Originally Posted by
bartleby1
I must be missing something. Do the companies pay something just to be listed on a site like SR? I was under the impression that they only paid IF/WHEN an order was placed. Is that the case? Or do they pay a monthly or yearly fee on top of that just to be included in the list of stores? If there is no monthly fee, why would they pull their "free" advertising off of any website when there is always a chance that someone may place an order if they keep their store listed? Even if they only get a few orders per year from SR (I have NO idea how many they actually did get), isn't a few orders better than no orders? I just don't get how they can lose by keeping their store listed. Unless, of course, they were tracking a huge amount of fraud through a particular site, but I can't imagine that was the issue with SR because I know you run a tight ship and I would also think fraud would be more of a problem with larger sites with more users to keep track of.
Now, if there is some kind of monthly fee that they pay which isn't being balanced out by sales, then I could understand them leaving. But, otherwise, I just don't get it!
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