I hope to be selling a novelty CD online soon. Anyone here marketing their
wares online? What do you use as a merchant account?

The absolute cheapest way seems to be Paypal. Anybody gone that route
and/or see any problems with it?

Yahoo seems to have a good deal for small businesses also, anyone ever used
them?

Thanks!

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Try "Selling Cds online" below.

http://www.a-lyric.com/mp3music.html

Concerning PayPal and Yahoo, I would definitely opt for PayPal as it is far
easier and cheaper to start with. Selling CDs is not easy, so keep the
expenses in rein in the early days.


Michael
http://michael-leahy.indiegroup.com


Doc wrote in message
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I hope to be selling a novelty CD online soon. Anyone here marketing their
wares online? What do you use as a merchant account?

The absolute cheapest way seems to be Paypal. Anybody gone that route
and/or see any problems with it?

Yahoo seems to have a good deal for small businesses also, anyone ever
used
them?

Thanks!

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Might be worth having a look at recordstore.co.uk as they do a deal
where they will:

1: Have it in their store
2: Distribute the product
3: Take the money and transfer to you
4: Allow you to have a "mini" on-line store (check out some of sites
of the labels they have listed).

Obviously they take a slice of the pie (not sure how much %), but it
takes away the agro of setting up your own store, messing around with
the merchant stuff and sending CD's out. Oh and I think they may
charge some kind of storage fee (worth checking).

Good luck!

Brian

"Doc" wrote in message thlink.net...
I hope to be selling a novelty CD online soon. Anyone here marketing their
wares online? What do you use as a merchant account?

The absolute cheapest way seems to be Paypal. Anybody gone that route
and/or see any problems with it?

Yahoo seems to have a good deal for small businesses also, anyone ever used
them?

Thanks!

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Try,

www.ccnow.com

or www.cdbaby.com

Al Garcia

or CDBaby
"Doc" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I hope to be selling a novelty CD online soon. Anyone here marketing their
wares online? What do you use as a merchant account?

The absolute cheapest way seems to be Paypal. Anybody gone that route
and/or see any problems with it?

Yahoo seems to have a good deal for small businesses also, anyone ever
used
them?

Thanks!

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Soundclick's CD selling services seem pretty good to me. I think it's $3.95
per month, then you keep 100% of the money from the sale.

I haven't used them yet though, so don't take this as being from experience!

Dave Lawrence
www.soundclick.com/davelawrence

"Al Garcia" wrote in message
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Try,

www.ccnow.com

or www.cdbaby.com

Al Garcia

or CDBaby
"Doc" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I hope to be selling a novelty CD online soon. Anyone here marketing
their
wares online? What do you use as a merchant account?

The absolute cheapest way seems to be Paypal. Anybody gone that route
and/or see any problems with it?

Yahoo seems to have a good deal for small businesses also, anyone ever
used
them?

Thanks!


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Does anyone actually buy CD's from Soundclick though?

"Dave Lawrence" wrote in message
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Soundclick's CD selling services seem pretty good to me. I think it's
$3.95
per month, then you keep 100% of the money from the sale.

I haven't used them yet though, so don't take this as being from
experience!

Dave Lawrence
www.soundclick.com/davelawrence

"Al Garcia" wrote in message
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Try,

www.ccnow.com

or www.cdbaby.com

Al Garcia

or CDBaby
"Doc" wrote in message
hlink.net...
I hope to be selling a novelty CD online soon. Anyone here marketing
their
wares online? What do you use as a merchant account?

The absolute cheapest way seems to be Paypal. Anybody gone that route
and/or see any problems with it?

Yahoo seems to have a good deal for small businesses also, anyone ever
used
them?

Thanks!



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"Doc" wrote in message thlink.net...
I hope to be selling a novelty CD online soon. Anyone here marketing their
wares online? What do you use as a merchant account?

The absolute cheapest way seems to be Paypal. Anybody gone that route
and/or see any problems with it?

Yahoo seems to have a good deal for small businesses also, anyone ever used
them?

Thanks!

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Doc,
I've used CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com) with great success.

DaveT

Doc,
I've used CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com) with great success.

Ah yes, CD Baby. A co-worker of mine got their Christmas
promo CD - something like 100 MP3's. We did a large communal
order at the start of the year. Good website, friendly
staff and quick shipping. I can't really fault them
from a consumer point of view. Their setup looks pretty
straightforward, I was thinking about them for maybe selling
a CD of stuff too.

The only problem we had was when the bloody order arrived
and was sucked into the German customs system for - wait for
it - a month!! Because the value of the shipment was so
large it didn't slip in under the radar. Customs swore they
sent a notification to us, but we never received it. I
eventually went down there. The Zollamt (customs office)
is a *model* of German buerocracy; I had to wait 15 minutes
before someone slid a little window open to see me, then
another 15 while they went to find the package; 10 minutes
filling out paperwork, then they gave me a number,
snatched the package back out my hands, told me to go to
the Cashier along the hall, and snapped the window shut again.

