The website I need to create will have a ’shopping mall’ of websites, but I need the ability for a user to be able to purchase and checkout from all stores in this mall easily at one time, and then have confirmations sent to the stores and back to the consumer.

I know Amazon.com has such a system, but I need to be able to customize it according to my needs.

What do I search for, when looking for a ‘dual user open-source e-commerce’, is that the right terminology?

I have heard about magentocommerce.com but I am not sure if it has such capabilities. Does that mean that I will need to build in my custom capabilities from scratch, or the back-end will help with that?

Is there anything else I should know about when attempting to use such software? Any ideas?

Just about to ask anyone can think of some innovative ideas for an e-commerce site rather then Ebay, and Amazon.
Any Ideas?

most areas are full, i.e. e-bay, amazon and all on-line stores didn’t leave any spot there. Idea should be brilliant to penetrate into the market…
The best answer gets 15 points!!! It will be on March break.
The best answer will get 15 points!! On March Break :)

Hi
I would like to fast and effectively learn google sketchup. I have little experience with sketchup and some with another drawing 2D and 3D application, such as AutoCAD or Archicad. I have found several books on Amazon but I am not sure if any of the book is better than the rest. Thank you in advance for any recommendations.

Are we allowed to do affiliate marketing on blogger.com?
M not too sure about that cos one of terms of agreement seem to say we are not to use it for any commercial purposes.
Also Word Press explicitly forbid it.
Below is copied from Blogger Terms of service:

7. No Resale of the Service. Unless expressly authorized in writing by Google, you agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, trade, resell or exploit for any commercial purposes (a) any portion of the Service, (b) use of the Service, or (c) access to the Service.

Doesn’t it sound like its use for commercial purposes is prohibited? I have heard some instances where accounts were terminated for suspicion of being SPAM blogs??!! i.e blogs used to direct traffics to other sites.
This is from Wordpress:

And here are some examples of blogs that are banned from WordPress.com (all of these fall under the general heading of “spam blogs”, or splogs, and we will be deleted as soon as we find them or they get reported):

* Scraper blogs: Blogs that take content from other blogs and re-publish it without permission (this is sometimes called scraping). If a blog contains all or mostly stolen and unoriginal content, it’s gone!
* SEO blogs: Blogs that are written for search engines instead of humans. These blogs are dedicated to trying to fool Google and other search engines into ranking them highly. WordPress.com is not meant for this type of activity.
* Affiliate marketing blogs: Blogs with the primary purpose of driving traffic to affiliate programs and get-rich-quick schemes (”Make six figures from home!!”, “20 easy steps to top profits!!”, etc). To be clear, examples like people writing original book or movie reviews and linking them to Amazon, or people

I’m signing up be an associate and I need a website to post links on to send traffic to Amazon.com. Everyone who goes to Amazon.com from my links makes me money. So, I was wondering? Or should I actually make an HTML webpage? Thanks.

i custom ordered smackdown vs. raw 2008 from amazon for 30 points. i sent my custom request in tuesday and on thursday, they said that it has been ordered. when do you think it will get here. i had free shipping.

I’ve ordered only jeans, and a shirt from amazon, and they were both shipped in a small bag. Will my books come in a box pr somethingmore protective?

I am looking at buying Final Cut Express 4. (already decided) and I was wondering if there is a difference between buying from Apple or Amazon.
Amazon is cheaper, but if you buy from Apple it will give you full product backing right?

I’ve done the Amazon widgets, ect., but I can’t figure out how to put on there a link to a specific product.