I swear I wrote this a couple months ago.
The eBay fee increase backlash is such an amazing opportunity for NexTag Stores, Amazon Marketplace, and PriceGrabber Storefronts. If I was a marketer at one of these companies, I’d be chompin’ at the bit to acquire eBay sellers with a special promotional fee for the next 3 months. This is a no-brainer.
I’d also create a bizdev deal with a website builder/ecommerce provider like HomeStead (ironically the backend of HomeStead’s ecommerce solution is ProStores, an eBay company!) to give these quaint ‘storefront’ newbies a full service ecommerce store so I could take a small cut of every transaction. Then upsell them on the normal PPC listings on the shopping comparison engines as well as on Google and Yahoo!, a logo design, and all of the other things that GoDaddy/NetSol would push.
Deals like this can be had at Yahoo! Sellers can get a domain name for as low as $1.99 for the first year, build their own storefront using Yahoo! Stores’ simple point and click interface, then automagically submit a clean, complete data feed to Yahoo! Shopping by checking that option in the store setup. Yahoo! Stores customers save 20% on PPC listings at Yahoo! Shopping. Learn more here:
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/shopsb/index.php
Shameless self-promotion? Guilty, but it seemed relevant in regards to your post.