I swear I passed a cob-webbed skeleton holding the remnants
of a number only two or three earlier than my own.

I paid the cashier the customs (I swear it was the same
guy with a different hat), and after extracting their pound
of flesh, he went off for 10 minutes, returning finally to
thrust the mangled package into my hands. I staggered
out into the sunlight and thrust the package aloft as
(imaginary) strains of Fanfare for the Common Man played.

The inlays were a bit crinkled but the disks themselves
were undamaged.

-John

"Brian Philipson" wrote in message
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Does anyone actually buy CD's from Soundclick though?

Now that's good question.

Where do most people get their sales from. I assumed they'd be prominently
from, say, promoting on Soundclick, then it does OK in the charts, attracts
attention then...sale.

Is this not how most people get their sales? Or by having a CD requested,
and so refering them to the site.

Why would someone be more likely to buy through CDBaby than Soundclick?


Dave Lawrence
www.soundclick.com/davelawrence

You bring up an interesting point. If you are serious about selling physical
objects on the web, it might be an idea to work through a US and a European
retailer to avoid this sort of problem - which is relatively rare but
infuriating.

Michael
http://michael-leahy.indiegroup.com

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Doc,
I've used CD Baby (http://www.cdbaby.com) with great success.

Ah yes, CD Baby. A co-worker of mine got their Christmas
promo CD - something like 100 MP3's. We did a large communal
order at the start of the year. Good website, friendly
staff and quick shipping. I can't really fault them
from a consumer point of view. Their setup looks pretty
straightforward, I was thinking about them for maybe selling
a CD of stuff too.

The only problem we had was when the bloody order arrived
and was sucked into the German customs system for - wait for
it - a month!! Because the value of the shipment was so
large it didn't slip in under the radar. Customs swore they
sent a notification to us, but we never received it. I
eventually went down there. The Zollamt (customs office)
is a *model* of German buerocracy; I had to wait 15 minutes
before someone slid a little window open to see me, then
another 15 while they went to find the package; 10 minutes
filling out paperwork, then they gave me a number,
snatched the package back out my hands, told me to go to
the Cashier along the hall, and snapped the window shut again.

I swear I passed a cob-webbed skeleton holding the remnants
of a number only two or three earlier than my own.

I paid the cashier the customs (I swear it was the same
guy with a different hat), and after extracting their pound
of flesh, he went off for 10 minutes, returning finally to
thrust the mangled package into my hands. I staggered
out into the sunlight and thrust the package aloft as
(imaginary) strains of Fanfare for the Common Man played.

The inlays were a bit crinkled but the disks themselves
were undamaged.

-John

When we finally get round to it, we will put a permanent ad on ebay
and do it that way, accepting cheques and paypal. Works out much less
than CDbaby which take 35% if I recall right!!!! Just stick a link on
to your website to ebay and off you go!

Any thoughts., as I have not done it yet!!

dAVE

"Doc" wrote in message thlink.net...
I hope to be selling a novelty CD online soon. Anyone here marketing their
wares online? What do you use as a merchant account?

The absolute cheapest way seems to be Paypal. Anybody gone that route
and/or see any problems with it?

Yahoo seems to have a good deal for small businesses also, anyone ever used
them?

Thanks!

Hmmm isn't there another site http://www.cdstreet.com ? I have not
tried them. I think they charge a set up fee and probably want a buck
or 2 but so does amazon/cdnow. The key is you get to ship the cds you
don't have to send them to some crappy wearhouse in jersey to collect
dust, at least the last time I checked. Not sure about their s&h.
Places like amazon charge way too much for that.

I've just heard some bad things about CDstreet not paying the artists their
due revenues. I would steer clear of them for the time being. If you want to
check the rumour out for yourself, click this link ....
http://cdbaby.org/stories/03/09/01/4833045.html

Lynn
--
Listen to my music...
http://www.soundclick.com/lynn
http://www.soundclick.com/chaslyn
http://www.soundclick.com/dickosboogieband
http://www.soundclick.com/johnmckeon
"Doctor Phibes" wrote in message
m...
"Doc" wrote in message
thlink.net...
I hope to be selling a novelty CD online soon. Anyone here marketing
their
wares online? What do you use as a merchant account?

The absolute cheapest way seems to be Paypal. Anybody gone that route
and/or see any problems with it?

Yahoo seems to have a good deal for small businesses also, anyone ever
used
them?

Thanks!

