Shopping a small business's website VS Walmart, Amazon, Ebay
I know it can seem scary shopping a new website. All the questions and what ifs. Let me let you in on a couple of secrets. All items listed on another marketplace is marked up significantly. Why you may ask. Well Everyone is in it to make money. Sure Walmart, Amazon, Ebay and other websites help get your items seen and known but they also charge a hefty fee to do so. But when you order directly from a business's website you will pay less. Then there is the return process or just needing help in general. You go through Walmart, Amazon, or Ebay's customer service and they send you to the company or person who was actually selling it. When it would save time and probably work out better in the end to be dealing directly with the company you actually bought the item from. So just remember if your buying from Walmart, Ebay, Amazon, or any other marketplace you are paying them 20 plus percent to be the middle man. Your paying more for the item and the company who is actually selling it is loosing money.