Ditched eBay some time ago without regret, and now I’m about to close my AuctivaCommerce account, too. Auctiva is a good service, very feature-rich and reasonably priced, but way overkill for a small business like mine that sells mostly at antique malls and relatively few pieces online. It was also cumbersome to have an online store hosted in a separate place from my website, email accounts and weblog. Simplify, simplify, simplify.
Turns out, too, that PayPal has improved its “buy this” buttons to the point where they’ll estimate shipping cost from weight and zip code. So I can sell just a few things, one button at a time, filling out just one simple form instead of 6 or 7 pages on Auctiva. Paypal even has a built in shopping cart feature, so people can still make multiple purchases. Nice. Very nice.
