Forum: Bryce


Subject: Small project, please read

draculaz opened this issue on Jan 08, 2006 ยท 28 posts


draculaz posted Sun, 08 January 2006 at 5:22 AM

Over the past weeks I've been playing with the idea of making an online 3D store that charges no commissions. Kinda like DAZ3D, but without the 50/50 broker-user split. You make an account, offer your models for sale, and make all the money off them, you're in charge of your own advertisement for them, etc. i'd sell my own models and that would be that. paypal would handle the transactions. mazeltof. but yeah, this plan has a few ifs. 1. i might have the time to set up the store, but i don't have time to actively monitor it. also, while i do have a few click-and-install shopping cart sites, all four of them (CubeCart, Agora Cart, OS Commerce and Zen Cart) are hard to scale down to what i have in mind (they come pre-set with hundreds of little needless options). if you have any other store-like free web interface that you use on your site or whatever, please let me know. also, if someone is interested in running this with me, again, please let me know. 2. i'm in romania without a credit card or access to paypal. i'm interested in the legal ramifications of having a store like this. the server i host stuff from is in LA I believe, and I will need a new domain name (a .com for wob). now.. what are my options? who would i answer to legally? i don't want to answer to anyone, i just want people to be responsible for the models they sell, etc. that's why i said i don't really have the time to actively monitor each uploded item and so on. it's also logical given that i wouldn't make any money off the store. so, any ideas in this sense would also be helpful. i figure if i'm going to kickstart this, i should first find the time to accept and test out a few good models from people I know, whoever's interested in selling there. oh yeah.. would anyone be interested in this? forgot to ask, lol. i mean, would you host your stuff and be your own sales agent? m