RevK Apr 24

@tindie I know this is hard for you, but you can feed back to management and get answers.

1. I need to move away from #Tindie probably #shopify at this point.
2. I need balance paid by #Tindie or need to sue someone (probably #supplyframe) to get it.

If Tindie comes back then maybe, with like daily reimbursements even, we will carry on selling via Tindie, like maybe. But there is ZERO trust now.

To be clear, Tindie *was* good. Way more sane than #Amazon in so many ways.

This has cost us!

Show threadahnlakApr 24

@revk let me know how you get on with Shopify - when I last looked at it, I reached the conclusion it was more trouble than it was worth, and the Stripe API isn't too terrible...

(although then I got distracted and failed to finish the project entirely, which is a whole different issue!)

Show threadRevK Apr 24

@ahnlak Yeh. my son has it now, and so I will be asking him a lot about it before I start.

So many things to understand, international orders and VAT and shipping costs and duty are real issues.

If they cope in any way on this, yay!

If we can API the postage in to RM stuff like we did (recently) with Tindie, yay!

Show threadahnlakApr 24

@revk I mean loads of people use them, so they probably handle all of that quite well.

I think the thing that put me off was that the fees are punishing if you're *super* low volume, but you're probably shifting enough that that won't be as painful.

Show threadRyan Walmsley

@revk @ahnlak I'm fairly certain from when I used to use it it could hook into RM etc.

However I was using it pre brexit so didn't have the VAT issues etc.

But I suspect it has solutions, however the cost? Not sure.

I'm not sure if they still offer it, but when I then wanted just my own direct method there was like a "social media" plan where you didn't get the full store front but widgets you could embed which was cheaper by far.

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