ecommerce: June 2007 Archives
Just a reminder to people that BarCamp Belfast is on this weekend.
I'd love to be going, but I am meant to be down in Cork for another (non-technical) event
We'll be there in spirit anyway :)
Films.ie finally went live this evening (thanks to James Larkin for the design work)
The problem I am trying to find a solution to is the currency conversion.
At the moment it is using a static value, so I have to manually change it, which is not exactly practical.
Does anyone know of a service that allows you to get the value on a daily basis and write it to file?
I've been a fan of Amazon's marketplace service for quite some time. It seems that Play.com have now followed suit and introduced their own version of it.
The system is pretty cool and easy to use, though it is firmly aimed at the UK market, which is a pity.
You simply choose to sell an item and then are guided through their catalogue to choose the corresponding item. You can search using ISBN, barcode or simply the item name.
If you are based in the UK a listing is easy to create, but if you're in Ireland you are going to have slightly more difficulty as you will have to allow for the postage costs to all EU states.
All in all though it's a really nice idea.
You can see it in action here
According to an article published on Out-law.com, online shoppers are willing to pay more if they feel their privacy is being respected.
I wonder has anyone mentioned this to Irish website owners?
While editing search.ie and armchair.ie I've had to visit thousands of Irish websites.
The number of them that either don't have privacy policies or have incredibly vague and incomplete ones is worrying.
Of course, if you take into account the number of them that still haven't got any tangible contact details this probably isn't too surprising.
