Anyone selling on Rakuten/Play

[fellatthefirst]

Just wondering if anyone on here is selling on Rakuten (formely Play.com) yet and if so what their experience has been?

[northwest monkey]

fellatthefirst said:

Just wondering if anyone on here is selling on Rakuten (formely Play.com) yet and if so what their experience has been?

I did & it was an absolute waste of my time. They were very persistent in getting me on, but once I was the support was useless. From what I can remember, I had to hotlink to Amazon for photos as they wouldn't let me upload my own to their site.

After 6 months I binned it & am now concentrating on our own website and Amazon France / Germany as well as Ebay.

I sell clothing though, so maybe if you're selling DVDs or whatever then it's better. I don't know anyone that uses them to buy anything any more though - I have a couple of times but after some bad experiences buying off there I wouldn't bother again. The problem is, they aren't Amazon.

[timskipper]

I dabbled with it, it was shyte and expensive.

[fellatthefirst]

We are considering developing our system to link in with their API's...

I don't think i will bother now!

[Silverage]

We tried it for a while. Very few sales and high fees. Support wasn't the best either.

[Silverage]

We tried it for a while. Very few sales and high fees. Support wasn't the best either.