Yahoo.com - Merchant Starter - Within minutes of signing up, I soon realized that this money was mainly for Web Hosting

Yahoo.com - Merchant Starter - Within minutes of signing up, I soon realized that this money was mainly for Web Hosting &#160

Yahoo Business Starter

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On Saturday June 19/04, I looked at Yahoo.com with an interest to sign up for a "Merchant Starter" to start an ON LINE SHOP.

The screen in front of me said...Build an e-commerce site and start accepting orders in no time with easy-to-use design tools, 24-hour support, and secure order processing. A great deal! $39.95/mo 1.5% transaction fee $50 setup fee WAIVED So without any further ado, I signed up and gave my credit card. Within minutes of signing up, I soon realized that this money was mainly for Web Hosting I already had my domain name and hosted with Hypermart for just $25 a quarter!... The key question of "How are people going to find your website"...was avoided in the literature. It was merely pointed out that they gave you some discount of the per click advertising. I had to deduce later that if you wanted any chance to people finding you, you had to spend a lot more money in their advertising per click system. I felt that I was deceived by not enough disclosure of the real scene So I promptly try to cancel on line...no such luck, you can do everything on line except cancel!!!, sure you could ring, but that was no joy either, the office was closed on a Saturday... On Monday, when I did ring, I canceled the account BUT the money was not refundable, on Tuesday, somebody from Yahoo rang me up and unaware of my canceling, wanted to sell me even more stuff....I thought to myself this Yahoo thing is sure a Yahoo for them, and no doubt they boast that it is clever marketing, for me it was a money grabbing machine. Thank you Gail O

Gail

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