Your lucky to be working on internal stuff

Yeah I really like what I do, but it would be nice to live in your part of the world… not many jobs that allow you to do that…. web dev… digging up spuds… beating pheasants haha

Interestingly I was conversing with someone a while back who works for Oxford University… I mentioned I worked in Oxford for a while (not at the Uni)… he replied that he does not work in Oxford, but from his apartment in Chicago… that’s what I love about the internet…

I saw a life time of web dev bondage advertised recently… poor pay working for a spammy mobile phone shop running zen cart or something… it looked really grim…

I would not have thought you would focus on e-commerce anyway… there are other apps that must be more profitable… gambling, dating, social sites…. I would have thought there is lots more scope for gaining competitive advantage and big pay cheques in those kind of areas…s

A life time of web development bondage doesn’t sit well with me. *looks for a ticket out*

I can see what you mean with these little guys wanting a cheap of the shelf solution. The problem is if they think they are getting more than that. I guess these people would be bad to hook up with anyway, but you do get some people who think that there is no difference between a £1,000 site and a £10,000 site. This is a general client problem, that they have no conception of web dev. Most think that they can say ‘jump’ and their developer will ask ‘how high?’, but the actual response is ‘how much are you prepared to pay for me to re-code half your site because of this idea you have come up with after the sites complete?’.

Your lucky to be working on internal stuff

Dont agree with any of that

There are plenty of sites that make money with crap solutions like actinic…. a lot of Ebay sellers try to migrate away from Ebay to save on costs… so, wben a customer buys from them they pass on the URL of their own store…

There are still niches out there that are under served in terms of E-Commerce… i.e. demand outstrips legitimate supply… usually down to the products themselves being difficult to source.

OS apps have opened up E-Commerce to small business and I think that is a very healty thing… there are some interesting niche stores out there… some of them selling their own hand made items etc… proper quality niche stuff… OS gives those people a chance to sell online…

The other think is that, if someone has a £1000 budget, there is no way they are ever going to pay you £10k regardless of competiton… I dont think it is the case that OS apps are killing your business… the people you are talking about would not even be thinking about e-commerce if it were not for the cheaper options.

Put it this way… does the number of Skoda’s being produced worry the likes of Rolls Royce and Bentley.

Are Skoda’s bad cars?

Your only problem is that, in terms of e-commerce, inexperienced customers find it hard to tell the difference between the two… and that is why you get time wasters and other people get ripped off… miss-information… OS has nothing to do with it… IMO

The web is already saturated with eCommerce, its time for it to stop! It is also adversly affecting all of the bespoke web dev. companies I know because they always have people saying: ‘Why are you quoting me £10,000 when this other company has said they will do it for £1,000?’ The simple answer is qaulity.