Amazon......

Well, I've been working on Amazon for a couple of weeks now... It has its perks, but is flooded with a plethora of inconveniences for a not-so-humongous company like ours.  Unless you're willing to throw down the 800+ dollars to obtain a UPC coding system, you're stuck sorting through your inventory, finding products that happen to already have a listing on Amazon.  This means it also has another competitor on Amazon.  So it's almost impossible sell any product without competition.  We don't intend to charge a ridiculous amount should we be in that position, but it is still nice to have control over a product that, in all other markets, we already have control over. 

Despite the hindering system Amazon has set up, I've managed to create around 150 listings.  It was a pain individually sorting through our eBay listings, but I've gotten through a good third of our inventory.  The Amazon search engine is hilarious though.  There were a good 3 or 4 times I lol'd when it said "Displaying listings 21-20 of 22 results" and it only actually came out with 1 result.  The key word system is also very annoying.  It seems to search through all of the mother listing, and each of its derivatives.. so if there happens to be your search words in any of the listings, that parent listing shows up.  This makes searching for certain part numbers (Dell ones in particular) very annoying.  I'll type in DW454 and 30 books, a GI-Joe, and 25 power adapters will show up.....

                                                                                         -Vincent (Sasquatch)