How much does it cost to become an i-fete vendor?
The basic set-up fees vary, depending upon the number of products you sell. For most vendors, the average cost is around $60, which basically covers only the time required to input all of your products into the database. However, we will work with you in anyway possible to make an i-fete store affordable for you. After set-up, i-fete will retain 10% of all sales. These fees cover the expenses of processing credit cards, marketing, site administration, and customer relations. We chose a sales-based fee structure for a purpose. After reviewing some other options, we noticed that some of the sites, that charged an annual fee, were not dedicated to the continued maintenance and promotion of the site. For some, it seems that they collect the fees and don’t pay much attention to the site for the rest of the year; many links were broken, the sites were overrun with external advertisements which detracted from the vendors’ offerings, and there were no major marketing initiatives to attract and
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