1. empreror 007

    chandi at sona

    10 June 2004 10:32am

    empreror 007

    Hi Every Body,

    I will be grateful if somebody can check the website " B2B Paradise.com" and can advise us on how well the E-commerce platform offered by B2B compares to the other similar servises offered by other compaines ..... both price  and quality wise.

    Rgds,

  2. Brendon Scott

    Senior SEO at Weboptimiser

    10 June 2004 13:33pm

    Brendon Scott

    If I understand your question correctly, My answer is "I wouldn't touch them"

    The cart seems to be a JSP app with a fairly basic feature set, and as a hosted solution, your data is hostage to the hosting company. I cant imagine you ever getting the site ranked in search engines

    The only advantage I can see is that at least they'll do all the work if you really have absolutely no technical skill whatsoever. This sort of product would have been acceptable in 2001, but not today, even free ecomm packages are better than this

  3. Bob Browning

    Retired at Retired

    10 June 2004 14:32pm

    Bob Browning

    I wouldn't use something like this host the Toys R Us e-commerce site.  On the other hand for 300 bucks a year and a 30 day free trial it certainly looks worth a look at.

    I would look at something like this if:

    1. I was modest in my expectations to sales so could handle all sales manually
    2. I don't mind using PayPal as payment provider.  As a US outfit, b2b paradise are unlikely to support UK payment gateways, UK banks tend to have a list of 'recommendations' if you are processing manually and I doubt these people will even respond if you ask the question.  However for certain situations PayPal is great. 
    3. My catalogue was not too big
    4. I have another proper web site that will feed the catalogue.  TallTroll probably  has it right about search engines (what have you got against JSP though?).   

    However this particular outfit I would look sideways at. The web site doesn't give confidence.  Really there sems to be only one page of information, no demo site I couldn't see a list of customer sites. 

    Compare and contrast with www.shopsite.com. Its not a hosted solution so is not comparable but it targets the small cataloge market as well.  They have local support - you could ask Venus Internet I know them and they are straight up.  You won't get a solution for $399 though.

    So in my opinion - no sale.

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