Market and Competition.(Such a large potential market obviously will have many competitors).......
Source: CNET
Overview:
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By Ean Houts
(6/16/98)
The electronic commerce bandwagon is picking up speed, and you and your Web site had better be on it. At least, that's the conventional wisdom these days. But exactly how to set up shop on the Web isn't always obvious. Big companies with plenty of technical know-how and buckets of money can build their own e-commerce systems, complete with a secure server, an Internet connection, and custom software.
But that's simply not an option for everyone. Luckily, e-commerce barriers are rapidly tumbling. What was once expensive and difficult is fast becoming affordable and easy to use. We found five products, each priced under $1,000, and each designed to get your online store up and running in a matter of days. With a little work, the result is an e-commerce site that doesn't look like you got it up and running in a matter of days.
Although all five of these products share a common goal, each one goes about getting there in a different way. Some are service-based, charging a monthly fee for secure site hosting and rental of the software. Others you purchase outright, with hosting fees handled separately. And one is just a bargain-priced electronic shopping cart that you can insert into your existing site.
With this kind of choice, there's probably a product that can do the job for almost any merchant looking for an affordable way to sell products online. BUILDER.COM's Editors' Choice will point you to the best of the breed--you just have to be sure it's the right one for your site.
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The Top Competition????
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The "top" competition by product
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Priced at just $90, Buildashop Standard from Rocketfuel Software has the lowest entry price of any package in the line-up. A no-frills package, Buildashop is basically just an electronic shopping cart and cash register.
Buildashop offers no site statistics or order tracking beyond delivering the order data. The more expensive Buildashop Pro version adds some statistical tools and advanced features, including a tool for building HTML or Java navigation menus for your site, and still costs just $150 (in addition to the transaction fees).
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Once we started using Yahoo Store 4.1 (Yahoo recently bought Viaweb, the developers of Store 4.1), it soon became obvious why merchants such as Cirque du Soleil, Rolling Stone, and PalmPilotGear have chosen it as their way to get a piece of the internet commerce pie. Yahoo Store is moderately priced, powerful, and extremely easy to use. It also offers a wide range of options to assist merchants in driving sales.
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Spotty documentation and inadequate page-layout tools mar this affordable e-commerce solution
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Even More Competitors?????
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