My new shop design : an update

by Sue Bailey

This post was written in January 2008; specific information contained within it may be out of date.

Yesterday I received an email from Frooition regarding my new shop design.

The anticipated start date for your work is the 7th of February.
You can expect a design preview for you to review 4-5 business days later.

Frooition are busy, which is good, but that means that customers have to wait, which is bad. They seem to be pretty good at managing this process, both giving me a realistic assessment of lead time upfront, and now this little reassurance that they haven’t forgotten me!

I particularly liked them emphasising that if there was anything I’d forgotten to mention, I could still get in touch and let them know. I feel absolutely confident that this design won’t be finished until I’m 100% happy, and that’s really good to know. And of course, now I’m excited to see it all over again!

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Author: Sue Bailey
Posted at: Thursday, January 31st, 2008 at 7:12 pm
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7 Responses to “My new shop design : an update”

  1. abs on January 31st, 2008 8:35 pm

    why pay 700 quid for someone to design your shop. i just went down to my local uni and put an add up looking for help with designing my own website and ebay shop. got both designed for under 100pound, he done an excellent job too and i had all the input, just my thoughts :razz:

  2. Sue Bailey on January 31st, 2008 8:38 pm

    Abs, “is it worth the money” is one of the questions I’m hoping to answer. Shame you haven’t linked us your shop so we can look at your finished product though.

  3. whirly on January 31st, 2008 10:35 pm

    *cough* back-hander :roll:

  4. northumbrian on February 1st, 2008 7:17 am

    I am losing interest rapidly
    there oviously over loaded with work or under manned or both

  5. Rachel on February 10th, 2008 10:57 pm

    I was interested in Frooition, but you don’t host your own images or design. They can in theory take it away from you if you didn’t pay the hosting fee, or probably in my case just forget too! I think for the money I would want to own the design and not just rent it. Plus they had server problems a while back and all their shops went down, to be fair it was the fault of a lorry hitting something at their hosting!

  6. Sue Bailey on February 11th, 2008 8:19 am

    Rachel: probably the answer is not to forget to pay them then :^O
    If the Frooition shop isn’t working, I am assured that it goes back to the “normal” eBay appearance: wherever your pictures are hosted, there’s the possibility of the server going down for a while - so I’m not sure that Frooition necessarily makes this problem worse.

  7. Rachel on February 11th, 2008 6:08 pm

    The shops I saw were mangled and you could not buy from them, or their listings. Maybe this is something they have improved of late. It was a concern at the time (3 months ago). I am shopping around, but there is little on offer.

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