eCrater.com growing - reaches the One Million mark for listings!

I've been listing items on eCrater since last summer - but the site has been growing considerably since the boycott of eBay began in February. Following is a press release about eCrater.com reaching the 1,000,000 items listed mark.

Check out all the items I have listed on eCrater - and this blog entry for a breakdown of the store's sections.

http://tscsales.ecrater.com/ - our featured item is Cincinnati's famous Skyline Chili

eCRATER.com passed the 1,000,000 item count on Monday 3/10/08 !!!


Love to buy and sell online? Try www.ecrater.com for jewelry, books, fashion, antiques, electronics,etc.

eCrater is more than just a marketplace of fixed-price listings. It's a free web-hosting site where sellers manage their own stores (like eBay Stores but better organized).

On eCrater, shoppers can access an individual seller's site directly or may search for products from the main eCrater.com website (http://www.ecrater.com).

The beauty of eCrater is that it is so simple. Sellers can point their websites to their eCrater page using URL masking, so buyers will only see the seller's website address (not eCrater's). This makes it seem more professional, and more like your own website rather than a page on someone else's site (as you get with eBay Stores).

eCrater has a feedback feature just like eBay, and some of the better features of Feedback 2.0 were integrated, well before eBay launched them. eCrater allows sellers to accept PayPal and Google Checkout and has plans to add Amazon Payments.

Premium Listings

eCrater is completely free, but the site does offer premium positions. A position on the home page, which merchants can use to rotate their products, costs $100/month. (The position is booked through the end of March 2008.) A position on the top of all listings in a category costs $25/month per item and guarantees a premium top spot in the category.

New Features

eCrater also added a "mods" system. The idea is similar to the Wikipedia content control. Moderators make sure that all the listings belong in the correct category and are compliant with eCrater's policies. As a certified Google Checkout partner eCrater will make sure that all listings are compliant with Google Checkout's and Google Base's policies too.

Moderators receive a small icon next to their store name as a bonus for their efforts, making their stores stand out from the others.