lovely online sites where they provide a shopping cart setup for you. You know, the sort of thing that’s on most online retail stores – Go to the Shopping Cart Now! But unless you have a big site with plenty of money behind it, you can’t set up a shopping cart system. That’s why this sort of software would be great – for that time in the future when I’m living off the proceeds of my sales on Trade Me (as one of my daughter’s friends is doing!).
Ashop has everything – the list on their site goes on and on. In fact the person paying the least amount of money per month gets almost as much as the person paying the most. That’s my kind of site!
Well, well, maybe down the track I’ll be able to make use of this, at a time when their monthly fee is a mere pittance compared to what I’m earning. Time will tell!
And the logo's goodlooking too!
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