Wednesday, June 14, 2006

This is the blog/resource page for the BiG Austin e-commerce class conducted by Brent Buford. I'll be posting all the documents from the class here as well as comments and reviews of e-commerce providers. I'll also try to address questions that we don't have time for in class.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Leez, that's correct; using Yahoo! as a domain provider only would not incur any transaction fees. They only charge transaction fees when they actually process your orders in their store system.

Gregg said...

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