Thanks for your feedback. The Vendio Platform is item, order and customer management plus an online store completely free. You can list an unlimited number of images, products and it's not ad-supported. There is no other comparable online store offering available today. We're very proud that we can literally give away the store.

Our Marketplaces Plan enables eBay and Amazon sales automation. I'm not sure where you got read about the $20 a month, but that's incorrect. The cost is $10 a month for 1 eBay account AND 1 Amazon account.

We think that overall, as more sellers go multi-channel, the Vendio Platform's free store offering in conjunction with the ability to use the same set of inventory across eBay, Amazon, Google, your store and other CSE's is worth the $10 a month plus small success fee.

I'd be happy to discuss this with your further.

Best regards,

Helen Fang
Marketing Manager
Vendio.com

I was just on Vendio's site, and was surprised that so many items and features are not only NOT free at all, but they also add significant amounts to your monthly expenses. It is true that they do not charge anything to set up and host your own online store, but that may not be the main objective of many ebay and Amazon sellers. Other than that, the only things that are included for free in the $20 monthly fee they charge for 1 EBAY AND 1 AMAZON accounts are ONLY THE FOLLOWING THREE FEATURES, as per their site: counters, gallery, and customer appreciation. BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, if your listing is on your ebay or Amazon page, THEY CHARGE A PERCENTAGE OF YOUR SALES AS COMMISSION, AS YOU CAN SEE BELOW, in their own words!

“Vendio Platform marketplace selling… simple pricing
Extend the Vendio Platform beyond a free store and sell on the Internet's leading marketplaces, eBay and Amazon, and pay only $10 per month*(This seems to be the fee for EACH, but I am not sure). From there, Vendio only makes money if you do. Vendio earns an incremental fee based on your monthly marketplace sales volume.
Marketplace pricing
Monthly
Sales Revenue Marketplace
Success Fees**
your first $1000 – 1.95% of sales
$1,000.01 – $2,500 1.75% of sales
$2,500.01 – $5,000 1.5% of sales
$5,000.01 – $25,000 1.2% of sales
$25,000.01 and above 1% of sales
Listings Only Available based on volume.
Please contact Vendio Sales
Sales through your Vendio Store are always 100% FREE

The individual retail store is free, but they have fairly high charges for everything else for eBay or Amazon, like for instance $1 for EACH zoomed-in image, which means that the capacity to zoom-in with Zoomstream becomes expensive if you want to provide your buyer with a couple of good images per listing and you have several listings. Notice also that: “A Vendio Image Hosting subscription is required to use Zoomstream” (see Image Hosting prices I listed above). Zoomstream fees are:
$1.00 PER image for first 2-week storage period
$0.50/image for each 2-week renewal

Their ebay research tools sound really good to check up on the competition, and they cost $20 per month. Their Vendio Reviser “makes it simple to change your live auctions, and make changes to your product listings”, but the Reviser costs $20 per month.

Anyway, I do not have the time to review all their other paid features, but I can see how all this can easily add up to what one of your readers said, where he signed up for $20 but then received a bill for way over $100.

So, my advice is check their whole site carefully, do not just notice the free stuff, because the paid items might be the ones that are really vital to your business, and they can add up really quickly. Good selling!

NOW if, this is a marketplace challenger, and I do believe it is, then by default, the smaller will feel the pinches first. Other than that, it is just a catchy title

Other than that I was simply blown away by the simplicity and workability of the Vendio Stores concept! In a word, “Dang!”