Hmmm isn't there another site http://www.cdstreet.com ? I have not
tried them. I think they charge a set up fee and probably want a buck
or 2 but so does amazon/cdnow. The key is you get to ship the cds you
don't have to send them to some crappy wearhouse in jersey to collect
dust, at least the last time I checked. Not sure about their s&h.
Places like amazon charge way too much for that.

I've just heard some bad things about CDstreet not paying the artists their
due revenues. I would steer clear of them for the time being. If you want to
check the rumour out for yourself, click this link ....
http://cdbaby.org/stories/03/09/01/4833045.html

Lynn
--
Listen to my music...
http://www.soundclick.com/lynn
http://www.soundclick.com/chaslyn
http://www.soundclick.com/dickosboogieband
http://www.soundclick.com/johnmckeon
"Doctor Phibes" wrote in message
m...
"Doc" wrote in message
thlink.net...
I hope to be selling a novelty CD online soon. Anyone here marketing
their
wares online? What do you use as a merchant account?

The absolute cheapest way seems to be Paypal. Anybody gone that route
and/or see any problems with it?

Yahoo seems to have a good deal for small businesses also, anyone ever
used
them?

Thanks!

Hmmm isn't there another site http://www.cdstreet.com ? I have not
tried them. I think they charge a set up fee and probably want a buck
or 2 but so does amazon/cdnow. The key is you get to ship the cds you
don't have to send them to some crappy wearhouse in jersey to collect
dust, at least the last time I checked. Not sure about their s&h.
Places like amazon charge way too much for that.

"Lynn" wrote in message ...
I've just heard some bad things about CDstreet not paying the artists their
due revenues. I would steer clear of them for the time being. If you want to
check the rumour out for yourself, click this link ....
http://cdbaby.org/stories/03/09/01/4833045.html

Lynn
--
Listen to my music...
http://www.soundclick.com/lynn
http://www.soundclick.com/chaslyn
http://www.soundclick.com/dickosboogieband
http://www.soundclick.com/johnmckeon

Ahhh Lynn,
I imagine all of them eventually become "suspect" at best. They're
probably run out of a garage by 2 pimple headed college kids. I mean
after IUMA was sold they told the artists their music would be placed
on napster I think and we'd get $$$, I don't think that happened. MP3
started out as an artist friendly site but one soon learned it was
corrupt throughout. WWW artists jump from one to another after the
former changes(ie; ampcast).

Now I still don't like the idea of the middle man. When you have
something to sell and often case ship the middle man ruins it. Yes he
offers a website with a certain amount of credibility(amazon) but it's
just not logical. Not everyone has ebay or trusts online artists
enough to give out credit card info or even send checks. I think one
of these art orgs should create a free site for artists. They would
simply handle the merchant account.

William

"Lynn" wrote in message ...
I've just heard some bad things about CDstreet not paying the artists their
due revenues. I would steer clear of them for the time being. If you want to
check the rumour out for yourself, click this link ....
http://cdbaby.org/stories/03/09/01/4833045.html

Lynn
--
Listen to my music...
http://www.soundclick.com/lynn
http://www.soundclick.com/chaslyn
http://www.soundclick.com/dickosboogieband
http://www.soundclick.com/johnmckeon

Ahhh Lynn,
I imagine all of them eventually become "suspect" at best. They're
probably run out of a garage by 2 pimple headed college kids. I mean
after IUMA was sold they told the artists their music would be placed
on napster I think and we'd get $$$, I don't think that happened. MP3
started out as an artist friendly site but one soon learned it was
corrupt throughout. WWW artists jump from one to another after the
former changes(ie; ampcast).

Now I still don't like the idea of the middle man. When you have
something to sell and often case ship the middle man ruins it. Yes he
offers a website with a certain amount of credibility(amazon) but it's
just not logical. Not everyone has ebay or trusts online artists
enough to give out credit card info or even send checks. I think one
of these art orgs should create a free site for artists. They would
simply handle the merchant account.

William

I have used PayPal for the past two years and have had no problems. If
you have your own site I personally believe this is the best way to
go. There is no recurring subscription you have to pay to PayPal,
setup is simple and their commission is quite favorable. If you don't
sell anything in six months you don't have to pay anything. ... (I do
not work or am associated with PayPal in any way) ... also .. You can
build your own web presence and bring people to your web site instead
of assiciating it with a service (many go out of business
unfortunately) ... my two cents ..

2hp
http://www.twoheadedpuppy.com



"Doc" wrote in message thlink.net...
I hope to be selling a novelty CD online soon. Anyone here marketing their
wares online? What do you use as a merchant account?

The absolute cheapest way seems to be Paypal. Anybody gone that route
and/or see any problems with it?

Yahoo seems to have a good deal for small businesses also, anyone ever used
them?

Thanks!